Hannah Cole

Brief Life History of Hannah

When Hannah Cole was born in 1736, in Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Benjamin Cole, was 30 and her mother, Elizabeth Nelson, was 28. She married Benjamin Harding on 15 November 1753, in Warren, Bristol, Rhode Island, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She died on 3 July 1787, in Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 51, and was buried in Lakeville, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States.

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Benjamin Harding
1730–1757
Hannah Cole
1736–1787
Marriage: 15 November 1753
Elizabeth Harding
1754–1815
Polly Harding
1756–

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  • Hannah Cole, "Rhode Island Marriages, 1724-1916"
  • Hannah Cole Harding, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Hannah Cole Harding, "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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