Individual Details
Edward COTTLE
(Abt 1628 - Aft 1710)
Many speculate that Edward was the brother or cousin William Cottle (b. abt. 1626), but there is no proof.
General information quoted from Banks, Vol 2, Annals of West Tisbury, pp 42-44:
EDWARD COTTLE.
This early settler of Tisbury was born about 1628, and although a discrepancy exists in the records as to this point, [*Essex County Court Rec., XII, 368; XIII, 72.] it is considered more probable that this represents the date of his birth, rather than ten years earlier. He first settled in that part of Salisbury now known as Amesbury, Massachusetts. There is extant a statement made by him of his experiences there which is printed here as the best account of the reasons which caused him to move from that place:
* * * "I the sd Edward Cottle obtained among other lands a tract called the Lion's mouth being a neck of land * * * & built a sufficient house sd lands possessed many years, which house being providentially burnt together with my goods, I then built a small house att a place called Jamaica, w'thin same township, w'ch being burnt by the Indians (1668) & not being so able in estate as some other of my associates in said parts was necessitated to try what success I might have by removing to the southwardly part of New England, hopeing the Eastern parts might in time obtain a settled peace that I might then Return, to my inheritance again: but matters occuring Contrary, I purchased a small settlement at ye town of Tisbury in Dukes County afores'd, & being now grown aged & out of hopes of Ever returning" etc., etc. [*Essex County Deeds, XXII, 201.]
This interesting and valuable statement does not disclose his intermediate place of residence, before coming to Tisbury, but we learn that he removed from Amesbury with his wife Judith and a family of six or seven children and migrated to Nantucket about 1668-9, where he resided about seven or eight years. [*Nantucket Records.] At least four children of record were added to his family there, and then he probably returned to the mainland, taking up a residence at a place called "Mannamoiett." This is probably identical with Monomoy on the southeastern part of Cape Cod. He is mentioned as of that place in 1677, and on March 5, 1677-8, "Edward Cottle & his wife of Mannamoiett, for prophaning the Sabath by quarrelling [were] fined 40s" with the alternative "to be whipt." [*PIymouth Colony Rec., V, 254; VII, 207; VIII, 148.] His stay there was brief, not exceeding three years.
He came to Tisbury about 1680 and is called a "freeholder" in the records as early as 1683. He was chosen one of a committee to procure a new town charter in 1687; to divide proprietors' lands in 1688; a fence viewer in 1688; a constable in 1689, and surveyor of highways in 1699. It is not known where he lived before 1688, but in that year he bought of Thomas Mayhew the eastern half of the home lot of Josiah Standish, consisting of twenty-four acres, now owned by the heirs of the late Henry L. Whiting. It is probable that this had been the site of his residence for some years prior to that date. This he sold to his son John in 1700, and his declining years were probably spent in Chilmark, perhaps with his son James, as in 1710 he calls himself a resident of that town and is so designated by others. [*Essex Co. Deeds, XXI, 231. It is quite probable that he lived in Chickemmoo then a part of Chilmark, rather than in the present town limits of Chilmark. His son James owned land in Chickemmoo.] There is no record of his death either in the town or probate records. He had disposed of all his property to his son and nothing remained to be divided and made a matter of record. As he was at least 82 years old in 1710 and "grown aged" it is probable he died not long after. By his wife Judith, of whom nothing further is known, he had fourteen children, three of whom are not of record in towns where he lived.
Edward Cottle was probably from Wiltshire. In the church at Bradford-upon-Avon in that county there is a mural coat of arms of this family, and the name is frequently found in the records there. The earliest form of the name (1250) is Cotele or Cothele, and the family was early seated at Atworth, Wilts, now called Cottles, near Melksham. [*History of the Cotel or Cottle Family by W. H. Cottell. Pamphlet, 23 pp., 1871.]
