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John Coles (1636 - 1676)

John Coles
Born in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Baymap
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Died at about age 40 [location unknown]
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Biography

John Coles was the son of Robert Coles and Mary Coles.[1] He was born in Ipswich, Massachusetts about 1633 or 1636. In 1654 he married a woman named Ann — in Warwick, Rhode Island. [2]

John and his wife had at least two children:

  1. a daughter, who married Edward Wright of Matinecock
  2. Solomon Cole (abt. 1660 - aft. 1714)

Son, Solomon appears on records of Oysterbay, 1728, as “Overseer of Highways at ye South.” [2]

May 2, 1653, John Cole was appointed to a committee of six tasked with communicating with the local Tribe about regarding the fencing of land. [2]

Sources

  1. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III. page 435-439. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010), (Originally Published as: New England Historic Genealogical Society. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 3 vols., 1995). Sketch of Robert Coles.subscribers$
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Cocks, George William and John Cox. “History and Genealogy of the Cock, Cocks, Cox Family: Descended from James …” Published privately in 1914. pp. 362-363. https://archive.org/details/historyandgenea00coxgoog




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Hello Sonia. You will note I changed the mother in both the data and bio of this profile per Anderson in Great Migration. In short, Robert Coles had 2 wives named Mary and John was a son of the 1st wife whose surname is unknown. See further information on the profile of Robert Coles-49.

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