Elizabeth Cole

Biography

https://websites.umich.edu/~bobwolfe/gen/person/g5399.htm

Elizabeth Doughty was born in 1607; the daughter of Francis Doughty[1] and Margaret Barker.[2]Her brother was Rev. Francis Doughty who migrated to Taunton in Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1639.[1]

Elizabeth was named in the 1634 will of her father Francis. [3]

Elizabeth became the wife of William Cole in the parish of Chew Magna, Somerset, England. Later they were in New England;[4]

Research Notes

• Wife of William Cole of York, Maine.[5] NOTE: This is perhaps a conflation of two different William Coles..?
• 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]
• Nothing suggests William Cole and his wife Elizabeth Doughty had any children.[2]
• Her spouse, William Cole may have died closer to 1636 per this source. Also see pages 133-136 re lawsuit she and William Cole brought against her brother, Francis Doughty.[6]
• Information on attorney, William Cole's brother, John.[7]
• Information about a court case between Elizabeth (Doughty) Cole and her brother, Francis: [8]
• More information about the same court case, documented in 1639 and 1640: [9]

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• Genealogical gleanings in England Vol. 1
• https://archive.org/details/genealogicalglea01byuwate
• https://archive.org/stream/genealogicalglea01byuwate#page/820/mode/1up
• FRANCIS DOUGHTIE of Hampsteed in the parish of Oldsbury and County and Diocese of Gloucester, gent, 16 May 1634, proved 31 October 1634. To my son Francis my white horse or nag. To Spencer Achley, my daughter Frances' son, twenty shillings, to be paid by my executrix within six months next after my decease. To John Dauyes, the son of my daughter Margaret, ten shillings, to be paid in like manner. To the three children of my son Francis, that is to say, Mary, his daughter, and Francis and Eliah, his sons, thirty shillings, to be paid in like manner. The rest of my goods, moveable and unmoveable whatsoever, I give and bequeath to my daughter Elizabeth (excepting what I have passed by my deed bearing date 15 May 1634, made to certain uses to Humfrey Hooke, alderman of the City of Bristol, Thomas Lloyd of the same, Adam Baynham of Yate gent and William Maye of Cherefield gent, this excepted) and I make my daughter Elizabeth my whole and sole executrix &c.
• One of the witnesses was Fr : Doughtie minist'r. Seager, 86.
• [The above will and the deed to Humfrey Hooke and others, to which it refers, gave rise to a great contention in New England, as appears from Lechford's Note-Book, pp. 133-5, 137, 171-3 and 256 (I refer to the pages of the printed book). Elizabeth Doughtie, the daughter and sole executrix of the above testator, became the wife of William Cole of Sutton in the parish of Chew Magna, in the County of Somerset, gentleman (as he calls himself in a bill of complaint to the Gov., Council and Assistants of the Jurisdiction of Massachusetts Bay) and brother of John Cole of Farrington, Somerset, yeoman, who made a deposition about Hamsteed Farm in 1639. William and Elizabeth Cole were then in New England, as was also her brother Francis Doughty, who at that time called himself a planter of Dorchester in New England. He was called a clerk in the bill of complaint by William Cole and his wife, and seems to have been a minister at Taunton (Mass.), and afterwards to have removed to Long Island. HENRY F. WATERS.] ________________________
• 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/n352/mode...
• Pg.292
• WILLIAM COLE. He came to the Massachusetts Bay colony early, 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.
• .... etc.
• .... He moved back to Hampton, and died there May 16, 1662, in his eighty-second year.
• His children were:
  • 2. i. John.
  • 3. ii. Nicholas, b. 1636.
  • 4. iii. William,
  • And probably others.
• https://archive.org/stream/earlygenealogie00colegoog#page/n353/mode...
• Pg.293
• NICHOLAS2 COLE (William1). Born ? ? , 1636. He probably went to Wells with his father about 1640. He was a signer of the petition of certain inhabitants of Maine to Cromwell in 1656. He was constable there in 1658. He was appointed ferryman on Cape Porpoise River in 1664, in place of John Sanders, who had removed to Cape Porpoise. He was to keep the ferry seven years. He is mentioned aged 30 in 1666. .... etc. _____________

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References

1. 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).
   3. England & Wales, Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858 Ancestry Record 5111 #845187
   4. New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Volume 43. Reference page 274
   5. Cole, Frank T., 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, published 1887. Reference page 292
   6. Lechford, Thomas Note-book kept by Thomas Lechford, Esq., lawyer, in Boston, Massachusetts Bay, from June 27, 1638, to July 29, 1641, published 1885. Reference pages 171, 133-36
   7. "New England Gleanings" The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1847-. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2018.) Reference Volume 40 (1886), page 270. Subscription
   8. Shurtleff, Nathaniel B., Editor; Records of the governor and company of the Massachusetts bay in New England, published 1853-4. Reference volume 2, pages 74, 272
   9. Gov. John Winthrop Papers, Vol. 1-5, 1557-1649. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2016.) Originally published as: Winthrop Papers. Boston: Masssachuestts Historical Society, 1929 -. Reference volume 4, pages 128, 281 via American Ancestors $Subscription
   10. Torrey sources, listed twice on p. 351. [1] Reg. 40:270; Winthrop Papers 4:128; Taunton 1:42; Cole (ms) 85; Cole (1887) 292-3. Guide here:[2]
   11. Libby, Charles T., Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, published 1933. Reference Volume 2, pages 156-7