VALENTINE, David

Family/Spouse: COCK, Hannah. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. VALENTINE, Elwood

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: Glen Cove, Long Island, NY

Notes:

From Edna Valentine notes

Built house at “The Place”, Glen Cove. Broke his violin over his knee when he turned Quaker.

Charles married FROST, Mary on 4 Mar 1762. Mary (daughter of FROST, Jacob and WOOLSEY, Sarah) was born on 6 Aug 1746; died on 13 Jun 1806. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Had original date of death as 6 Jun 1808, possible error in transcribing notes from Edna Valentine Bruce. Hughes has it as 13 Jun 1808.

Jacob married COLES, Mary on 1 Jan 1740 in Hempstead, Nassau, New York, USA. Mary (daughter of COLES, Charles and WICKES, Sarah) was born in Oyster Bay, Nassau, NY, USA; died on 4 Jan 1746/47. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
Jacob Valentine, of Hempstead, to Mary Coles, of --Oyster Bay Jan. 1, 1740.

Jacob married WOOLSEY, Sarah on 24 Aug 1738. Sarah (daughter of WOOLSEY, Joseph and COLES, Deborah) was born on 6 Oct 1719; died on 4 Apr 1791. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 11 Mar 1719, Musquito Cove, Nassau, New York, USA

Notes:

From Valentines in America:

David Valentine, of Hempstead, L.I., was born in May, l689, and married, about 1716, Charity, daughter of Nathan and Rachel Coles, of Musketo-cove (now Glen Cove, L. I.). Charity was born Sept. 1, 1695. Shortly after marriage he must have removed to Glen Cove to live, as on the 11th of March, 1719-20, he bought of his father-in-law property described as follows : "All that certain messuage or homestead where I ye said Nathan Coles now dwelleth in Musketo-cove," &c., paying therefore 500 pounds. This place has never passed out of the family, being now in possession of the daughters of the late Ellwood Valentine. The will of David bears date Oct. 6, 1743. In it he mentions "daughter Sarah when she shall be 21," his wife Charity, and son Jacob ; also granddaughter " Phebe Coles;" They had one son and four daughters.

Residence:
Shortly after marriage he must have removed to Glen Cove to live, as on the 11th of March, 1719-20, he bought of his father-in-law's property

Died:
The will of David bears date Oct. 6, 1743

David married COLES, Charity in Apr 1716. Charity (daughter of COLES, Nathan and HOPKINS, Rachel) was born on 1 Sep 1695 in Musquito Cove, Nassau, New York, USA; died on 26 Oct 1743. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Marriage
Date: APR 1716
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Charles married WICKES, Sarah. Sarah (daughter of WICKES, John and TOWNSEND, Rose) was born on 20 Apr 1676 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA; died on 4 Oct 1714. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Wright married UNDERHILL, Mary on 9 Mar 1697/98. Mary (daughter of UNDERHILL, John and PRIOR, Mary) was born on 26 Apr 1677; died on 7 Mar 1749. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joseph married COLES, Deborah. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Richard (VALENTINE) of Hempstead Harbour, whose will 1725 mentions wife Sarah, eldson son Richard, youngest son Jonathan, other son David, daus. Sarah Smith, Phebe Downing, Ann Carle. Hannah Pine

Richard married HALSTEAD, Sarah in 1680 in NY. Sarah (daughter of HALSTEAD, Timothy and WILLIAMS, Hannah) was born on 2 Oct 1660 in Hempstead, Nassau, New York, USA; died in 1723 in Hempstead, Nassau, New York, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From Hughes: Wife Sarah was probably dau. of Timothy Halstead, who in will 1686 devises to son-in-law Richard Valentine, Timothy Halstead's wife was dau. of Henry and Anne Pearsall

Notes:

Marriage
Date: 1681

Notes:

From Geneologies of the Cole Family:

Nathan Coles (Robert, Robert). The eldest child of Robert and Mercy (Wright) Cole, born at Oyster Bay, March 18, 1672. He married February 21, 1691, Rachel Hopkins.