Events
| Birth | Abt 1628 | probably, Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, England |  |  | |
| Birth | Abt 1628 | Wiltshire, England | |||
| Arrival | Say 1650 | in the area subsequently called Amesbury, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay, British America | |||
| Marriage | Abt 1651 | Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay, British America - Judith Dorothy OSGOOD | | | |
| Miscellaneous | 1652 | made a "townsman" - Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay, British America | | ||
| Property | 1653 | property purchased from Josiah Cobham - Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay, British America | | ||
| Miscellaneous | 1654 - 1655 | was an "original commoner" - Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay, British America | | ||
| Property | 1658 | purchased 3 acres of salt marsh from Samuell Getchell - Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay, British America | | ||
| Miscellaneous | 1665 | had a servent - Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay, British America | | ||
| Miscellaneous | 1666 | was noted as a founder of Amesbury when it was incorporated - Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay, British America | | ||
| Removed | Abt 1668 | Nantucket, New York, British America | | | |
| Miscellaneous | 1668 | lost his home when it was burned by Indians - Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay, British America | | ||
| Miscellaneous | 1668 | with his friend, Thomas Macy, and other early settlers of Nantucket, taking advantages of the laws of New York, were the first to establish religious liberty in New England - Nantucket, New York, British America | | | |
| Removed | Abt 1677 | "Mannamoiett" (probably today's Chatham), Barnstable, Plymouth, British America | | ||
| Miscellaneous | 5 Mar 1677/78 | was fined for profaning the sabbath - "Mannamoiett" (probably today's Monomoy), Barnstable, Plymouth, British America | | | |
| Removed | Bef 1 Oct 1681 | Nantucket, New York, British America | | ||
| Removed | Abt Dec 1681 | Tisbury, Dukes, New York, British America | | ||
| Miscellaneous | 1683 | was called a "freeholder" in the records - Tisbury, Dukes, New York, British America | | ||
| Property | 1688 | bought from Thomas Mayhew the eastern 24 acres of the home lot of Josiah Standish - Tisbury, Dukes, Massachusetts Bay, British America | | | |
| Miscellaneous | 14 Sep 1694 | was noted as a founder of Chilmark when it was established from common land - Chilmark, Dukes, Massachusetts Bay, British America | | ||
| Property | 1700 | (sold to son John the property bought in 1688) - Tisbury, Dukes, Massachusetts Bay, British America | |||
| Removed | 1700 | with son James - near Keephigon the Sound, Chilmark, Dukes, Massachusetts Bay, British America | | ||
| Death | Aft 1710 | there is no record of death, Chilmark, Dukes, Massachusetts, United States | | ||
| Death | Aft 1710 | Chilmark, Dukes, Massachusetts Bay, British America | |||
| Burial | Aft 1710 | probably in the cemetery of the West Tisbury Congregational Church, Tisbury, Dukes, Massachusetts Bay, British America | | ||
| Alt name | Edward COTTILL | | |||
| Occupation | "husbandman" or "planter" | |
Families
| Spouse | Judith Dorothy OSGOOD (1629 - 1681) |
| Child | William COTTLE (1652 - ) |
| Child | Edward COTTLE (1651 - 1653) |
| Child | Mary COTTLE (1653 - 1706) |
| Child | Benjamin COTTLE (1655 - ) |
| Child | Sarah COTTLE (1657 - ) |
| Child | Judith COTTLE (1659 - ) |
| Child | Hannah COTTLE (1661 - ) |
| Child | Elizabeth COTTLE (1663 - ) |
| Child | Edward COTTLE (1666 - 1751) |
| Child | James COTTLE (1668 - 1750) |
| Child | Judith COTTLE (1670 - ) |
| Child | Lydia COTTLE (1672 - ) |
| Child | Ann COTTLE (1672 - 1737) |
| Child | John COTTLE (1675 - 1705) |
| Child | Samuel COTTLE (1676 - 1685) |
| Father | Edward COTTLE (1594 - 1653) |
| Sibling | William COTTLE (1626 - 1668) |
| Father | Possible father of William & Edward COTTLE ( - ) |
Notes
Birth
I've used the date given by Banks. However, an Essex County court record, cited by Banks, suggests that he might have been born 10 years earlier.Hoyt gives a date of about 1617, but says that it seems "somewhat probable" that he was born some years later.
Hoppin says age 22 in 1650, hence born 1628.
Marriage
Date of marriage is inferred from birth date of oldest childTorrey and Poole do not give the maiden name of the bride
Family search claims a child named Hannah..
https://familysearch.org/tree/#view=ancestor&person=LJ5B-H51
Removed
His first house burned and his second house was burned by Indians in 1668.Banks quotes the Essex records:
built a sufficient house sd lands possessed many years, which house being providentially burnt together with my goods, I then built a small house att a place called Jamaica, w'thin same township, w'ch being burnt by the Indians (1668) & not being so able in estate as some other of my associates in said parts was necessitated to try what success I might have by removing to the southwardly part of New England, hopeing the Eastern parts might in time obtain a settled peace that I might then Return, to my inheritance again: but matters occuring Contrary, I purchased a small settlement at ye town of Tisbury in Dukes County afores'd, & being now grown aged & out of hopes of Ever returning" etc., etc. [*Essex County Deeds, XXII, 201.]
