 Abt 1682 - 1736 (~ 54 years)
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| Name |
COSBY William |
| Born |
Abt 1682 |
Stradbally Abbey, Queens, Ireland  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
10 Mar 1736 |
Ft. George, NY, NY |
| Buried |
1788 |
St. Paul's Courtyard, NY, NY |
| Person ID |
I3010 |
Combo |
| Last Modified |
22 Aug 2009 |
| Father |
COSBY Alexander, b. Abt 1639, Stradbally Hall, Queens, Ireland , d. 1692 (Age ~ 53 years) |
| Mother |
L'ESTRANGE Elizabeth, b. Abt 1640, Stradbally Abbey, Queens, Ireland , d. 1692 (Age ~ 52 years) |
| Married |
Abt 1655 |
Queens, Ireland |
| Family ID |
F1117 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
MONTAGU Grace, b. Abt 1687, Horton, Northamptonshire, England , d. 25 Dec 1767, Meddesex, England (Age ~ 80 years) |
| Married |
1711 |
London, England |
| Children |
| | 1. COSBY William, b. Abt 1717, London, England , d. Aft 1762, VA (Age ~ 46 years) |
| | 2. COSBY Alexander, b. Abt 1717, d. UNKNOWN |
| | 3. COSBY Henry, b. Abt 1719, New York, NY , d. 16 Oct 1753, New Brunswick, NJ (Age ~ 34 years) |
| | 4. COSBY Elizabeth, b. Abt 1721, d. UNKNOWN |
| | 5. COSBY Grace, b. Abt 1723, d. UNKNOWN |
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| Family ID |
F1116 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- Was a governor appointed by Queen of England. First buried in the walls of the fort at the tip of Manhattan Island.
Marvin J. Wolf, president of IWOSC [www.iwosc.org/mwolf.htm] delivered a speech during the Banned Library Books Week in 1995 saying: William Cosby was a coward and a thief. He was fairly stupid, he was a bully and he rigged elections. He also fired officials without authority, plundered treasuries and swindled property owners. He manipulated legislators and judges with bribes of money and position. Cosby was also Governor of New York, a relative by marriage and close friend of the Queen of England.
During his tenure as governor, William Cosby had John Peter Zenger arrested for libel. Back in 1735, it was illegal to say anything bad about those in office, even if it was true. William Cosby (1682) had Peter Zinger, a publisher, arrested for liable. The trial of John Peter Zenger, in 1753, was a precedent setting case, in that Zenger was found not guilty of the charge of seditious libel, specifically because what he printed was true. This began a nation wide movement against the present form of government and for freedom of the press, which continued until the close of the Revolutionary War and the establishment of the Bill of Rights and the First Amendment.
See Vicki Lais file for complete writeup.
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