Individual Details
John COTTLE
(7 Sep 1675 - 30 Oct 1705)
Sometime prior to 1700, the Cottles moved from Nantucket to the island now called “Martha’s Vineyard”—specifically, the town of Tisbury, which is now in Dukes County. [5]
John was a “husbandman”—a farmer [6] —and lived there until his death on 30 Oct 1705. [7]
Apparently, he died intestate. Administration of the estate was granted on 2 November 1705, but distribution did not occur for decades, 5 April 1726. [8]
At some point, he married Jane Look, sometimes called Jean and Looke or Locke or other variations. Many secondary sources and compilations date this event as occurring in 1700, but there does not seem to be any primary evidence of the date. [9] The location can be presumed to be Tisbury because her parents’ family moved there about 1685.
--from my profile on WikiTree, http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Cottle-306, 21 July 2016
Events
| Birth | 7 Sep 1675 | Sherburne, Dukes, New York, British America |  | ||
| Removed | Abt 1681 | (now called West Tisbury), Chickemmoo, Dukes, New York, British America | | ||
| Property | 1700 | 24 acres of land, purchased from his father, formerly owned by Josiah Standish, - Dukes, Massachusetts Bay, British America | | ||
| Marriage | Abt Dec 1701 | Tisbury, Dukes, Massachusetts Bay, British America - Jane LOOK |  | | |
| Miscellaneous | 1703 | was part of a committee of white people and Indians who settled a boundary dispute - Tisbury, Dukes, Massachusetts Bay, British America | | ||
| Death | 30 Oct 1705 | Chilmark, Dukes, Massachusetts Bay, British America | | ||
| Death | 30 Oct 1705 | Tisbury, Dukes, Massachusetts, United States | | ||
| Burial | Abt Nov 1705 | probably in the grounds of the First Congregational Church, Tisbury, Dukes, Massachusetts Bay, British America | | ||
| Probate | 2 Nov 1705 | | | ||
| Occupation | "husbandman" (farmer) | |
Families
| Spouse | Jane LOOK (1680 - 1756) |
| Child | Lydia COTTLE (1702 - 1768) |
| Child | Sylvanus COTTLE Sr (1704 - 1790) |
| Child | John COTTLE (1706 - 1804) |
| Father | Edward COTTLE (1628 - 1710) |
| Mother | Judith Dorothy OSGOOD (1629 - 1681) |
| Sibling | William COTTLE (1652 - ) |
| Sibling | Edward COTTLE (1651 - 1653) |
| Sibling | Mary COTTLE (1653 - 1706) |
| Sibling | Benjamin COTTLE (1655 - ) |
| Sibling | Sarah COTTLE (1657 - ) |
| Sibling | Judith COTTLE (1659 - ) |
| Sibling | Hannah COTTLE (1661 - ) |
| Sibling | Elizabeth COTTLE (1663 - ) |
| Sibling | Edward COTTLE (1666 - 1751) |
| Sibling | James COTTLE (1668 - 1750) |
| Sibling | Judith COTTLE (1670 - ) |
| Sibling | Lydia COTTLE (1672 - ) |
| Sibling | Ann COTTLE (1672 - 1737) |
| Sibling | Samuel COTTLE (1676 - 1685) |
Notes
Marriage
The marriage would have occurred in Tisbury because Jane Look's father relocated to Tisbury about 1685, when she would have been 5 years old.Probate
Administration of estate granted 2 Nov 1705. His property was subsequently divided 5 April 1726.Endnotes
1. "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database index, FamilySearch.org (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VQDZ-JV4: accessed 17 October 2014), entry for John Cottle, 7 Sep 1675; citing NANTUCKET,NANTUCKET,MASSACHUSETTS, ; FHL microfilm 0823703 IT 1-2.
2. "Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850: Nantucket (5 vols)," database of images, New England Historic Genealogical Society, American Ancestors (AmericanAncestors.org: viewed 1 January 2015), vol 1, p 388, "COTTLE...John, s. Edward [Edward and Dorothy, P.R.38.]. Sept. 7, 1675" -- brackets in original; citing Vital Records of Nantucket Massachusetts to the Year 1850, NEHGS, Boston, 1925-1928.
