William Cole, of Hampton

William Cole

Birth: 1600
Death: before 1644
Partner: Elizabeth Doughty

Elizabeth (Doughty) Cole was living at least as of May 31, 1652 at Boston. William Cole, her spouse, had died between June 25, 1640 and May 29, 1644.[2]

Biography

William Cole. He came to the Massachusetts Bay colonyearly, and January 23, 1637, two acres were granted to him at Mt. Wallaston. He married Elizabeth, a daughter of Francis Doughty, a merchant of Bristol, England. Her brother, the Rev. Francis Doughty, also came to the colony. He was in Taunton in 1639, and subsequently went to Rhode Island and thence to Long Island, where he was very roughly handled by the Dutch. He finally went to Virginia.

In 1640 Mrs. Cole sued her brother for defrauding her of her marriage portion. There is a letter from Rev. Francis Doughty to Governor Winthrop asking about the case. This is the case in which Mr. Thomas Lechford, the earliest lawyer in the colony, was retained, and to which he refers in "Plain Dealing."

He was living in 1640, but on 29 May 1644, he was called “lately deceased.”

Nothing has been found to suggest that William and Elizabeth (Doughty) Cole had any children.

References

1. http://www.umich.edu/~bobwolfe/gen/person/g5400.htm
2. WikiTree contributors, "Elizabeth (Doughty) Cole (abt.1607-aft.1652)," WikiTree: The Free Family Tree, (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Doughty-144 : accessed 17 April 2024). cites
   1. Frank T. Cole. "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. Printed for the author by Hann & Adair, Columbus. (1887). p. 1 appendix.see at< Archive.Org >
   2. Brayton, John Anderson, "The Ancestry of the Rev Francis Doughty of Massachusetts, Long Island, New Amsterdam, Maryland and Virginia" The American Genealogist. New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus, 1937-. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009 - .). Reference Volume 77 (2002), pages 1-3 < AmericanAncestors >; (document attached); pages 16-17 < AmericanAncestors >; (document attached).