Coles Hill Cemetery - Colesville, NY
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N 42° 08.952 W 075° 39.900
18T E 445054 N 4666555
This cemetery is at Cambridge Settlement, which became Colesville. This cemetery has the early settlers.
Waymark Code: WMWJBG
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 09/11/2017
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The cemetery has Nathaniel Cole, Revolutionary Soldier who settled here. Most of the graves are from the 1800s with a handful in the 1900s.
Colesville history: (
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"On the hilltop "where the sun shines in every direction", Nathaniel Cole, Sr. stopped his caravan of migrant New Englanders and said, "This is home"."
"By 1800, Nathaniel Cole's original house was enlarged to become the first tavern in the area known as "Cambridge Settlement".
"In 1832, Nathaniel Cole, Sr. died. He was buried near his beloved Colesville. Jesse Wilmont, one of the original 1795 settlers, deeded land for a cemetery "for the inhabitants from the Cambridge Settlement" from his apportioned land. The beautiful rural cemetery atop what has become Coles Hill is the final resting place for Cole and the early settlers."