Birth:
Nathan Coles (Robert, Robert). The eldest child of Robert and Mercy (Wright) Cole, born at Oyster Bay, March 18, 1672. He married February 21, 1691, Rachel Hopkins. (Town records of Oyster Bay show 1671 as birth year)

Nathan married HOPKINS, Rachel on 21 Feb 1691. Rachel (daughter of HOPKINS, ? and ELISABETH) was born on 12 Apr 1672. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
Nathan Coles (Robert, Robert). The eldest child of Robert and Mercy (Wright) Cole, born at Oyster Bay, March 18, 1672. He married February 21, 1691, Rachel Hopkins.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1668, 34 The Place, Glen Cove, Nassau, NY, USA

Notes:

Notes on Robert Coles House: The original home of Robert Coles is standing today as the east wing of the residence at 34 The Place. This tiny wing of the present dwelling is quite dwarfed by the more pretentious wings that have been added by subsequent residents. It is the oldest place of residence now standing in Glen Cove. until the spring of 1945 there stood a large and much weather-beaten black locust (Robina pseudocacia), in front of the house. This ancient tree was one of several brought to Long Island by Captain John Sands of Cow Neck shortly after the settlement of Musketa Cove. This was probably the first introduction of that species of locust to Long Island, although today it is very plentiful along the north shore.

From Geneologies of the Cole Family:

Robert Coles (Robert). Mentioned in order of town council of Warwick, Rhode Island, 1656, relative to his father’s estate. He married Mercy, daughter of Nicholas and Ann Wright.

Their children were:
i. Nathan, b. March 18, 1672
ii. Tamor, b ---- ----; m. Nathaniel Carpenter
14 iii. John, b ---- ----.
15 iv. Charles, b ---- ----.
16 v. Robert, b. ---- ----.
vi. Mercy, b. ---- ----.
vii. Mary, b. ---- ----; m. William Thorneycraft

Will: 4 sons Nathan, Robt., John, Charles
Cousin John Townsend, my sister Ann's son
Signed in Musquetocove 1689/90

Robert Will in Musqueto Cove July 1712
Sons Nathan, John, Charles
Daugthers Tamar Carpenter, Mercy Carpenter, Mary Shoneycraft (could not decipher writing)

Robert married WRIGHT, Mercy on 1 Jan 1669/70. Mercy (daughter of WRIGHT, Nicholas and ANNE) died on 21 Oct 1708. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
I was m. the 1 of Jan 1670-

John married TOWNSEND, Rose. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From Edna Valentine Notes:

William Frost m in Oyster Bay LI abt 1672 Rebecca Wright b in Lynn Mass abt 1645, formerly the wife of Rev Levedre (??) she divorced because they hd no children.

William married WRIGHT, Rebecca in 1672 in Oyster Bay, Nassau, NY, USA. Rebecca (daughter of WRIGHT, Nicholas and ANNE) was born about 1645 in Lynn, Essex, MA, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married PRIOR, Mary. Mary was born in 1652; died in Jul 1698. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From Geneologies of the Cole Family:

Nathaniel Coles (Robert). He removed with his mother and brothers-in-law to Oyster Bay, Long Island. He afterwards lived in Hempstead, where he married, August 30, 1667, Martha Jackson. She died December 17, 1668, leaving one child.

10 i. Nathaniel, b. Aug 24 1668

Mr Coles married his second wife Deborah ----. Their children were (perhaps not in this order):

11 ii. Caleb
12 iii. Harvey
iv. Martha

Nathaniel married WRIGHT, Deborah Rose. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• EARL: Y

Notes:

From Valentines in America

Hempstead was originally one of the largest towns in territory on the Island, extending from the Sound on the north to the Atlantic on the south, and from Oyster Bay on the east to Jamaica on the west. The first division of land among the sixty-six proprietors of the town took place in 1647, hardly a quarter of a century after the Pilgrims at Plymouth, and the ad- vent of the Dutch in New York. Among these was

RICHARD VALENTINE,

then probably a young man of twenty-five or thirty years of age, but whether married or single I have no means of knowing. He was of English origin, and, from the fact that some of the company came from that section, as well as the identity of name, it is not at all improbable that he was a lineal descendant of Richard Valentine of the parish of Eccles in Lancastershire, the undoubted ancestor of the New England Valentines, more fully mentioned in another chapter— which, if my conjectures are correct, would seem to prove that these two great branches have one common origin.

