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Note: [Br�derbund WFT Vol. 9, Ed. 1, Tree #1500, Date of Import: 6 Dec 1999]
!5/7/99 IGI;5/15/90, Colonial Families of USA by MacKenzie, Vol.VI, pg.161-162;
This family is of Scotch ancestry and is descended from Daniel MACKHOE, who
later was known as Daniel CONE; He was an officer in the Scottish Army and was
at the battle of Dunbar;
!A Genealogy of Ward and Allied Families;
One of the first settlers of Haddam in 1662;
m. 2nd. Mrs. Rebecca Walkley, abt 1692;
[Br�derbund WFT Vol. 11, Ed. 1, Tree #0787, Date of Import: 15 Jun 2000]
This information was found in a book about Cone's in the Detroit Public Library, Detroit, Michigan:
Daniel Cone was possibly the first of that name in America. His birthplace has not been found, nor has the exact date of his birth been ascertained. The records on these points are lacking, and conjectures are worse than useless.
The first mention of Daniel Cone is a letter from John Winthrop, Governor of the Connecticut Colony to Peter Stuyvesant, Governnor of New Netherlands, dated March 2, 1657, and probably written from New London, Connecticut. This being the place of residence of the Governor at that time. It was published in the Massachusetts Historical Collections, by the Massachusetts Historical Society, in VOL,VIII, 5th. series, and is as follows:
Honored Sir:
Complaint being made by Daniel Cone that one James Parker (for whom he stands bound with John Cockrill for 15 pounds due to Richard Fellows of Hartford) is with the said John Cockrill escaped to New Netherlands, and understanding it, they are there at present, upon this said complaint I thought it necessary to request this favor in his behalf that you would please, upon examination of the case, to cause the said James and John to be returned to New Haven by Joseph Alsop, or Mr.Lamberton, except they do pay the said debt or put in good security for ye same, the said debt being now called for to be paid by the said Daniel Cone. If there shall be any like occassion I shall not be waiting to attend the futherance of equal justice in any case wherein any of yours may be required for.
Your affectionate friend and servant.
John Winthrop
It is to be hoped that this, one of the first requisitions issued from one Governor to another, was duly honored, and that these fugitives from justice were found amd returned to Connecticut.
No record of place of residence of Daniel Cone at this time has been found.
The next we hear of him is in the spring of 1662, when he appears as one of twenty-eight persons who received from the Connecticut Colony a grant of land situated on both sides of the Connecticut river, about thirty miles above its mouth. This land had been in the possession of the Wangtuk tribe of Indians from time immemorial. In speaking of the action of the colony, Dr. Fields, in this History of Middlesex County, Connecticut published in 1819 says: On these lands individuals contemplated making a settlement in 1660, and General Court (or legislature), apprised of their designs, appointed a committee in October of that year to purchase them of the Indians. But, prevented from some unknown cause, the committee did not accomplish the object of their appointment until May, 1662, when they obtained from these Indians a deed of all the lands, six miles east and west, and from Middletown to Chester. The consideration was thirty (red) coats, which may have been worth one hundred dollars. The members of this committee were Matthew Allyn and Samuel Willys. Here we find that the Connecticut Colony secured from these poor uneducated Indians more than one hundred thousand acres of land, more productive than it is at the present time, for less than one-tenth of a cent per acre, a piece of sharp practice which was no credit to those engaged in it. The Colony granted this land to the twenty-eight settlers, and a few years afterwards the General Court confirmed the title. The town was called Haddam, after Haddam, England. Daniel Cone received his allotment of four acres on the town site, and the west side of the river, with land in the "meadow" and timbered land adjoining, in 1662 and removed thereon the same season. Previous to this he had married Mahitable Spencer, fourth daughter of Jared and Alice Spencer, then of Hartford, Connecticut. Jared Spencer settled in Newtown (now Cambridge), Massachusetts in 1634: removed to Lynn, Massachusetts in 1637, to Hartford Connecticut in 1660 or before, and to Haddam, Connecticut in 1662, being one of the founders of the new town. Mahitable was born in 1642 and died in Haddam 1691. Daniel Cone married in 1692, Rebecca, a widow of Richard Walkley of Haddam. No record of her death has been found. He resided in Haddam until 1680 when he removed to the east side of the river, to near "MachiMoodus." About the year 1695 he returned to Haddam, where he died October 24, 1706 "aged 80 years." He was Commissioner for his town in 1669 and held other minor offices. A few months before he died he deeded his land on the west side of the river at Haddam to his youngest son, Caleb. The following is a copy of his deed:
