Daniel Coles

Daniel Coles

• Born about 1637 in Ipswich, Massachusetts Bay [uncertain]
• Died 29 Nov 1692 in Musketa Cove, Nassau, New York
• Son of Robert Coles Sr. and Mary (Hawkhurst) Coles
• Brother of Elizabeth (Coles) Townsend, Deliverance (Cole) Townsend [half], Anne (Coles) Townsend [half], John Coles [half], Sarah (Coles) Townsend, Robert Coles, Nathaniel Coles and Elizabeth (Coles) Townsend
• Husband of Mahershalalhashbaz (Gorton) Coles — married about 1662 in Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island
• Father of Dinah (Coles) Albertson, Sarah (Coles) Hopkins, Samuel Coles and Ann Gorton (Coles) Wickes

Family

http://jliptrap.us/gen/coles.htm

Daniel Coles (c1637-29 Nov 1692) married about 1665 Mahah Shalal Hasbaz Gorton

Children

• . . . 41. Samuel Coles (c1665-1723) m.1693 Elizabeth Albertson (c1665-1723)
• . . . . 42. Benjamin Coles (1667) married Pheebe Simpkins
• . . . . 43. Elizabeth Coles (1671) married Derrick Albertson
• . . . . 44. Susanna Coles (c1673) married Josias Latting
• . . . . 45. Joseph Coles (1675-1767) married Temperance Albertson
• . . . . 46. Sarah Coles (1676) married Ichabod Hopkins
• . . . . 47. Ann Coles (c1678)
• . . . . 48. Mary Coles (c1680) married a Downing
• . . . . 49. Joseph Coles (29 Jun 1717-1780) m.1736 Freelove Weeks (1719-1788)

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Coles-55

1 Biography
1.1 History of Musketa Cove (Glen Cove), Nassau, New York

2 Sources
3 Acknowledgements

Biography

Daniel Coles was born about 1637 at probably Ipswich, Massachusetts. He was the son of of Robert Coles and Mary Hawxhurst.[1]

The following is extracted from Savage, "First Settlers of NE Vol I", p 17:[2]

COLES, ROBERT, Roxbury, came in the fleet with Winth. req. to be made freem. 19 Oct. 1630, and was adm. 18 May foll. rem. perhaps to Salem, and to Ipswich, was oft. punish. for drunken. yet in 1638 seems to be reform. if remis. of fines may just. be thus understood, tho. it may only have been act of policy to ensure his rem. from our jurisdict. But at last he went to Providence, was reform. in earnest, and bec. one of the found. of the first Bapt. ch. there. By w. Mary he had John, beside Daniel, Nathaniel, Robert, and ds. Sarah, perhaps youngest; Ann, wh. m. Henry Townsend; Eliz. wh. m. John Townsend; both from L. I. where Quakers were persecut. by the Dutch. He d. bef. 18 Oct. 1654, when the town counc, exercis. their duty of mak. distrib. of his prop. in the way he should have made his will. The wid. m. Matthias Harvey, and rem. to Oyster Bay, L. I. with hers. Nathaniel and Daniel, and the two ds. that m. Townsend foll."
Daniel married at Warwick, Rhode Island, about 1662, Mahershallalhashbaz (Maher) Gorton, daughter of Samuell Gorton and Mary Mayplett of Warwick.

Lewis Janes wrote:[3]

“One of the daughters, with the remarkable Scriptural name of Mahershallalhashbaz, married Daniel Cole, and removed to Glen Cove, Long Island, then known as Moscheto Cove, and has numerous descendants still residing in that vicinity."
From the Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island:[1]

“Daniel, d. Nov. 29, 1692; m. Maha— Gorton.”
Daniel Coles died at Musketa Cove, Nassau, New York 29 Nov 1692. Some sources give the day as 9 Nov.