Of this first American Valentine, but little is known, for the public and private records of those days were but imperfectly kept. He must have been married soon after immigrating if not before, for, in 1685, he had four sons, and perhaps more, who were freeholders. In a tax laid that year, Widow Richard Valentine is assessed for 40 acres, Obadiah, 44, William, 40, Ephraim, 40, and Richard (Jr.), 71 acres. Besides these. I find from the N. Y. Calendar of Hist. MSS., that in Feb., 1679, Jonah Valentine of Hempstead petitioned the Governor for a grant of 100 acres of land. Moreover, I find from the same source that in 1679 Richard Valentine (Jr.), "one of the Hempstead rioters," asks to be exempted from punishment "on account of his youth and ignorance." As mention is made of Richard Valentine (Sen.), in 1682, and of his widow in 1785, it seems clear that he must have died between those years, leaving at least five sons, and several daughters. There is a tradition in the family that the farm of the original Richard contained 600 acres — which probably included some "out-lots" or wild lands, as well as the homesteads named in the foregoing list.

But if the young Richard came to grief from his " sky-larking " propensities, his paternal ancestor could hardly reprove him, for he, too, had his own troubles. In the "Colonial History of the Slate of New York," Vol. II., Page 728, I find that "the Marshal of the town of Hemstede, Richard Valentyn by name," is complained of before the [Dutch] Governor- General and Council of New Netherlands, July 7, 1674, for refusing to put in execution a judgment against one Jeremy Wood, and " for uttering these seditious words: ' Is it in the name of the King of England? for I will do nothing in the name of the Prince or of the States of Holland,' " &c. True to his English origin, the Marshal found the Dutch Government a galling yoke to bear. It would seem, however, that neither father nor son received any severe punishment, or some mention would have been made of it.

In the stirring events of that period, the Valentines appear to have taken an active part. Thus, in 1702, Richard Valentine was one of the Grand Jury raised especial!}- to indict Samuel Bownes, an itinerant Quaker preacher who came to that region ; but instead of doing so, the jury endorsed the paper “Ignoramus" and returned it to the Judge, utterly refusing to have anything to do with such dirty work. Many of Richard's posterity afterwards became " Friends " them- selves, and some remain such to this day.

In 1726, Obadiah Valentine was one of a committee to put a stop to the " wicked and wanton burning of Hempstede Plains."

Of this family of Richard Valentine and his five sons, there is not, so far as I can learn, any continuous and authentic genealogy in existence; but it is certain that nearly all the Valentines of Long Island, except those in the city of Brooklyn (and even many in that city also), have descended from these. The family name soon extended to adjoining towns, especially to Oyster Bay, Jamaica and Flushing, until finally it was common in every town in Queens County, and was occasionally found in the other counties of Long Island, Kings and Suffolk.

Timothy married WILLIAMS, Hannah. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1668, 34 The Place, Glen Cove, Nassau, NY, USA

Notes:

Notes on Robert Coles House: The original home of Robert Coles is standing today as the east wing of the residence at 34 The Place. This tiny wing of the present dwelling is quite dwarfed by the more pretentious wings that have been added by subsequent residents. It is the oldest place of residence now standing in Glen Cove. until the spring of 1945 there stood a large and much weather-beaten black locust (Robina pseudocacia), in front of the house. This ancient tree was one of several brought to Long Island by Captain John Sands of Cow Neck shortly after the settlement of Musketa Cove. This was probably the first introduction of that species of locust to Long Island, although today it is very plentiful along the north shore.

From Geneologies of the Cole Family:

Robert Coles (Robert). Mentioned in order of town council of Warwick, Rhode Island, 1656, relative to his father’s estate. He married Mercy, daughter of Nicholas and Ann Wright.

