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Eunice Olcott Chart 4.0 -- Joseph Cooley

7th Great-grandfather

[------- Benjamin Cooley

[          b. Abt 1617, Tring, Hertford, Eng.  Benjamin may have come to Massachusetts in 1640 or after.

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[------- Joseph Cooley, b. 6 Mar 1662, Springfield, MA

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[                   [------- Sarah Colton, b. Abt 1622

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Joseph Cooley, 7th Great-grandfather

b. 31 Jan 1687

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[                                       [------- Thomas Holcombe [GMD], 10th Great-grandfather

[                                       [          b. Abt 1601

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[                   [------- Mary Holcombe, b. Abt 1635, Dorchester, MA.  Married George Griswold 3 Oct 1655, Windsor, CT.

[                   [                   [            d. 4 Apr 1708, Windsor, CT.

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[                   [                   [------- Elizabeth, b. 1617

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[------- Mary Griswold

           b. 28 Sep 1663, Windsor, CT

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[                   [------- Margaret, b. 1611

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[------- George Griswold, bap. 19 May 1633, Kenilworth, Warwickshire, Eng.; d. 3 Sep 1704, Windsor, CT.

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[                   [------- Dousabel Leigh, b. Abt 1575

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[------- Edward Griswold [GMD], bap 1607

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[------- George Griswold, b. 6 Nov 1574

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[------- Roger Griswold, b. 1540

 

Notes.

 

Benjamin Cooley’s parents may have been William Cooley and Joan Arnott, and William’s father John Collye.  This would need more research.

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The Hatfield Attack

 

Robert and Editha also had a daughter Sarah (Thomas’ sister) who married Samuel Kellogg.  Sarah and her infant son Joseph were killed by Indians Sept. 19, 1677 in the attack on Hatfield.  Her son Samuel was taken prisoner by the Indians and carried to Canada; he eventually returned to Colchester, CT., bought land from his brother Nathaniel and married Hannah Dickinson.  

 

While men were out working in the fields, the Indians attacked, burning houses, killing 12 people and capturing 21.  It is likely that Samuel was returned from Canada by Benjamin Waite and Stephen Jennings, two Hatfield men whose wives and children were taken captive.  

 

Waite, an accomlished Indian scout, and Jennings got approved as agents to bargain for the captives, built a canoe and went up Lake George and Lake Champlain in the winter to Quebec City, Canada.  They may have been the first English colonists on Lake Champlain.  They were able to secure the release of 17 captives and returned to New England in May 1678.  A quarter century later, Waite was killed in the Deerfield Massacre that was part of Queen Anne’s War. 

 

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