Individual Details

Lieutenant James Cole

(25 Jun 1600 - 1689)

James Cole, who came to Plymouth, sailor, a shoemaker and innkeeper of Plymouth, an early immigrant to that town, 1638, first settler of Coles Hill just back of Plymouth Rock, on which the pilgrims were buried the first winter, was living in 1688, a very old man

Events

Birth25 Jun 1600Barnstaple, Devonshire, England
Marriage8 May 1625Barnstaple, Devonshire, England - Mary Lobel
Event1632Saco, Maine
Event1633Plymouth, Massachusetts
Death1689Plympton, Plymouth, MA

Families

SpouseMary Lobel ( - 1660)
ChildJames Cole (1626 - 1712)
ChildHugh Cole (1628 - 1698)
ChildJohn Cole (1637 - )
FatherWilliam Cole (1580 - )
MotherSusan Bale (1580 - )

Notes

Event

in 1633 located in Plymouth, Massachusetts. He bought land on which rests the famous Plymouth Rock, and soon afterwards opened the first public house in Plymouth, if not the first in all New England.