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Note added Sun Dec 19 17:48:03 2010
"The history of Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut, from the ...", Volume 1, By Elizabeth Hubbell Godfrey Schenck
page 362...
http://books.google.com/books?id=8tULAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA358&lpg=PA363&ots=R0bWy5w5bE&dq=%22peter+coley%22+%22hannah+couch%22&output=text
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THE COLEY FAMILY
The name of Samuel Coole appears in the list of those who took the oath of a freeman in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, on the 18. of May 1631. [See Mass. Col. Rec. Vol. x. p. 366]. The name is sometimes spelled Cooley, Coley, & Coly.
The name of Samuel Coley is found among the first settlers of Milford, where he was made a freeman Nov. 20, 1639. He joined the church in 1640. He married Ann, d. of James Pruden of Milford. Their children were, Peter, bapt. 1641, Abilene, 1643, Samuel 1646, Sarah 1648, Mary 1651, Hannah 1654 & Thomas 1657. Samuel Coley died Oct 3, 1684. His will dated 1678, &that of his widow dated 1689, mentions the same seven children. Abilene married Japhet Chapin; Sarah m. a Baldwin; Mary m. 1. Peter Simson, & 2. John Stream. Hannah m. Joseph Garnsey; Thomas m. Martha d. of John Stream (Savage). Samuel m. Mary Carles Oct 21. 1669. The name is spelled in the Milford records Coley & Coly. Coley has 3 coats of Arms; Coley or Collay 1; Cooley 1 ; Collay or Colley 1 ; Colle 1 ; Colle or Coulee 1 ; Collie, Colley or Cooling 1; Cooley 1. [Hinman's Cat'l.]
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I've pasted the rest of the article under his son, Peter.
Submitted by michael_95073
Note added Thu Aug 9 21:23:13 2012
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Will: 22 Mar 1677/78
"I Samuell Coley senior of Milford, in the County of New Haven & Colony of Connecticut, being aged & weake of body, but of sound memory blessed be God, doe Make this my last will & testament in manor and forme following: Comitting my soule into the hands of Jesus Christ my redeemer, & my body to bee decently buryied by my exector hereafter named, doe dispose of my outward estate that God hath blessed mee withall as followeth./ Imprs: I give to my beloved wife Anne Coley the west end of my house I Now dwell in during her naturall life & after her decease to my heyre hereafter named. -item I doe give to her my sd wife my best bed with the furniture thereto belonging. -I doe alsoe give unto her all my household stuffe in brass, pewter & iron, that are not hereafter disposed with, all my tubs & barrells belonging to ye house & alsoe my great bible & psalme booke. I doe alsde give unto her a blacke cow called ginny to be maintained both sumer & winter by my heyre, soe long as my wife liveth & seeth cause to keeps a cow: alsoe I give to my sd wife two bushels of pares, halfe a bushell of wardens & foure bushells of appl es, to be payd yearely out of my orchard while she lives; one bushelll at ye leaste to be pound pares: Alsoe I doe further appoint my heire to pay to my sd wife five pounds a yeare soe long as she liveth in corne & fl esh. "Item. I doe give unto my sone Peter Coley & to my daughter Sarah Baldwin f i ve pounds each, to be payd by my heyre within two years after my wifes decease, with a porridge pott & two pillows to my daughter Sarah, to be sent to her by the first oppertunity after my decease if they be not sent before./ " item: I doe give unto my son Samll Coley, my daughter Abelene Chapin, my daughter Mary Simpson & my daughter Hannah Garnsfy twelve pence each haveing received suitable portions already, / " item: I Doe give unto my son Thomas Coley all ye rest of my estate, whether in houseing, land undisposed, either in present possession or reversion, with all my timber & working tools & household stuffe & cattle with all my other moveable estate, books, debts or whatever doth anyway belnng to my estate and doe appoint him ye sd Thomas as my sole heyre administrator & executer of this my last will & testiment, to see my debts discharged, legacyes payed, & my body decently buried, and doe hereby null & make voyd all my former will or wills, & do constitute this as my last will & testament: Witness my hand & seale.-by way of scedule & yet before the sealing hereof my will is that soe long as my wife & my son Thomas shall agree to live together, hee finding her suitable maintenance, He the sd Thomas shall not pay unto his mother the above sd five pounds by the yeare, but it shall bee in the power of either of them to part when they please, & From that time the sd Thomas shall pay five pound by the yeare in the species forenamed to the end of her life: witness my hand & seale to the whole./ Samuel Coley senr seal"
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Submitted by michael_95073
Note added Thu Aug 9 21:23:40 2012
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http://freepages.misc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~shopefamily/Tree/famf389.html Samuel Coley, a cooper by trade, was a freeman in Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1631. He was one of the first settlers in Milford, CT. Records of the First Congregational Church show that Samuel was admitted to membership in October of 1639. Samuel had "two acres, one rood and twenty.... Be it more or less being bounded with a highway to the east, Benjamin Fenns to the north, the common to the West, and John Peacockes to the south." The home-lot of Samuel was on the west side of present River Street between Astwood's Lane and Peacock Lane. At a session of the New Haven Co. Court held in June of 1670 it was written, "upon ye petition of Samll. Coley senior of Milford for freedome from watching & trayneing: this court upon ye grounds alledged by him, as deafened and other infirmities of old age &c doth free him from those services for the Future."
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michael_95073 Note added Mon Mar 8 00:31:46 2021 http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=conklin-ackley&id=I2391&style=TABLE "The will of Anne Coley, widow of Samuel Sr., dated 13 Feb. 1688/89, named
her children, Peter, Samuel and Thomas Coley, daughters, Abilene Chaping,
Sarah Baldwin, Mary Stream and Hannah Gernsey, son in law, Joseph Gernsey to
be the Exectuor. Inventory was taken 11 Nov. 1689."