Individual Details
Isaac COTTLE
(7 Sep 1726 - Bef 1769)
There was a great exodus from Martha's Vineyard that was contemporary to the time that Sylvanus, Abigail and Warren left the Vineyard [the 1760s]. The Mrs. Poole quoted is Dorothy Cottle Poole of Martha's Vineyard:
“The sandy soil was a major factor in the island's economy for, almost without exception, the settlers were English yeomen, farmers. The soil of the Vineyard was best adapted to sheep raising, an industry which required such large acreage that it was long before the need for more farmland was acute, a second powerful factor in family emigrations.
“In our perspective it seems remarkable that settlers of the original Vineyard should so soon pack up and move on by an arduous land journey, to a little known wilderness. Yet the Island had been settled for a hundred years when the first of its restless people began to leave.”*
*Poole, New Vineyard. The quotations are edited from the Hough's Forward and Chapter I, pp. 8-16. Mrs. Poole has also written for the Vineyard Gazette and the Dukes County Intelligencer.
In addition to the general question of property, we have the factor that Sylvanus' children with his first wife would have gotten the lion's share of the property in the Vineyard. Sylvanus' and his second wife, Abigail Sherman (a descendant of Gov. Wm. Bradford of Plymouth and the Mayflower) wanted all the Cottle children to be able to prosper, so caused the emigration to Vermont at the same time that other Cottles and Vineyard residents were moving to Maine. [Or, at least, this is one theory.]
The house built in the late 1700s -- after the exodus -- by Capt. Warren Cottle, son of Sylvanus, in S. Woodstock, VT, is still occupied. It is on Cottle Ridge, across the highway from the Kedron Valley Inn.
Events
| Birth | 7 Sep 1726 | Tisbury, Dukes, Massachusetts Bay, British America |  | ||
| Birth | 7 Sep 1726 | Tisbury, Dukes, Massachusetts Bay, British America | | ||
| Marriage | 24 Aug 1749 | Chilmark, Dukes, Massachusetts Bay, British America - Mary CLARK | | ||
| Death | Bef 1769 | | |||
| Residence (family) | Tisbury, Dukes, Massachusetts Bay, British America - Mary CLARK | | |||
| Occupation | yeoman | |
Families
| Spouse | Mary CLARK (1721 - ) |
| Child | Abner COTTLE (1749 - 1808) |
| Child | Isaac COTTLE Jr. (1751 - 1814) |
| Father | Sylvanus COTTLE Sr (1704 - 1790) |
| Mother | Martha HATCH (1708 - 1741) |
| Sibling | Edward COTTLE (1728 - ) |
| Sibling | Benjamin COTTLE (1730 - ) |
| Sibling | Anna COTTLE (1732 - ) |
| Sibling | Lydia COTTLE (1733 - ) |
| Sibling | Jane COTTLE (1736 - ) |
| Sibling | Keziah COTTLE (1737 - ) |
| Sibling | Mary COTTLE (1741 - ) |
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 viewed), history.vineyard.net/cottle.htm.
2. 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 111, entry for Isaac Cottle; 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 : accessed .
3. "Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850: Tisbury V1," database with images of transcription, New England Historic Genealogical Society, American Ancestors (AmericanAncestors.org: viewed 1 January 2015), vol 1, p 30, entry for [Cottle], Isaac; citing "Vital Records of Tisbury Massachusetts, to the Year 1850," NEHGS, Boston, 1910.
4. "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database index, FamilySearch.org (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/VQ6N-6ZN: accessed 4 November 2014), Isaac Cottle, 07 Sep 1726; citing Tisbury, Dukes, MA ; FHL microfilm 0599267 IT 2.
5. Dorothy Cottle Poole, A New Vineyard (Edgartown, MA: Dukes County Historical Society, 1976), p. 182.
6. Ancestry.com, Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011).
7. New England Historic Genealogical Society, Massachusetts, Town Birth Records, 1620-1850 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999).
8. Yates Publishing, U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004), Source number: 193.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: GUI.
9. 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 viewed), history.vineyard.net/cottle.htm.
10. "Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850: Chilmark," database of images, New England Historic Genealogical Society, American Ancestors (AmericanAncestors.org: accessed 1 January 2015), vol 1, p 47, entry for [Cottle] Isaac and Mary Clark, and p 45 entry for [Clark] Mary and Isaac Cottle; citing "Vital Records of Chilmark, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850," NEHGS, Boston, 1904.
11. "Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850: Chilmark," database of images, New England Historic Genealogical Society, American Ancestors (AmericanAncestors.org: accessed 24 January 2016), v 1, p 45, "Clark (see Clerk), … Mary and Isaac Cottle, Aug. 24, 1749"; citing "Vital Records of Chilmark, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850," NEHGS, Boston, 1904.
12. Charles Edward Banks, The History of Martha's Vineyard, Dukes County Massachusetts in Three Volumes: Vol 3: Family Genealogies (Boston: George H Dean, 1966), pp 87-88, "The Clark Family ... 35. MARY, bapt. 10 Dec. 1721; m (1) ISAAC COTTLE (70) 24 Aug. 1749; (2) SHUBAEL HARDING bef. Oct. 1765."; 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 : accessed .
13. "Massachusetts, Marriages, 1633-1850," database of transcription, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc, Provo, UT, 2005, Ancestry.com (https://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=7853: accessed 5 February 2016), Mary Clark and Isaac Cottle, 24 Aug 1749, Chilmark, Dukes, citing Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT, Film # 0823599 item 3.
14. 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 viewed), history.vineyard.net/cottle.htm.
15. 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 111, entry for Isaac Cottle; 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 : accessed .
16. Dorothy Cottle Poole, A New Vineyard (Edgartown, MA: Dukes County Historical Society, 1976), p. 182.
17. 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 viewed), history.vineyard.net/cottle.htm.
18. 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 111, entry for Isaac Cottle; 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 : accessed .