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Susanna Cole
Anne Hutchinson statue.jpeg
Susanna Cole as a child with her mother, Anne Hutchinson, in a bronze memorial at the Massachusetts State House
Born baptized 15 November 1633
Alford, Lincolnshire, England
Died by December 14, 1713
North Kingstown, Rhode Island
Other names Susanna Hutchinson
Occupation Indian captive during Kieft's War
Spouse(s) John Cole
Children Susanna, Samuel, Mary, John, Anne, John, Hannah, William, Francis, Elizabeth, Elisha
Parent(s) William Hutchinson and Anne (Marbury) Hutchinson
Susanna Cole (née Hutchinson; 1633 – before December 14, 1713) was the lone survivor of an American Indian attack in which many of her siblings were killed, as well as her famed mother Anne Hutchinson. She was taken captive following the attack and held for several years before her release.
Susanna Hutchinson was born in Alford, Lincolnshire, England and was less than a year old when her family sailed from England to New England in 1634. She was less than five when her family settled on Aquidneck Island (later Rhode Island) in the Narragansett Bay following her mother's banishment from Massachusetts during the Antinomian Controversy. Her father died when she was about eight years old, and she, her mother, and six of her siblings left Rhode Island to live in New Netherland. They settled in an area that became the far northeastern section of The Bronx in New York City, near the Westchester County line. The family found themselves caught in the middle of Kieft's War between the local Siwanoy Indians and the colony of New Netherland, and they were all massacred in August 1643, except for Susanna. She was taken captive by the Indians, and was traded back to the English 9 years later.
When Susanna was released from her Indian captivity, she was taken to Boston where her oldest brother and an older sister lived, was re-introduced into English society, and married John Cole at the age of 18, the son of Boston innkeeper Samuel Cole. They lived in Boston for a few years, but moved by 1663 to the Narragansett country of Rhode Island (later North Kingstown) to look after the lands of her oldest brother Edward Hutchinson. Here the couple remained and raised a large family. Susanna Cole was still alive in 1707 when given administration of her husband's estate, but was deceased by December 1713 when her son William took receipts concerning his parents' estate.
Contents
1 Early life
2 Adult life
3 Family and Legacy
4 Ancestry
5 See also
6 References
6.1 Bibliography
7 External links
Early life
Susanna Hutchinson was baptized in Alford, Lincolnshire on 15 November 1633. She was the youngest child of William and Anne Hutchinson to accompany her parents on the voyage from England to New England in 1634.[1] She was the couple's 14th child, of whom 11 survived to make the trip to the New World; a 15th child was born in New England.[2] The family settled in Boston and lived across the street from magistrate John Winthrop, who was a judge during the civil trial in 1637 that led to her mother's banishment from the Massachusetts colony.[3] While Hutchinson was still very young, her mother hosted popular religious discussions at their home. Her mother's religious views were at odds with the orthodoxy of the Puritan ministers; she helped to create a major division in the Boston church and an untenable situation for the colony's leaders.[4] The family was forced to leave Massachusetts; they settled with many of her mother's supporters on Rhode Island in the Narragansett Bay, establishing the settlement of Portsmouth which soon became a part of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.[5] Susanna was less than five years old when the family left Boston, and she was about eight when her father died in Portsmouth.[6]
Susanna's widowed mother was frightened at the prospect of Massachusetts gaining influence or control over Rhode Island. Consequently, she moved to the part of New Netherland that later became The Bronx in New York City, along with her six youngest children, an older son, a son-in-law, and some servants.[7] The Dutch were engaged in Kieft's War against the Siwanoy Indians during the family's tenure there. In August 1643, Siwonoy attacked the emigrant household and killed all members of the family, except for nine year-old Susanna. According to one story, Susanna's red hair spared her from the slaughter,[8] while another account claimed that the girl was out picking blueberries some distance from the house and hid in the crevice of Split Rock.[9] In any event, the attackers took her captive and held her for several years.[10]
