John Cole Sr. (1644 - 1725)

Born 15 Jul 1644 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay, New England

Ancestors

Husband of Ruth (Snow) Cole — married 12 Dec 1666 in Eastham, Barnstable, Plymouth Colony, New England

Descendants

Died 6 Jan 1725 at age 80 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay, New England

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Biography

John Cole Sr., was the oldest son of Daniel Cole. Daniel had come to the new world, following his brothers Job and John Cole, who emigrated earlier in the 1630s. Daniel Cole emigrated from Surrey, England, to Plymouth Colony between 1637 and 1640, when he received a grant of land at Duxbury.^[1]

In 1642 he was at Marshfield. He was on the list of men able to bear arms at Yarmouth in 1643. He relocated to Eastham between 1645 and 1649.^[2]

During his years in Duxbury, Daniel Cole made the acquaintance of Edmund Chandler, who had arrived in Duxbury in 1633 and was a freeman landowner there. Edmund Chandler and wife Elizabeth Alder had a daughter Ruth, born in 1627 in England, as well as five other children.^[3] Ruth Chandler (aka Ruth Chester) and Daniel Cole married in late 1643 and John Cole was born July 15, 1644, in Yarmouth, Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts.

From the Eastham records: "John Cole and Ruth Snow weare maried the 12th Day of December in the yeare 1666." ^[4][5]

John Cole was a Lieutenant in the colony's militia and, after several years in Eastham, the Cole family briefly moved to Groton, 75 miles away on the colony's north-west frontier sometime after June 1672. They already had 3 small children and their stay so far from Cape Cod was brief. By March 1675 (no doubt by the autumn of 1674), when their fourth child was born, they had returned to Eastham with its relative security. Some genealogists have guessed that increasingly-frequent Indian raids led to their return; this is quite likely as the first major conflict between the English Pilgrims and local Native Tribes, called "King Philip's War," broke out in June 1675 and raged for three years. In 1676, the fledgling town of Groton was burned and some citizens killed.^[6]

John served on the jury in 1667-8, 1676, and 1681.

"I, John Cole of Eastham .... In Consideration of my Reall Love & good will unto my naturall son Joseph Cole of Eastham afore sd have Given .... unto him the sd Joseph Cole & to his heirs & assigns, next after my Deceas, for ever all that my parcell of land being my plain lot laid out to me in sd Eastham for my plain lot being four acres more or les buted & bounded as may appear by the record there of in sd Towns book of Records together with that my Tenement lot laid out to me at Rockharbour alis little Scaket in sd Eastham being four acres more or les buted & bounded as may appear in sd Towns book of records Together with one small parcell of land more ajoyning to my medow at Rockharbour being part of my wood lot buted & bounded as may apeer by sd book of records .... To have & To hold.... next after my Deceas" Dated 20 July 1713, witnesses were Joseph Doane and Rebecca Doane. ^[7]

"I, John Cole of Eastham .... yeoman ffor & In Consideration of my Real Love & good will which I have, & Paternall affection that I bare towards my naturall son Joseph Cole of Eastham afore sd I do Give .... unto the sd Joseph Cole .... my right .... which I now have unto all & singuler the Lands lying in the Township of Harwich that my Honrd ffather Daniel Cole Died seized of & was setled to me by the Judge of Probate .... in the year 1707 that is to say six shears in the in the first division or six eleventh parts of the whole in the first Division & five eleventh parts of the whole in the second Division of sd Lands"

Dated 29 January, 1714/5, witnesses were Joseph Doane and Mary Doane.^[8]

The will of John Cole Sr. of Eastham is dated 12 Aug. 1717 and he remembered his "eldest son" John Cole Jr., son Joseph, Ruth, Hephzebah, Hannah, Mary and Sarah "all my five natural daughters", the last three referred to as "three of the youngest of my natural daughters". ^[9] Unfortunately, I’ve been unable to locate the original probate records.

John and Ruth (Snow) Cole's seven children were:^[10]

1. Ruth Cole, born on 11 March 1668. She married William Twining on 21 March 1689 in Eastham.
2. John Cole, born on 6 March 1670. Like his father, he is referred to in records as “Lieutenant John Cole.” He married Mary Rogers, about 1693 and the widow Sarah (Hamlin) Higgins, in Eastham on 15 November 1732. He died in Eastham on 13 December 1746.
3. Hephzibah Cole, born in June 1672. She died between 1717-1726.
4. Hannah Cole, born on 27 March 1675. Her will was proven 18 March 1729; she was unmarried.
5. Joseph Cole, born on 11 June 1677; died February 1766.
6. Mary Cole, born on 22 October 1679; unmarried, she died after 3 February 1726.
7. Sarah Cole, born on 10 June 1682; unmarried, she died after 3 February 1726.

