Author: Cossington, Jonathan
Biography:
COSSINGTON, Jonathan (c. 1774-1851: findmypast.co.uk)
Information about this author is sparse. The registration of his naturalisation as an American citizen in 1840 gives a birth year of 1774. In 1818 he was identified as a Thames lighterman from Bromley, Kent, in a document binding his son, Jonathan (c. 1800-34), apprentice to a feltmaker. No records for Cossington’s marriage or the birth of his son have been located. He emigrated to New York where he preached at a hall in Christie Street; it later became known as the Emmaus church. A curious announcement of his marriage to Mrs. Ann Jerves in July 1832 was printed in Boston newspapers; it included a report of Cossington’s claims to having had visions foretelling his marriage to Ann Jerves. They lived at Malden MA. Ann Cossington died at Malden in 1850 and an 1851 newspaper notice about Cossington’s will indicates that he died soon after. (ancestry.co.uk 18 Mar. 2024; Columbian Centinel 4 Aug. 1832; Boston Courier 19 June 1851; findmypast.co.uk 18 Mar. 2024; Jonathan Greenleaf, A History of the Churches, of all Denominations, in the City of New York [1850])