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BIOGRAPHY OF
THE COLE FAMILY.
THE COLE FAMILY.-One of the earliest families to arrive in
America was Barent Jacobsen Kool (now written Cole), of Amsterdam,
Holland, an officer in the Dutch West India service, who came
over to New Amsterdam during the administration of Director-General
Peter Minuit, under whom he served for some time with credit
to himself and to his country.
His son, Jacob Barentsen Cole, married Maritie Simmons and
located at Kingston, N. Y., about 1659. This Jacob had eight
children, the youngest of whom was Jacob, baptized at Kingston,
N. Y., January 1, 1673, married Barbara Hanse, and in 1695 removed
to and settled at Tappan, N. Y., where he died, leaving six children,
all of whom married and settled either in Rockland County, N.
Y., or in Bergen County, N. J. One of these, Abraham, born in
1707, married Ann Meyer. They were the great-grandparents of
Rev. Isaac Cole, who was for many years pastor of the Dutch Church
at Tappan, and whose son, Rev. David Cole, of Yonkers, N. Y.,
has published a History of Rockland County, N. Y., and of the
Tappan Church.
Barent, said to be a brother of Abraham, above mentioned,
bought a large farm of the Van Valens a little south of Closter,
where his descendants are numerous. Other branches of the family
started at Hackensack. It may be safely said that many hundreds
of the family are scattered over Bergen and Hudson Counties.
Source: Genealogical History of Hudson and Bergen Counties,
New Jersey, Editor, Cornelius Burnham Harvey, The New Jersey
Genealogical Publishing Company, 1900, page 157.
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