Individual Details
Deacon Benjamin COTTLE
(1765 - 1843)
Events
| Birth | 1765 |  | |||
| Marriage | 1787 | Miriam LUCE | | ||
| Removed | 1793 | now in Maine - near the Gore, New Vineyard, Province of Maine, Massachusetts, United States | | ||
| Removed | 1796 | now in Maine - Industry, Massachusetts, United States | | ||
| Miscellaneous | By 1803 | was named as one of the highway surveyors - Industry, Massachusetts, United States | | ||
| Death | 1843 | | |||
| Occupation | cordwainer and farmer | | |||
| Description | "a small man, quick, impetuous, and quite eccentric" | | |||
| Miscellaneous | "and his wife were leaders in the community and pillars of the Baptish Church" | | |||
| Religion | baptist, with services held in his home | |
Families
| Spouse | Miriam LUCE (1770 - ) |
| Child | Abigail COTTLE (1790 - 1808) |
| Child | Joanna COTTLE (1792 - 1860) |
| Child | Betsey COTTLE (1796 - ) |
| Child | Polly COTTLE (1799 - 1808) |
| Child | Sally COTTLE (1801 - 1808) |
| Child | Susanna COTTLE (1803 - ) |
| Father | Seth COTTLE (1725 - 1772) |
| Mother | Abigail CLAGHORN ( - ) |
Endnotes
1. Dorothy Cottle Poole, A New Vineyard (Edgartown, MA: Dukes County Historical Society, 1976), p. 182.
2. Dorothy Cottle Poole, A New Vineyard (Edgartown, MA: Dukes County Historical Society, 1976), p. 91.
3. Dorothy Cottle Poole, A New Vineyard (Edgartown, MA: Dukes County Historical Society, 1976), p. 91.
4. Dorothy Cottle Poole, A New Vineyard (Edgartown, MA: Dukes County Historical Society, 1976), p. 91.
5. Dorothy Cottle Poole, A New Vineyard (Edgartown, MA: Dukes County Historical Society, 1976), p. 47.
6. Dorothy Cottle Poole, A New Vineyard (Edgartown, MA: Dukes County Historical Society, 1976), p. 182.
7. Dorothy Cottle Poole, A New Vineyard (Edgartown, MA: Dukes County Historical Society, 1976), p. 91.
8. Dorothy Cottle Poole, A New Vineyard (Edgartown, MA: Dukes County Historical Society, 1976), p. 91.
9. Dorothy Cottle Poole, A New Vineyard (Edgartown, MA: Dukes County Historical Society, 1976), pp. 91-92.
10. Dorothy Cottle Poole, A New Vineyard (Edgartown, MA: Dukes County Historical Society, 1976), p. 46 "Many of the early settlers of Industry and New Vineyard were Baptists and they held religious meetings in various houses, most often at Deacon Norton's and later at Deacon Benjamin Cottle's" and 91.