The Ancestors and Relatives of William R ... Cozens
A plausible continuation of the ancestry of
William Addams Reitwiesner
by William Addams Reitwiesner
The parentage and ancestry of Dr. William R ... Cozens
(d. 1823, and occasionally called "William Arch. Cozens),
my ancestor number 118, is not known.
The first record of him is "An inaugural
dissertation on the chemical properties of atmospheric air : submitted
to the examination of the Rev. John Ewing, S.T.P. provost, the trustees
and medical professors of the University of Pennsylvania : for a degree
of Doctor of Medicine, on the twelfth day of May, 1791 by William
R. Cozens, of New-Jersey, member of the Philadelphia Medical Society."
He may be the "Wm R. Cozens" who, with L. M. Shute, was a witness of the
marriage in Cumberland Co., N. J., on 30 Jan. 1789 between
Daniel Eldredge and Dorcas Bacon.
He may be a member of the
Cosyn/Cosine/Cozine/Cozean family of New Jersey, descended from
Cozyn Gerritsen of New Amsterdam (see
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cozine
for that family), but other origins have been proposed for him.
Mary Vallence, second wife and widow of the Revolutionary War General
Horatio Gates (1728-1806), left 1000 pounds (British) in her Will
(dated 19 Sept.
1806, probated New York 10 Dec. 1810) to John Cozens, a relative of
her late husband. See New England Historical and Genealogical
Register , July 1867, pp. 252-256. She described John Cozens
as "educated at Greenwich College for the Sea Service". Dr. William
Arch. Cozens (whose first child was named "Horatio") may be related
as well.
---- Gates m. ----
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Robert Gates m. Dorothy Parker Thomas Gates m. ----
of Malden, co. Essex | |
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Gen. Horatio Gates m2. Mary Vallence Elizabeth Gates m. ----
Cozens
(1728-1806) (testatrix) |
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John Cozens
(beneficiary)
NOTES
William Addams Reitwiesner
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