John Coggeshall Jr. (c. 1624 - 1 October 1708)[1][2] was a deputy governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.

The son of Rhode Island President John Coggeshall Sr., he was raised in the village of Castle Hedingham in northeastern Essex where his father was a merchant.

He was first active in civil affairs in 1653 when he became treasurer of the island towns of Portsmouth and Newport.

[2] He was one of ten Assistants named in the Royal Charter of 1663, which would become the basis for Rhode Island's government for nearly two centuries.

[2] In April 1676, during King Philip's War, he was on a committee to procure boats for the colony's defense.