Leeds County, Ontario, Canada was first surveyed in 1792 in preparation for the United Empire Loyalists settlers. In 1850, Leeds County merged with Grenville to create the United Counties of Leeds and Grenville.
Adam Cole was born in 1760 in Elizabethtown, Leeds County, Ontario.
He married Thankful Fulford. Thankful was born on October 2, 1768 in Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut.
Adam and Thankful's children may have included:
Sarah Cole (1785)
Rachel Cole (1786)
Peter Cole (1788, married Jane Elliott),
Lois Cole (1789 )
Titus Cole (1790, married Ann Brown),
John Cole (1791)
Jonathan Cole (1793),
George Cole (1795, married Julia Hunter and Lydia Myers),
Isaac Cole (1797, married Electra Brandy),
Jacob Cole
(1798 ),
Eleanor Cole (1799 in, married Morris Hartwick),
Adam Cole, Jr. (1802, married Mahetable Connell),
Maria Jane Cole (married William Clow),
Nancy Cole (1803, married George Wilcox),
Alexander Cole (married Irene Connell)
Sydney Cole (married Maria Whitemarsh)
Abel Cole (1805, married Catherine Seaman).
In the year following that in which England formally acknowledged the independence of the United States, Adam Cole, a United Empire Loyalist who had seen service under the British flag, embarked with his wife, Thankful, and all his worldly goods, for Canada. Mr. Cole was accompanied by his wife s brothers, Jonathan and Abel Fulford.
Coming up the St. Lawrence, they landed at the spot now known as Buell's Bay, at the foot of Home Street, Brockville, and pitched their tents, but not liking the quality of the soil, which was very rocky, they proceeded up the river to a point now known as Cole's Ferry, where Adam Cole felled the first tree cut by a white man in that part of Elizabethtown.
(from History of Leeds & Grenville)
In 1801, Elizabethtown: Adam, Thankful, Sarah, Rachel, Peter, Titus, John, Jonathan, George, Isaac, Eleanor, and Jacob.
Adam died on August 3, 1832 in Elizabethtown, Leeds County.
In 1832 Titus and George Cole were in Yonge Township.
The Baltimore Sun
02 Jan 1849, Tue • Page 4
United Empire Loyalists were Americans who remained loyal to King George III and the British Empire. They moved to Canada after the American Revolution.
John Cole
He married Catherine
Peter Cole
Nicholas Cole
Sarah Cole
Rachel Cole (1804, married Cyrus Bigelow)
John received Lot 8 Concession 1 in Yonge.
In 1801 in Elizabethtown: John, Cahein, Peter, Nicholas and Sarah.
