Ancestral Glimpses » Robert Coles Sr. (± -± 1655)

Persoonlijke gegevens Robert Coles Sr. 

• Alternatieve naam: Robert Cole (other spelling)
• Hij is geboren rond 1597–98 in Sudbury, County Suffolk, ENGLAND.
• Gedoopt (op 8-jarige leeftijd of later) door het priesterschapsgezag van de LDS-kerk op 16 juni 1934.
• Geëmigreerd rond 1630, Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts, British Americawith Governor Winthrop.
• Hij is overleden rond 1655 in Warwick Township, Kent County, Rhode Island, British America.
• Alternatief: Hij is overleden op 18 oktober 1658 in Warwick Township, Kent County, Rhode Island, British America.
• Hij is begraven voor 28 oktober 1658 in Warwick Township, Kent County, Rhode Island, British America.
• Een kind van Nathaniel Coles en Hannah Butler
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 10 december 2017.

Gezin van Robert Coles Sr.

Hij is getrouwd met Mary Hawkshurst.

Zij zijn getrouwd na 1623 te Rhode Island, British America.

Kind(eren):

1. Elizabeth Coles  ± 1621-1684 
2. Deliverance Coles  ± 1632-± 1656 
3. Ann Coles  ± 1635-> 1695 
4. Daniel Coles  1642-1692 
5. Sarah Coles  ± 1636-1655
6. John Coles  1636-1676
7. Nathaniel Coles  1640-1668
8. Robert Coles  ± 1642-1715

Notities over Robert Coles Sr.

"The Records of the Coles family go back to Richard Colles of Pickwick Co., Warwick, England, who sprung from the family of Collefern of Co.
Somerset."
------Research by Robert Coles of Glen Cove LI. NY. ----- 22 Dec 1980

Robert came from England in the fleet with Govenor Winthrop in 1630 to either Ipswich or Roxbury (Massachussetts Bay Colony) , and Oct of that year requested to be a Freeman of Roxbury. He was made a Freeman in 1631. He was fined several times for intoxication. These fines were remitted possibly with the understanding that he was to leave the colony. He came to Rhode Island in 1637. (possibly forced out of town because of drinking), reformed in earnest and was one of the founders of the First Baptist Church along with Roger Williams and William Carpenter.
When he died, he did not leave a will, his property was distributed by the town the same as it should have been had he left a will. He may have been Welsh from near Bristol, England Migration: 1630

First Residence: Roxbury
Removes: Ipswich 1633, Salem 1635, Providence 1638, Paxtuxet, Warwick 1653
Church Membership: Roxbury Church member #8. Excommunicated at some later date. In 1639, he was in Providence, RI and was one of the twelve original members of the First Baptist Church.
Freeman: admitted 18 May 1631. Disenfranchised 4 Mar 1633-34, re-admitted 14 May 1634.
Education: Signed his name.
Offices: Representative for Roxbury to General Court 1632. Helped write arbitration law 1640.
From public records:
16 Aug 1631: Fined 5 marks, for drinking too much aboard ship "Friendship".
9 May 1632: Appointed on a committee to confer with the court about raising of a public stock.
4 Mar 1633: "The court orders that Robert Coles, for drunkenness by him committed at Roxbury, shall be disenfranchised, weare about his necke and soe to hange upon his outward garment a D made of redd clothe and sett upon white; to contynue this for a yeare, and not to leace it off at any tyme when he comes amongst company, under penalty of X £s. for the first offense, and V pounds for the second, and after to be punished by the court as they think meete; also he is to weare the D outwards, and in enjoyned to appear at the next general court, and to contynue thise until it be ended."
1 Apr 1633: Among those who had gone to Agawam (Ipswich) to plant a colony.
1639: Providence. He was one of the twelve original members of
First Baptist Church.
1640: He was appointed with three others to form a committee on all matters of difference regarding the dividing line between Providence and Pawtuxet, and on 27 Jul of that year, he and 38 others signed a agreement to form a government. He was one of the 17 who purchased the Pautuxet meadows, and he made his home there. Three others were appointed with him to arbitrate disputes and make rules of government, and their report was the compact signed by all the settlers. He became a friend of Samuel Gorton when he came to Providence, driven from Massachusetts by the intolerance of the authorities of that colony, and gave him part of his land.
The actions of Gorton and his followers were such, however, as to cause the older settlers to wish to be free of them, and he, with four others, in Sep 1642, appeared before the general court at Boston and yielded themselves up to the Massachusetts Colony, which accepted jurisdiction and appointed them magistrates. In the formal complaint of the Indians to the Plymouth colony in Sep 1652, the seventh article is as follows:
"7th. Ninigrett bought a mastiff dog of Robert Cole, and gave 40 shillings for him, which dog ran home to Robert Cole, who killed the said dog; wherefore, Ninigrett requires 40s. of said Cole."
The commissioners found the charge true, and promised to write Mr. Cole to return the money.

2 Jan 1653 he sold his house & lot in Providence, RI to Richard Pray.
27 Feb 1654 he & his wife sold to Zachariah Rhodes for 80 pounds his dwelling house at Pawtuxet and certain land.

He md. Mary Hawkhurst. He died prior to 18 Oct 1654, when his property was distributed by the town, "the same as it should have been had he left a will." After his death, Mary md. Mathias Harvey and moved to Oyster Bay, NY where she died.

