CRAWFORD COUNTY OHIO -  James Cole, bios in 1861 Biographical History of Crawford Co., OH

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1861 Biographical History of Crawford Co., OH
pg 170
"The Berea grit is the most important member of the Waverly group.  Its line 
of outcrop is marked by a series of quarries which crosses the eastern tier 
of townships, the most important of which are located in Jackson and Polk
Townsips.  Beginning in Auburn Townsip, the most northerly outcrop of the 
Berea within Crawford County is on Section 28 where it is found along a 
little creek on Samuel Hilburn's land and at the highway bridge.  It also 
occurs near DeKalb, in Vernon Township, on the land of James Coruthers.  
Slight exposures occur also on Section 19, along a small creek on the land of 
Barnet Cole and Adam Freeze."

pg597
"...Barnet and James Cole...and a few others settled in the northern part 
prior to 1830.  These settlers were mostly New Englanders, and many of them 
were the descendants of Revolutionary soldiers.  There were probably twenty 
cabins erected in northern Vernon prior to 1830, and the forests began to 
disappear.  Various industries arose to supply articles which otherwise were 
only obtained by long and tiresome journeys to Sandusky or some other city.

pg788
"James Cole, the father of Mrs. Reuben McDonald, was a native of Nova Scotia,
born Nov. 13, 1752, of wealthy parentage.  At the commencement of the 
American Revolution, he joined a company of Nova Scotia refugees and served 
in the Continental army throughout the war, for which he was disinherited; 
was at Valley Forge with Washington, afterward taken prisoner and 
incarcerated in a British prison ship in Boston Harbor, where he was badly 
wounded in one of his limbs, by the explosion of a shell, which crippled him 
for life.  After the war closed, he was released and received pay for his 
services in Continental money, not worth a -- continental--and hobbled on his 
crutch to Cheshire, Western Mass., where he hired out to a wealthy farmer, 
named Jesse Mason, working for him nearly a year, and in the meantime 
marrying his daughter Elizabeth.  They removed to Vermont, came back to 
Massachusetts, and afterward removed to Niagara Co., NY, where he died in 
November, 1826.