History of Richmond County, New York, 1887



Cole

We have nowhere found the slightest allusion to the origin of this family, but an individual of the same name was on the island before the beginning of the last century; in the county records we find the name of Abraham Cole as having sold land in 1695, which, of course, he must have purchased at an earlier date. In the church records we find no further mention of the name for more than half a century, though the name of Abraham appears to have been perpetuated.

Abraham and Hannah had a daughter Ann, born May 11, 1762; a son Abraham, born March 6, 1766, and a son John Bedell, born July 31, 1770.

Peter and Susannah Latourette had a son Henry, born February 6, 1765. Richard lived in the county in 1786, and Cornelius in 1772. Cornelius and Ann Dyelland were married in May, 1766. Stephen and Ann had a daughter Ann, born July 22, 1768; a son Stephen, born September 11, 1771; a son John, February 5, 1775, and a daughter Margaret, who married Samuel Holmes. Stephen, the son, married Jane Mersereau, October 16, 1796, and John, the son, married Mary Winant, April 1, 1797. Isaac and Esther, his wife, had a son Edward, born April 8, 1770. Richard and Mary Spragg were married in October, 1774, and had a son Abraham, born March 6, 1775. John and Catharine, his wife, had a son Abraham, born April 6, 1775. Cornelius and Frances Cole were married November 11, 1797. John and Eliza Drake were married December 24, 1801. William, the pioneer of Methodism on Staten Island, was born in 1760, and died in 1843. Abraham, born ___, 1751, died February 19, 1708.



Source: History of Richmond County, (Staten Island) From its Discovery to the Present Time: Richard M. Bayles: New York: L.E. Preston & Co.; 1887












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