"COLES, Robert (1598 - bef. 1655), from Eng. to Roxbury, Mass., 1630; removed to Ipswich 1633; a founder of Providence, R.I.; dep. Gen. Ct."
(Source: "Abridged Compendium" by Vircus, p. 3468)
http://longislandgenealogy.com/coles/surnames.htm

ORIGIN: Unknown
MIGRATION: 1630
FIRST RESIDENCE: Roxbury
REMOVES: Ipswich 1633, Salem 1635, Providence 1638, Pawtuxet, Warwick 1653
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admitted to Roxbury church as member #8, "he came with the first company, 1630" [RChR 74]. Excommunicated at some later date [RChR 75].
FREEMAN: Requested 19 Oct 1630 (as "Mr. Roberte Coles") and admitted 18 May 1631 [MBCR 1:80, 366]). Disenfranchised 4 Mar 1633-34, but apparently re-admitted 14 May 1634 [MBCR 1:112, 118].
EDUCATION: He signed his name to his deed, but his wife Mary made her mark [PrTR 20:82].
OFFICES: Representative for Roxbury to General Court, 9 May 1632 [MBCR 1:95]. He helped write the arbitration law, 27 Jul 1640 [PrTR 15:2].
ESTATE: On 28 Dec 1635 Salem "granted unto Rob[er]t Cole his heirs and assignees three hundred acres of land whereof forty acres is marsh fit to be mowed lying and being about 3 miles from Salem westward upon a freshwater brook called the North Brook" [STR 1:11; presumably the same land included under his name in the 1636 town grant, STR 1:20]. By 16 Jul 1638 Emanuel Downing had purchased this three hundred acres [STR 1:71, 72, 76]. On 25 Dec 1637 "Mr. Cole" was granted one acre of marsh and meadow, for a household of eight [STR 1:103].
Robert Cole was one of the principal men of Providence on 22 Dec 1666 when Roger Williams sold his Indian deed to the town's inhabitants [PrTR 3:90].
He received a share of meadow as a Patuxett proprietor, 8 Oct 1638 [PrTR 15:31]. He paid a town rate at Providence on 2 Sep 1650 totalling £3 6s. 8d., placing him among the five richest men in town [PrTR 15:33]. On 3 Jan 1652-33, Robert Coles sold his house and houselot to Richard Pray and his wife Mary [PrTR 2:13]. On 27 Feb 1653-54, "Robert Coles of Warwick by and with the consent of Mary his wife" sold to Zachariah "Roades" their interest in a dwelling house and homeshare of land and one share of land more "which the said Robert Coles bought of his son-in-law Henery Townsend," also a parcel near the fall and a parcel once in the use of Fraunces Weston, also all the land belonging to Robert Coles in the common near Pawtuxett, excepting only his Mashapauge meadow and an adjoining twenty-four acres [PrTR 1:87-90].
On 27 Apr 1655 Robert Coles sold a meadow and twenty-five acres of upland to Vall. Whitman [PrTR 2:15].
On 28 Oct 1654 [sic - probably intended to be 1655] the Warwick town council met to "agitate and order concerning the estate of Mr. Robert Coles of this town of Warwick late deceased and intestate"; the inventory showed that the estate totalled £501, with debts of £112 13s. against the estate; "Mary Coles the wife of the late deceased Robert Coles" was named administrator, and distribution of the estate was ordered as follows: to "his eldest son John Coles" £80 and a mare; to "Daniel Coles the second son" £50 when he is twenty-one; to "Nathaniell the third son" £40 when he is twenty-one; to "Robert Coles the fourth son" £40 when he is twenty-one; and to "Sarah Coles" £40 at marriage or at twenty-one; the "said children which are under age shall be under the tuition of the said Mary Coles their mother" [MacDonough-Hackstaff pp. 455-57, citing Warwick Town Council].
On 5 Dec 1655 John Coles of Warwick, having "agreed before the Town Council to receive fourscore pound and a mare of my mother-in-law of my portion and accordingly it is ratified by writing bearing date the 25 of Oct 1655, relinquished any claim he might have "unto any of my deceased father's estate, housing or lands belonging to me in New England" [WarTR 226-27].
On 20 Jan 1655[-56] Mary Coles of Warwick, "widow of Robert Coles late deceased," confirmed a deed wherein "my husband before his death sold unto my son-in-law Henry Townsend a certain parcel of meadow being 3 acres" [WarTR 227-28]. On 5 Apr 1656 "Mary Coles widow of Robert Coles late deceased" of Warwick granted to "my son-in-law Richard Townsend 8 acres of meadow" [WarTR 278].
Long after his death he continued to draw land from his rights in Providence. In the 19 Feb 1665[-56] lottery for land on the east side of the Seven Mile Line he drew lot number 4 [PrTR 3:72]. In the 12 Apr 1675 lottery for land on the west side of the Seven Mile Line, "Robart Coles" drew lot number 75 [PrTR 4:45]. In the 24 May 1675 lottery for land on the east side of the Seven Mile Line, he drew lot number 79. In the 17 Mar 1683-84 lottery for land on the west side of Seven Mile Line, he drew lot number 70.
BIRTH: By abt. 1605 based on approximated date of first marriage.
DEATH: Warwick bet. 27 Apr 1655 and 25 Oct 1655. (The settlement of his estate as published is dated 28 Oct 1654, but Robert Coles appears to have made a deed on 27 Apr 1655, and son John Coles says he signed an agreement on 25 Oct 1655, which would be three days before the Town Council meeting if were on 28 Oct 1655 and not 1654. Also, the deeds of confirmation made by the widow of Robert Coles all come within a few months aft. Oct 1655.)
MARRIAGE: (1) By abt. 1630 Mary _____; "Mary Cole, the wife of Robert Cole," was admitted to Roxbury church as member #34, along with many others who arrived in 1632, and Eliot notes that "God also wrought upon her heart (as it was hoped) after her coming to N.E., but after her husband's excommunication and falls she did too much favor his ways, yet not as to incur any just blame, she lived an afflicted life, by reason of his unsettledness and removing from place to place" [RChR 75]; she died by abt. 1637.
(2) By abt. 1637 Mary Hawkshurst; she md. (2) aft. 5 Apr 1656 [WarTR 278] and probably bef. 5 Feb 1656-57 Matthias Harvye of Warwick and Oyster Bay [NYGBR 123:12-13].