Their children were:
i. Nathan, b. March 18, 1672
ii. Tamor, b ---- ----; m. Nathaniel Carpenter
14 iii. John, b ---- ----.
15 iv. Charles, b ---- ----.
16 v. Robert, b. ---- ----.
vi. Mercy, b. ---- ----.
vii. Mary, b. ---- ----; m. William Thorneycraft

Will: 4 sons Nathan, Robt., John, Charles
Cousin John Townsend, my sister Ann's son
Signed in Musquetocove 1689/90

Robert Will in Musqueto Cove July 1712
Sons Nathan, John, Charles
Daugthers Tamar Carpenter, Mercy Carpenter, Mary Shoneycraft (could not decipher writing)

Robert married WRIGHT, Mercy on 1 Jan 1669/70. Mercy (daughter of WRIGHT, Nicholas and ANNE) died on 21 Oct 1708. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
I was m. the 1 of Jan 1670-

? married ELISABETH. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Arrival: 1630, Roxbury, Massachusetts
• Arrival: 1630, Charlestown, Massachusetts

Notes:

Robert and Mary [Hawxhurst] Coles, who came to Mass. Bay with Gov. Winthrop in 1630

From Early Geneologies of the Cole Family:

The Long Island Family of Coles

Robert Cole. The name is frequently spelled with an “s” in the old records. He came in the fleet of Winthrop in 1630, and was one of those who desired to be admitted freeman October 19, 1630, and he was admitted May 18, 1631.

In 1632 it was ordered that two delegates be sent from each of the plantations to advise the Governor and assistants in regard to the raising of revenue, and he was one of the two sent from Roxbury. His drinking habits were opposed to the ideas of the Puritans, and he was several times fined. At length the following order was passed:

“March 4, 1633: The court orders that Robert Coles, for drunkeness by him committed at Roxbury, shall be disfranchised, 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 leave it off any tyme when he comes amongst company, under penalty of XLs. for the first offense, and V pounds for the second, and after to be punished by the court as they think meet; also he is to weare the D outwards, and is enjoyned to appear at the next general court, and to contynue thise until it be ended.”

The same month he went with the party under John Winthrop, Jr., to occupy Agawam (Ipswich), and begin the settlement of that town. He did not remain there long, and he may be the man mentioned in the will of Samuel Fuller, the elder, of Plymouth, July 30, 1633, as then residing with him in Plymouth.

Savage says of him that he reformed his habits. He was one of the twelve men who joined Roger Williams in the settlement of Providence, in October, 1638. His lot in the division of the land was bounded west by the present Main street, east by Hope street, and on one other side by Meeting House street. (Annals of Providence, 33.) He was one of the founders of the first Church of Providence, March 16, 1639. (Arnold’s Rhode Island, 107.) He was one of the seventeen who purchased the Pautuxet meadows, and he made his home there.

Three others were appointed with him as a committee to arbitrate disputes and to 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 from them, and he, with four others, in September, 1642, appeared before the general court at Boston and yielded themselves up to the Massachusetts colony, which accepted jurisdiction and appointed the magistrates. (Arnold, 468.)

The commissioners found the charge true, and promised to write Mr. Cole to return the money. (Ply. Col. Rec. X., 375.). He died before October, 1654, as on October 18 of that year the town council distributed his property in the way he should have made his will.

The following orders refer to his estate:

“Warwick, Rhode Island, June 11, 1656: The town council having formerly disposed of the estate of Robert Cole, late deceased, and having allotted out the portions of the children, ordered that the lands and meadows, together with the pasturage on the south side of the Pautuxet river and the north line bound of Warwick bound is allotted out for security of Nathaniel Cole, Robert Cole, and Sarah Cole, their portions amounting to the sum of six score pounds.

“Further ordered, that the mill of Warwick being a part of the estate of Robert Cole, late deceased, is allotted out for security of Daniel Cole, his portion being £50.”

He married Mary ----. After his death she married Mathias Harvey, and removed to Oyster Bay, Long Island, where she died.

Robert married HAWKSHURST, Maryof MA. Mary (daughter of HAWKSHURST, Samson) was born in 1602 in Nuneaton; died in Oyster Bay, Nassau, NY, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Also Known As: Mary Hawxhurst

Notes:

Nicholas Wright, one of founders of Oysterbay L. I.

Nicholas married ANNE. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married MARY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married MONTGOMERY, Elisabeth. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jonas married SARAH. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Arrival: 1630, Roxbury, Massachusetts
• Arrival: 1630, Charlestown, Massachusetts

Notes:

Robert and Mary [Hawxhurst] Coles, who came to Mass. Bay with Gov. Winthrop in 1630

From Early Geneologies of the Cole Family:

The Long Island Family of Coles

Robert Cole. The name is frequently spelled with an “s” in the old records. He came in the fleet of Winthrop in 1630, and was one of those who desired to be admitted freeman October 19, 1630, and he was admitted May 18, 1631.

