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Martha Sweeting (Cole)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, Colonial America
Death: circa 1711 (44-53)
Swansea, Bristol County, Province of Massachusetts, Colonial America
Place of Burial: Swansea, Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Sgt. Hugh Cole and Mary Cole
Wife of John Brooks and Henry Sweeting
Mother of Henry Sweeting; Susannah Hunt; Experience Carey; Lewis Sweeting; Anna Walker and 4 others
Sister of Joseph Cole; Mercy Cole; James Cole; Elizabeth Cole; Hugh Cole, II and 10 others

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Immediate Family

About Martha Sweeting

  • Martha Cole Sweeting
  • Birth: Apr. 14, 1662 Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA
  • Death: 1708
  • According to more recent research (The American Genealogist, Vol 64, page 141, the daughter Martha of Hugh and Mary Cole did not marry John Brooks. Instead, she married Henry Sweeting about June 1688.
  • - Kevin Avery
  • willow703@aol.com
  • Their suggestion:
  • Swansea vital records say b. 14 Apr 1662.
  • Family links:
  • Parents:
  • Hugh Cole (1628 - 1698)
  • Mary Foxwell Cole (1635 - 1688)
  • Siblings:
  • James Cole (1655 - 1712)*
  • Hugh Cole (1658 - 1738)*
  • John Cole (1660 - 1748)*
  • Martha Cole Sweeting (1662 - 1708)
  • Anna Cole Salisbury (1664 - 1704)*
  • Ruth Cole Luther (1666 - 1718)*
  • Joseph Cole (1668 - ____)*
  • Ebenezer Cole (1671 - 1719)*
  • Mary Cole Kingsley (1676 - 1756)*
  • Benjamin Cole (1678 - 1748)*
  • Burial: Kickemuit Cemetery, Warren, Bristol County, Rhode Island, USA
  • Find A Grave Memorial# 93537192
  • From: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=93537192 _____________
  • 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/n87/mode/1up
  • Pg.53
  • JAMES COLE. One of the families that came from England to Plymouth was that of James Cole. I have not been able to find anything concerning him previous to 1634, but he probably had a family with him when he came to the settlement. He was the first settler on the eminence known as "Burial Hill." The first mention of him in the Plymouth Colony Records is in the list of freemen of 1633, where the name is spelled Coale ("Ply. Col. Rec. 1-4.) .... etc.
  • https://archive.org/stream/earlygenealogie00colegoog#page/n89/mode/1up
  • .... Savage says that he was living in 1688, very aged.
  • His wife was Mary —— , she was living in March, 1660. Children :
    • 2. i. James, b. about 1625 d. —
    • 3. ii. Hugh, b. about 1627, d. —
    • 4. iii. John, b. — d. 1677.
    • iv. Mary, b. — m. John Almy, he was a son of William Almy of Plymouth, 1643. After his marriage to Mary Cole he moved to Portsmouth, R. I. He was Capt. in King Phillip's war, and died in 1676.
  • JAMES2 COLE (James1), The oldest son of James Cole, the Plymouth inn-keeper was probably born in England and came to the colony when a boy with his father. The date of his birth was probably about 1625, as he is on the list of those able to bear arms in 1643, together with his younger brother Hugh.
  • He married December 23, 1652, Mary Tilson, at Scituate, and there his oldest child was born.
  • .... etc.
  • https://archive.org/stream/earlygenealogie00colegoog#page/n90/mode/1up
  • Pg.56
  • HUGH2 COLE (James1), the second son of James and Mary Cole, was born probably about 1626, as he is found on the list of able-bodied men in 1643, and those lists generally included the men from sixteen to sixty.
  • https://archive.org/stream/earlygenealogie00colegoog#page/n91/mode/1up
  • Pg.57
  • He married June 8, 1655, Mary, the daughter of Richard Foxwell.*
  • .... etc.
    • * Richard Foxwell came with Winthrop and was admitted freeman in 1631. He moved to Situate, R. I., in 1634, and m. Ann Shelly. He was one of the church in Situate under the Rev. John Laythrope. He d. about 1668. His children (recorded in Barnstable) were: i. Mary, b. Aug. 17, 1635, m. Hugh Cole. ii. Martha, b. Mar. 24, 1638, m. Sam'l Bacon, May 9, 1699. iii. Ruth, b. Mar. 25, 1641. iv. John, b. — d. Sept, 21, 1646.
  • https://archive.org/stream/earlygenealogie00colegoog#page/n93/mode/1up
  • Pg.59
  • .... etc.
  • The children of Hugh and Mary (Foxwell) Cole were:
    • 7. i. James, b. Nov. 8, 1655.
    • 8. ii. Hugh, b. Mar. 8, 1658.
    • 9. iii. John, b. Mar. 16, 1660.
    • iv. Martha, b. Apr. 14, 1662.
    • v. Anna, b. Oct. 14, 1664, m. Wm. Sailsbury, of Swansey.
    • vi. Ruth, b. Jan. 8, 1666.
    • 10. vii. Joseph, b. May 15, 1668.
  • On Jan. 1, 1689, he married Elizabeth, the widow of Joseph Cook,* and in 1698, as his third wife, the widow Mary Morton.
  • JOHN2 COLE (James1), .... etc.
    • * Elizabeth Litter was the daughter of Thomas Litter, of Plymouth, who came over from London in 1635, at the age of twenty-three, and died in 1684. He left one son and three daughters, the second of whom, Elizabeth, m. Oct. 1655, Wm. Shurtleff, who was struck by lightning June 23, 1663. By him she had three sons. On Nov. 18, 1669, she m. Joseph Cook, the youngest son of Francis, who came over in the Mayflower in 1620. He was b. in Holland and came over in the Ann, in 1623, with his mother and brother. He d. 1676, and Jan. 1, 1689, she m. Hugh Cole, who survived her. _____________________
  • COLE, Martha
  • d. 1708 Rehoboth, Bristol, Mass.
  • Family:
  • Marriage: ABT 1688
  • Spouse: SWEETING, Henry
  • b. ABT 1665
  • d. 8 APR 1728 Rehoboth, Bristol, Mass.
  • Children:
    • SWEETING, Mary
    • SWEETING, Henry
    • SWEETING, Susanna
    • SWEETING, Martha b. 25 FEB 1693/4 Rehoboth, Bristol, Mass.
    • SWEETING, Experience
    • SWEETING, Lewis
    • SWEETING, John
    • SWEETING, Elizabeth b. 10 DEC 1702 Rehoboth, Bristol, Mass.
    • SWEETING, Benjamin b. 24 NOV 1705 Rehoboth, Bristol, Mass.
    • SWEETING, Ann
  • From: http://www.genealogyofnewengland.com/f_751.htm#76 _____________________
  • BROOKS, John
  • Family:
  • Spouse: COLE, Martha
  • b. 14 DEC 1664 Plymouth, Plymouth, Mass.
  • d. 1711
  • Parents:
  • Father: COLE, Hugh
  • Mother: FOXWELL, Mary
  • From: http://www.genealogyofnewengland.com/f_577.htm#27 ___________
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Martha Sweeting's Timeline

1662
April 16, 1662
Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, Colonial America
1689
March 7, 1689
1690
September 30, 1690
Rehoboth, Bristol, MA, United States
1694
January 13, 1694
Rehoboth, Bristol, MA, United States
1699
January 11, 1699
Rehoboth, MA, United States
1707
May 1, 1707
Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States
1711
1711
Age 48
Swansea, Bristol County, Province of Massachusetts, Colonial America
1931
March 4, 1931
Age 49
March 11, 1931
Age 49