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Found: 23-Jun-2007, David Lee Powell

COMMENTS: On 16 Aug 1631 fined five marks for being disorderly with drink [MBCR 1:90]. On 6 Mar 1631-32 "Rob[er]te Coles, of Rocksbury," was fined 20s. for "being drunk at Charlton in Oct last" [MBCR 1:93], and on 3 Apr 1632 he confessed his fault in attempting to excuse himself at the previous court, and had his fine remitted [MBCR 1:94]. On 3 Sep 1633 Robert Coles was fined £10 for "abusing himself shamefully with drink, enticing John Shotswell his wife to incontinency, & other misdemeanor" [MBCR 1:107]. On 4 Mar 1634-35 it was ordered that Robert Coles "shall not pay more of his fine of £10, for drunkenness, &c, than hath been already levied in strong water" [MBCR 1:139]. All of these fines were remitted or discharged in the general amnesty of 6 Sep 1638 [MBCR 1:243-44].
On 4 Mar 1633-34 the General Court ordered that Robert Coles "for drunkenness by him committed at Rocksbury, shall be disfranchised, wear about his neck, & so to hang upon his outward garment a D, made of red cloth, & set upon white; to continue this for a year, & not to leave it off at any time when he comes amongst company, under penalty of 40s. for the first offense, & £5 the second, & after to be punished by the Court as they think meet; also, he is to wear the D outwards, & is enjoined to appear at the next General Court, & to continue there till the Court be ended" [MBCR 1:112]. On 14 May 1634 the General Court ordered that the "sentence of Court inflicted upon Rob[er]te Coles, 4 Mar 1633, for drunkenness, &c, by him committed, is now reversed, upon his submission, & testimony being given of his good behavior" [MBCR 1:118].
On 1 Apr 1633 the General Court gave permission for ten men, including Robert Coles, to settle Agawam (Ipswich) [MBCR 1:103].
Robert Coles was one of those who in 1640 and 1642 attempted to bring Pawtuxet under the jurisdiction of Massachusetts Bay Colony [SLR 1:33, 124-25; MBCR 2:26-27].
In Jun 1649 when Nanheggen was accused of being a thief, he professed his innocence and described his whereabouts and activities, having been at work at Mr. Coles he met with Wenontupe and offered him wompum to work, but "Mrs. Cole would not have him to work there, because he had the name of a thief" [PrTR 15:24].
That Robert Coles had two wives, both named Mary, is indicated by the release made by John Coles on 8 Dec 1655, when he called his father's widow "my mother-in-law." The identity of the second wife is revealed by Nathaniel Coles, when on 18 Dec 1683 he participated in a transaction with "my uncle Christopher Hoackshurst [Hawkshurst]" [Oyster Bay Town Records, Volume I - 1653-1690 (New York 1916), p. 177].
Based on this information and the settlement of the estate of Robert Coles, Harriet Beach came to the reasonable conclusion that son John and the two daus. who had already md. by the time of their father's death were with the first wife, and the other four children, still under age, were with Mary Hawkshurst [NYGBR 123:12-13].
BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE: In 1901 Rodney MacDonough published an excellent account of Robert Coles, citing many original documents [The MacDonough-Hackstaff Ancestry (Boston 1901), cited above as MacDonough-Hackstaff]. In 1992 Harriet Beach prepared a careful study of Matthias Harvye, second husband of the widow of Robert Coles, which contains much of interest to descendants of Robert Coles ["Matthias Harvye, A Very Public Man," NYGBR 123:11-16, 87-93].

