James Cogswell (1720-1807, Yale 1742), American pastor in Congregational churches in Canterbury, Connecticut (1774-1771), and in Scotland Parish, Windham, Connecticut (1752-1804). Cogswell was married three times, in 1745 to Alice Fitch (1725-1772), then in 1773 to Martha Lothrop Devotion (1715?-1795), the widow of the Reverend Ebenezer Devotion, his predecessor in Windham, and last, in 1797, to Irene Ripley Hebard (died 1804). He died at the home of his son Mason Fitch Cogswell, in Hartford, Connecticut, on January 2, 1807.
Mason Fitch Cogswell (1761-1830, Yale 1780), American physician and surgeon, and the third son of the Reverend James Cogswell and Alice Fitch Cogswell.