He also had an elder half-sister Susanna (daughter of his father's first wife) who married Council member Dudley Digges (burgess), but died when this boy was a child.
[2] This boy also had not yet reached legal age when his father died, so he was placed under the guardianship of burgess Nicholas Curle of nearby Elizabeth City County, who arranged for his education.
[2] He may have been named to honor his father (probably the family's most distinguished member),[3] or his immigrant grandfather William Cole who in 1629 served as a burgess for Nutmegg Quarter, a predecessor of Warwick County.
Jane Cole married Nathaniel Claiborne, then Stephen Bingham of King William County and finally Francis West.
[6] The next probable descendant who served in Virginia's legislature was Roscow Cole who represented James City County in the mid-19th century.