Ancestry of
Melvil Dewey

Inventor of the Dewey Decimal System

William Cole

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of Melvil Dewey — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 40 
  • Father:
  • John Cole 
  • Mother:
  • Susanna Hutchinson   
  • Birth Date:
  • 13 Jul 1671 
  • Birth Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 1734 
  • Death Location:
  • Kingstown, Washington, Rhode Island 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Ann Pinder
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  Mary Cole

  Benjamin Cole (Ahnentafel No:20 )

• Sources for William Cole

  • ¹ Boston, MA: Births, Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths, 1630-1699, Page 118, Birth record for William Cole.
  • ² Austin, John Osborne, The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island: Comprising Three Generations of Settlers Who Came Before 1690, Albany, New York: Joel Munsells Sons (1887), 50, 153.
  • ³ Cutter, William Richard, Historic Homes and Places and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Middlesex Co., Mass., Vol. 1, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1908), 115.
  • ⁴ Cutter, William Richard, ed., New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial: A Record of the Achievements of . . . Third Series, Volume 4, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1915), 2254.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 900 Immigrants to the American Colonies, Quebec, or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company (2018), 925.
  • ⁶ Throop, Louise Walsh, et. al., Mayflower Families in Progress: George Soule of the Mayflower and His Descendants for Four Generations, 6th ed., Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2011), 174.