Ruth Cole

Ruth Collier

• Born before 5 Aug 1627 in Southwark, Surrey, England
• Daughter of William Collier and Jane (Yates) Collier
• Wife of Daniel Cole — married 1643 in Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts
• Mother of John Cole Sr., Timothy Cole, Hepzibah (Cole) Doane, Ruth Chase (Cole) Bangs, Israel Cole, James Cole Sr., Mary Collier (Cole) Hopkins, Esther (Cole) Atwood, William Cole and Thomas Cole
• Died 15 Dec 1694 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts

Disputed Origins - Resolved

Ruth's origins have been determined. She was a daughter of William Collier.[1]

Previously: See the discussion on Family talk:Daniel Cole and Ruth Chester (1), regarding the inability to identify Ruth. She is sometimes identified as Ruth Chandler, Chester, or Collier. The only evidence supports Collier, but her baptism is not found with those of the other children of William Collier (TAG p. 49:215, and p. 51:58), making it doubtful. Chandler seems disproven by virtue of age and father's will, and no such name as Ruth Chester has been found in appropriate records and no documented evidence has been produced to support it. Obviously, until her parents can be identified, the place of her birth remains a mystery.[1]

While Edmund Chandler did have a daughter Ruth, there is no further record of her after her inclusion in his 1662 will, when she was single.[2]

Family

• Daniel Cole
• Birth: Dec. 12, 1614, England
• Death: Dec. 21, 1694 Eastham, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, USA
• Died at age 80. Unmarked grave. His wife's maiden name MAY have been Collier but other possibilities include Chandler and Chester.
• From Cole family genealogy:
• DANIEL appears in the records of Plymouth Colony about 1633 with his brothers, Job and John, as well as John Colier. Daniel was named Freeman 1645 and held several political offices in Yarmouth and Eastham MA. In 1661 he was licensed to retail "wine and strong waters." Daniel married at Plymouth Colony RUTH (unknown). Ruth's maiden name is controversial and some researchers are of the opinion that she was Ruth Collier, a daughter of William Collier; this has not been conclusively proven to be correct. Other researchers are of the opinion that her maiden name was Ruth Chester but with no evidence that this is correct. [SIC: now resolved, she was a Collier]. Ruth was born about 1627; died 15 Dec 1694. Daniel was born about 1614; died at Eastham MA 21 Dec 1694. The estate of Ruth was administered 15 Jan 1695. Both are buried at Eastham Cove Burial Ground, Eastham MA.
• Family links:
• Parents:
• William James Cole (1570 - 1630)
• Susan Bale Cole (1574 - 1650)
• Spouse:
• Ruth Chandler Cole (1628 - 1694)
• Children:
  • Hester/Esther Cole Atwood*
  • John Cole (1644 - 1724)*
  • Hepzibah Cole Doane (1649 - ____)*
  • Ruth Cole Bangs (1651 - 1728)*
  • Israel Cole (1653 - 1723)*
  • James Cole (1655 - ____)*
  • Mary Cole Hopkins (1658 - 1734)*
  • William Cole (1663 - 1735)*
  • Daniel Cole (1666 - 1736)*
  • Thomas Cole (1668 - 1736)*
• Sibling:
• James Cole (1600 - 1692)*
• Daniel Cole (1614 - 1694)
• Burial: Cove Burying Ground, Eastham, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, USA
• Find A Grave Memorial# 51533885
• From: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=51533885

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*The early genealogies of the Cole families in America. (Including Coles and Cowles). With some account of the descendants of James, by Hartford, Connecticut, 1635-1652, and of Thomas Cole, of Salem, Mass., 1649-1672

