William Cole, Jr Americanized spelling from Cole to Coale.
Elizabeth was 3rd wife. He settled in Providence town, Maryland in 1656 and became a Quaker.
Signed marriage cert. for Samuel Thomas and Mary Hutchins at Heering Creek.
Grew up on family farm on the south side, and close to the mouth of, the James river.
1650, moved with his parents to St. Jerome, St. Mary's County, Maryland.
1656, moved on his own to Severn, Anne Arundel County, Province of Maryland.
1657 - William heard Thomas Thurston and Josiah Coale (prominant Quaker ministers) preach and began signing his name "Coale". Became a convinced Quaker that year.
1660's, Traveled to Virginia as a messenger of the Truth, with George Wilson, and both were imprisoned for many months. Wilson died in
chains. Coale's health was impaired to the point where he never fully recovered.
April, 1672 attended first General Meeting for Friends in Maryland held at West River Meeting for the purpose of founding the first Yearly
Meeting in Maryland.
25th Day, 8th Month, 1672 - Hosted meeting attended by George Fox.
1674, with Wenlock Christison, William Perrie and John Homeard, presented a petetion to the Maryland General Assembly requesting relief from the requirement of taking an oath.
The sources disagree on his date of death.

William Cole II was born in 1633 in the Puritan area near Jamestown, Virginia to William and Sarah Cole. He grew up there, then moved with his father to St. Mary's County, Maryland in 1650. In 1655 he married Hester ____ at Severn, Maryland and was established in Severn by 1656. His first child, William Cole III was born on 9/26/1655. In 1657 two influential visitors, Thomas Thurston and Josiah Coale came and preached to a growing group of Friends (Quakers). William started writing his name Coale after this. At this time William II associated with older relative, Thomas Cole. In 1658 William refused to bear arms in the militia and was subjected to land penalties. In 1660 William moved his family to the West River in Ann Arundal County, Maryland. West River is 30 miles south of Baltimore on the western shore of Chesapeake Bay. He owned 150 acres called "Great Bonnerston". Hester evidently died because in 1666 he married Hannah Galloway, the widow of Richard Galloway, in Ann Arundal County, Maryland. They had a son, William Cole, IV born on 10/20/1667 at West River, Ann Arundal County, Maryland. Jack Cole of Huntsville, Alabama believes they also had a son John born in 1669. Hannah probably died in childbirth because her date of death is November, 1669. In 1670 he married a third time to Elizabeth Thomas, daughter of Philip and Sarah Harrison Thomas. William II bought 500 acres on the Patuxent River called "Portland Manor" and another 100 acre tract called "Hickory Hills". In 1672 a dynamic English Founder of Society of Friends visited William. In 1676 William II moved from "Great Bonnerston" to "Portland Manor". William III took over the old homestead "Great Bonnerston" and William IV took over "Hickory Hills". William II died in 1678.