Hoppin writes:
The sites of Salisbury and Amesbury were originally the property of Indians who lived along the Merrimac River. The general Puritan policy was to drive away the Indian; hence his eventual and determined resistance. The townsmen decreed in 1654 that no one but Robert Ring (who came from England in 1638 with William Cottle) could take fish from the waters of Powow River, beside which rose Powow Hill, the great meeting place of the Indians. The resentment of the Indians against that decree fell heavily upon Edward Cottle, and drove him far away from the Merrimac eighteen years after he settled on its bank.
Miscellaneous
He refers to "The Colonial Church and Nantucket," H. B. Worth, pp 30-31.Quakers arrived in large numbers beginning about 1700.
Miscellaneous
Hoppin has an account of this, p 454Property
Banks: He probably lived here for some time before buying.Endnotes
1. Dr. Charles Banks, Martha's Vineyard Museum, Sketches of the Early Settlers of West Tisbury, from The History of Martha's Vineyard, Vol II, Annals of West Tisbury, pp 25-65 (http://history.vineyard.net/b2wtres.htm : viewed 14 October 2014), http://history.vineyard.net/b2wtres.htm#Cottle.
2. David W. Hoyt, The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts with some Related Families of Newbury, Haverhill, Ipswich, and Hampton, collated publication of all 13 parts (1897-1916; reprint, Providence, RI: n.p., n.d.), p 114, "EDWARD COTTLE [or COTTILL] of Amesbury and Nantucket, 'husbandman' or 'planter,' b. ab. 1617 [footnote] He was living in Chilmark, 'aged' in 1710. [Deed Sm.] It seems somewhat probable that he may have been born some years later than 1617."; searchable digital images, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/cu31924025963772 : accessed 9 April 2016.
3. Charles Hoppin, The Washington Ancestry and Records of The McClain, Johnson, and Forty Other Colonial American Families||Washington Ancestry (Greenfield, OH: self-published, 1932), vol 3, p 437; searchable digital images, Hathitrust (https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008989414 : accessed 26 July 2016.
4. Dorothy Cottle Poole, A New Vineyard (Edgartown, MA: Dukes County Historical Society, 1976), p. 181.
5. Dr. Charles Banks, Martha's Vineyard Museum, Sketches of the Early Settlers of West Tisbury, from The History of Martha's Vineyard, Vol II, Annals of West Tisbury, pp 25-65 (http://history.vineyard.net/b2wtres.htm : viewed 14 October 2014), http://history.vineyard.net/b2wtres.htm#Cottle.
6. "New England Marriages to 1700 [Torrey]," database index with images, New England Historic Genealogical Society, AmericanAncestors (https://www.americanancestors.org/DB1568/i/21174/381/426882088: downloaded 6 May 2019), vol. 1, p. 381, "COTTLE, Edward (?1627-1710+, Nantucket) & Judith ; by 1651(2?); Salisbury {Chatham Hist. 111; Salisbury Fam. 67,114-115; Martha's Vineyard 3:106; Essex Ant. 2:14, 3:43, 110, 172, 4:11, 6:84, 134, 176, 179, 8:177, 9:134,10:109; Sv. 1:415, 461; Fellovves-Davis Anc. 124}"; citing New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015.
7. Dorothy Cottle Poole, A New Vineyard (Edgartown, MA: Dukes County Historical Society, 1976), p. 181.
8. David W. Hoyt, The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts with some Related Families of Newbury, Haverhill, Ipswich, and Hampton, collated publication of all 13 parts (1897-1916; reprint, Providence, RI: n.p., n.d.), p 114, "EDWARD COTTLE [or COTTILL] ... He was made a townsman of Salis. in 1652; bought land in S. of Josiah Coleman in 1653; an original commoner of A. in 1654-5. His servant ment. [mentioned] in 1665."; searchable digital images, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/cu31924025963772 : accessed 9 April 2016.
9. David W. Hoyt, The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts with some Related Families of Newbury, Haverhill, Ipswich, and Hampton, collated publication of all 13 parts (1897-1916; reprint, Providence, RI: n.p., n.d.), p 114, "EDWARD COTTLE [or COTTILL] ... He was made a townsman of Salis. in 1652; bought land in S. of Josiah Coleman in 1653; an original commoner of A. in 1654-5. His servant ment. [mentioned] in 1665."; searchable digital images, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/cu31924025963772 : accessed 9 April 2016.