Split Rock, where one legend says that Susanna Hutchinson hid during the Indian massacre which killed her mother and siblings
Massachusetts governor John Winthrop provides an account of Susanna in his journal, under the date of July 1646:
A daughter of Mrs. Hutchinson was carried away by the Indians near the Dutch, when her mother and others were killed by them; and upon the peace concluded between the Dutch and the same Indians, she was returned to the Dutch governor, who restored her to her friends here. She was about eight years old, when she was taken, and continued with them about four years, and she had forgot her own language, and all her friends, and was loath to have come from the Indians.[11]
Winthrop says that Hutchinson was captive for about four years, although his journal makes clear that her captivity lasted less than three years. When she returned to Boston, her living siblings were her oldest brother Edward, brother Samuel, and her two oldest living sisters Faith (the wife of Thomas Savage) and Bridget (the wife of John Sanford).[12] Faith lived in Mount Wollaston, about ten miles south of Boston; Bridget lived in Portsmouth, Rhode Island; and Samuel's residence is unknown. Only her brother Edward is known to have lived in Boston proper, and it is likely that Susanna came to live with him and his family.[10][13] On 30 December 1651, she married John Cole in Boston, the son of Boston innkeeper Samuel Cole, who had established Boston's first tavern in 1634.[10][14]
Adult life
Susanna and John Cole began raising a family in Boston, but they went to look after her brother's land in the Narragansett country by 1663, which was then in disputed territory but later became North Kingstown, Rhode Island.[13] Here the Coles lived for the remainder of their lives, rearing many children.[13] The will of John Cole's father Samuel Cole, dated 21 December 1666, left a property at Bendall's Dock in Boston to Susanna and her children to satisfy an agreement with Susanna's brother Edward Hutchinson and uncle Samuel Hutchinson.[15] This property was leased out in 1676, and sold in 1698 for £160.[16]
In April 1667, John Cole deeded their house in Boston to Susanna's brother Edward and uncle Samuel, signifying that they intended to remain in Narragansett.[13] They lived in the vicinity of Wickford, an area claimed by both Connecticut and Rhode Island.[13] Many of the Wickford inhabitants preferred to be under the jurisdiction of Connecticut, and John Cole became a magistrate and commissioner for the area in the late 1660s under the auspices of the Connecticut government.[13] Rhode Island was eventually given control over the Narragansett lands following many years of dispute and tension, and John Cole was made a conservator of the peace under the Rhode Island government in 1682.[13] John died by 1707, and Susanna and her son William were given administration of his estate during that year.[13] Susanna died by 14 December 1713, and her son William "took receipts from heirs for their full proportion of estate of deceased father and mother."[13]
Family and Legacy
Susanna and John Cole had 11 children: Susanna, Samuel, Mary, John, Ann, a second John, Hannah, William, Francis, Elizabeth, and Elisha; at least 9 of them grew to maturity. Their oldest daughter Susanna married Thomas Eldred, but the fate is not known of their oldest son Samuel.[13] Mary lived into her 60s, never marrying, and John Jr. died as a youngster.[13] Ann married Henry Bull, the son of Jireh Bull, and grandson of Rhode Island colonial governor Henry Bull.[17] A second John grew to maturity; Hannah married Thomas Place; and William married Ann Pinder.[13] Francis grew to maturity; Elizabeth (1673-1744) married Robert Potter (1667-1745), grandson of original Rhode Island settler Nathaniel Potter (1616-1644); and Elisha married Elizabeth Dexter and was a Deputy or Assistant in the Rhode Island colony for many years.[13] Among her well-known descendants are two aspirants to the United States Presidency: Stephen Arnold Douglas, who lost to Abraham Lincoln in the 1860 election, and Willard Mitt Romney, who lost to Barack Obama in 2012.[18] Her grandson John Cole, the son of Elisha Cole, was a chief justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court.
