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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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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