"Ruthe Cole the wife of John Cole Senior dyed January ye 27th 1716/17" ^[11]

Ruth died in 1717 in Eastham where she had lived nearly all of her life. She is buried in an unmarked grave in the Snow/Hopkins section of the Cove Burying Ground, Eastham.^[12] Her husband, Lieutenant John Cole, died in Eastham on January 6, 1725. He is buried in an unmarked grave, doubtlessly next to his wife, in the Cove Burying Ground, Eastham.^[13]

Sources

1. ↑ Josiah Paine, “Early Settlers of Eastham, Book 2” (1916), Cape Cod Library, 1:457-488, cited in Note 3 of: http://www.earlvillepost.com/stubloom/fam_cole.pdf
2. ↑ "Cole Family" - http://www.earlvillepost.com/stubloom/fam_cole.pdf
3. ↑ "History of the Town of Duxbury, Massachusetts, with Genealogical Registers," pg. 241.
4. ↑ "Vital Records of Eastham and Orleans"- in The Mayflower Descendant- Vol. V, No. 4 (Oct. 1903), p. 196
5. ↑ Births, marriages, deaths, 1649-ca.1840; intentions of marriage, 1700-ca.1905, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G979-9FWD : 28 September 2022), FHL microfilm 007009735, image 118, Eastham, Massachusetts, Volume 2, Births, & Deaths, 1654-1797, Page 28.
6. ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Philip%27s_War and http://www.earlvillepost.com/stubloom/fam_cole.pdf
7. ↑ Barnstable County Deeds, Book 7, folio 53
8. ↑ Barnstable County Deeds, Book 8, folio 115
9. ↑ Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Stephen Hopkins- John D. Austin, General Society of Mayflower Descendants, Plymouth, 1992- Vol. VI, pp. 24-5
10. ↑ http://www.earlvillepost.com/stubloom/fam_cole.pdf
11. ↑ "Vital Records of Eastham and Orleans"- in The Mayflower Descendant- Vol. V, No. 4 (Oct. 1903), p. 197
12. ↑ http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=51539674 - has some errors in dates.
13. ↑ http://www.earlvillepost.com/stubloom/fam_cole.pdf and http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=51539624

See Also:

• Cole Family on earlvillepost.com
• Find A Grave Memorial #51539674 - Ruth Snow Cole
• Find A Grave Memorial #51539624 - Lt. John Cole
• "The Chrisman Pedigree," website created by Lonnie Chrisman
• King Philip's War article on Wikipedia
• Ancestral File Number: 94QW-1Q
• Eastham, Massachusetts, Vital Records Title: Eastham, Massachusetts, Vital Records
• The Great Migration Begins: immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Three volumes by Robert Charles Anderson, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995.
• Pane-Joyce Genealogy Title: database, David Pane-Joyce, Pane-Joyce Genealogy Author: David Pane-Joyce Publication: (http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/report/ : December 2011)
• Source: #S1388632807 - http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=13989820&pid=1577078342
• Ancestors of Lazurus Long & Lillie on RootsWeb
• Source S1388632807 Repository: #R1350374592 Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.

http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=13989820&pid=1197472045

• Early Settlers of Eastham originally pub. in 1916- in Cape Cod Library of Local History and Genealogy- Leonard H. Smith, Clearfield Pub., 1992- Vol. I&II, p. 463
• Early Settlers of Eastham- Josiah Paine, Library of Cape Cod History and Genealogy, 1916
• Cole Family Genealogy- Stuart Bloom, Earlville, IL, 2005- pp. 1-4

Acknowledgements

• Thank you to Kathryn Greenwald for creating WikiTree profile Cole-320 through the import of greenwald-millerGEDCOM.ged on 27 September 2010.
• Thank you to Grant Glover for creating WikiTree profile Cole-1191 through the import of Glover.ged on 03 April 2011.
• Thank you to Chet Snow for researching and writing this biographical sketch; merging duplicate profiles and adding several sources. And for adding "missing" children's profiles on April 24, 2016.
• WikiTree profile Cole-1192 was created through the import of Glover.ged on 03 April 2011.