10. David W. Hoyt, The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts with some Related Families of Newbury, Haverhill, Ipswich, and Hampton, collated publication of all 13 parts (1897-1916; reprint, Providence, RI: n.p., n.d.), p 114, "EDWARD COTTLE [or COTTILL] ... He was made a townsman of Salis. in 1652; bought land in S. of Josiah Coleman in 1653; an original commoner of A. in 1654-5. His servant ment. [mentioned] in 1665."; searchable digital images, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/cu31924025963772 : accessed 9 April 2016.
11. FamilySearch, digital image (https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/90577709 : viewed 14 December 2019), cenotaph listing names of original settlers of Amesbury in 1654.
12. "Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-35," database of images, New England Historic Genealogical Society, American Ancestors (AmericanAncestors.org: accessed 10 April 2016), vol 3, p 33, in the genealogical sketch for Samuel Gatchell; citing Robert Charles Anderson, George F Sanborn, Jr, and Melinde Lutz Sanborn, "The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-35," NEHGS, Boston, 2001.
13. David W. Hoyt, The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts with some Related Families of Newbury, Haverhill, Ipswich, and Hampton, collated publication of all 13 parts (1897-1916; reprint, Providence, RI: n.p., n.d.), p 114, "EDWARD COTTLE [or COTTILL] ... He was made a townsman of Salis. in 1652; bought land in S. of Josiah Coleman in 1653; an original commoner of A. in 1654-5. His servant ment. [mentioned] in 1665."; searchable digital images, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/cu31924025963772 : accessed 9 April 2016.
14. Charles Hoppin, The Washington Ancestry and Records of The McClain, Johnson, and Forty Other Colonial American Families||Washington Ancestry (Greenfield, OH: self-published, 1932), vol 3, p 444; searchable digital images, Hathitrust (https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008989414 : accessed 26 July 2016.
15. Dr. Charles Banks, Martha's Vineyard Museum, Sketches of the Early Settlers of West Tisbury, from The History of Martha's Vineyard, Vol II, Annals of West Tisbury, pp 25-65 (http://history.vineyard.net/b2wtres.htm : viewed 14 October 2014), http://history.vineyard.net/b2wtres.htm#Cottle.
16. David W. Hoyt, The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts with some Related Families of Newbury, Haverhill, Ipswich, and Hampton, collated publication of all 13 parts (1897-1916; reprint, Providence, RI: n.p., n.d.), p 114, "EDWARD COTTLE [or COTTILL] ... His house in 'Jamacia' [W. Ames.] was burned by Indians and he rem. to Nantucket, ab. 1668-70. He sold house and lot in 1667, but was given of A. in 1668."; searchable digital images, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/cu31924025963772 : accessed 9 April 2016.
17. Charles Hoppin, The Washington Ancestry and Records of The McClain, Johnson, and Forty Other Colonial American Families||Washington Ancestry (Greenfield, OH: self-published, 1932), vol 3, p 442; searchable digital images, Hathitrust (https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008989414 : accessed 26 July 2016.
18. Charles Hoppin, The Washington Ancestry and Records of The McClain, Johnson, and Forty Other Colonial American Families||Washington Ancestry (Greenfield, OH: self-published, 1932), vol 3, p 450; searchable digital images, Hathitrust (https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008989414 : accessed 26 July 2016.
19. Dorothy Cottle Poole, A New Vineyard (Edgartown, MA: Dukes County Historical Society, 1976), p. 90.
20. Charles Hoppin, The Washington Ancestry and Records of The McClain, Johnson, and Forty Other Colonial American Families||Washington Ancestry (Greenfield, OH: self-published, 1932), vol 3, p 452; searchable digital images, Hathitrust (https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008989414 : accessed 26 July 2016.
21. Dr. Charles Banks, Martha's Vineyard Museum, Sketches of the Early Settlers of West Tisbury, from The History of Martha's Vineyard, Vol II, Annals of West Tisbury, pp 25-65 (http://history.vineyard.net/b2wtres.htm : viewed 14 October 2014), http://history.vineyard.net/b2wtres.htm#Cottle.
22. Dr. Charles Banks, Martha's Vineyard Museum, Sketches of the Early Settlers of West Tisbury, from The History of Martha's Vineyard, Vol II, Annals of West Tisbury, pp 25-65 (http://history.vineyard.net/b2wtres.htm : viewed 14 October 2014), http://history.vineyard.net/b2wtres.htm#Cottle.
