Descendants of Cole/ Kool of the Netherlands

Kool

Generation #1

Jacob Arentsen of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Jacob Arentsen was born about 1580, probably in Utrecht, the Netherlands. On 1/27/1596 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, he married Aeltje Dircks b. 1578 Dordrecht, the Netherlands.

Evidently, the family attended Saint Nicholas Church, called De Oude Kerk, the Old Church, in Amsterdam where the children were christened except for Barent, who was Christened at Saint Catharines Church, called De Nieuwe Kerk, the New Church, also in Amsterdam.

Jacob worked as a ferryman back in the Netherlands, a skill which would have been much in demand in New Amsterdam. Son Barent Jacobsen first came to America in 1633. Some records indicate that Jacob may have accompanied him to New Amsterdam, dying 11/6/1634. Buy, I can't find the records

Dutch Reformed Church, Amsterdam, Netherlands
27-01-1596
naam bruidegom:  Arentsz, Jacob
naam bruid:  Dierics, Aaltje

Reformed Dutch Church, Nieuwe Kerk,
Amsterdam, Netherlands: 5/18/1610
Parents Child Sponsors
Jakob Arentsz
Aeltje Dirx		 Barent  

Generation #2

Barent Jacobsen Kool of New Amsterdam, Dutch America

From "The Barent Jacobsen Cool Family," Richard H. Benson, Newbury Street Press, Boston, 2001.

Barent Jacobsen Cool sailed to New Amsterdam, possibly from Amsterdam as a sailor in late 1632 on the ship Soutberg, which arrived in April 1633 with 140 soldiers. At that time, New Amsterdam, now New York City, had a population of only 400 to 500 people.

On June 8, 1633, he and six others signed a treaty with the Sickename Indians for purchasing land on the Connecticut River. The cost was recorded as 27 rolls of cloth, 6 axes, 6 kettles, 18 knives, and other articles. This was done to halt English exploration of the land. Barent's group also built a trading house called "The House of Good Hope" and fortified it with several cannons.

Barent returned to Amsterdam by November 16, 1635. At that time, he and a gold wiremaker named Jacob Hanssen lodged a complaint about withholding pay from officers of the West India Company returning to Amsterdam on the ship Eendracht against Lubbert van Dincklagen, the former sheriff of New Netherland. Van Dincklagen said it was part of dispute with the director-general of the colony, named Wouter van Twiller.

Barent sailed on the ship Den Dolphyn to New Amsterdam in early 1638 with his father-in-law, Leendert Arentsen DeGrauw. It is presumed that his wife and her brothers and sisters were also on board. On April 19, 1638, the crew of the Den Dolphyn made a formal complaint to the provincial secretary about how the ship leaked during the voyage and that the captain had not provided enough food for the passengers. Barent and DeGrauw testified that several children belonging to Jan Schepmoes and his wife didn't receive enough food.

Barent later was captain of the yacht Amsterdam between 1638 and 1644. He sailed on the Hudson River and was a river pilot for other boats.

On April 13, 1654, Barent became a wine and beer carrier for the Dutch West India Company. He watched the company warehouse and was appointed by the New Amsterdam burgomasters as an exciseman. He, along with Joost Goderus, boarded ships in New Amsterdam, searched their contents, and levied duty on the goods they found. On September 21, 1663, Barent was appointed as a public porter and was elected foreman (Elder of the Beer Porters) on July 17, 1665.

On April 14, 1657, he was enrolled as a burgher of New Amsterdam and took an oath of allegiance to the city authorities, the States-General of the United Netherlands, and the Dutch West India Company and its director-general. After the surrender of New Amsterdam to the English in September 1664, Barent took an oath of allegiance to the king of Great Britain.

Barent and his family lived in house that was owned by the West India Company. This house was on Brough (Bridge) Street. In 1668, the governor conferred title of Barent's father-in-law's land to him. This lot was on Broadway, just south of Wall Street across from the south yard of Trinity Church.

The last known record of Barent Jacobsen Cool is at the baptism of his grandson in New York, dated October 21, 1671, in which he is listed as a sponsor.

Early Germans of New Jersey by Chambers. He was in New Amsterdam in the employ of the Dutch West India Company. Barent's family was one of the five families living, June 8, 1633, on Bridge Street in New Amsterdam. Barent was a Dutch government representative with the Dutch West Indies Company He was a very respected man.

