COLES, Benjamin

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• Residence: 1655, Oyster Bay, Nassau, NY, USA

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From Geneologies of the Cole Families:

Daniel Coles (Robert). Born ---- ----; died November 9, 1692. He is said by Savage to have moved from Warwick to Oyster Bay, Long Island, at the same time with his mother, step-father, and brothers-in-law. He married ----.

His children were:
7 i. Samuel, b ---- ----
8 ii. Benjamin, b. ---- ----
9 iii. Joseph, b. June 29 1717
iv. Susanna, b. ---- ----; m. Joseph Latting.
v. Sarah, b. ---- ----; m. Ichabod Hopkins
vi. Dinah, b. ---- ----; m. Derick Albertson
vii. Mary, b ---- ----; m. Geoarge Downing
viii. Ann, b. ---- ----; unmarried

Daniel married GORTON, Malia Hasbaz in 1662. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• 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]

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• Also Known As: Mary Hawxhurst

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• 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.