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From: "mike marshall" <>
Subject: Re: [EFSS] Keziah/Casiah
Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2000 20:48:00 -0400


Joy, Norfolk and Nansemond are not the same County, so wonder if there is
something amiss here. I have a copy of the will abstracts of Norfolk County
from 1637 to 1710, and I see no mention of the name Keziah or Basse. Your
information contains very exact dates which suggest something like parish
registers. Also, if Keziah was b. 1624 and m. John Bassie in 1638, she was
14 which is young but not unheard of in those early days.

Mike Marshall

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> To:
> Subject: Re: [EFSS] Keziah/Casiah
> Date: Sunday, April 09, 2000 8:16 PM
>
> Pam, I just received this today as well. I thought this might give you
food
> for thought since you seem so knowledgable of this other name. It is
strange
> that some of them have evolved to the names you mentoned, or which we
thought
> had. With the pronunciations etc. the other spellings would be
appropriate.
> But someone sent this to me today also:
>
> Elizabeth Keziah, b. 1624, d.12/4/1676 m. John Basse 8/14/1638, b.
9/7/1616,
> d. 4-2-1699 Norfolk County, Nansemond County, VA
>
> Joy,
>
> I've seen the name KEZIAH as a first name, but not as a last name. This
> is interesting. I'm wondering if it might be one of the dozens of
> variations of the French name COSSART, which apparently has spun off
> into COSART, COZART, CAZORT, COZAD, COSSAIRT, CASSATT, CROZATT, CORZATT,
> COSAD, COZAD, CASAD, COUSSAR, COSSAER, COESAER, COZAR, etc.
>
> I don't know a lot about this family, but apparently most of the ones in
> the US are descendants of Huguenot Jacques COSSART who is said to have
> originated in the Normandy region of France, then went to Liege, Belgium
> and from there to Leyden, the Netherlands, where he was the
> Burgermeister of Rotterdam. According to notes I received from Barbara
> Farthing Bonham, his son Jacques migrated to the New World "on the ship
> Pumerlander Kerch, arriving on 14 Oct 1662. They settled in the colony
> of New Netherland at the town of New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island.
> Here they joined the Dutch Reform Church in the spring of 1663. His
> son, David went to Somerset Co., NJ, while son Anthony stayed in Long
> Island."
>
> Barbara's notes continue: "According to "COZART" by Philo Webster, there
> are 48 known spellings of the name." Descendants went to different parts
> of the country and spelled the name differently in each place.
>
> I know there are many descendants of Anthony COZART/COSSART who left
> Somerset Co, NJ and settled in the Granville Co, NC area in the
> mid-1700s.
>
> Pam
> *************
> Not only that, I would love for it to be Huguenot as I live in Charleston
and
> have only one other line that is.
>
> Joy
>
>
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