Samuel  Cogliill  is  mentioned  on  page  94,  as  the  first  of  the  name
heard  of  in  America.  He  had  a  grant  of  land  from  Sir  William  Berke-
ley, governor,  in  1662,  but  as  no  record  was  made  of  the  land  in  the
county  in  which  it  was  located,  the  presumjjtion  is  that  he  either  died,
or  else  left  the  colony  (if,  indeed,  he  was  ever  in  Virginia),  as  we  find
no  other  record  of  him.
The  name  of  Samuel  Cockill  appears  on  the  subsidy  roll  of  the  Wap-
entake of  Staincross,  in  the  West  Riding,  County  of  York,  England,
in  1663.  It  was  a  common  occurrence  at  that  eai-ly  date  for  names  to
be  spelt,  and  entered  on  the  records,  in  several  difl^erent  ways,  and  the
person  here  referred  to  may  have  been  the  same  to  whom  the  grant  of
land  was  made  in  Virginia.
In  referring  to  James  Coghill,  the  first  American  ancestor,  we  stated
that  we  had  no  means  of  ascertaining  whether  he  had  issue  by  his  first
wife.  The  fact  of  his  appointing,  in  his  will,  his  sons  "  David  and  Fred-
erick to  be  of  age  at  eighteen,  and  enjoy  their  estates,  if  their  mother
marrieth,"  would  seem  to  indicate  that  his  sons  William  and  James  were
already  of  age,  and  if  so  they  must  have  been  his  children  by  his  first
wife,  who  probably  came  with  him  to  Virginia  in  1664—65.
