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- The Cole ancestors came to America before 1725, landed near Chester, PA, lived in the WELSH TRACT, 30,000 acre grant from William Penn in 1701 to the Society of Welsh Baptist. Original Welsh immigrants of Baptist, Presbyterian faiths.
Original entry record, "We set sail in June 1701 from Melford in the ship JAMES and MARY landing in Philadelphia in September. All were memebers of the Churches of Jesus Christ in the counties of Pembroke and Carmarthen, South Wales in Great Britain. We were moved and encouraged to come to these parts viz Pennsylvania."
They first lived in Radnor Township, PA, a group settled in the great Valley of Chester at Trediffrein. Most moved into New Castle Co, where the Presbyterians found the Pencader Church at Glasgow. The Baptist established their first church upon Iron Hill in New Castle. The Welsh brought letters of Commendatory so they might be received as brethern in Christ if they met others of like faith. Known members of this early group were Robinson, Evans, McDonald Graham, Cloyd, RONTRFO, VAN BIBBER.
Their sons pioneered down to the Shenandoah Valley in Orange and Frederick Counties, VA with James Cole, John Cole and Mark Cole in 1732/37.
(John, James, Mark and William went to frontier of Virgina with Captain George Robinson.:
http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/w/a/l/Shelly-Wales/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0041.html)
Since Stephen's wife, Elizabeth, died in 1732, and his sons left for Virginia right after this, it could be probable that Stephen started this trip with his sons. He could have died and been buried on the journey since he is not buried in the family plot in New Castle and there is no record of him in Virginia.
Elizabeth was buried on September 24, 1732 in the Cole plot at Saint Paul's Church in Chester, Pennsylvania. her tombstone reads that she was 70 years of age at death. Her son Stephen Jr, daughter-in-law, Martha, and Stephen and Martha's daughter, Elizabeth Cole, who died on June 19, 1731 at the age of 9 months, are buried with her.
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1659 - 1729 (70 years)
