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Laura <I>Coggswell</I> Gilbert

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Laura Coggswell Gilbert

Birth
Death
5 Sep 1873 (aged 91–92)
Chazy, Clinton County, New York, USA
Burial
Chazy, Clinton County, New York, USA Add to Map
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Plattsburgh Sentinel 1876
Continental Currency
W. W. Little, of Chazy, exhibit, a one dollar Continental bill dated 1776, which was paid to Capt. John Cogswell for services in the army of the Revolution, and handed down by his daughter, "Aunt Laura Gilbert," who died in Chazy two years ago at the advanced age 96 years. It has been kept in a little straw basket little bigger than your thumb, probably as old as the currency.
Plattsburgh Sentinel 1876
Continental Currency
W. W. Little, of Chazy, exhibit, a one dollar Continental bill dated 1776, which was paid to Capt. John Cogswell for services in the army of the Revolution, and handed down by his daughter, "Aunt Laura Gilbert," who died in Chazy two years ago at the advanced age 96 years. It has been kept in a little straw basket little bigger than your thumb, probably as old as the currency.

Inscription

Dwight Gilbert
Died Nov 23,1842
Ae 66 Ys & 9 Ms
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Laura Coggswell
Wife of D Gilbert
Died Sept 5,1873
Ae 92 Ys



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