Isaiah Cole (1742 - 1816)

Born 17 Jul 1742 in Readington, Hunterdon, New Jersey

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Died 26 Apr 1816 at age 73 in Pleasant Run, Hunterdon, New Jersey, United States

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Biography

Extracted from: “The Barent Jacobsen Cool Family” by Richard H. Benson. Newbury Street Press, Boston, Massachusetts, 2001. Pages 201-202.

Isaiah Cole (Teunis, Theunis, Barent Jacobsen) was baptized in July 1742 at Readington, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, the son of Teunis Kool and Sarah Biggs. Wits.: Mordechai MacKinny and Mary MacKinny. ^[1][2]

Isaiah married Sarah (Cannon?) by 1765.^[3] She died in 1802. ^[4]

Isaiah and Sarah lived at Readington, where he was listed as an officer at the town meeting of 8 March 1774. ^[5] He appeared on the tax rolls from 1778 through 1790. ^[6] In May 1778, Isaiah had a farm with six horses, six cattle and five hogs. ^[7] Isaiah was listed in the account book of the Grandin Fulling Mill from 20 May 1778 to 17 September 1784. ^[8]

Isaiah died intestate and his administrators, Tunis Cole and Abraham Cole, filed an inventory of his estate totaling $368 on 26 April 1816.^[9] A deed dated 1 June 1827 indicated that Isaiah Cole had two parcels of land at Campbell Brook in Readington and that his heirs were Tunis Cole, John Cole, Benjamin Cole (then deceased), Isaiah Cole and Abraham Cole. ^[10]

Children of Isaiah Cole and Sarah, all baptized at Readington Reformed Church:

Tunis Cole, baptized 24 September 1766 at Readington Reformed Church. ^[11]

Benjamin Cole.

Maria Cole, baptized 17 December 1769. ^[12] Died 5 October 1773. ^[13]

Isaiah Cole, born 10 August 1774. ^[14]

John Cole, baptized 28 January 1776. ^[15]

Sarah Cole, born 5 January 1782 and died 3 January 1792. ^[16]

Abraham Cole, born 10 September 1784. ^[17]

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1. ↑ “Readington Reformed Church,” Somerset County Historical Quarterly, 4(1915):300.
2. ↑ Readington Church https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/6961/images/43103_356236-00100?treeid=&personid=&hintid=&usePUB=true&usePUBJs=true&_ga=2.260318605.1207632286.1610577050-1670828725.1591635556&pId=152794281
3. ↑ The name “Sarah” and estimated date of marriage are based on baptismal records. The surname “Cannon” is from undocumented family correspondence.
4. ↑ Cemetery record – Schomp Cemetery – card file at Hunterdon County Historical Society, FHL Microfilm # 1765387.
5. ↑ Hunterdon County Town Meetings, 1760-1885, FHL Microfilm #807049.
6. ↑ Hunterdon County N.J. Taxpayers 1778-1797 (Miami Beach, Florida, 1990), 35.
7. ↑ “New Jersey Rateables, Hunterdon County, Reading Township, May 1778 and September 1779,” Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey, 49(1974):12.
8. ↑ Walter J. Young, Grandlin Fulling Mill Book 1774-1785,” Genealogical Magizine of New Jersey, 52(1977);82.
9. ↑ Calendar of New Jersey Wills and Administrations, 1670-1817, 13 Vols, Archives of the State of New Jersey, Series 1, Vols. 23, 30, 32-42 (Patterson, New Jersey [and elsewhere], 1901-1949), 42:90.
10. ↑ Hunterdon County Deeds, 42:483.
11. ↑ “Readington Reformed Church,” Somerset County Historical Quarterly, 5(1916):301.
12. ↑ “Readington Reformed Church,” Somerset County Historical Quarterly, 5(1916):303.
13. ↑ Cemetery record – Schomp Cemetery – card file at Hunterdon County Historical Society, FHL Microfilm # 1765387.
14. ↑ Identified as a son in Hunterdon County Deeds, 42:483. Date of birth from Isaiah Cole Family Bible record in the collection of the Genealogical Society of New Jersey maintained at Rutgers University.
15. ↑ “Readington Reformed Church,” Somerset County Historical Quarterly, 6(1916):67.
16. ↑ Cemetery record – Schomp Cemetery – card file at Hunterdon County Historical Society, FHL Microfilm # 1765387.
17. ↑ Identified as a son in Hunterdon County Deeds, 42:483. Date of birth from Abraham Cole Family Bible, cited in “Family Records,” Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey”, 48(1973):110.

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