Sources of Information on the Robert Cole

and Related Lines

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Original (Primary) Sources   Books

Original (Primary) Records

1850 Census Hardwick, Worcester County, Massachusetts, family of Lucius Barns, p. 346, 174/195

1850 Census Leominster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, family of Leonard Cole, p. 231 (Daniel (age 74, clockmaker) and Nancy Harris (age 72) were living with them.)

1850 Census Millbury, Worcester County, Massachusetts, family of Albert Cole, p. 78

1860 Census Leominster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, family of Leonard Cole, p. 262

1880 Census for New Hampton, Belknap Co., New Hampshire, family of Charles L. Cole, S.D. 82, E.D. 11, p. 3

Death certificate of Albert Cole, 6 Aug 1884, Vol. 357, P. 423, Mass. State Archives (gives parents' names)

Death certificate of Ida R. Cole, 1 Aug 1898, Vol. 483, P. 719, No. 90, Mass. State Archives (gives parents and spouse's names)

Death certificate of Leonard Cole, 11 Aug 1885, Vol. 366, P. 420, Mass. State Archives (gives parents' names)

Marriage certificate of Leonard Cole to Maria Hawley in Leominster, Mass. 8 May 1866 (gives parents' names)

Marriage certificate No. HD12350-12 hc, New York City, N.Y., of Charles C. Cole to Mary V. Monsees, 2 May 1912, (gives parents' names)

Obituary for Leonard Cole, published in Leominster Enterprise, 26 Aug 1885

Portion of personnel file of Charles Charron Cole from United States Post Office (gives date and place of birth, and wife's name)

Probate record of Charles L. Cole, Case No. 72804, Probate Court, Worcester, Massachusetts 9 Sep 1920

Probate record of Ida R. Cole, Case No. 23371, Probate Court, Worcester, Massachusetts, includes list of heirs, one was Charles Cole, minor

Probate record of Leonard Cole, Case No. 4675, Probate Court, Worcester, Massachusetts 20 Aug 1885

Revolutionary War pension file W25443 from National Archives for Barnet Cole 27 Mar 1818

Social Security Application, Form SS-5, for Evelyn V. (Cole) Ullberg, dated May 27, 1943.

Social Security Application, Form SS-5, for Grace E. (Cole) Ryan, dated Nov. 18, 1943.

Books

Annals of the Town of Providence, From Its First Settlement to the Organization of the City Government, in June, 1832, by William R. Staples, published 1843 by Knowles and Vose, Providence, pp. 33, 35, 40, 43

Birth, Marriage and Death Register Church Register and Epitaphs of Lancaster, Massachusetts, 1643-1850, published 1890, p. 151, 164 (marriage record of Daniel Harris to Nancy Elder, 1 Jan 1801, parents of wife of Leonard Cole)

Cole Family of Stark, New Hampshire: Descendants of Solomon Cole of Beverly, Massachusetts by Henry Winthrop Hardon, 1932 (Haverhill, Mass. The Record Press) (p. 70 has names of the children of Barnet Cole)

Centennial History of the Town of Millbury, Massachusetts, Including Vital Statistics, 1850-1899, pp. 34-35, 55, 61, 63-64, 83, 307, 500-01, 504, 508, 569-71, 624, 691, 744 (collateral lines are also on these pages), Pub. under the direction of a committee appointed by the town, Millbury, 1915.

The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island, comprising three generations of settlers who came before 1690 (with many generations carried to the fourth generation) by John Osborne Austin, published 1887, reprinted with additions 1969, 1978, 1982, by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, Md., pp. 50-51 Line of Robert Cole (with additions and corrections from The American Genealogist magazine articles by G. Andrew Moriarty)

Genealogical History of the Town of Reading, Massachusetts by Hon. Lilley Eaton, published by Alfred Mudge & Son, Printers, Boston, 1874, pp. 57-58 (collateral line, Burnap family)

Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, including Waltham and Weston. . . pp. 617-18 by Henry Bond, M.D., published 1890, Boston, Mass. New England Historic-Genealogical Society (collateral line, Waite family record, Bethiah (Waite) Burnap was mother of Polly Burnap, who married Webster Cole)

The Great Migration Begins by Robert Anderson © 1995 New England Historic Genealogical Society, in three volumes, Vol. 1, pp. 435-439, section on Robert Coles

History of Hardwick, Massachusetts with Genealogical Register by Lucius R. Paige, published by Houghton, Mifflin & Co., New York, 1883, p. 332 (Lucius Barns' family)

History of Sutton, Massachusetts from 1704 to 1876, including Grafton until 1735; Millbury until 1813; and parts of Northbridge, Upton and Auburn, compiled by Rev. William A. Benedict and Rev. Hiram A. Tracy, published 1878 "for the town, by Sanford & Company, 364 Main Street, Worcester," pp. 613-15, in the section on Burnap family contributed by William E. Cole, son of Webster and Polly (Burnap) Cole

Long Island Genealogies, compiled by Mary Powell Bunker, 1895, Joel Munsell's Sons, Publisher, p. 123

The MacDonough-Hackstaff Ancestry by Rodney MacDonough, published 1901, Boston, Mass., Press of Samuel Usher, pp. 443-457, section on Robert Coles

Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War, a Compilation from the Archives prepared and published by the Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston, Mass., Vol. 3, p. 755

The Old Records of the Town of Fitchburg, Massachusetts.... Vol. III, p. 27, compiled by Walter A. Davis, city clerk. Fitchburg, Sentinel Printing Company, 1898-1913. Published by authority of the City Council (has birth records of Laura and Albert Cole, children of Webster and Polly (Burnap) Cole)

The Pioneers of Massachusetts, A Descriptive List, Drawn from Records of the Colonies, Towns and Churches and other Contemporaneous Documents, by Charles Henry Pope, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1965, p. 110

Vital Records of Hardwick, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 Worcester, Mass., Franklin P. Rice, 1903. Systematic History Fund, pp. 16 and 72

Vital Records of Leominster, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 Worcester, Mass., Franklin P. Rice, 1911. Systematic History Fund, pp. 44, 304

Vital Records of Marlborough, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849 pp. 184, 318-19, and 395 published by Franklin P. Rice, 1908 (collateral line, Wait(e) family records)

Vital Records of Millbury, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 pp. 18, 72, 134, Worcester, F. P. Rice, 1903, Systematic History Fund

Vital Records of Northbridge, Massachusetts to the Year 1850, complied by Thomas W. Baldwin of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Mass. 1916, pp. 31, 115, 181

Vital Records of Sutton, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 Worcester, Mass., F.P. Rice, 1907. Systematic History Fund, pp. 44, 234, 410

Vital Records of Uxbridge, Massachusetts to the Year 1850, compiled by Thomas W. Baldwin, 1916

Winthrop-Babcock Genealogy by Josephine C. Frost, c. 1929, p. 112.

The Winthrop Fleet of 1630; an Account of the Vessels, the Voyage, the Passengers and Their English Homes From Original Authorities, by Charles Edward Banks, pub. by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, Md., 1961