Joseph Cole

Also Joseph Cole Jr.

Joseph Cole Jr. of Eastham, Massachusetts, born there in 1718, the eldest son of Joseph Cole by his second wife, Mercy Hinckley. He married Sarah Nickerson at Harwich in 1737 and had five children at Eastham, among them the twins Mary and Sarah, the latter probably the wife of John Holdershaw. He and his wife joined the Eastham church in 1774, and he died in 1795.

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Life

  1. 1718
    Born
    18 May 1718, Eastham, Massachusetts

    "Joseph Cole the Son of Joseph and Mercy Cole" (Eastham records, MD 15:57).

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  2. 1737
    Married Sarah Nickerson
  3. 1795
    Died
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Family

Father
Joseph Cole b. 1677

His birth names Joseph and Mercy Cole, and his father's deed of 1764 gives land to "my two natural Sons namely, Gersham Cole, and Joseph Cole both of Eastham."

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Pedigree

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Notes

Father of Sarah (Cole) Holdershaw. Born at Eastham, the eldest son of Joseph Cole by his second wife, Mercy Hinckley. As “Joseph Cole jur of Eastham” he entered his intention with “Sarah Nickerson of harwich” on 1 Oct 1737, and they were married at Harwich on 17 November by Joseph Doane, justice of the peace (record). Their children, born at Eastham: the twins Mary (m. David Snow, 1765) and Sarah, 9 Sept 1738; Reuben, 19 Jan 1742/3 (m. Hannah Cole); Abiel, 24 Dec 1745 (m. Hannah Linnell); and Henry, 9 July 1748 (m. Desire Bassett) (record, source). In 1764 his father deeded his lands to him and his half-brother Gershom (record). He and Sarah joined the Eastham (Orleans) church on 2 May 1774, the year after his son-in-law John Holdershaw. He died in 1795 in the south parish of Eastham.

Open questions

  • His probate (Barnstable, 1795): a will or division naming “Sarah Shaw” or “Holdershaw” would prove that his daughter Sarah was Hope Holdershaw’s mother.

Research: research/ellingwood/Ellingwood_Cape_Cod.md.

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Connections

Famous kin
  • William Standish Knowles 1917-2012
    Monsanto chemist who shared the 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the catalysis used to make L-DOPA
    William Standish Knowles is the fifth cousin, once removed, of Richard Everett Ellingwood Jr.
In his ancestry
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Every notable ancestor and famous relative that Joseph's own ancestors lead to, with the lines drawn down to him.

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