Person:John Coggeshall (6)

John was actually “John the Younger”, his father also naming his eldest son John in his first marriage. By the time John the Younger came along, John Sr. was wealthy, but his son did the “appropriate” thing by marrying Ann, the daughter of an even wealthier clothier named Pierce Butter. However, economic conditions were not the best in Halstead (the departure of the Dutch clothiers his father had supported having thrown large numbers of people into poverty). John mortgaged some of his lands. After he died (at a young 39), his wife tried to get back the lands by calling him “somewhat unthrifty in his estate and not provident to preserve the same” as well as “weak and improvident and much neglecting the good of himself, his wife and children.”

-- Coggeshall, Robert Walden, Ancestors and Kin

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} John Coggeshall the Younger, in Coggeshall, Charles Pierce (compiler), and Thellwell Russell (compiler) Coggeshall. The Coggeshalls in America: Genealogy of the Descendants of John Coggeshall of Newport: genealogy of the descendants of John Coggeshall of Newport, with a brief notice of their English antecedents. (Boston, Mass. : C.E. Goodspeed & Co., 1930)
   4.

   John Coggeshall..called 'the Younger' to distinguish him from his half brother, John Coggeshall, 'the Elder' of Haltead, co. Essex, gentleman, born 24 July and baptized at Halstead 29 July 1576, was buried at Halstead 4 Aug. 1615.

2.   History of Coggeshalls in Essex (England)
   p. 202.
3.   Coggeshall Family research in the NEHGR. 1) “Coggeshalls in England,” Moriarty, G.Andrews. Oct 1922 76: 278-95. 2) “Coggeshalls of Halstead and Hundon.” Moriarty, G. Andrews. Oct 1945 99: 315-322. 3) “Coggeshall” Fish, Frederick Samuel. Jan 1919 73: 19. All print wills, parish registers and court records verbatim.
4.   The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society)
   73:21.

   1576 John Coggeshall son of John Coggeshall, gent., baptised 29 July, being Sunday, born the Tewsday before in the morning between twelve and one of the clock.