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The spelling of this family name varies with generations, place of residence and recorder, being either Cole or Coles. ROBERT COLE was born in England; time and place so far unknown, probably in the early 1600's (Anderson, in the Great Migration Begins, guesses 1605) and died in Warwick, Rhode Island bet. Apr and Oct of 1655. It is now thought he md. twice, the first time in Roxbury, Massachusetts in 1630 to Mary (?); the second time in Roxbury by 1637 to MARY HAWXHURST, sister of Christopher, dau. of Samson Hawxhurst, Vicar in England. Until very recently it has been supposed that Robert had just one wife, but now, due to the reasoning of Harriet Beach, because of the wording in the settlement of the estate of Robert and the reference of his son John to Mary Hawxhurst as his "mother-in-law", it has been decided that there were two (Anderson,1:437). The fact that he had two wives would also either explains, or follow from, his change of behavior. Robert came to America in the Winthrop fleet of 1630 with a group from Essex under the leadership of William Pynchon of Springfield who was an early backer of the Massachusetts Bay Company. He was called Mister when he applied to be made freeman in Oct in 1630 and was sufficiently well educated to write his name, but he got off to a very bad start. For his first years in this country Robert was a drunk; a real one, even forced to wear a large red "D" on a placard which he had to hang around his neck when he went outdoors. He was first fined for drinking in Aug of 1631; again in Mar 1632 once more in Sep 1633, this time for "abusing himself shamefully in drink and enticing John Shotswell and his wife to incontinency", culminating in the shameful penalty of the red "D" in Mar. In Mar of 1634 he was disfranchised and ordered to wear the "D" for a year. This was all duly recorded in the Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England. His wife was not much better. The minister of their church, Reverand Eliot said "after her husband's excommunication & falls she did too much favor his ways, she lived an afflicted life." (Anderson) One possibility is that he had picked her up in a tavern and that they re-enforced each other's carousing, another is that she was an innocent victim. Before his punishment had run more than a few months, he was one of ten men given permission to settle at Ipswich with John Winthrop, Jr. (Savage says maybe the Boston authorities just wanted to get rid of him) and there he was given 200 acres of farm land. He seems to have been of a discontented, restless disposition, said Rodney MacDonough in MacDonough/Hackstaff Ancestry. We know he had three children bet. 1630 and 1636, because they were no longer minors when he died in abt. Oct 1654 and his property was distributed, and then his wife must have died. After that he made a surprising change; he went to Providence, Rhode Island and joined Roger WIlliams; this was when he must have md. Mary Hawxhurst, and after that his behavior, at least in public, was exemplary, although it should be mentioned that he was the one who sent the complaint to Boston about Samuel Gorton that resulted in troops being sent to take him to prison. They had four children before he died in 1655. Mary then md. Matthias Harvey and accompanied him to Long Island with her un-md. children.
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Subject: Re: Hawxhurst Family
Christopher Hawxhurst lived in Shrewsbury, England and md. Elizabeth ______. He succeeded John Marshall as Vicar of St. Chad upon the accession of Queen Elizabeth in 1558. (Miller, NYGBR, 478.) His son Samson Hawxhurst was born there in 1571 and died bef. 2 Oct 1627. In 1607-1627 he was Canon of Lichfield Cathedral and in 1626-27, Vicar of Nuneaton in County Warwick. His wife's name is not known. His dau. Mary Hawxhurst, died 1656, md. (1) Robert Coles in 1630; (2) Matthias Hervey. Mary emigrated to New England with her brother Christopher and was in Ipswich, MA, in 1630. Robert Coles was one of the twelve original members of the First Baptist Church, Providence, Rhode Island. Following the death of Robert Coles, Mary md. Mathias Hervey and removed, with her sons Nathaniel and Daniel, as well as her daus. who md. Townsends, to Oyster Bay, New York.

Posted by Peter James on 24 Jul 2002, The Message Board at The Oyster Bay Historical Society
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Note: The following is a section of a family history compiled by Herbert Armstrong Poole between 1905 & 1960, transcribed by AAA Maitland 1998. Subject numbers are HAP's originals. HAP's page divisions are shown: after subject page numbers are complete document page numbers in brackets and issue dates. The original text had generations indented in turn: here, generation numbers are added to each individual: the children of the title subject are "1/--". Subject 618. P1 (357)

ROBERT COLES, The following is from The Memorial of Samuel Hicks Seaman, by Mary Thomas Seaman: from American Ancestry, Vol 9, pp 77-80: from Bunkers Long Island Genealogies: from The Wright Family of Oyster Bay, by Rowland Delano Perrine, New York, 1923: from The Jones Family of Long Island, by John Henry Jones, New York, 1907: from Samuel Gorton, by Adelos Gorton, Philadelphia, 1907: and from the Cocks, Cock Family in America, by George William Cocks, New York, 1912.

Robert Coles was born at Sudbury, Suffolk, England, abt. 1597, and died at Warwick, R.I., on 18 Oct 1655. He came to Roxbury, Mass, with the Winthrops in 1630. In 1632 he was a member of the first representative body, and was made a freeman on 19 Oct 1630. He removed to Agawan and Salem in 1633. In 1636 he was one of the thirteen original proprietors of Providence Plantations. In 1639 he was at Providence, and one of the twelve original members of the Baptist Church at Warwick, R.I., in 1648. He was a man of much prominence. He md. abt. 1630, Mary Hawkhurst, born in England, died 2 Nov 1684, dau., of Sampson Hawkhurst, see subject 1238. She came to New England with her brother Christopher in 1630, settled first at Ipswich, Mass., then moved to Rhode Island.

After Robert's death, she md.; 2nd, Matthias Harvey, and with her children, moved to Oyster Bay, L.I. Issue:- 1/1.

John Coles. Died 1676. He md. Anne ---, who md., 2nd, in 1683, William Loines, probably the father of William Loines who md. on 10 Sep 1726, Ann Valentine, born 1715, dau. of Obadiah and Martha (Willets) Valentine, see subject 290, pp. 4-5. 1/2.

