Joseph Cole
Yeoman of Eastham, Massachusetts, born there in 1677, probably a son of John Cole and Ruth Snow, and so very probably a great-grandson of Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower. He married three times, the second time Mercy Hinckley at Harwich in 1715, and in 1764, in his eighty-seventh year, gave his land to his sons Gershom and Joseph. Grandfather of Sarah (Cole) Holdershaw.
Life
- 1677Born11 Jun 1677, Eastham, Massachusetts
"Joseph Cole the son of John Cole was borne the : 11th : of June in the year : 1677" (MD 5:197). That the Joseph who married Mercy Hinckley in 1715 is this one is the compilers' identification.
documentedprobable - 1715Married Mercy Hinckley6 Oct 1715, Harwich, Massachusetts
"october 6th 1715 Then Joseph Cole & marcy hinkly were married in harwich by me Joseph doane Justice peace."
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Family
- Father
- John Cole
John Cole's deeds of 1713 and 1714/15 give land to "my naturall son Joseph Cole of Eastham"; Paine (1946) and the Nickerson genealogy ("Joseph4 Cole ... son of Joseph3 (John2, Daniel1)") make him the husband of Mercy Hinckley, at 38 and in his second marriage.
documentedprobableSources
- Eastham, Massachusetts, town records of marriages
- Deeds of John Cole (1713, 1714/15) and Joseph Cole (1764) of Eastham, in The Mayflower Descendant
- G. S. Paine, Mayflower Ancestries (typescript, 1946)
- The Nickerson Family: The Descendants of William Nickerson, 1604-1689 (Nickerson Family Association)
- Reasoning:
research/ellingwood/Ellingwood_Cape_Cod.md
- Mother
- Ruth Snowdocumentedprobable
- Spouse 1
- Elizabeth Cobb
His first wife; mother of Gershom (m. Mary Rogers), Ruth, Elizabeth, Patience, Sarah and Reliance, as Paine lists them.
compiledprobable - Spouse 2
1 child
- Spouse 3
- Rebecca (Young) Harding
Widow of Abiah Harding; his third wife; no children.
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Pedigree
Notes
Grandfather of Sarah (Cole) Holdershaw. A son of John Cole and Ruth Snow of Eastham, and so, very probably, a great-grandson of Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower. In 1713 and 1714/15 his father gave him land at Eastham and his right in the Harwich lands that “my Hon’d father Daniel Cole Died seized of” (record). He married three times: Elizabeth Cobb; Mercy Hinckley of Harwich, on 6 Oct 1715 (record), who bore him Mercy (24 Sept 1716), Joseph (18 May 1718) and Mary (30 Apr 1721) (record); and Rebecca (Young), widow of Abiah Harding. On 18 Apr 1764 “Joseph Cole of Eastham … yeoman” gave his land “to my two natural Sons namely, Gersham Cole, and Joseph Cole both of Eastham” (record); he was then in his eighty-seventh year. The Nickerson genealogy has a sale of all his land to the same two sons on 29 Jan 1768.
Research: research/ellingwood/Ellingwood_Cape_Cod.md.
Connections
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