Cemetery: Pine Hill Cemetery, Dover New Hampshire

A genealogy link for Amos & Lydia Cogswell.

Cogswell, Amos (Mass). 2d Lieutenant of Gerrish's Massachusets Regiment, May to December, 1775; 1st Lieutenant 26th Continental Infantry, 1st January to 31st December, 1776; Captain 9th Massachusets, 1st January, 1777; transferred to 8th Massachusets, 1st January, 1781; transferred to 3d Massachusets, 12th June, 1783; Brevet Major, 30th September, 1783, and served to 3d November, 1783. (Died 28th January, 1826.) 38

Cogswell, Amos, Atkinson (also given Haverhill). Ensign, Capt. Cogswell's co., Col. Samuel Gerrish's regt.; list of officers [year not given]; also, 2d Lieutenant, Capt. Thomas Cogswell's (2d) co., Lieut. Col. Loammi Baldwin's (late Gerrish's) 38th regt.; muster roll dated Aug. 1, 1775; engaged May 20, 1775; service, 2 mos. 13 days; also, company return dated Sewall's Point, Sept. 27, 1775; also, pay abstract for Sept., 1775, dated Sewall's Point; also, pay a bstract for rations from July 1, 1775, to Dec. 31, 1775, dated Chelsea; also, 2d Lientenant, Capt. Thomas Cogswell's co., 26th regt.; return of officers dated Cambridge Camp, Jan. 8, 1776; also, Capt. Thomas Cogswell's co., Col. Loammi Baldwin's (26th) regt.; pay abstracts for Feb.-May, 1776; also, same co. and regt; pay abstract for rations from Jan. 1, 1776, to April 1, 1776, dated Camp at City of New York; also, list of officers and men who lost articles at the evacuation of New York Sept. 14, 1776; also, Capt. Cogswell's co., Col. Baldwin's regt.; return dated “Jerseys,” Sept. 20, 1776; also, list dated Mixfield, Pa., Dec. 29, 1776, of officers and men who marched on an expedition to Trenton Dec. 26, 1776; also, receipt dated Trenton, Jan. 1, 1777, given to Col. Baldwin by said Cogswell for bounty for non-commissioned officers and soldiers who enlisted to serve in the Continental Army for 6 weeks from Dec. 31, 1776; also, Captain, 9th regt.; commissioned Jan. 1, 1777; list of settlements of rank of Continental officers made at West Point by a Board held for the purpose and confirmed by Congress Sept. 6, 1779; also, Captain, Col. James Wesson's (9th) regt.; Continental Army pay accounts for service from Jan. 1, 1777, to Dec. 31, 1779; also, muster return for the year 1777; residence, [p.720] Haverhill; also, return for clothing dated Boston, Oct. 19, 1778; also, return of officers dated West Point, Sept. 12, 1779; also, return for clothing dated Boston, Sept. 25, 1779; also, Continental Army pay accounts for service from Jan. 1, 1780, to Dec. 31, 1780; also, return of officers dated Orangetown, Oct. 7, 1780; also, Captain, Col. Michael Jackson's (3d) regt.; return of officers dated Oct. 31, 1783; reported at Fort Putnam. 2

Samuel Wallingford died while in service under John Paul Jones on board the ship Ranger. Lydia apparently had some problems after her first husband's death getting Congress to pay the prize money granted to widows of officers killed in action. She petitioned Congress for many years.

A genealogy link for Col. Otis and Tamsen Baker.

A genealogy link for Samuel Wallingford and Lydia Baker. It also contains information about Amos Cogswell.

Otis Baker was the son of Christine Otis Baker, who was kidnapped by Indians during the Cocheco Massacre. Many people were killed during the Massacre in 1684, including Christine's father, brother and sister. Her mother, herself and other siblings were taken to Quebec where they were sold.