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Unknown Eggleton
Jane ___ was born about 1600. She died on 10 March 1678 in Woburn as the widow Cole. [1][2] She married first ___ Eggleton. [1] She married second James Britton. [1] He died in 1655. She married third Isaac Cole in 1659. [1] Isaac was born about 1607. He died on 10 June 1674 in Woburn. [2][3] He married first Joan Jones on 25 July 1631 in St. Peter, Sandwich, co. Kent. [3]
James Britton might be the James "Bitton" who came to New England in 1635 on the Increase, the same ship that Samuel Blodgett and his parents came on. [4]
In 1674 John Nutting and Samuel Blodgett called Jane, the widow of Isaac Cole, their mother-in-law. [1]
On 6 October 1674, Jane Cole, relict of Isaac Cole, who had died leaving an estate worth 120 pounds, 40 pounds in movables, asked the court for a competency to maintain her in old age, she being about 74. The court ordered her to have 40 pounds. [2]
Children of Unknown Eggleton and Jane Unknown:
i. Sarah Eggleton married John Nutting on 28 August 1650. [5] He was killed by the Indians in King Philip's war on 13 Mar 1676 in Groton. [6]
After her husband was killed, Sarah came to Woburn to live with Ruth and Samuel. [5]
ii. Ruth Eggleton died on 14 October 1703 in Woburn. She married Samuel Blodgett.
References:
1. Nancy L. Dodge, "A Lost Lady and a Missing Man: Jane (__) (Eggleton) (Britton) Cole," Connecticut Nutmegger 42 (2009): 172.
2. Arthur G. Loring, "Cole, Blodgett, Nutting," Notes and Queries section, New England Historical and Genealogical Register 59 (1905) 417–8.
3. "Great Migration 1634–1635, C–F," digitized book, AmericanAncestors.org, originally published as: Robert Charles Anderson,, George F. Sanborn, Jr., and Melinde Lutz Sanborn, The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634–1635, Volume II, C–F (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001), 155.
4. John Camden Hotten, The Original Lists of Persons of Quality ... who Went from Great Britain to the American Plantations, 1600–1700, reprinted (New York: Empire State Book Co., n.d.), 66.
5. Mary Walton Ferris, Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines, vol. 1 (Milwaukee: Cuneo Press, 1931–1943), 92, 285.
6. Walter M. Nutting, Genealogy of Descendants of John Nutting of South Amherst, Mass. (Faribault, MN, n.p., 1985), 10.
09-May-2023