Mary Cole

• Mary Shelley Cole
• Birth: 1639 Massachusetts, USA
• Death: unknown, USA
• Mary was baptized at Barnstable, Massachusetts on 2 November 1639.
• She married:
• (1) Sgt. William Harlow at Plymouth, Mass. on 24 January 1665/6. She was his third wife. They had six children: Hannah, Bathsheba, Joanna, Mehitabel, Judith and Benjamin.
• (2) Ephraim Morton at Plymouth on 18 October 1692. They signed a pre-nuptial agreement that protected her dower right in William's estate, while she quitclaimed her dower right in Ephraim's estate.
• (3) Hugh Cole at Plymouth on 30 January 1693/4.
• Family links:
• Parents:
• Robert Shelley (1612 - ____)
• Judith Garnett Shelley (1608 - 1668)
• Spouses:
• William Harlow (1624 - 1691)
• Ephraim Morton (1623 - 1693)
• Hugh Cole (1628 - 1698)
• Burial: Unknown
• Find A Grave Memorial# 135447329
• From: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=135447329 _____________________
• MORTON, Ephraim
• b. OCT 1623 At sea
• d. 7 SEP 1693 Plymouth, Plymouth, Mass.
• Parents:
• Father: MORTON, George
• Mother: CARPENTER, Juliana
• Family:
• Marriage: 18 NOV 1644 Plymouth, Plymouth, Mass.
• Spouse: COOPER, Ann
• b. ABT 1625 England
• d. 1 SEP 1691 Plymouth, Plymouth, Mass.
• Children:
  • MORTON, George
  • MORTON, Ephraim
  • MORTON, Rebecca
  • MORTON, Josiah
  • MORTON, Patience
  • MORTON, Eleazer
  • MORTON, Joanna
  • MORTON, Nathaniel
  • MORTON, Thomas
  • MORTON, Mercy
• Family:
• Marriage: OCT 1692
• Spouse: SHELLEY, Mary
• From: http://www.genealogyofnewengland.com/f_1d.htm#40 ________________
• 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. _____________________

From Jim Bullock's Rehoboth Roots:

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jbbullock...

ID: I8446

• Name: Mary SHELLEY
• Given Name: Mary
• Surname: Shelley
• Sex: F
• Change Date: 12 JUN 2003
• Birth: 1669 [1]
• Death: Y
• Father: Robert SHELLY b: BEF 1612
• Mother: Susanna

Marriage 1 William HARLOW

• Married: [1]

Marriage 2 Ephraim MORTON

• Married: [1]

Marriage 3 Hugh COLE b: BEF 29 JUN 1628 in Barnstable, Devon, England

• Married: 30 JAN 1693/4 in Plymouth, Plymouth, MA [1] [2]

Sources:

1. Abbrev: Torrey

• Title: Clarence Almon Torrey, New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1985)
• Repository:
• Name: Personal Collection of James B. Bullock, Littleton, CO 80120 USA
• Page: p. 168

2. Abbrev: Bailey

• Title: Frederick W. Bailey, Early Massachusetts Marriages Prior to 1800 (Bureau of American Ancestry; New Haven, CT; 1897-1914 Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.; Balitimore; 1996)
• Repository:
• Name: Personal Collection of James B. Bullock, Littleton, CO 80120 USA
• Page: Plymouth County Marriages, p. 1 ______________________

Mary Shelley was born 2 Nov 1639 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Mass. Her father was Robert Shelly of Scituate. She first married William Harlow. After Ann died, he married widow Mary Shelley Harlow on 18 Oct 1692 . After Ephraim died, she married for a third time to Hugh Cole in 1693. Mary died 30 Jan 1694 in Plymouth.

• http://minerdescent.com/2010/08/03/ephraim-morton/

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