John Cole (1624 - 1685)

Born 26 Nov 1624 in St Bartholomew the Great, London, England

Husband of Mary (Stephens) Cole — married 14 Jul 1646 in St. Dunstan, Stepney, London, England

Descendants

Died 17 Nov 1685 at age 60 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut

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Biography

Name

John Cole

Not his baptism

John Cole baptized 26 Nov 1624 St Bartholomew the Great, London, England, was the son of James Cole and Alice.^[1]

Not Son of Frances Munter

Three articles on the Ancestry of the Edwards Family.

• John is not mentioned in the first. He was not named in the 1646 will of Juliana Munter. She would have been his biological grandmother. She mentioned his alleged half siblings, William and Abigail.^[2]
• John is not mentioned in the Banks article. He was not mentioned in Henry Munter's 1638 will who also names some of his alleged siblings^[3]
• No child John Cole is named in the third article either.^[4]

Not the son of James Cole

Abigail (Cole) Sullivant inherited land from James Cole. Her husband, Daniel, inherited the property from her, and his wife 2nd wife Elizabeth (Lamberton) Sullivant, inherited the property from Daniel and then sold it to John Cole. This does not prove a relationship between James and John.

James in his 1652 will left bequests to his wife, daughter Abigail and husband Daniel Sullivant, step son William Edwards and cousin Henry Edwards. Surely had John Cole been his son, he would have been mentioned in this will.

Sources

1. ↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NYNP-84V : 11 February 2018, John Cole, 26 Nov 1624); citing , index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 374,431, 374,432, 374,436.
2. ↑ Watkins, Walter Kendall. "English Ancestry of Jonathan Edwards." New England Historical and Genealogical Register 58: 202
3. ↑ Banks, Charles Edward. “The Edwards Family of Connecticut.” The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record Vol 62 # 2 pp 116-120 (April 1931)
4. ↑ Smith, Captain Elizur Yale. “The English Ancestry of Jonathan Smith.” NYGBR 70:104-110 (images 24- Find my past)

• Cole, Frank. The Early Genealogies of the Cole Families in America (Hann & Adair, Columbus, Ohio, 1887) Page 17-21

• The American Genealogist. New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus, 1937-. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009 - .) Robert Wilson of Farmington, Conn., by George E. McCracken, TAG Vol. 52 (1976), pages 76 - 85 top of p. 80: "John Cole the carpenter"

• The American Genealogist. New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus, 1937-. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009 - .) The Family of Frances (Tough) (Chester) (Smith) Stebbing, wife of Edward Stebbing of Hartford, Connecticut, by John Insley Coddington, F.A.S.G. of Washington, D.C. (Part I) and Mrs. Florence E. Skillington of Leicester, England (Part II) Vol. 30, pages 203-204

• Ancestry Family Trees (Ancestry.com, Provo, UT, USA) Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=17838154&pid=573010756