Source URL: https://www.ancestry.com/mediaui-viewer/tree/4744515/person/-1553227955/media/e5d4862b-2c42-4183-9611-078639e0304d

Dutch Reformed Church, Nieuwe Kerk,
Amsterdam, Netherlands: 5/18/1610
Parents Child Sponsors
Jakob Arentsz
Aeltje Dirx		 Barent  
Soutberg (Salt Mountain)
Sailed from Texel 27 July 1632
arrived New Amsterdam before 16 April 1633

 

Generation #3

Theunis Barentsen Kool of New Amsterdam, Dutch America

Theunis Barentsen Cool was christened on 8/17/1653 in Manhattan, Dutch America. 

Theunis was the generation who migrated up the Hudson to what is now Kingston NY. Remember, the English captured the Dutch Colony in 1664. They started settling in New Amsterdam in the south and gradually assumed possession heading into New Jersey and north, up the Hudson. An ethnic Dutchman who didn't want to be subsumed by the English would have moved toward the periphery of English control.

Esopus, the cite of the Battle of Ft Wiltwyck, was situated on the west bank of the Hudson, halfway to Albany. After the British captured the Dutch Colony, the settlement was renamed Kingston. Most importantly, Kingston was the gateway to the interior of New York.

Dutch Reformed Church, Manhattan: 8/17/1653
Parents Child Sponsors
Barent Jacobszen Theunis Arent Leendertszen
Engeltje Jans
Dutch Reformed Church, New York, New York
1/12/1676 Theunis Barentszen Cooll, jm van N. Yorke
Marritje Gerrits van Loockere, wid Jan Corneliszen, woonende tot N. Yorke
Dutch Reformed Church, Kingston, New York
11/22/1696 Teunis Kool, wid Marritje Gerrits, born New York
Willemje Langen, jd, born Kingston, both liv Kingston. 

Dutch Reformed Church, Kingston NY 2/23/1701
Parents Child Sponsors
Teunis Cool
Willemje Langet		 Barent Teunis Tappen
Sara Schepmoes

 

Generation #4

Tunis Cole of Kingston, New York

Tunis Cole was christened 9/18/1697 at Kingston NY. And on 12/23/11720 at Kingston NY, he married Sarah Biggs b. 7/31/1698 Kingston NY.  Tunis and Sarah are the generation who migrated south to East Jersey.

There were two primary routes:

a. From Kingston south, down the Old Mine Road to Minisink, the new lands along the Delaware. Migrating in the 1720s, they would have walked south along a good path past new towns such as Hurley and Marbletown. Reaching the Delaware at Mackhachameck/ Cole's Fort/ Port Jervis, they would have had no way of knowing that the east bank of the river was New Jersey and the west bank of the river was Pennsylvania.

When our Dutch families of Esopus/ Kingston and old Ulster Co NY began their westward migration, they simply had to walk south down the Old Mine Road to the new lands at "Minisink" in the Delaware Valley, settling in the vicinity of Palingskill (Paulins Kill), Hunterdon (now Sussex/ Warren) Co NJ and in Smithfield TWP, Bucks (now Monroe) Co PA. In truth, that's how the original settlers reached the Minisink country, inhabiting its environs for forty years before the government in Philadelphia knew they were there.

By 1734 members of the Cool family had reached Deerpark and Port Jervis NY:

General Assembly, Die Sabbati, May 11th, 1734.
The petition of Jacobus Swartwout, Wm Provost, Wm Cool, and others, freeholders and inhabitants residing and living in Minisink, in the county of Orange and Ulster, was presented to the House, etc, setting forth that. . .they be compelled to work on said road [to Esopus]. . . .

Note: Wm Cool (1683-1755) was the son of Leendert Barentsen Kool and 1C to Tunis Cole. William died at Deerpark NY vicinity Port Jervis.

If the Coles migrated down the Old Mine Road, they would have taken the eastern bank south through the Delaware Water Gap to the vic of Easton PA. Then, they would have had to push eastward through uninhabited lands to reach their next stop at Harlingen, Summerset Co NJ. This seems not possible for such so early a date.

Research Note: Studying antique maps, I did not find a road from East Jersey near Hackensack past the Blue Mountains to the Delaware until 1822. However, I did find a road from Perth Amboy to Easton on the Delaware by 1756. Although East and West Jersey were united politically by 1702, there would never be a united New Jersey until the connecting roads were constructed.

Failing to find this branch of the Cole family in records for Mackhachameck/ Cole's Fort/ Port Jervis NY, Minisink, Bucks (now Monroe) Co PA, or the Forks of the Delaware (Easton, Northampton Co) PA, the land route has to be ruled out.