3. 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.), pp 114-5, genealogical sketch of 1 Edward Cottle; searchable digital images, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/cu31924025963772 : accessed 10 April 2016.
4. James Savage, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of those who came before May, 1692, on the basis of Farmer's Register (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1860), p 461, genealogical sketch of COTTLE, Edward, Ezra, and William; digital images, Google, InternetArchive (https://archive.org/details/agenealogicaldi00unkngoog : accessed 18 April 2016.
5. 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.
6. Dorothy Cottle Poole, A New Vineyard (Edgartown, MA: Dukes County Historical Society, 1976), p. 182.
7. Charles Edward Banks, The History of Martha's Vineyard, Dukes County, Massachusetts in Three Volumes: Volume II: Town Annals (comprising seven individually paginated parts) (Boston: George H. Dean, 1911), "Annals of Tisbury", p 5, "In 1700 the families of Thomas West, Isaac Chase, and Edward Cottle comprised all the known residents in the present town limits, and the three households numbered 27 persons of all ages and sexes."; online searchable page images, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/historyofmarthas00bank : downloaded 30 December 2014.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. Charles Edward Banks, The History of Martha's Vineyard, Dukes County Massachusetts in Three Volumes: Vol 3: Family Genealogies (Boston: George H Dean, 1966), p 108; online images of pages, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/203666-the-history-of-martha-s-vineyard-dukes-county-massachusetts-vol-3 : downloaded 1 September 2015.
11. 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.
12. 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, pp 457-458; searchable digital images, Hathitrust (https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008989414 : accessed 26 July 2016.
13. Charles Edward Banks, The History of Martha's Vineyard, Dukes County Massachusetts in Three Volumes: Vol 3: Family Genealogies (Boston: George H Dean, 1966), p 108, "He d. 30 Oct. 1705."; online images of pages, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/203666-the-history-of-martha-s-vineyard-dukes-county-massachusetts-vol-3 : downloaded 1 September 2015.
14. Dorothy Cottle Poole, A New Vineyard (Edgartown, MA: Dukes County Historical Society, 1976), p. 182.
15. 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 458; searchable digital images, Hathitrust (https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008989414 : accessed 26 July 2016; "John Cottle died, in his thirty-first year, on October 30, 1705, some years before the demise of his father. The burial must have been in the grounds of the First Congregational Church at West Tisbury. His house, land and mill were within the old limits of the town of Chilmark. We have found no stone marking the grave of John Cottle.".
16. Edmund West, comp., Family Data Collection - Individual Records (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000), Birth year: 1675; Birth city: Nantucket; Birth state: MA.
17. Edmund West, comp., Family Data Collection - Individual Records (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000), Birth year: 1675; Birth city: Tisbury; Birth state: MA.
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 458; searchable digital images, Hathitrust (https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008989414 : accessed 26 July 2016; "John Cottle died, in his thirty-first year, on October 30, 1705, some years before the demise of his father. The burial must have been in the grounds of the First Congregational Church at West Tisbury. His house, land and mill were within the old limits of the town of Chilmark. We have found no stone marking the grave of John Cottle.".
19. Charles Edward Banks, The History of Martha's Vineyard, Dukes County Massachusetts in Three Volumes: Vol 3: Family Genealogies (Boston: George H Dean, 1966), p 108, "Adm of his estate was granted 2 Nov. 1705 and the property was divided 5 Apr. 1726."; online images of pages, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/203666-the-history-of-martha-s-vineyard-dukes-county-massachusetts-vol-3 : downloaded 1 September 2015.
20. Charles Edward Banks, The History of Martha's Vineyard, Dukes County Massachusetts in Three Volumes: Vol 3: Family Genealogies (Boston: George H Dean, 1966), p 108; online images of pages, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/203666-the-history-of-martha-s-vineyard-dukes-county-massachusetts-vol-3 : downloaded 1 September 2015.