I use the spelling Samuell Coley because that's as is appears in his will.
After more than a decade of searching and Y-DNA testing, a significant genetic clue had presented itself. It's long been known that Samuell was of the Tring Cooleys (which includes Benjamin Cooley of Springfield, Massachusetts), but we know that he was of a different sublade and that his descendants do not have the "Benjamin" Y-DNA markers.
The starting point for the following is information came from Jack Clifford via email in December 2010 and from Bruce Cooley Pusch's Rootsweb page. See also History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, Volume 1.
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