Daniel Coles. Born 1642, died at Musketo Cove (now Glen Cove), 29 Nov 1692. He md., abt. 1663, Maha Shalel Hasbaz Gorton, born abt. 1642, died bef. 1699, dau. of Samuel and Mary (Mayplatt) Gorton. Issue: - 2/1.

Samuel Coles. He md. Elizabeth Albertson, dau. of William and Barbara (Simkins) Albertson. Their son Joseph Coles md. Abigail Hopkins, dau. of David and Amy (Weekes) Hopkins, see subject 304, p. 4, and the N.Y. Gen & Biog Record, vol 37, p 227. 2/2.

Benjamin Coles. He md. Phebe Simkins, dau. of Nicholas and Elizabeth (Weekes) Simkins, see subject 304, p. 6. Issue: - 3/1.

Joseph Coles. Will dated 5 Aug 1768, proved 12 Jan 1769. He md. his cousin Temperance Albertson, dau. of Derrick and Dinah (Coles) Albertson, see next page. Issue:- 4/1.

Joseph Coles, died 1788, a carpenter. He md. abt. 1750, Hannah Cock, born at Brookville, L.I., 2 Apr 1731, dau. of Samuel and Martha (Alling) Cock, and had four children. Hannah md., 2nd, in 1789, Matthew Prior, son of Matthew and Hannah (Cock) Prior, but had no children. 4/2.

Albert Coles. 4/3.

Derrick Coles, will dated 24 Jun 1797, proved 31 Jan 1798, which mentioned wife Ann and son Lawrence. 4/4.

William Coles. 4/5.

Benjamin Coles. 4/6. Ann Coles. She md. John Weekes, son of Samuel and Anne (Carpenter) Weekes, see subject 304, p. 2. Subject 618. P2 (358) 4/7. Rachel Coles. She md., perhaps, Daniel Hopkins, son of William Hopkins, see subject 304, p. 4. 4/8.

Jemima Coles, born 1741, died 24 Jul 1819. She md. Benjamin Rushmore, born 4 Sep 1758, died 15 Dec 1820, son of Thomas and Anneke (Hendrickson) Rushmore, see subject 132, p. 7 for issue and further particulars. 3/2.

Freelove Coles. She md. Wright Frost, born 1706, died 7 Jun 1759, son of Wright and Mary (Underhill) Frost: 6 children 3/3.

Jemima Coles, born 22 Feb 1714, died 7 Jun 1759. She md., as his second wife, William Frost, born 29 Aug 1702, died 29 Sep 1782, son of William and Hannah (Prior) Frost, who had md., 1st, on 20 Dec 1730, Susanna Coles, who died 27 Feb 1736, dau. of Charles and Sarah (---) Coles, see page 5, and had two children by her.

William and Jemima had three children. 2/3. Joseph Coles, born at Musketa Cove abt. 1675, died 20 May 1767, 92 years or age. He md. in 1704, Elizabeth Wright, dau. of Caleb and Elizabeth (Dickenson) Wright. Issue:- 3/1.

Joseph Coles. He md., 1st, Charity Valentine, born 30 Apr 1717, dau. of David and Charity (Coles) Valentine, see subject 290, p. 3. He md., 2nd, Freelove Weaken, dau. of Samuel and Anna (Carpenter) Weekes, see subject 304, p. 2. For their issue, see the N.Y. Gen & Biog Record, Vol 36, p. 61. 3/2.

Daniel Coles. He md. Anna Carpenter. Issue:- (may not be complete) 4/1. Isaac Coles. He md., 2nd, Anne Cock, dau. of Henry. 4/2.

Jacob Coles, born 3 Mar 1743, died 3 Jun 1808. He md, on 4 Jul 1765, Sarah Cock, born 6 Mar 1749, died of yellow fever on 18 Sep 1798, see subject 132 p. 3 for issue and further particulars. 3/3. Caleb Coles. 3/4.

Penelope Coles. 3/5. Zipporah Coles. 3/6. Elizabeth Coles. 3/7.

Anna Coles, born 1708, died 28 Sep 1803. She md. George Frost, born 15 Sep 1704, died 16 May 1760, and had two children, one of whom, Elizabeth, md. Benjamin Townsend, see subject 308, pp. 2 and 3 for issue. She md., 2nd, on 11 Jan 1764, Micajah Townsend, see subject 616, p. 4. 3/8.

Solomon Coles. 2/4.

Susanna Coles. She md. in 1693, Josias Letting, son of Jonas and Sarah (Wright) Letting and had six children, see the N.Y. Gen & Biog Record, vol 2, p 14. 2/5.

Anne Coles. She md. on 20 Feb 1702, Thomas Wickes, son of John and Rose (Townsend) Wickes, see subject 308, p. 8, and they had eleven children for whose names see the N.Y. Gen & Biog Record, Vol 736, p. 61, and the Gorton Genealogy, p. 168. 2/6.

Mary Coles, born 1674, died bef. 1695. She md. in 1692-93, George Downing, born 1665-70, died 1735, see subject 290, p. 2, for their issue and further particulars. 2/7.

Dinah Coles. She md. Derrick Albertson, son of William and Barbara (Simkins) Albertson Issue:- (may not be complete) 3/1.