23. Charles Hoppin, The Washington Ancestry and Records of The McClain, Johnson, and Forty Other Colonial American Families||Washington Ancestry (Greenfield, OH: self-published, 1932), vol 3, p 454; searchable digital images, Hathitrust (https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008989414 : accessed 26 July 2016.
24. Dr. Charles Banks, Martha's Vineyard Museum, Sketches of the Early Settlers of West Tisbury, from The History of Martha's Vineyard, Vol II, Annals of West Tisbury, pp 25-65 (http://history.vineyard.net/b2wtres.htm : viewed 14 October 2014), http://history.vineyard.net/b2wtres.htm#Cottle.
25. Charles Hoppin, The Washington Ancestry and Records of The McClain, Johnson, and Forty Other Colonial American Families||Washington Ancestry (Greenfield, OH: self-published, 1932), vol 3, p 454; searchable digital images, Hathitrust (https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008989414 : accessed 26 July 2016.
26. Charles Hoppin, The Washington Ancestry and Records of The McClain, Johnson, and Forty Other Colonial American Families||Washington Ancestry (Greenfield, OH: self-published, 1932), vol 3, p 455; searchable digital images, Hathitrust (https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008989414 : accessed 26 July 2016.
27. Dr. Charles Banks, Martha's Vineyard Museum, Sketches of the Early Settlers of West Tisbury, from The History of Martha's Vineyard, Vol II, Annals of West Tisbury, pp 25-65 (http://history.vineyard.net/b2wtres.htm : viewed 14 October 2014), http://history.vineyard.net/b2wtres.htm#Cottle.
28. Dr. Charles Banks, Martha's Vineyard Museum, Sketches of the Early Settlers of West Tisbury, from The History of Martha's Vineyard, Vol II, Annals of West Tisbury, pp 25-65 (http://history.vineyard.net/b2wtres.htm : viewed 14 October 2014), http://history.vineyard.net/b2wtres.htm#Cottle.
29. Charles Hoppin, The Washington Ancestry and Records of The McClain, Johnson, and Forty Other Colonial American Families||Washington Ancestry (Greenfield, OH: self-published, 1932), vol 3, p 455; searchable digital images, Hathitrust (https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008989414 : accessed 26 July 2016.
30. Charles Hoppin, The Washington Ancestry and Records of The McClain, Johnson, and Forty Other Colonial American Families||Washington Ancestry (Greenfield, OH: self-published, 1932), vol 3, p 457; searchable digital images, Hathitrust (https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008989414 : accessed 26 July 2016.
31. Dr. Charles Banks, Martha's Vineyard Museum, Sketches of the Early Settlers of West Tisbury, from The History of Martha's Vineyard, Vol II, Annals of West Tisbury, pp 25-65 (http://history.vineyard.net/b2wtres.htm : viewed 14 October 2014), http://history.vineyard.net/b2wtres.htm#Cottle.
32. Dorothy Cottle Poole, A New Vineyard (Edgartown, MA: Dukes County Historical Society, 1976), p. 181.
33. Charles Hoppin, The Washington Ancestry and Records of The McClain, Johnson, and Forty Other Colonial American Families||Washington Ancestry (Greenfield, OH: self-published, 1932), vol 3, p 456; searchable digital images, Hathitrust (https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008989414 : accessed 26 July 2016.
34. David W. Hoyt, The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts with some Related Families of Newbury, Haverhill, Ipswich, and Hampton, collated publication of all 13 parts (1897-1916; reprint, Providence, RI: n.p., n.d.), p 114, "EDWARD COTTLE [or COTTILL] of Amesbury and Nantucket, 'husbandman' or 'planter,' b. ab. 1617 [footnote] He was living in Chilmark, 'aged' in 1710. [Deed Sm.] It seems somewhat probable that he may have been born some years later than 1617."; searchable digital images, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/cu31924025963772 : accessed 9 April 2016.
35. David W. Hoyt, The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts with some Related Families of Newbury, Haverhill, Ipswich, and Hampton, collated publication of all 13 parts (1897-1916; reprint, Providence, RI: n.p., n.d.), p 114, "EDWARD COTTLE [or COTTILL] of Amesbury and Nantucket, 'husbandman' or 'planter,' b. ab. 1617 [footnote] He was living in Chilmark, 'aged' in 1710. [Deed Sm.] It seems somewhat probable that he may have been born some years later than 1617."; searchable digital images, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/cu31924025963772 : accessed 9 April 2016.