Note: Baptisms and marriages performed at the four Dutch Reformed Churches of the Delaware Valley were recorded at Machackemeck (Deerpark) Church of Ulster (now Orange) County, New York. Additionally, itinerant preachers maintained their own personal records including Rev. Joh. Casparus Fryenmuth and Rev. Elias Van Bennschoten. [Minisink Dutch Reformed Church]

b. From Kingston south, the Coles probably went by boat down the Hudson to Perth Amboy NJ. Traveling west, up the Raritan River, they would have reached the confluence with the Millstone River vic Manville NJ. There, they would have headed south, up the Millstone not far to Harlingen NJ.

An important research question is "Why did our folks migrate to East Jersey?" The answer is new lands and the Dutch Reformed Church.

The Early Dutch and Swedish Settlers of New Jersey, p. 75:

The widening settlements of the Jersey Dutch can be traced in the Dutch Reformed churches, beginning in Bergen in 1660, spreading to Hackensack, Acquackanonk, and Tappan about 1690, to the neighborhood of New Brunswick about 1700, to Six-Mile Run about 1710, to Schraalenburgh, Paramus, Readington, and Fairfield about 1720, to Totowa, Clarkstown, New York, and Neshanic about 1750, and to Kakiat, New York, Bedminster, and Millstone about 1770. Each new church marked the opening of a new frontier, and as the country became settled the churches marked the boundaries between the Dutch settlements of New Jersey and those of their English and German neighbors, for in good degree the country which makes up Dutch New Jersey will be found within a radius of five miles of these churches.

By 10/1727 the family was in Harlingen, Summerset Co NJ where son Teunis (1) was born. By 2/1735 the family was in Readington TWP, Hunterdon Co NJ where son Ezekiel was born.

Tunis died 5/7/1769 in Readington TWP, Hunterdon Co NJ. He and Sarah are buried in Biggs-Schomp-Cole Cemetery.

Dutch Reformed Church, Manhattan: 9/18/1697
Parents Child Sponsors
Teunis Kool
Willemje Langet		 Teunis Teunis Pier
Marytje Langet
Dutch Reformed Church, Kingston, New York
12/23/1720 Theunis Kool, jm, born Kingstown
Zara Biks, jd, born Marbletown. 

Dutch Reformed Church, Kingston NY 11/5/1721
Parents Child Sponsors
Theunis Cool
Zara Biks		 Jan Henderikus Krom, Dina Biks
Thammas Haal, Geertjen Elten
Theunis Cool
Zara Biks		 Thammas Henderikus Krom, Dina Biks
Thammas Haal, Geertjen Elten
New Jersey Marriages (1678 - 1985}, p. 21:
3/6/1743
John Coole, father Tunis Coole
wed Elizabeth Rose 

 

Generation #5

Benjamin Kool of Hunterdon Co NJ

Benjamin Cole was christened on 10/4/1724 at Kingston, New York. Shortly thereafter, the family migrated south to New Jersey and new lands up the Raritan River at Harlingen, Somerset Co NJ.

By 2/1735, the family migrated north to Readington TWP, Hunterdon Co NJ. Back when, there was West Jersey and East Jersey. Heading west on the historic Raritan Path, Readington was the first new township created west of the demarcation line, establishing a new migration path to West Jersey and Pennsylvania.

Also within the first two decades, 1704-1724, settlers began arriving from the eastward by way of the Raritan and its tributaries. These were the Dutch, and included Huguenots and Walloons and perhaps Germans, all of whom through association and intermarriage had essentially become Dutchmen themselves. Se were made along Holland’s Brook, along Campbell’s Brook (Pleasant Run) and at Three Bridges. Readington Township, in fact, became so predominantly Dutch that it was later referred to as an outpost of the large Dutch Settlement of Somerset County."

    "The Dawn of Hunterdon County" <www.readkong.com/> 11 January 2023.

And, Readington became a major hub for cross-state transportation in New Jersey.

Roads: Traversing Readington are historic roads. Old York Road is one of the oldest roads in America. It connected Philadelphia to Elizabethtown and subsequently New York City. Centerville was the stop for the pre-revolutionary Swift Sure Stage Coach Line and the horse barn remains as an historic site. Old Highway in White House was the “Raritan Path” eventually the “County Road” and then in 1806 the original New Jersey Turnpike.

    "The Readington Township Environmental Resource Inventory" <www.readingtontwpnj.gov/images/EC/2002_Readington_Final_ERI.pdf> 11 January 2023.

On 8/11/1752 in Hunterdon Co NJ, Benjamin married Gertrude Charity Coursen b. 5/11/1732 Hunterdon Co NJ. They lived their lives there, dying in 1762.