Temperance Albertson. She md. Joseph Coles, her cousin, who died 1768, son of Benjamin and Phebe (Sinking) Coles, see previous page. 3/2.

Albert Albertson, died 1730. He md. Rachel (Weekes) Wright, dau. of Job and Phebe (Townsend) Wright, see subject 154, p. 3, and widow of Nicholas Wright. 2/8.

Sarah Coles, born 1660, died 1725. She md. Ichabod Hopkins, born 1660, died 25 Jan 1730. Issue:- 3/1.

Thomas Hopkins. He md. in 1736, Margaret --- and lived at North Castle, Westchester County, N.Y. 3/2. Daniel Hopkins born 1715, died 1763. He md. Amy Weekes, born abt. 1716, died 20 Feb 1775, dau. of Joseph Weekes, see subject 304, p. 3 and 4 for their children. 3/3.

Elizabeth Hopkins, born abt. 1717. She md. on 21 Feb 1734, as his second wife, Benjamin Birdsall of Rye, N.Y., born 15 Mar 1691, died 27 Nov 1754, who had md., 1st, Martha --- by whom he had eight children. See subject 600, p. 3 for his parents Benjamin and Mercy (Forman) Birdsall. 3/4.

Sarah Hopkins, born 1719, died 1815, aged 96 years. She md. in 1736, Michael Mudge born 1713, will dated 12 Mar 1795, proved 23 Nov 1805, son of William and Ann (Coles) Mudge, see next page, and had six children. 3/5.

Dinah Hopkins. She md. Nehemiah Merritt, born 1715 died 1794, son of Thomas Merritt. They had four children and moved to Dutchess County, N.Y. 3/6. Ann Hopkins. No data, 1/3.

Nathaniel Coles. Born at Oyster Bay, L.I., in 1640, died bet. 1707-1709. He md., 1st on 30 Aug 1667, Martha Jackson who died 16 Feb 1668-69, dau, of Robert and Agnes (Washburn) Jackson of Hempstead, L.I. He md., 2nd, bet. 1660 and 1670, Deborah Wright, dau. of Nicholas and Ann (---) Wright. He md., 3rd, in 1695 Sarah Harcourt, born 1664, dau. of Richard and Elizabeth (Potter) Harcourt, see subject 306, p. 2. Issue;- (by his first wife Martha Jackson) 2/1.

Nathaniel Coles, born 24 Aug 1668, died 28 Sep 1705. He was a merchant and a Justice of the Peace. He md. in 1690-91, Rose Wright, born 1685, died 13 Dec 1754, dau. of John and Mary (Townsend) Wright, see subject 616, p. 4. After Nathaniel's death, Rose md., 2nd, on 2 Feb 1706, as his second wife, John Townsend, born 28 Aug 1662, died 6 Nov 1709 of smallpox, son of Thomas and Sarah (Coles) Townsend, see pp. 5 and 6. Rose md., 3rd, in 1713, as his first wife, Samuel Birdsall, born 1687, died 9 Mar 1761, son of Benjamin and Mercy (Forman) Birdsall, see subject 600, p. 3 for their issue. Issue:- (from his will and the right genealogy) 3/1.

Rosannah Coles, born 2 Oct 1691, died 19 Jun 1757. She md. on 8 Mar 1711, George Townsend, born 18 Oct 1687, died 11 May 1762, son of George and Mary (Hawkhurst) Townsend, see subject 154 for issue and further particulars. 3/2.

Freelove Coles, born 169-. She md., John Dickenson. 3/3. Martha Coles, born 12 May 1701, died 23 Jul 1723. She md. 1st, Jotham Townsend, who died in Oyster Bay in 1752, son of John and his second wife Esther (Smith) Townsend, see subject 616, p. 3 for their issue and further particulars. Subject 618. p 4. (360) 3/4.

Wright Coles, born 20 Sep 1704, died 23 Feb 1765. He md. on 8 Nov 1730, Sarah Birdsall, born 11 Sep 1712, died 18 May 1799, dau. of Samuel and Sarah (Wright) Birdsall, see subject 600, p. 3. Issue:- 4/1.

Freelove Coles, born 5 Nov 1731. She md., 1st, the Reverend Caleb Wright, born 10 Oct 1730, died 27 Oct 1752, a Baptist minister whose death occurred the day of his ordination. She md., 2nd, on 4 Aug 1761 Nathan Horton who died 2 Nov 1793, son of Joseph and Rachel (Coles) Horton, see next page. They had one son Isaac, born 23 Aug 1751, died 26 Sep 1752. 4/2. Nathaniel Coles, born 1734, died 1814. He md. Hannah Butler who died in 1838. Issue: (by his second wife Deborah Wright) 2/2.

Caleb Coles, died 1729. 2/3.

Harvey Coles, died 1719. He md. Mary Cooper, widow of Edward White. 2/4.

Martha Coles. She md. Samuel McCoun. 2/5.
Berak Coles, died 1740. 2/6.

Robert Coles, born 1670, died 1725. He md. in 1712, Mary Harcourt, born 1674, dau. of Richard and Elizabeth (Potter) Harcourt, and widow of Maurice Shadbolt, whom she had md. in 1703, and who died in 1712, see subject 306, p. 1. 1/4.

