Joseph Cole (1661 - 1703)

Born 24 Mar 1661 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay

Husband of Sarah (Randall) West — married before 1698 in Saco, York, Massachusetts Bay Colony [uncertain]

Descendants

Died 10 Aug 1703 at age 42 in Saco, York, Massachusetts Bay

Problems/Questions Profile managers: Alice Rice [send private message] and Judith Vasseur [send private message]

Disputed items:

• Have found no historical records providing a basis for the reasoning that Joseph Cole (m. Sarah Randall) was the son of John Cole and Mary Chilson.

Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, 141, report Walsingham Chilson's daughter, Mary Chilson, m. 23 December 1658 to John (12) Cole. Same source, p. 155, has entry for John (12) Cole, reporting he was of Saco, buried March 1661. Entry reports about his inventory; but no children are called out as such. Entry includes comment that "Eliphal Cole was bur. 23 Oct 1661." Quite separately, same source contains entry (p. 156) about Joseph (19) Cole (m. Sarah Randall)--making no reference to a father's name.

Said another way, if the authors of Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire were unable to identify the parentage of the man, Joseph Cole (m. Sarah Randall), then what other historical discovery associates this Joseph with a named parent?

The relationship of Joseph Cole to parents John and Mary (Chilson) Cole has been severed pending notice of further historical discovery or reasoning. Likewise, the report of his birth "1659" at Beverly was removed from the vital data.

• Profile of Joseph Cole reports he married "1675" in "Saco, York, Maine" to Sarah Randall. One Joseph Cole is known to have married a Sarah Randall, and traces of children born mid- to late-1690s to that couple are also known. Without other supporting sources and reasoning, reports the couple married much earlier seem dubious. (Based on what had been his reported birth, Joseph would have been only 16 years of age in 1675, well below the norm then for age at first marriage; Sarah would have been only about 14.)

Plan to update the record to reflect a later marriage date.

Biography

Married Sarah Elizabeth Randall about 1695.

Killed in French/Indian raid

Death Date: 10 AUG 1703; Saco, York, Maine; Age: 43-44

Sources

• https://familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/8115329
• http://network.mainegenealogy.net/group/colonialancestors/forum/topics/cole-family-of-wells-and-vicinity-1630-s-and-early-1700-s
• https://www.smokykin.com/tng/getperson.php?personID=I236093&tree=Smokykin
• Sybil Noyes, Charles Thornton Libby, and Walter Goodwin Davis, Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, in five parts, paginated consecutively (1928-1939), 141, 155, 156,; digital images, FamilySearch (accessed via Family History Library Catalog, 2014).

• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Ancestral File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:1:M75S-M45 : accessed 2017-03-23), entry for Joseph COLE.

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Acknowledgments

• This person was created through the import of breesefam.ged on 09 May 2011.