Dutch Reformed Church, Kingston NY: 10/4/1724
Parents Child Sponsors
Theunis Kool,
Zara Biks		 Benjamin Pieter Mouwerensz
Meery Haal

 

Generation #6

Ezekiel Cole of Columbia Co PA

Ezekiel Cole was born 5/24/1756 in Hunterdon Co NJ. By his 6th birthday, his father died. We do not know with whom he lived as a youngster.

By 1778 Ezekiel migrated west along the Raritan Path and across the Delaware to the Forks of the Delaware where he is cited serving with the Northampton County Militia during the Revolutionary War.

Many Indian paths, some important, and some minor, crisscrossed the county. One of the more important was the Raritan path which followed up the Raritan to Racahovawalaby (Bound Brook), thence to Tuccaramahacking at the forks of the Raritan, thence to Whitehouse, Potterstown, Lebanon, Annandale, to Minsolackaway near High Bridge, thence through the pass by Glen Gardner to the village of Pelouese at Hampton. This path led ultimately to the forks of the Delaware at Easton and was a trade route and one followed by early explorers in their search for minerals in the mountains of Pennsylvania. . . .

    "The Dawn of Hunterdon County" <www.readkong.com/> 11 January 2023.

In September 1779, Ezekiel married Rebecca Coleman b. 1756 Hunterdon Co NJ. They lived at Easton. But, Rebecca died in 1789 after the birth of a child. Needing a mother for his children, on 1/17/1790 in Northampton Co PA, Ezekiel married Elizabeth Hess b. 12/13/1766 Northampton Co PA. Elizabeth's father, William Hess, was Ezekiel's buddy. And, it made sense to marry one of William's daughters.

Ezekiel and William Hess sold their holdings in Northampton County in 1792 and migrated west to Old Northumberland County on the Susquehanna. Their path would have taken them along the newly opened Owen's Road (1787) northwest up the Lehigh Valley and west through the Blue Mountains to the Susquehanna at Nescopeck Falls, Berwick PA. From the 1800, 1810, and 1820 censuses, we learn that Ezekiel settled on Fishing Creek/ Cole's Creek, Northumberland (now Columbia) Co PA.

The following year (1792 in all probability) the actual immigration occurred. The route pursued was the Susquehanna and Lehigh road from Easton to Nescopeck falls [PA 93], laid out by Evan Owen in 1787. . .William Hess owned a tract of land four miles in length, extending from Coles mills to North mountain.  He built a log cabin near a small spring, the site of which is on land in possession of Andrew Laubach.  His sons, George, John, Andrew, Tobias, Conrad, Frederick, Henry and Jacob took up their residences in the valley of the creek above their father in the order of their names.  [Sons-in-Law] John Kile and Ezekiel Cole located in the immediate vicinity of William Hess. . .Leonard Rupert, the near neighbor of Christian Laubach in Montour township, had returned from assisting to move his effects to the North mountain country, he is reputed as saying that that region was certainly at the end of the world. . .The population of Sugarloaf in 1800 consisted of the Hesses, Kiles, Laubachs, Robbins and Cole's. . . .

    "History of Columbia and Montour Counties Pennsylvania (1887), pp. 225-226" Columbia Co PA GenWeb Site <http://www.pagenweb.org/~columbia/sugarid.htm> 

Ezekiel died 6/10/1829 in Columbia Co PA and is buried in Saint Gabriel Cemetery, Columbia Co PA.

    Hess, Cole, and York Marriages

    2. Maria Elizabeth Hess

This relationship is confirmed by the History of Columbia Co PA where Ezekiel Cole is named as one of the four spouses of granddaughters of John Godhard. Ezekiel is important to research as he was buddies with William Hess. And, he married 2nd William's daughter Elizabeth.

    8. Johannes Hess

Elizabeth's brother John married Ezekiel's daughter, Charity, from his 1st marriage to Rebecca Coleman.

    9. Frederick Hess

Columbia Co PA Records:
c. 1819. Frederick Hess purchased acreage from William Hess in Sugarloaf TWP.

    13. Wilhelm Heinrich Hess

6/8/1783. Wilhelm Heinrich Hess christened by Rev. John William Ingold;
Sponsors: Joshua Wilhelm Frutchey and Margaretha Wottring.

    14. Johan Paul Hess

10/16/1784. Johan Paul Hess christened by Rev. John William Ingold;
Sponsors Johannes and Sophia Gotthard (grandparents).

Hess Genealogy

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