Families 'Round the Cape

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Comment by William S Dean on June 11, 2010 at 6:25pm

Here's another good link to Plymouth Colony Archives, This Plymouth Colony Archive presents a collection of fully searchable texts, including: court records, colony laws, seventeenth century journals and memoirs, probate inventories, wills, town plans, maps, and fort plans; research and seminar analyses of numerous topics; biographical profiles of selected colonists; and architectural, archaeological and material culture studies.

http://www.histarch.uiuc.edu/plymouth/

Comment by William S Dean on June 11, 2010 at 10:14am

Hi, all

Thanks for your helpful comments here. It's great to have a place to share information about our Cape ancestors. And thanks, Linda, yes, I have those references about the Deanes and Coles.

Comment by Linda Gardner (linda01720) on June 11, 2010 at 7:26am

William- have you seen this book?
Brief memoirs of John and Walter Deane: two of the first settlers of Taunton ... By William Reed Deane (Boston: Coolidge & Wiley, 1849)

http://books.google.com/books?id=gNAUAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcov...

These 16 pages talk about the early Deanes in America, the second note on page 11 suggests that one Jonas Deane's father could be Walter Deane. The Jonas Deane in the note is referenced as "Jonas, (d 1697) of Scituate, Mass. Don't know if this is your Jonas Deane.

Comment by Linda Gardner (linda01720) on June 10, 2010 at 6:33pm

For William--DEANE sightings from "The Great Migration" (NEHGS online database):

Don't know if these are yours, but they are in the right locale. The bio for Stephen Deane indicates 3 daughters, no sons. I can send it to you if you'd like it. let me know.

From the bio for Josias Cooke:
In his will, dated 22 September 1673 and proved 29 October 1673, "Josias Cooke senior aged about 63 years" bequeathed to "my loving wife Elizabeth" during her life, and after her decease to "my natural son Josias Cooke all my abovesaid upland and meadow, orchard, house and housing ... excepting my share of the land at Pochett Island and about two or three acres lying without the fence"; after wife's decease all moveables "to be equally divided betwixt my son Josias Cooke and my daughter Bethyah Harding, or her children after her," except the following legacies: to "my grandchild Joseph Harding all my share of land at Pochet Island"; to "my grandchildren Josiah and Maaziah Harding forty acres of upland and five or six acres of meadow in the township of Plymouth adjoining to a place called Cook's Pond"; to "my grandchild Anna Snow" several head of livestock; to "my grandchild Steven Twining a musket which was formerly his grandfather Deane's"; to "my daughter Merriam Deane" a cow and £5; to "my son Josias" wearing clothes; to "grandchild Josias Cooke my rapier, belt and musket"; to "my other grandchildren Richard Cooke and Maaziah Harding my proportion of land at Saconett"; and to "my grandchild Richard Cooke after my wife's decease my Great Bible" [ PCPR 3:1:90, abstracted in MD 15:34]

PCPR = Plymouth Colony Probate Records (from microfilm)
MD = Mayflower Descendant, Volume 1 through present (1899-1937, 1985 )

MARRIAGE: Plymouth 16 September 1635 "Elizabeth Dean widow" [ PCR 1:35]; she was widow of STEPHEN DEANE and daughter of widow MARY RING [ TAG 42:198]; she died at Eastham by 3 May 1687.
At court 9 June 1653, "Josias Cooke, late of Eastham, at the time of his marriage with Elizabeth, his wife, sometimes the wife of Steven Dean, deceased, did engage to pay several portions unto the children of the said Steven Deane" and confirmed that he had done so [PCR 2:140, 3:37].

PCR= Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England, Nathaniel B. Shurtleff and David Pulsifer, eds., 12 volumes in 10 (Boston 1855-1861)

TAG= The American Genealogist, Volume 9 to present (1932 )

In 1627 "Phillip Delanoy" sold to Stephen Deane for £4 "one acre of land lying on the north side of town between the first and second brook" [PCR 12:7]; this would be the land he had been granted in 1623.

On 10 March 1633/4 William Bradford as administrator sold to Steven Deane "the late dwelling house of the said Godbert, with the misted, inclosures, & outhousing thereunto belonging" for £20 [ PCR 1:25].

from the will for Thomas Jeffrey (migration 1633, first residence Dorchester, removes New Haven 1639, occupation mariner)
proved New Haven, 3 Dec 1661:
The "will" was recorded, and is given here in full: "The is the last will of mine containing the disposing of my estate after my estate is appraised & duly made thereof to be disposed of as followeth: ten pound of my estate to Mr. Davenport & Mr. Wareham & Mr. Streeter, ten pounds to Thom[as] North son to Thomas North, and ten pounds more [to] Isaack Deane son of John Deane

From bio for Samuel Wilbore (migration 1633, first residence Boston, removes Portsmouth 1637, Taunton, Boston; occupation merchant):
ASSOCIATIONS: William Wilbore of Portsmouth was cousin of Samuel Wilbore [ NEHGR 112:110-11, 113:99-103].
v SHADRACK, bp. Sible Hedingham, Essex, 6 September 1631 [NEHGR 112:117]; m. (1) by 1659 Mary Deane, daughter of Walter Deane [TAG 59:224-30]; m. (2) Taunton 13 September 1692 Ann (Bass) Paine, daughter of SAMUEL BASS and widow of Stephen Paine.

