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Explanation from FindAGrave explain all this confusion
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/142997767/eleanor-dean
Eleanor Strong is the second wife to William Cogan. Her first husband was John Strong Sr. She is never named in any document, but today people still call her Eleanor. John nor William never names their wife in the will, except the three children, and the 3rd child named Eleanor Cogan is the daughter of John 'Richard' Strong Sr and Eleanor. Read discussion below...The children are as follows: Eleanor Cogan, from most likely his first marriage that is unknown, married Walter Deane. He names a Joane Cogan (probably also from the first marriage) and then names another Eleanor Cogan. This last Eleanor is intriguing, because she is the daughter of John 'Richard' Strong that he mentioned as the 'unborn child' in his will before he died. The reason she didn't show the last name of Strong is because her legal guardian at that time became William Cogan, and she knew him since birth.
Walter and John Deane, q.v., were brothers, as shown in the latter's will. They are believed to be the sons of William Deane of Southchard, Somerset, whose will dated 22 July 1634 named sons William (oldest), Thomas, John, Walter, and Isaac, and daughters Susan Deane, Eleanor Deane, Margery Strong, and Elizabeth (youngest), and grandson John Strong (one of the witnesses was William "Cogam") (NEHGR 51:432-34). A Walter Deane, son of William Deane of South Chard, Somerset, was baptized at Chard 13 May 1612 (NEHGR 80:336). Walter Deane sailed for New England on the Speedwell from Weymouth, Dorset, on 22 April 1637 with six servants, the same ship carrying Elizabeth Poole, Henry Cogan, and Giles Rickard (NGSQ 71:176). His wife was Eleanor, who joined him in a deed of 20 August 1693 (NEHGR 3:375). The will of William Cogan of Southchard, Somerset, dated 24 April 1654, named his daughter Eleanor Deane, wife of Walter Deane in New England; however, he named another daughter Eleanor Cogan (NEHGR 51:434), and this has given rise to much speculation about the identity of Walter Deane's wife. George E. McCracken, "Early Cogans English and American," NEHGR 110:267-68, points out that Eleanor Deane had been supposed on other grounds to have been the daughter of Richard Strong of Taunton, Somerset. Bristol County, Mass. LR 1:152, dated 26 January 1690/91 shows Walter Deane of Taunton, a tanner, sold land for his beloved brother John Strong, living in Northampton, New England.
Mary Lovering Holman, Ancestry of Col. John H. Stevens…, (Concord, N.H., 1948), pp. 348-49, gives a verbatim excerpt from the will of this William Cogan, who may have been the Cogam witness of the William Deane will, above, and identifies Eleanor, the wife of Walter Deane, as a daughter of John Strong of Chard, Somerset, and sister of the John Strong of Northampton, Massachusetts. However, Mrs. Holman also shows the younger John Strong had for his first wife Margery Deane, the sister of Walter Deane...see link for full, no word count left.
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d. 24 Apr 1654, Taunton, Burlington, New Jersey, USA 