Robert Coles. Born 1630, probably the eldest son, died 16 Apr 1715 at Musketa Cove. He md. on 1 Jan 1670, Mercy Wright, born 4 Jun 1651, died 21 Oct 1708, dau. of Nicholas and Anna (Carpenter) Wright. Issue: - 2/1.

Nathan Coles, born 18 Mar 1671-72. He md. on 21 Feb 1691, Rachel Hopkins, born 12 Apr 1672. Issue:- 3/1.

Anne Coles, born 3 Dec 1692. She md., 1st, William Mudge, who died in 1713, son of Moses and Mary Mudge. The Jones Genealogy says she md., 2nd, Samuel Cheesman of Westchester County, N.Y., whose will was dated 1722, son of Thomas and --- (Valentine) Cheesman, see subject 144, but it doesn't say that she had md., 1st, William Mudge, nor whether she had any children by Samuel Cheesman. Issue:- (by her first husband William Mudge) 4/1.

Coles Mudge, born 1711. He md. Dorothy Coles and had a dau. Jean Mudge. 4/2.

Michael Mudge, born 1713, will dated 12 Mar 1795, proved 23 Nov 1805, 92 years old. He md. in 1736, his cousin Sarah Hopkins, born 1719, died 1815, 96 years old, dau, of Ichabod and Sarah (Coles) Hopkins, and had six children, see p. 3. 3/2.

Charity Coles, born 1 Sep 1695. She md. in Apr 1716, David Valentine, born 1689, died 1743, son of Richard and his second wife Sarah (Halstead) Valentine, see subject 290, p. 3 for issue and further particulars. 3/3.

Deborah Coles, born 11 Jan 1697-98, died 1774. She md. in 1720, her cousin Benjamin Carpenter, born at Cedar Swamp, L.I. abt. 1696, died 1749, son of Nathaniel and Tamar (Coles) Carpenter, a weaver, see below. Subject 618. p. 5 (361) Issue:- 4/1.

Rachel Carpenter, born 1721. 4/2. Coles Carpenter, born 1735. 3/4. Content Coles, born 25 Apr 1700. 3/5. Rachel Coles, born 15 Jan 1703-04. She md. Joseph Horton, born 1705, of Westchester County, N.Y. Their son Nathan md. Freelove Coles, see previous page. 3/6.

Martha Coles, born 4 Nov 1706. She md. at Hempstead on 4 Apr 1726, John Latting, son of Richard and Mary (Wright) Letting, a farmer: they had two children. 2/2.

Tamar Coles, born 18 May 1673, died 1723. She md. on 5 Nov 1690, Nathaniel Carpenter, born abt. 1668, living in 1730, son of Joseph and Hannah Carpenter) Carpenter. Tamer's father, in his will, gave Nathaniel a 50 acre farm: he had altogether 220 acres. They had six children. 2/3.

Dorcas Coles, born 15 May 1675. 2/4. Robert Coles, born 9 Apr 1677, died 12 Jun 1703. He md. 1701, Deborah Underhill, born 11 Feb 1682, dau. of John and Mary (Prior) Underhill. After Robert's death, Deborah md., 2nd, 16 Jul 1706, Thomas Willets. Issue:- 3/1.

Mary Coles, born 2 Nov 1702, died 10 Oct 1758. She md. Joseph Wood of Huntington, L.I., who died 3 Mar 1774. 2/5. John Coles, born 15 Nov 1678. 2/6. Charles Coles, born 4 Mar 1679, died 17 Oct 1738. He md. Sarah ---, and had a dau. Susanna who md. on 20 Dec 1730, William Frost, see p. 2. 2/7. Freegift Coles, born 1682-83. 2/8.

Mary Coles, born 30 Mar 1686. She md. William Thornicraft. 2/9. Mercy Coles, born 24 Mar 1683-84. She md. in 1704, Benjamin Carpenter, born abt. 1676, son of Joseph-and Ann (Weekes) Carpenter and had seven children, see subject 304, p. 7. 1/5.

Anne Coles md. prior to 27 Feb 1653-54, Henry Townsend, who died 6 Feb or 30 Mar 1695, son of Thomas Townsend, see subject 616, p. 1 for issue and further particulars. 1/6. Elizabeth Coles. She md., 1st, a Mr. Montgomery: 2nd, John Townsend who died in 1668-69, son of Thomas Townsend, see subject 616, p. 1, and subject 308 for issue and further particulars. 1/7.

Deliverance Coles. She md. Richard Townsend, who died at Jericho L.I,, abt. 1677, son of Thomas Townsend, see subject 616, p. 3 for issue and further particulars. After Deliverance's death, Richard md., 2nd, Elizabeth Wickes of Warwick, R.I., dau. of John and Mary Wickes. 1/8.

Sarah Coles. The Jones genealogy says she md. Captain Thomas Townsend, perhaps the second son of Thomas Townsend, who was said to have died in England, see subject 616, p. 2. Issue:- (may not be complete) 2/1.

John Townsend, born 28 Aug 1662, died 6 Nov 1709. His first wife's name is unknown: he md., 2nd, 2 Feb 1706, Rose Wright, born 1685, died 13 Dec 1754, dau. of John and Mary (Townsend) Wright, and widow of Nathaniel Coles, see page 3. After John's death, Rose md., 3rd, as his first wife, Samuel Birdsall, born 1687, died 1761, son of Benjamin and Mercy (Forman) Birdsall, see subject 600, p. 3 for their children.