Comment by Linda Gardner (linda01720) on June 10, 2010 at 5:49pm

For William--COLE sightings from "The Great Migration" (NEHGS online database):

entry for James Cole to be transmitted via email, too lengthy to put here

On 7 August 1666 John Barnes of Plymouth, yeoman, sold to Hugh Cole of Plymouth, shipcarpenter, for a valuable consideration "all that my share of land lying and being at Taunton or Teticutt River being the twenty-sixth part of all the uplands and meadow," being the twenty-second lot [ PCLR 3:68].

PCLR=Plymouth Colony Deeds (from microfilm=semi Volume 1 has been published as Volume 12 of PCR)

On 4 January 1661[/2] "Edward Holman ... of Plymouth ... seaman" sold to Hugh Cole of Plymouth, ship carpenter, "the one half of my lot share or portion of land commonly called the Purchase land, lying and being at a place Acushenah, Coaksett and places adjacent [MD 16:208-09, citing PCLR2:2:79].

MD=Mayflower Descendant, Volume 1 through present (1899-1937, 1985

On 7 January 1644/5, Doane agreed to let James Cole "take off those wines he now hath in his hands" [PCR 2:79-80]).

PCR=
Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England, Nathaniel B. Shurtleff and David Pulsifer, eds., 12 volumes in 10 (Boston 1855-1861)

On 22 March 1663 the lots at "Puncateesett" were described, Robert Bartlett sharing the 24th lot with James Cole Sr. [PTR 1:67].

Comment by Spirit Baker on June 10, 2010 at 4:45pm

William, I forgot the name of the hill but I know it very well and have visited it more time than I can count. Across the street from it is a park and it has all natural springs and when I was a youngest I use to drink from them. Now they are loaded with oil, gas, etc. My children have been there many times and I will bring my granddaughter someday. Thanks for sharing and bringing back many memories.

Comment by William S Dean on June 10, 2010 at 3:06pm

The Coles and Deane/Deans of the Cape

As my surname shows one of my direct ancestral lines are the Deans/Deanes of Barnstable and Eastham, Massachusetts. As far as I have been able to determine, the first Dean on American shores was Jonas Deane, said to be from Taunton, in Someset, England. By 1690, Jonas was at Scituate, Plymouth, where, at the age of 32, he married Eunice Turner. Their son, Thomas Dean, who was born the following year, married into the long-time Cape Cod family the Coles, when he married Lydia Cole in 1727 at Barnstable, Massachusetts.

Lydia, it would appear was born the same year as her future husband at Swansea, Bristol, MA, the daughter of Hugh Cole and Deborah Buckland. Hugh Cole was born in 1658 at Plymouth, the son of Hugh Cole and Mary Foxwell. This first Hugh was the 2nd son of James Cole who had been born in Highgate, London ENG and came to Plymouth sometime before 1633 when he was declared a Freeman.

As such James Cole was among the militiamen sent out from New Plymouth to fight in the Pequod War. By 1640, James Cole had opened the first tavern in Plymouth (possibly the first in New England), though he was often at odds with the "powers that be". James' son inherited the tavern upon his father's death.

Coles Hill was designated a registered National Historic Landmark by the National Park Service, Department of the Interior, at the Annual Meeting of the Pilgrim Society on December 21, 1961. A tablet mounted on the granite post at the top of the steps on Cole’s Hill bears this inscription:

"In memory of James Cole Born London England 1600 Died Plymouth Mass 1692 First settler of Coles Hill 1633 A soldier in Pequot Indian War 1637
This tablet erected by his descendants1917"

It is described as: "Cole’s Hill, rising from the shore near the center of town and overlooking the Rock and the harbor, has occupied a prominent place in the affairs of the community. Here were buried the bodies of those who died during the first years of the settlement. From it could be watched the arrivals and departures of the many fishing and trading boats and the ships that came from time to time. In times of emergency, the Hill was fortified for the protection of the town. At the foot of its slopes and along the shore were the warehouses, stores and wharves in considerable number, connected with the shipping interests, which were a most important activity in the town in the latter part of the 18th century and for a large part of the 19th. Many observances of Forefathers’ Day have taken place near the Rock, and for a long time it was customary for the local militia, called the Standish Guards, to fire a volley beside the Rock in honor of the Pilgrims each Forefathers’ Day."

Comment by Spirit Baker on June 9, 2010 at 6:36pm

Thanks Carole. It took me hrs yesterday to print only 30 pages. It was going to take me a yr to finish. i know someone knew a trick.

Comment by Carole M Kirch Kilbreath Bannes on June 9, 2010 at 6:23pm

Spirit - Go to this link, then click on the "PDF" icon at the top right side of your browser screen. This will save the PDF book of the Doane Genealogy to your hard drive (be sure to pay attention to where it goes!) Then you can print it all out at once. I can't imagine only printing one page at a time!

http://books.google.com/books?id=qu5EAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR6&dq=Doa...

Comment by Spirit Baker on June 9, 2010 at 3:40pm

I have never really looked at www.archive.org. I bookmarked it, thanks Linda.
Thank you everyone.

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