. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. ^ with his seven brothers. General Badger was amember of the New Hampshire provincial congress andof the first constitutional convention, and was prominentin public affairs. He died in 1803. His daughter, Ruth,was the wife of Colonel Cogswell. The latter was alsoan influential citizen, and chief justice of the court ofcommon pleas from 1784, until his death in 1810. In 1820, Thomas Cogswell of Atkinson, a nephew ofColonel Thomas, and son of Gen. William and Judith(Badger) Cogswell, located in Gilmanton, uniting in hispossession the Badg
. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. ^ with his seven brothers. General Badger was amember of the New Hampshire provincial congress andof the first constitutional convention, and was prominentin public affairs. He died in 1803. His daughter, Ruth,was the wife of Colonel Cogswell. The latter was alsoan influential citizen, and chief justice of the court ofcommon pleas from 1784, until his death in 1810. In 1820, Thomas Cogswell of Atkinson, a nephew ofColonel Thomas, and son of Gen. William and Judith(Badger) Cogswell, located in Gilmanton, uniting in hispossession the Badger and Cogswell farms. He was ayoung man of twenty-one, having just been united in. 142 NEW HAMPSHIRE AGRICULTURE. marriage with Mary Noyes. Coming of a strong anddistinguished ancestr}-, and endowed with great naturalabilities, he soon became a leader of the people, and wasconspicuous in all the affairs of this important town, serv-ing repeatedly as moderator, selectman, and representa-tive ; as deputy sheriff, associate justice of the court of com-mon pleas, and member of the executive council, while hissuccess as afarmer was also marked, an addition of some500 acres having been made to his estate, this portionsubsequently constituting the farm of his elder son, thelate James W. Cogswell. At the death of Judge Cogs-well, August 8, 1868, his younger son, Col. ThomasCogswell, Jr., came into possession of the homestead,and its management has since been in his hands. Colonel Cogswell was born February 8, 1841, grad-uated from Dartmouth with the class of 1863, served gal-lantly as first lieutenant and captain of Company A,Fifteenth New Hampshire Regiment, during the reg
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