William Poole, triplet

Sir William Pole and his wife Mary Periam had triplets as children #4, 5 and 6. William, Arthur and Francis, triplets, bp. Dec. 4, 1593.

William came to New England. (See below.) Arthur d. in childhood from a fall. Francis mat. at Oriel College, Oxford, March 24, 1609–10, aged 16; B.A. Nov. 3, 1612; M.A. from Hart Hall, June 12, 1616; vicar of Tregony, Cornwall, 1623 (Foster's Alumni Oxonienses, vol. 3, p. 1175) He d. 1627.

William Pole (above mentioned), son of the testator, was mat. at Oriel College, Oxford, March 24, 1609-10, a. 16; B.A. Nov. 3, 1612; student of the Inner Temple, 1616, as of Colyton, gen. (Foster's Alumni Oxonienses, vol. 3, p. 1176). He and his sister Elizabeth came to New England as early as 1637. He settled at Dorchester, but after a short stay there removed to Taunton. He returned to Dorchester as early as 1660, and died there Feb. 25, 1674-5, aged 81. A biographical notied of him, by William B. Trask, A.M., is printed in the Dorchester Antiquarian Society's History of Dorchester, pp. 487–9.—Editor.]

[This William Pole is mentioned prominently in the early days of Taunton, 1939, as Capt. William Pole. He was deputy of Taunton to Plymouth in that and other years, and was also member of the Council of War. He moved to Dorchester in 1660, where his son Theophilus was born 27 May that year. He held the offices of clerk of the write and schoolmaster in Dorchester, where he died 24 Feb. 1674-5. On his tomb was engraved an epitaph of his own composition. Jane, his wife, survived him. From depositions in the Suffolk and Bristol County records, there seems to be a relationship with the Farwell family at Taunton, through it may be through William Pole rather than his wife. Jane, widow of William, died 9 Sept. 1690. Her will, dated 29 Aug. 1690, mentions son John and his wife, daughters Bethesda Filer (wife of John Filer) and Mary Henchman (wife of Daniel Henchman), a grandson, John Pole (who died before 1711), and his sister Jane (who married Timothy Lindall). The two children of William and Jane Pole were: John, b. 1639, d. 1711; Nathaniel, living in 1654; Timothy, drowned at Taunton 1667; Mary, m. Daniel Henchman; Bethesda, m. 1686, John Filer; William, bapt. 1658, d. 21 April, 1687; Theophilus, b. 1660.—W. K. Watkins.]

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William Poole came to Dorchester in 1630. After remaining in Dorchester several years, he removed to Taunton, but returned again to Dorchester in 1672. He was town clerk of Dorchester, and for many years a schoolmaster. He was highly esteemed by his cotemporaries, and spoken of in the records as a "sage, reverend, and pious man of God." It was probably his son Timothy, who Mr. Savage (1 Winthrop, 252) speaks of as being drowned at Taunton, Dec. 15, 1667. His sister, Elizabeth Poole, was a great patron and " virgin mother " of Taunton.

His son Theophilus was baptized at Dorchester, 3 (4) 1660, he then being a member of the church at Taunton. He died Feb. 24, 1674. Jane Poole, probably his widow, died 1690 or 1691, leaving children — John, Bethesda Filer and Rebecca Henchman. The following is a copy of the epitaph on his tomb stone.

" Ye Epitaph of William Pole which he hemself made while he was yet liuing in Remembrance of his own death & left it to be ingraven on his Tomb yl so being dead he might warn postered or a resemblance of a dead man bespeaking ye reader.

Ho passenger tis worth thy paines too stay

& take a dead mans lesson by ye way

I was what now thou art & thou shalt be

what I am now what odds twix me & thee

Now go thy way but stay take one word more

Thy staff, for ought thou knowest, stands next ye dore

Death is ye dore yea dore of heaven or hell

Be warnd, Be armed Beliue Repent Fariewell."