The following is extracted from a publication of Glen Cove Heritage:[4]

Robert Coles emigrated from County Suffolk, England in 1630 as a member of the “Winthrop Fleet.” Initially settling in Massachusetts Bay Colony, Coles apparently did not see eye-to-eye with the colony’s religious authorities’ views on the consumption of alcoholic beverages, and soon left the colony to join Roger Williams in founding Providence, Rhode Island. When he died in 1654, at Warwick, Rhode Island, he left an estate of more than £500 pounds – an appreciable sum of money at that time – to be divided between his wife, four sons and three daughters.
Born about 1648, Robert Coles Junior was the youngest of these four sons, and by 1662 was residing at Oyster Bay with his older brothers Daniel and Nathaniel. Within a few years Joseph Carpenter, also from the same Rhode Island community, was negotiating for the purchase of several hundred acres of land on either side of the stream which formerly flowed along Glen Street, intent to construct both a saw mill and a grist mill at the site. On May 24, 1668, Carpenter finally secured a deed to the land from the leaders of the local Matinecock Indians. He took in as co-partners in the new venture his former neighbors Daniel, Nathaniel, and Robert Coles, and Nicholas Simkins, also of Oyster Bay.
These five men, who became known as the “Five Proprietors of Musketa Cove Patent”, built their homes along a narrow dirt road on a hill overlooking their saw mill. The street would become known as “The Place”. The western-most home lot was that of Daniel Coles; the eastern-most of the five original “home lotts” was assigned to Robert Coles, at 34 The Place. (Within a few years, home lots would be allocated to Moses Mudge and Ephraim Carpenter still further east of the Robert Coles homestead).
Robert Coles served as informal “keeper” of the “Musketa Cove Proprietors’ Book”, a large, vellum-covered record book containing manuscript copies of the land transfers and legal agreements of the “Five Proprietors.” In addition to these official documents, Coles used the book to record his personal household accounts as well as the accounts pertaining to his one-fifth interest in the saw mill. These accounts have shed considerable light on the day-to-day life in Glen Cove in the 1670’s and 1680’s. Thousands of feet of boards and planks were exported to New York City by sloop for use in new construction as well as export to lumber-hungry colonies (like the sugar plantations of the Barbados) elsewhere. In addition, wainscoting, tile laths, roofing tile laths, ship timbers, “feather-edged boards” and custom-cutting of walnut and cedar were available from the Musketa Cove saw mill.
The coastal trading ships which carried Musketa Cove’s lumber to market in Manhattan gave local residents ready access to consumer goods from one of the largest cities in North America. If one needed a new hat, “Christian the boatman” would procure one and deliver it on his return trip to Musketa Cove. In this era, 7 shillings would by a pair of good quality shoes, or a pair of men’s stockings, or two and a half bushels of corn. A pound of tobacco cost a mere 6 pence, and clay pipes were a penny a piece. Rum appears regularly in the accounts.
History of Musketa Cove (Glen Cove), Nassau, New York

Succeeding cultures of indigenous peoples had lived in the area for thousands of years. At the time of European contact, bands of the Lenape (Delaware) nation inhabited western Long Island, the areas of New York and New Jersey around the harbor, and along the coast through present-day Pennsylvania and Delaware, as well as along the Delaware River. They spoke an Algonquian language. By 1600 the band inhabiting this local area was called the Matinecock after their location. Glen Cove was used as a port by English migrants from New England and named "Moscheto" before 1668. On May 24, 1668 Joseph Carpenter of Warwick, Rhode Island purchased about 2,000 acres (8.1 km2) of land to the northwest of the Town of Oyster Bay from the Matinecock. Later in that year he admitted four residents of Oyster Bay as co-partners in the project: brothers Nathaniel, Daniel, and Robert Coles, and Nicholas Simkins. The five young men named the settlement Musketa Cove Plantation, "musketa" meaning "place of rushes" in the Lenape language.[9]

19th Century

In the 1830s, steamboats started regular service on Long Island Sound between New York City and Musketa Cove, arriving at a point still called "The Landing." As "Musketa" was negatively associated with mosquito, in 1834 village residents changed the name to Glen Cove; this was said to be taken from the misheard suggestion of "Glencoe," meaning Glencoe, Scotland.[8][10] The village added population as workers arrived for jobs at the Duryea Corn Starch factory, which operated until 1900. The name "Duryea" was once suggested as a village name to replace Mosquito Cove but rejected.[11]

By 1850 the village of Glen Cove had become a popular summer resort community for New York City residents. The Long Island Rail Road was extended to Glen Cove in 1867, providing quicker, more frequent service to New York City. The availability of the train and the town's location on Long Island Sound made it attractive to year-round residents, and the population increased.[9] On June 8, 1917, Glen Cove became an independent city, separating from the Town of Oyster Bay after 250 years.[8]