There have been numerous books and articles written about Susanna Cole's famous mother Anne Hutchinson, most of which mention Susanna. The novel Trouble's Daughter by Katherine Kirkpatrick presents a fictionalized account about Susanna's life with the Indians who captured her, but it also presents some of the limited historical information that is available about her.[19]
A bronze statue in front of the Massachusetts State House in Boston displays an assumed likeness of Cole as a youngster and her mother Anne Hutchinson; it was dedicated in 1922.[20]
Ancestry
Some of Susanna's ancestry on her father's side was published by John D. Champlin in 1913, and he published much of her ancestry on her mother's side the following year.[21][22]
Ancestors of Susanna Cole
See also
History of Rhode Island
List of Indian massacres
References
Anderson 2003, p. 481.
Anderson 2003, pp. 477–81.
LaPlante 2004, p. 73.
LaPlante 2004, pp. 44–5.
Bicknell 1920, p. 975.
Anderson 2003, pp. 479–82.
Kirkpatrick 1998, p. 227.
Kirkpatrick 1998, pp. 3,11.
LaPlante 2004, p. 239.
Kirkpatrick 1998, p. 228.
Winthrop 1908, pp. 276–277.
Kirkpatrick 1998, p. vi.
Austin 1887, p. 50.
Winthrop 1908, p. 120.
Holman 1943, p. 194.
Holman 1943, p. 195.
Austin 1887, pp. 264–5.
Family Search 2008.
Kirkpatrick 1998, pp. 1–230.
Art Around the World 2007.
Champlin 1913, pp. 2–3.
Champlin, 1914 & 17–26.
Bibliography
Anderson, Robert C. (2003). The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England 1634–1635. Vol. III G-H. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society. ISBN 0-88082-158-2.
Austin, John Osborne (1887). Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island. Albany, New York: J. Munsell's Sons. ISBN 978-0-8063-0006-1.
Bicknell, Thomas Williams (1920). The History of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Vol.3. New York: The American Historical Society. p. 925. OCLC 1953313.
Champlin, John Denison (1913). "The Tragedy of Anne Hutchinson". Journal of American History. Twin Falls, Idaho. 5 (3): 1–11.
Champlin, John Denison (1914). "The Ancestry of Anne Hutchinson". New York Genealogical and Biographical Record. New York: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. XLV: 17–26.
Holman, Mary Lovering (April 1943). "Parentage of John Cole of Boston, Mass., and Rhode Island". New England Historical and Genealogical Register. 97: 194–195. ISBN 0-7884-0293-5.
Kirkpatrick, Katherine (1998). Trouble's Daughter, the Story of Susanna Hutchinson, Indian Captive. New York: Delacorte Press. ISBN 0-385-32600-9.
LaPlante, Eve (2004). American Jezebel, the Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson, the Woman who Defied the Puritans. San Francisco: Harper Collins. ISBN 0-06-056233-1.
Winthrop, John (1908). Hosmer, James Kendall, ed. Winthrop's Journal "History of New England" 1630–1649. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
Online sources
"Anne Hutchinson Statue". Art Around the World. 2007. Retrieved 20 October 2012.
"Howland and Hutchinson Descendant Charts". Family Search. 3 September 2008. Retrieved 12 February 2012.
External links
Biography A short biography of Susanna Cole
Statue info Background on the Anne Hutchinson statue; while this source gives a dedication year of 1915, most other sources give the year as 1922.
Cole info This early history of Kingstowne has material on John Cole, though there are many errors concerning family relationships.
Eldred family
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Susanna Hutchinson (1633-1713)
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Susanna Hutchinson Cole
Birth:
15 November 1633 Alford, Lincolnshire, England
Death:
14 December 1713 Wickford, Washington County, Rhode Island
Father:
William Hutchinson (1586-1641)
Mother:
Anne Marbury (1591-1643)
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partner:
John Cole (1625-1707)
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1651 Rhode Island
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Susanna Hutchinson Cole was born 15 November 1633 in Alford, Lincolnshire, England to William Hutchinson (1586-1641) and Anne Marbury (1591-1643) and died 14 December 1713 Wickford, Washington County, Rhode Island of unspecified causes.