Robert Cole - TimeLine

ROBERT, b. ; d. 1655. Roxbury, Mass., Providence, Warwick, R. I.
md.
MARY, b. ; d. 1656 +
(She md. (2) Matthias Harvey.)

1630, Oct 19. Roxbury, Mass. He requested to be made a freeman.
1631, Aug 16 Fined 5 marks, for drinking too much aboard ship "Friendship."
1632, May 9. He was appointed on a committee to confer with the court about raising of a public stock.
1633, Apr 1. He was among those who had gone to Agawam to plant.
He lived for a time at Ipswich and Salem.
1639. Providence. He was one of the twelve original members of First Baptist Church.
1640. He was appointed with three others on a committee on all matters of difference regarding dividing line between Providence and Pawtuxet, and they reported in Jul, that they had seriously and carefully endeavored to
weigh and consider all those differences to bring them to amity and peace. " We have given the fairest and equalest way to produce our peace."
1640, Jul 27. He and thirty-eight others signed an agreement for a form of government.
1648, Jun 5. Warwick. He was recorded as an inhabitant.
1653, Jan 2. He sold to Richard Pray, and wife Mary, his house and lot in Providence.
1654, Feb 27. He and wife Mary, sold Zachariah Rhodes, for £80, dwelling house at Pawtuxet, and certain land.
1655, Oct 25. Inventory, £501, debts £112, 15s.
Administratrix widow Mary Cole. Town Council ordered estate disposed of as follows: To eldest son John, £80 and a mare. To 2d son Daniel, £50, at twenty-one years of age. To 3d son Nathaniel, £40 at age. To 4th son Robert,
£40 at age. To dau. Sarah Cole, £40 at marriage or twenty-one The children under age to be under care of mother. If widow died before children came of age, the Town Council to dispose of estate, and if any children died,
their part to be distributed. The administratrix was authorized to sell land and give deeds.
His widow, after marrying Matthias Harvey, soon went to Oyster Bay, as did her sons Nathaniel and Daniel, and her daughters who md. Townsends.
1656, Apr 5. His widow Mary, confirmed to son-in law Richard Townsend, a meadow.

Caunonicus [the ruling sachem of the Narragansetts] not only permitted Williams and the wretched wanderers who had followed him from Salem to have a resting place in his domain, but he gave them all the neck of land lying between the mouths of Pawtucket and Moshasuck rivers, that they might set down in peace upon it, and enjoy it forever. Here, with John Throckmorton, William Arnold, William Harris, Stukley Wescot, John Greene, Thomas Olney, Richard Waterman, Thomas James, Robert Cole, William Carpenter, Francis Weston, and Ezekiel Holliman, who had accompanied, him in his Bight from Salem, he founded, in the early part of 1636, another New England colony, and called it Providence.
Here he formed his associates into a church, and divided the lands with which he had been endowed by Caunonicus equally amongst them, and now, although independent, still pursuing his principles of universal toleration, he attracted the discontented of the neighboring colonies of Plymouth and Massachusetts, and many were added to his church.
Source: An Historical Memoir of the Colony of New Plymouth, Francis Baylies, p. 222.

Robert Coles, one of the "received"' purchasers of Warwick, purchased the tract of land from Williams, in the vicinity of Pawtuxet, which the latter bought of Miantonomi. In 1632 he was one of the committee to advise with the Governor and assistants of Massachusetts about the raising of public stock. He resided at that time in Roxbury. The following year we find him settled at Ipswich. He was one of the first settlers of Providence, and his name appears in the first deed of Roger Williams to his fellow-settlers. In 1640 he was one of three persons who were appointed by the colony to report a form of government, which was adopted, and which remained in force until the arrival of the first charter. He subsequently removed to Warwick. A deed to his widow, Mary Coles, dated Nov 1655, made by John Coles, indicates that he died previous to that date. He had at least three children, one son, John, and two daus., who md. Richard and Henry Townsend, the latter living at the time of Coles' death at Oyster Bay, Long
Island.
Source: Fuller, Oliver Payson, B. A., History of Warwick 1642-48, Angell, Burlingame & Co., Printers, Providence, Rhode Island, 1875, pp. 16-18.

Old Warwick.
Under this head we propose to speak of the eastern portion of the town, or that part lying east of the village of Apponaug. The term, Old Warwick, applies strictly to only the "Neck," and its immediate vicinity. As the eastern part of the town was the earliest portion settled, and the only part until after King Philip's War, the chief items of interest pertaining to it have already been mentioned in connection with the general history of the town. There are some others of minor importance that will be mentioned in this connection. Pawtuxet village in the northeasterly part was the abode of William Arnold, Robert Coles, William Carpenter and Benedict Arnold, who in 1642, placed themselves and their lands under the protection of Massachusetts, and became a source of considerable vexation to their neighbors at Shawomet. The difficulties were finally settled and the people and their lands on the south side of the river were united to those of Warwick. Pawtuxet was the earliest settled portion of the territory within the present limits of the town.
Source: Fuller, Oliver Payson, B. A., History of Warwick 1642-48, Angell, Burlingame & Co., Printers, Providence, Rhode Island, 1875, p. 137.

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