Barent Jacobsen Cool was born ca. 1610, probably in Amsterdam. He married Marretje Leenderts probably near Amsterdam. They lived for a time in New Amsterdam (New York). Descendants lived in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and elsewhere. Some descendants changed surname to "Kool" and "Cole."

Thomas Read was living in Salem, Massachusetts by 1636. He married Alice and they had four children. He married Marty and they had eleven children. He died in 1667. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Maine, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Wisconsin.