Contents
1 Biography
1.1 Early Years
1.2 Return to Boston
2 Marriage & Family
3 Children
4 Siblings
5 References
6 Residences
7 Footnotes (including sources)
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Biography
A bronze statue in front of the Massachusetts State House in Boston, dedicated in 1922, displays an assumed likeness of Cole as a youngster, and her mother, Anne Hutchinson.
Early Years
Born in Alford, Lincolnshire, England, Susanna Hutchinson was less than a year old when her family sailed from England to New England in 1634. She was less than five when her family settled on Aquidneck Island (later Rhode Island) in the Narragansett Bay following her mother's banishment from Massachusetts during the Antinomian Controversy. Shortly after her father's death, when she was about eight years old, she, her mother and six of her siblings left Rhode Island to live in New Netherland. They settled in an area that became the far northeastern section of The Bronx in New York City, near the Westchester County line.
Susanna survived the indian raid of 1643 on her childhood home in New Netherlands.
During the attack, Hutchinson's nine-year old daughter, Susanna, is said to have been out picking blueberries, and was found, according to legend, hidden in the crevice of Split Rock, nearby. She is believed to have had red hair, unusual to the attackers, and perhaps because of this curiosity her life was spared. She was taken captive and by one account was named "Autumn Leaf", and lived with the Native Americans for two to six years (accounts vary) until ransomed back to her family members, most of whom were living in Boston.
In his journal, Massachusetts governor John Winthrop provided an account of Susanna under the date of July 1646:
A daughter of Mrs. Hutchinson was carried away by the Indians near the Dutch, when her mother and others were killed by them; and upon the peace concluded between the Dutch and the same Indians, she was returned to the Dutch governor, who restored her to her friends here. She was about eight years old, when she was taken, and continued with them about four years, and she had forgot her own language, and all her friends, and was loath to have come from the Indians.
Return to Boston
Susanna Hutchinson was taken to Boston where her oldest brother and an older sister lived, was re-introduced into English society, and at the age of 18 married John Cole (1625-1707), the son of Boston innkeeper Samuel Cole. They lived in Boston for a few years, but by 1663 had moved to the Narragansett country of Rhode Island (later North Kingstown) to look after the lands of her oldest brother, Edward Hutchinson. Here the couple remained and raised a large family. Susanna Cole was still alive in 1707 when given administration of her husband's estate, but was deceased by December 1713 when her son William took receipts concerning his parents' estate.
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Marriage & Family
At the age of 18 she married John Cole (1625-1707), the son of Samuel Cole who had built the first inn in Boston. Together they had 11 children, at 9 reached maturity.
Susanna and John Cole had 11 children: Susanna, Samuel, Mary, John, Ann, a second John, Hannah, William, Francis, Elizabeth, and Elisha; at least 9 of them grew to maturity. Their oldest daughter,
Susanna Cole (1656-1726) - eldest daughter, married Thomas Eldred, a lieutenant in the Train Band Militia of Kingstown RI.
Samuel Cole - the fate of their oldest son, Samuel is not known.
Mary Cole - lived into her 60s, never marrying, and
John Cole, Jr. died as a youngster.
Ann Cole (1661-1704) - married Henry Bull (1659-1691), the son of Jireh Bull (1638-1684) (whose house was burned in the Great Swamp Fight of 1675, and grandson of Rhode Island colonial governor Henry Bull (1609-1693).
John Cole II - A second John grew to maturity,
Hannah Cole married Thomas Place, and
William Cole (1671-1734) - married Ann Pinder.
Francis Cole grew to maturity,
Elizabeth Cole married Robert Potter,
Elisha Cole - married Elizabeth Dexter and was for many years a Deputy or Assistant in the Rhode Island colony.
