This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cole, Gorton Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://63.92.86.187/mbexec/msg/an/VRB.2ACE/1726.2 Message Board Post: You are of the right name and right area to be related to my ancestor Jacob Cole, Sr. He was born 1743 and died 1848 at 104 years old. He is buried with other family members in Mott Cemetery which I submitted to the Columbia County site. Jacob came up the Hudson River from NY City as settled first in Rensselaer County. He was friends with the Gorton family and 2 of his sons married Gorton sisters, daughters of Peleg Gorton. There is a Bio on this site of William B. Cole a son of Joseph Cole who was a son of Jacob. I don't have much coming down to 1900 on any but the son Jacob Jr. who came to Steuben County with about a dozen kids in tow from Lebanon Springs area of Columbia Co, NY. If you can get back a ways you may connect to my Cole family. If you like I can send you what I have for reference.