In 1632 it was ordered that two delegates be sent from each of the plantations to advise the Governor and assistants in regard to the raising of revenue, and he was one of the two sent from Roxbury. His drinking habits were opposed to the ideas of the Puritans, and he was several times fined. At length the following order was passed:

“March 4, 1633: The court orders that Robert Coles, for drunkeness by him committed at Roxbury, shall be disfranchised, 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 leave it off any tyme when he comes amongst company, under penalty of XLs. for the first offense, and V pounds for the second, and after to be punished by the court as they think meet; also he is to weare the D outwards, and is enjoyned to appear at the next general court, and to contynue thise until it be ended.”

The same month he went with the party under John Winthrop, Jr., to occupy Agawam (Ipswich), and begin the settlement of that town. He did not remain there long, and he may be the man mentioned in the will of Samuel Fuller, the elder, of Plymouth, July 30, 1633, as then residing with him in Plymouth.

Savage says of him that he reformed his habits. He was one of the twelve men who joined Roger Williams in the settlement of Providence, in October, 1638. His lot in the division of the land was bounded west by the present Main street, east by Hope street, and on one other side by Meeting House street. (Annals of Providence, 33.) He was one of the founders of the first Church of Providence, March 16, 1639. (Arnold’s Rhode Island, 107.) He was one of the seventeen who purchased the Pautuxet meadows, and he made his home there.

Three others were appointed with him as a committee to arbitrate disputes and to 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 from them, and he, with four others, in September, 1642, appeared before the general court at Boston and yielded themselves up to the Massachusetts colony, which accepted jurisdiction and appointed the magistrates. (Arnold, 468.)

The commissioners found the charge true, and promised to write Mr. Cole to return the money. (Ply. Col. Rec. X., 375.). He died before October, 1654, as on October 18 of that year the town council distributed his property in the way he should have made his will.

The following orders refer to his estate:

“Warwick, Rhode Island, June 11, 1656: The town council having formerly disposed of the estate of Robert Cole, late deceased, and having allotted out the portions of the children, ordered that the lands and meadows, together with the pasturage on the south side of the Pautuxet river and the north line bound of Warwick bound is allotted out for security of Nathaniel Cole, Robert Cole, and Sarah Cole, their portions amounting to the sum of six score pounds.

“Further ordered, that the mill of Warwick being a part of the estate of Robert Cole, late deceased, is allotted out for security of Daniel Cole, his portion being £50.”

He married Mary ----. After his death she married Mathias Harvey, and removed to Oyster Bay, Long Island, where she died.

Robert married HAWKSHURST, Maryof MA. Mary (daughter of HAWKSHURST, Samson) was born in 1602 in Nuneaton; died in Oyster Bay, Nassau, NY, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Also Known As: Mary Hawxhurst

Notes:

Nicholas Wright, one of founders of Oysterbay L. I.

Nicholas married ANNE. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Education: Balliol College, Oxford
• Residence: Oxford, Oxfordshire, England

Notes:

From Chistopher Hawkshurst notes:

Sampson Hawkshurst of Balliol College, Oxford b 1571 vicar of Nuneaton, County of Warwick, d. 1627. His father's parishoners advanced money to send him and his brother to Oxford.

Abraham married SUSAN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Education: Balliol College, Oxford
• Residence: Oxford, Oxfordshire, England

Notes:

From Chistopher Hawkshurst notes:

Sampson Hawkshurst of Balliol College, Oxford b 1571 vicar of Nuneaton, County of Warwick, d. 1627. His father's parishoners advanced money to send him and his brother to Oxford.

William married ARNOLD, Joanna. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Also Known As: Christopher Hawxhurst

Notes:

Christopher Hawkshurst (Anglo Saxon, Hawk's wood) preacher in Salop. m. Oct 15 1550 Elisabeth ?. Was vicar of St. Chads in Shresbury (England). He died in the plague Aug 1576 wearing himself out in the service of his parishoners who were stricken.

"Church History of Shrewsbury", per notes from Edna Valentine

Christopher married ?, Elizabeth on 15 Oct 1550. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]