• https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Early_Genealogies_of_the_C...
• https://archive.org/details/earlygenealogie00colegoog
• https://archive.org/stream/earlygenealogie00colegoog#page/n100/mode...
• Pg.66
• About the beginning of the second decade of the existence of the Plymouth colony, there came from England three young men, brothers, named John, Job and Daniel Cole. I suspect that they came over with William Collier, a merchant of London, about 1633. Their father is unknown. Whether they were brothers of James, the inn-keeper of Plymouth, I know not, but I judge that they were not.
• John died at Plymouth in December, 1637, and in his will, proved January 2, 1638, he mentions by name, "Master Collier's men," his brothers Job and Daniel, and his sister Rebecca, wife of Job. He was probably unmarried.
• JOB COLE, the eldest of the three brothers, married May 16, 1634, Rebecca Collier.*
• .... etc.
• https://archive.org/stream/earlygenealogie00colegoog#page/n101/mode...
• Pg.67
• DANIEL COLE. ( —— ). The younger brother of Job, and probably came over with him when they were both young men. The first mention of him is April 6, 1640, when fifty acres of upland were granted him. .... etc.
• https://archive.org/stream/earlygenealogie00colegoog#page/n102/mode...
• Pg.68
• .... He died December 21, 1694, aged 80. He married Ruth —— , who died December 15, 1694, aged 69. Their children were :
  • 6. i. John, b. July 15, 1644.
  • 7. ii. Timothy, b. Sept. 4, (15) 1646.
  • iii. Hepsebah, b. April 16, 1649, m. Daniel Doane, of Eastham, and had a son, Constant Doane, b. Mar. 7, 1670.
  • iv. Ruth, b. April 15, 1651, m. John, oldest son of John and Abigail Young, of Eastham, (b. in Plymouth, Nov. 16, 1649).
  • 8. v. Israel, b. Jan. 8, 1653.
  • 9. vi. James, b. Nov. 3, (30) 1655.
  • 10. vii. Mary, b. Mar. 10, 1658, m. May 26, 1681, Joshua Hopkins, of Eastham.
  • 11. viii. William, b. Sept. 15, 1663.
• JOHN2 COLE (Job,1) .... etc.
• https://archive.org/stream/earlygenealogie00colegoog#page/n103/mode...
• Pg.69
• JOHN2 COLE (Daniel,1) born in Yarmouth, July 16, 1644. He lived in Eastham and married Ruth, daughter of Nicholas Snow, December 12, 1666. He was at Groton in 1672, but probably returned, driven out by Indians, as he is on the freeman list of 1695. His wife died June 27, 1717. He died June 6, 1725.
• The children of John and Ruth (Snow) Cole were:
  • i. .... etc.
• TIMOTHY2 COLE (Daniel,1) the second son of Daniel and Ruth Cole, was born in Yarmouth, September 4. 1646. The only mention that I find of him is as follows: 1676, .... etc.
• https://archive.org/stream/earlygenealogie00colegoog#page/n104/mode...
• Pg.70
• ISRAEL2 COLE (Daniel.1) the third son and fifth child of Daniel and Ruth Cole, was born in Eastham January 8, 1653. He married April 24, 1674, Mary, widow of James Rodgers, of Duxbury, and daughter of Thomas2 and Mary Paine, of Eastham. .... etc.
• JAMES2 COLE (Daniel,1) the third son of Daniel and Ruth Cole, was born in Eastham, November 3, 1655.
• MARY2 COLE (Daniel,1) the seventh child of Daniel and Ruth Cole, was born in Eastham, March 10, 1658. She married May 26, 1681, Joshua Hopkins, of Eastham, born June, J657, and son of Giles and Catherine (Welden) Hopkins. (Giles came in the Mayflower with his father, Stephen, and his mother.) Her children were: ..... etc.
• https://archive.org/stream/earlygenealogie00colegoog#page/n105/mode...
• Pg.71
• WILLIAM2 COLE (Daniel,1) the fourth son and eighth and youngest child of Daniel and Ruth Cole, was born in Eastham, September 15, 1663. He lived in Eastham, and December 2, 1686, he married Hannah, daughter of Stephen and Susanna (Deane) Snow, born January 2, 1667, died June 23, 1737. Their children were: .... etc. ______________________
• William Collier (c. 1585–1671) He came to Plymouth in 1633 as one of the few London-based Merchant Adventurers, a colony investment group, to settle in New England. .... etc.
• Collier married Jane Clark at St. Olave Parish in Southwark on May 16, 1611 and had thirteen children. Many of those children died young, and they only had four daughters with them in Plymouth Colony. Jane died after June 28, 1666. Her burial place is unknown.[2][3]
• Children of William and Jane Collier:
  • .... etc.
  • Rebecca was baptized in Southwark on January 10, 1614/5 and died in Eastham, Massachusetts on December 29, 1698. She married Job Cole in Plymouth on May 15, 1634 and had three children. He died after 1683 and before his wife’s death. His brother Daniel Cole married Rebecca’s sister Ruth. Rebecca and Job were both were buried at Cove Burying Ground, Eastham, Massachusetts.
  • .... etc.
  • Ruth was born about 1628 probably in the London area as were the other children, and died in Eastham, Massachusetts. on December 15, 1694. She married Daniel Cole by 1644 and had at least five children. Daniel Cole was the brother of Job Cole who was married to Ruth’s sister Rebecca. Ruth and Daniel were both buried in Cove Burying Ground in Eastham, Massachusetts.[2][3][11]
  • .... etc.
• From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Collier_(colonist)

References

• “Jane Clarke: A Strong Woman. The English Origins of William Collier's Wife;” by William E. Cole in The Mayflower Descendant, Vol. 69 (2021). Page 49 - 60 < AmericanAncestors >
• http://www.genealogyofnewengland.com/f_491.htm#3
• 1. Mayflower Descendant: A Journal of Pilgrim Genealogy and History. Boston, MA: Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1899- . (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010) < AmericanAncestors > The English Origins of Job, John, Daniel, and Ruth Cole; William E. Cole Volume Name 69 (2021) Page 38+
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Collier-5673
• 2. Family Talk Discussion, WeRelate.org http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Ruth_Chester_%281%29
• 3. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III. "Edmund Chandler" (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010), (Originally Published as: New England Historic Genealogical Society. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 3 vols., 1995).
• 4. Ancestry.com Shared Image
• 5. "Eastham and Orleans, Mass., Vital Records", in Mayflower Descendant, Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants; 6:204.
• https://www.ancestry.com/mediaui-viewer/tree/82679430/person/304646...
• https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/LKLT-4ZQ/ruth-collier-1627-1694
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/51533903/ruth-cole. Evidence has been found that William and Jane Collier did indeed have a daughter "Ruth." There is a baptismal record at St Saviour Southwark, Surrey, England for 5 Aug 1627 for "Ruth Collier," daughter of William. This explains the reference in William's will and makes Ruth Collier the most obvious choice as the wife of Daniel Cole.
• Ruth Collier in the London, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812 <AncestryImage> Name: Ruth Collier Gender: Female Record Type: Baptism Baptism Date: 5 Aug 1627 Baptism Place: Saint Saviour, Southwark, Southwark, England Father: Willm Collier; < Ancestry.com shared image >

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References

• The early genealogies of the Cole families in America. (Including Coles and Cowles). With some account of the descendants of James, by Hartford, Connecticut, 1635-1652, and of Thomas Cole, of Salem, Mass., 1649-1672. Page 68. Archive.Org

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GEDCOM Note

Born c. 1628. Wife of Daniel. Died at age 67. Unmarked grave. Maiden name might have been Chandler (daughter of Edmund Chandler and Elizabeth Alden), Collier (daughter of William Collier and Jane Clark), or Chester.