Brief Life History of Jonathan
When Jonathan Cole was born on 16 May 1718, in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Jonathan Cole, was 23 and his mother, Hope Young, was 21. He married Susannah Horton on 2 April 1741, in Orleans, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. He died on 7 November 1791, in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Bridge Road Cemetery, Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Jonathan Cole, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Jonathan Cole, "Massachusetts, Marriages, 1695-1910"
- Jonathan Cole, "Find A Grave Index"
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1776 · The Declaration to the King
"At the end of the Second Continental Congress the 13 colonies came together to petition independence from King George III. With no opposing votes, the Declaration of Independence was drafted and ready for all delegates to sign on the Fourth of July 1776. While many think the Declaration was to tell the King that they were becoming independent, its true purpose was to be a formal explanation of why the Congress voted together to declare their independence from Britain. The Declaration also is home to one of the best-known sentences in the English language, stating, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."""
Name Meaning
English: usually from the Middle English and Old French personal name Col(e), Coll(e), Coul(e), a pet form of Nicol (see Nichol and Nicholas ), a common personal name from the mid 13th century onward. English families with this name migrated to Scotland and to Ulster (especially Fermanagh).
English: occasionally perhaps from a different (early) Middle English personal name Col, of native English or Scandinavian origin. Old English Cola was originally a nickname from Old English col ‘coal’ in the sense ‘coal-black (of hair), swarthy’ and is the probable source of most of the examples in Domesday Book. In the northern and eastern counties of England settled by Vikings in the 10th and 11th centuries, alternative sources are Old Norse Kolr and Koli (either from a nickname ‘the swarthy one’ or a short form of names in Kol-), and Old Norse Kollr (from a nickname, perhaps ‘the bald one’).
English: nickname for someone with swarthy skin or black hair, from Middle English col, coul(e) ‘charcoal, coal’ (Old English col).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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