The Randolph Family:Information about Anthony Cossart
Anthony Cossart (b. 14 Nov 1673, d. 1740)
Notes for Anthony Cossart:
Anthony married twice, first to Elizabeth. After her death, he married Judith Hendricks of Woodbridge, daughter of Jabez and Hannah (MORE) HENDRICKS and widowof Henry ALWARD of Woodbridge who died in 1718. , at Somerset Co., New Jersey in 1722. Anthony and Judith (HENDRICKS) COSSART had children: Elizabeth, David,and William.
1701 - On the census of Brooklyn, N.Y. for 1701, Anthony COSSAR is listed with wife, 2 children, an apprentice and ten slaves.
1701 - Jacob COUSAAR, son of Antoni COUSSAR and Lysbeth PENTS (sic), was bapt. 16 Oct 1701in Bushwick (Brooklyn), New York. KINGS COUNTY GENEALOGY COLLECTIONS, v.5-6.
1703 - On 20 March 1703, Anthony COSSART, Sr. and his wife Elizabeth sold their farm in the hamlet known as Cripplebush situated at the intersection of the Cripplebush Road and the Wallabout and Newtown Road, or about Nostrand and Flushing Avenues of today. It was near Bushwick. (One source states their farm was in the vicinity of the present site of the Brooklyn Navy Yard.) Brooklyn Deeds,Liber 2, p.190.
Anthony COSSART migrated with his family with other settlers who left Brooklyn in large numbers when the Raritan region was being settled up from 1680 to 1720. He settled in Piscataway, Middlesex County, New Jersey, recorded as Anthony COZAR.
1707 - "The mark of Antoni CUSSAW for his cattel horses and hoss Is a halfe peny on the under side of the right eare and a nick on the upper side of the same eare opaset against the halfe peny. Entered this 17 day of March 1706/7" at Piscataway, Somerset Co., New Jersey. NEW JERSEY MAGAZINE OF HISTORY; NEW JERSEY GENEALOGY MAGAZINE, v.22,p.13.
1715 - Anthony COSAR was in the New Jersey Militia of Piscataway in 1715, in Colonel Thomas FARMER's Regiment, Fourth Company, Capt. Thomas WETHERLE. Monnette's EARLY SETTLERSof PISCATAWAY and WOODBRIDGE, p.114.
More About Anthony Cossart and Elizabeth Tymensen Valentine:
Marriage: 02 Aug 1696, Schenectady, New York.
Children of Anthony Cossart and Elizabeth Tymensen Valentine are:
- Lea Cossart, b. 04 Jun 1697, Brooklyn, Long Island, New York, d. date unknown.
- Jacob Cossart, b. 16 Oct 1701, Brooklyn, Kings, NY, d. 15 Apr 1772, Bridgewater Township, Somerset County, NJ.
- William Cossart, b. Mar 1702, Raritan, Middlesex, New Jersey, d. date unknown.
- Jannetje Cossart, b. 16 Apr 1708, Raritan, New Jersey, d. date unknown.
- Johannes Cossart, b. 06 Aug 1711, Bound Brook, New Jersey, d. 13 Mar 1757, Middlebrook, Somerset County, New Jersey.
- +Anthony J Cossart, b. 06 Aug 1712, Bound Brook, New Jersey, d. 1780, Hampton's Mill Creek, Granville County, NC.