The Descendants of Elisha Cole - Who Came From Cape Cod to What Is Now Putnam County, New York, About 1745 #245995

About the year 1625, Jacob Kool came from Holland to New Amsterdam, now New York, under the auspices of the West India Company, and from this man sprang a race of Coles that located at Tarrytown on the east bank of the Hudson and along the west side from its mouth to Kingston. They were distinctly Hollanders, and maintained their national customs and names more or less for over a hundred years.