The eldest son of John and Mary (Eaton) Cole, born ?, 1696. probably in Lynn. Moved with the family to Boxford in 1721, and married there April 8, 1724, Judith Bowen. He was dismissed from the First Church in Boxford to help form the Second Church in Boxford in 1736, and his wife was dismissed from and to the same churches the following winter. He was chosen tithingman March 9, 1742, and was taxed from 1721 to 1744. He was dismissed to the Church in Harvard, "where he now dwells," the Church records say, June 7, 1747, having removed thither in 1745.
On going to Harvard he bought a farm of sixty-five acres, on the north side of " Pine Hill Brook," from Joseph Darby, paying therefor £410.
