I like your style, cousin. Nice way to quickly summarize the Huguenots without pointing a finger. I'm not sure which bunch Jacques Cossart Jr came from, but I don't think he was of the violent school. He seems to have been a politician of sorts, a bureaucrat (that means he was educated, or at least was literate), and a pretty good farmer. Most of his children and grandchildren were baptized in the Dutch Reformed Church in the New York/New Jersey area. The family served in the colonial militia BEFORE the Revolutionary War, and several fought during the War on the side of the good guys, and none served the British, so they can justifiably be called patriots. Why, heck, one family member even gave his life here in Texas at the Battle of Goliad during the Texican war for freedom from Mexico. He is as much a Texas hero as any of those poor souls who died at the Alamo.
I do not believe Cozort is truly a French spelling of the name, which more than likely was Cousseau in France before the family began to wander and got it changed to Cossart in either Belgium or Holland. Cossart is SUPPOSED to be the "Dutch" manner of spelling the name, whatever it was. I have also seen "Courseau" in European studies, and I believe that the name originated linguistically from the Middle French words "coursier" and/or "courser," both of which are occupation names dealing with horses. In the Middle Ages, a "coursier" was one who supplied horses to the king, with the strong implication that it didn't matter to the king where or how the coursier obtained the horses (wink, wink). The term "coursier" and its somewhat later version "courser" became the word "corsair," which means pirate, freebooter, etc. Same idea. I have no proof that my suspicion is correct, but I would not at all be surprised that a thorough search would prove me right. Carry on the good search, cousin. Best wishes, Jim (just call me Blackbeard)