Among her well known descendants are two aspirants to the United States Presidency, Stephen Arnold Douglas who lost to Abraham Lincoln in the 1860 election, and Willard Mitt Romney, who lost to incumbent Barack Obama in 2012.[18] Her grandson, John Cole, the son of Elisha Cole, was a chief justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court.
Children
Offspring of John Cole (1625-1707) and Susanna Hutchinson Cole
Name Birth Death Joined with
Susanna Cole (1656-1726) 1656 Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts 1726 Kings Town, Washington County, Rhode Island Thomas Eldred (1648-1726)
Samuel Cole (1656-1667)
Mary Cole (1658-)
John Cole (1658-1660)
Ann Cole (1661-1704) 7 March 1661 Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts 31 May 1704 North Kingstown, Washington County, Rhode Island Henry Bull (1659-1691)
Francis Cole (1663-)
Hannah Cole (1668-)
William Cole (1671-1734) 13 July 1671 Kingstown, King's Province, Rhode Island 17 September 1734 North Kingstown, Washington County, Rhode Island Ann Pinder (1675-)
Elizabeth Cole (1675-)
Elisha Cole (1675-)
Siblings
Offspring of William Hutchinson (1586-1641) and Anne Marbury (1591-1643)
Name Birth Death Joined with
Edward Hutchinson (1613-1675) 28 May 1613 Alford, Lincolnshire, England 19 August 1675 Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Katherine Hamby (1615-1649)
Abigail Fermayes (1615-1689)
Susanna Hutchinson (1614-1630) 4 September 1614 Alford, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom 1630 Alford, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom
Richard Hutchinson (1615-) 8 December 1615 Alford, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom
Faith Hutchinson (1617-1652) 14 August 1617 Alford, Lincolnshire, England 20 December 1651 Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Thomas Savage (1607-1682)
Bridget Hutchinson (1619-1698) 15 January 1619 Alford, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom 1698 Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States John Sanford (c1605-1653)
Francis Hutchinson (1620-1643) 24 December 1620 Alford, Lincolnshire, England August 1643 Pelham Bay, Bronx County, New York
Elizabeth Hutchinson (1622-1630) 17 February 1622 Alford, Lincolnshire, England 1630 Alford, Lincolnshire, England
William Hutchinson (1623-1624) 22 June 1623 Alford, Lincolnshire, England 1624 Alford, Lincolnshire, England
Samuel Hutchinson (1624-) 17 December 1624 Alford, Lincolnshire, England Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Unknown Wife Hutchinson (c1625-)
Anne Hutchinson (1626-1643) 5 May 1626 Alford, Lincolnshire, England August 1643 Pelham Bay, Bronx County, New York William Collins (1612-1705)
Mary Hutchinson (1628-1643) 22 February 1628 Alford, Lincolnshire, England August 1643 Pelham Bay, Bronx County, New York
Katherine Hutchinson (1629-1643) 7 February 1629 Alford, Lincolnshire, England August 1643 Pelham Bay, Bronx County, New York
William Hutchinson (1631-1643) 28 September 1631 Alford, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom August 1643 Pelham Bay, Bronx County, New York, United States
Susanna Hutchinson (1633-1713) 15 November 1633 Alford, Lincolnshire, England 14 December 1713 Wickford, Washington County, Rhode Island John Cole (1625-1707)
Zuriel Hutchinson (1636-1643) 30 March 1636 Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States August 1643 Pelham Bay, Bronx County, New York, United States
References
There have been numerous books and articles written about Susanna Cole's famous mother, Anne Hutchinson, most of which mention Susanna. One book has been written about Cole, Trouble's Daughter by Katherine Kirkpatrick, which presents a fictionalized account about her life with the native Americans who captured her, but also presents some of the limited historical information that is available about her.
Life of Susanna Cole - Wikipedia
Francis Marbury List of Famous Descendants
Anne Marbury Royal Ancestry