Edward Cole

1657 - 1717  (59 years)

• Name	Edward Cole
  Born	9 Nov 1657	St. Clement's Hundred, St. Mary's County, Maryland   [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
  Gender	Male
  Died	Between 18 Apr 1717 and 20 Dec 1717	St. Mary's County, Maryland   [3]
  Alternate death	Bef 20 Dec 1717	St. Clement's Hundred, St. Mary's County, Maryland   [2, 4, 5, 6, 8]
  Alternate death	Bef 3 Mar 1718  [5, 6]
  Person ID	I2972	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of PNH
  Last Modified	5 Sep 2021

  
  

  Father	Robert Cole,   b. 1628, Middlesex, England ,   d. Aft 2 Apr 1662, England  (Age > 34 years)
  Mother	Rebecca,   d. Abt Mar 1662
  Married	Between 1649 and 1652  [4, 9]
  Family ID	F5354	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Honora,   b. Abt 1667, "Strand," St. Mary's County, Maryland ,   d. Aft 1694  (Age ~ 28 years)
  Married	27 Apr 1683	St. Clement's Hundred, St. Mary's County, Maryland   [6, 10, 11]
  Children	1. Edward Cole,   b. of St. Mary's County, Maryland ,   d. 1762, St. Mary's County, Maryland + 2. Robert Cole,   b. Abt 1686, St. Clement's Hundred, St. Mary's County, Maryland ,   d. Bef Apr 1720, St. Clement's Hundred, St. Mary's County, Maryland  (Age ~ 34 years)
  Last Modified	5 Sep 2021
  Family ID	F4554	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Elizabeth Slye,   b. 1668,   d. 1734  (Age 66 years)
  Married	Aft 1694  [2]
  Last Modified	22 Oct 2020
  Family ID	F7971	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Planter and householder. Literate. Called "Mr." After the death of his parents when he was five or six, he was raised by his father's friend Luke Gardiner. His second wife Elizabeth Slye was a daughter of Robert Slye and Susanna Gerard. Susanna Gerard was a daughter of early Maryland immigrant (and Edward I descendant) Dr. Thomas Gerard and his wife Susanna Snow. But more interestingly in connection with American history, Susanna Gerard's second husband, following the death of Robert Slye, was John Coode, one of the three leaders of Maryland's Protestant revolution of 1689 (and also a shadowy and malign figure in John Barth's 1960 novel The Sot-Weed Factor). Susanna's sister Elizabeth Gerard was the wife of Nehemiah Blackiston, another of the leaders of the 1689 uprising, who was a son of regicide judge John Blackiston. Her sister Mary Gerard was the wife of Kenelm Cheseldine, the third of the revolution's leaders. And finally, her sister Frances Gerard was, in the fourth of her five marriages, the third wife of Col. John Washington (1633-1677), great-grandfather of George Washington.

  
  

• Sources

  [S5935] Ancestral Records and Portraits: A Compilation from the Archives of Chapter I., The Colonial Dames of America. 2 vols., New York, 1910., year only. [S312] John Medley (1615-1660), St. Mary's County Maryland, His Descendants, by Mary Louise Donnelly. Ennis, Texas: Mary Louise Donnelly, 1995. [S258] Hayden/Rapier and Allied Families: Colonial Maryland, Kentucky, U.S.A. by Mary Louise Donnelly. Ennis, Texas: MLD Genealogy Company, 1991. [S248] Robert Cole's World: Agriculture & Society in Early Maryland by Lois Green Carr, Russell B. Menard, and Lorena S. Walsh. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991. [S247] Maryland State Archives, Biographical Files of 17th and 18th Century Marylanders, by Dr. Lois Green Carr., year only. [S134] Mike Marshall, Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia’s Northern Neck Counties. [S41] U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900, on ancestry.com. [S5935] Ancestral Records and Portraits: A Compilation from the Archives of Chapter I., The Colonial Dames of America. 2 vols., New York, 1910., date only. [S138] St. Mary's Families, compiled by Linda Reno. Original site is gone. Mirrors: Marriages 1638-1820. Migration from Maryland 1780-1820. Tract Map: 1705. [S138] St. Mary's Families, compiled by Linda Reno. Original site is gone. Mirrors: Marriages 1638-1820. Migration from Maryland 1780-1820. Tract Map: 1705., "bef 1683". [S248] Robert Cole's World: Agriculture & Society in Early Maryland by Lois Green Carr, Russell B. Menard, and Lorena S. Walsh. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991., "by 1683".