Nicholas
Cottrell
II
Born after in Westerly, Rhode Island, Colonial America
Son of Nicholas Cottrell I
and Unknown (Unknown) Cottrell
Brother of
Mary Cottrell, Hannah Cottrell, John Cottrell, James Cottrell, Gersham Cottrell, Eleazer Cottrell and Jabez Cottrell
Husband of
Anna (Peabody) Cottrell
— married
1658 in Westerly, Washington County, Rhode Island Colony [uncertain]
Descendants [uncertain] 
Father of
Elizabeth (Cottrell) Pendelton, John Cottrell, Nicholas Cottrell III, Mary (Cottrell) Larkin and Dorothy Cottrell
Died before
before age 76
in Westerly, Kings, Rhode Island, Colonial America
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Biography
Nicholas Cottrell II is a Military Veteran.
Served in the British Colonial American Army 1675-1676
King Philip's War
Served in the British Colonial American Army 1675-1676
King Philip's War
"King Philip’s War—also known as the First Indian War, the Great Narragansett War or Metacom’s Rebellion—took place in southern New England from 1675 to 1676. It was the Native Americans' last-ditch effort to avoid recognizing English authority and stop English settlement on their native lands. The war is named after the Wampanoag chief Metacom, later known as Philip or King Philip, who led the fourteen-month bloody rebellion."[1]
Nicholas was born 1640[2]to Nicholas Cottrell and Martha Unknown. He passed away about 1715. [3]
Nicholas Cottell, son of Nicholas, was made a freemen[4] in 1688, was a soldier in King Philip's War in 1675, constable and representative, and he died in 1715. ["Memoirs", The Register, Vol. 86, p. 442] In yet another article it states that the inventory of Nicholas Cotterall's estate was taken in February 1711/12.[Further Information About the Family of John Peabody (1612-1687) of Newport, Rhode Island, by Mrs. Dorothy Wood Ewers, PH.D., of Crete, Illinois, The Register, Vol. 117, p. 96-98]
Recorded in the Westerly Town Council on 3 January 1715/16,[5] "Mr. Nicholas Cottrell presented a writing as his father's Mr. Nicholas Cottrell deceased Last Will for probate. Upon the personal of and enquiry of the witnesses we find the letter of the will and the declaration of the witnesses and all his children that were then before the Council to be very discordant and disagreeing to said writing. The witnesses declared they saw him seal and deliver and heard him order a person to sign for him that is to afix his name to said writing".
On 11 January 1715/16,[5] it was ruled that he died intestate, and his moveable estate would be divided equally among his five children. His inventory was recorded on 3 January 1715/16.[5]
The distribution of his estate was recorded in the town meeting of 6 May 1723.[6]
Sources
- ↑ https://www.history.com/topics/native-american-history/king-philips-war
- ↑ Find a Grave, https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/155814386:60541?ssrc=pt&tid=155989988&pid=382245232668, 1640 Westerly, Washington County, Rhode Island
- ↑ NEHGR 86 (1932):442, Memoirs, https://www.americanancestors.org/databases/new-england-historical-and-genealogical-register/image?rId=242352399&volumeId=11593&pageName=442&filterQuery=, died 1715.
- ↑ https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/freeman
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/9079/images/007649997_00103). Rhode Island, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1582-1932 [database on-line], Town Council and Probate Records, Vol 2-4, 1699-1736, image 103-105. Westerly, Council Records, Probate Records & Lands, 1699-1719, No. 2, Restored book Page 88-90. Lehi, Utah: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015.
- ↑ Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/9079/images/007649997_00237). Rhode Island, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1582-1932 [database on-line], Town Council and Probate Records, Vol 2-4, 1699-1736, image 237-238. Westerly, Council and Probate Records, 1719-1731, No. 3, Restored book Page 99-101. Lehi, Utah: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015. Free Ancestry.com image of Distribution
- Wheeler, Richard Anson. History of the Town of Stonington, County of New London, Connecticut. Press of the Day Publishing Company, 1900. pgs 325 -327. [1]
- Descendants of Nicholas Cottrell of Newport and Westerly, Rhode Island, 1638 by Ellen Rowland Cottrell of Old Mystic, Connecticut, 1904-1910 [2]
- Bierce, Thurber Hoffman. Ancestors in the United States of Byron H. Bierce and his wife Mary Ida Cottrell of Cortland County, New York, compiled by Thurber H. Bierce and Lisle Cottrell. New York, 1962. Pgs. 94 - 192. [3]
- Austin, John Osborne. The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island. Genealogical Publishing Com, 1969. Pg 121. [4]
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It is sourced in The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island: Comprising Three Generations.
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