The vistas afforded of Long Island Sound from the town's rolling hills attracted late 19th-century wealthy industrial barons, including Charles Pratt and his sons, as well as J. P. Morgan, and F. W. Woolworth. They built large private estates along the island's North Shore. This expanse of settled wealth was part of what would become known in the 1920s as the Gold Coast of Nassau County. Part of the Morgan property was donated to the city and is now operated as Morgan Park and Beach.[9][5]

Sources

↑ 1.0 1.1 The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record (New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1901) Vol. 32 "Hawkhurst Family’’, page 174
↑ The Coles Family of Long Island http://longislandgenealogy.com/Surname_Pages/coles.htm
↑ Janes, Lewis G. Samuell Gorton: A Forgotten Founder of Our Liberties First Settler of Warwick, R.I. Preston and Rounds. 1896,’’ page 108
↑ Daniel E Russell City Historian, City of Glen Cove, New York. The Robert Coles Homestead. Accessed 27 Apr 2017. http://www.glencoveheritage.com/legacy_site/coleshomestead.pdf
↑ Wikipedia: Glen Cove https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Cove,_New_York
Macdonough, Rodney. The Macdonough-Hackstaff Ancestry (Press of S. Usher, Boston, 1901) Page 455

History and Genealogy of the Cock, Cocks, Cox Family By George William Cocks, John Cox

DANIEL (2) COLES, b. TIpswich, Mass., about 1637; m. Warwick, R. I., about 1662, Maha-shalal-hasbaz Gorton, dau. of Samuel and Mary (Mayplett) Gorton of Warwick, aforesaid. "After the venerable founder of Providence" says his biographer, "no man was more Instrumental in establishing the foundations of equal civil rights and 'Soul liberty' in Rhode Island than Samuel Gorton." He was especially active in assuring the protection of the colony for the persecuted Quakers. He sent them messages of sympathy when they were In prison in Massachusetts, and was the author of the first legislative edict of emancipation of Negro slaves ever adopted in America. He claimed that the natives were the "true owners of the land" and that Patents from the crown were not premier titles, which same Idea seems to have been held by the Townsends who drew the early deeds at Oyster Bay.

The name of the daughter of Samuel Gorton who m. Daniel Coles, practically coinciding in structure with the "Maher-shalal-hash-baz," Isaiah vlli: 1, 3. explained in the concordance as "in making speed to the spoil, he hasteneth the prey" seems difficult of application, but some of the perilous experiences in Gorton's heglra from Boston to Warwick, may have suggested the Jewish situation at the time of Isaiah's dreary prophecy.

Daniel Coles removed with the family to Oyster Bay, L. I., about 1663; was elected 1666 and 1667 to the office of Constable, who with three Overseers constituted the Town government of the period. In 1670 or before, was chosen one of the Five Proprietors of Musketa Cove Purchase, in the place of Abiah Carpenter, declined, and was likely then a resident thereat. He died In 1692 and in will devises to his wife H of his house and orchard, etc., for life and then to go to his two youngest sons Benjamin and Joseph. Mentions eldest on Samuel as an executor, two dau's. Susannah and Ann (then unm.) £5 each; three dau's. Mary. Dinah and Sarah, (then m.) 10 shillings each; sons-in-law, George Downing, Derick Albertson, and Ichabod Hopkins. The widow makes her mark in settlement of the estate and the name as written by John Newman, Recorder, Is "Maha-Shalul-hasbaz Coles." Interments made on a little knoll about 100 yards northwest of the dwelling.

Issue, In order of mention In will:

I Samuel, b. ; m. Elizabeth Albertson.

II Susannah, b. ; m. Josiah Lattin.

III Ann, b. ; m. Thomas Wlckes.

IV Mary, b. ; m. George Downing.

V Dinah, b. ; m. Deriek Albertson.

VI Sarah, b. : m. Ichabod Hopkins.

VII Benjamin, b. ; m. Phebe ?Simklns.

VIII Joseph, b. -.—.1675; m. Elizabeth Wright.

References

• Reference: FamilySearch Genealogy - SmartCopy: Sep 9 2019, 13:08:24 UTC
• Burial record: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/148208414/daniel-coles
• “Musketa Cove Becomes Glen Cove: How Glen Cove was renamed.” < PDF >