To all Christian people to whom these presents shall come. I Daniel Cone, of Haddam, send greeting, in our Lord God Everlasting. Know ye, that I Daniel Cone of Haddam County of Hartford, Colony of Connecticut, in New England, for and in the consideration of love and good will and affection which I bear and have to and for my well beloved and dutiful son Caleb Cone have given and granted by these presents do freely, clearly and absolutely give and grant to the said Caleb Cone, his heirs,executors &c., my dwelling house with two allotments joining thereto, with all the fruit trees and buildings I have upon, with all appurtenanees and privileges as I hold onto, which lots contain 5 acres: and a lot that was John Blackfields in the home field lying between the lot of Mr. Nicholas Noyes and the lot of Thomas Brocks, which lot is 8 rods wide and length from the Great river to the county road, and my lower division or lot at lower end of meadow, which contains in measure 3 acres and a half: with one acre I bought of Samuel Spencer, which acre is adjoining to the above three acres and a half: to have and to hold all the said buildings, fruit trees, lands, and tenements, with all the privileges, unto the said Caleb Cone, his heirs, executors &c., from henceforth as his and their own proper estate forever, absolutely without any entailment or enlargement or encumbrance what so ever. and the said Daniel Cone has absolutely, freely and of his own accord set and put in further testimony as witness.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, the seventh day of October, in the 2nd. year of the Reign of our Sovereign Princess Anne, Queen of England, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and six.
Daniel Cone Signed, sealed and delivered in the presence of:
Thomas Brooks,
Joseph Arnold
This day acknowledged before me, Daniel Brainard, Justice of the Peace, this 11th day of April 1707.
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Biographies
from
The History of Otsego County, New York
1740-1878
D. Hamilton Hurd
Published by Everts & Fariss, Philadelphia
CONE Genealogy
Daniel CONE married in Scotland, and was the father of seven sons and three daughters. He emigrated to Haddam, Conn., and with others purchased Thirty-mile island for thirty coats. He was one of the first settlers, as was also his son Jared, father of five children.
Stephen Cone, first son of Jared, married Susannah CLARK; father of six children. Settled in Bolton, Conn.
Zachariah Cone, Sr., third son of Stephen, married Mary GILBERT. Settled in Hebron, Conn.; father of seven sons and three daughters.
Four of the sons were among the first settlers of Unadilla, N.Y., and remained there till their deaths, viz., Daniel and Gilbert Cone, farmers and manufacturers; Adanijah, physician for forty years; Gardner, farmer - all deceased.
Gilbert was elected a member of the legislature, and filled many important offices in town.
Samuel emigrated to Georgia in an early day, and died in Atlanta.
Zachariah, Jr., born in Andover, Conn.., and settled in Hebron; married Wealthy KINGSBURY; was the father of seven children, four of which are now living. A. G. emigrated to California in 1846. Is a speculator.
H. B. emigrated to Chicago, and was largely engaged as a lumber dealer. He died, leaving six children, five boys and one daughter.
N. K. was educated at the memorable "Old Brick schoolhouse" in Hebron, Conn., and Bacon academy, Colchester. Was a merchant at Valley Forge, Pa. From thence emigrated, about the year 1825, to Alabama, at the head of navigation on the Alabama river, and established a trading post with H. B.; leaving in 1837, and soon after engaged in farming, surveying, engineering, land agency, etc., managing a large and valuable real estate of the Hon. Geo. LAW. He has one son, a celebrated attorney, graduate of Hobart college, both occupying the same office in the village of Batavia, where N. K. has resided most of the time since leaving the south. One daughter recently graduated at a celebrated college.
Harriet M. married Wm. R. PHELPS, in business on Chestnut street, Philadelphia, Pa. Has two grown-up daughters, musicians. Eleven of the name graduated at Yale college previous to the year 1848; and all by the name of Cone, living or dead, so far as the writer is informed, are Episcopalians.
S. G. Cone was born in Hebron, Conn., and educated at the memorable "Old Brick school-house" in the same place, and Bacon academy, Colchester, after which he taught the high schools at East Hartford, Conn., and Middle Haddam; was also principal of the high school at Sag Harbor, L. I., from the year 1835 to the year 1840. By the recommendation of the Hon. John S. Peters, governor of the State of Connecticut, to the Hon. H. Clay, of Kentucky, he taught three years at New Castle, Henry county, Ky., teaching the highest English branches, mathematics, and languages, etc. He came to Unadilla, N.Y., in 1843, and married the only daughter and descendant of Gardner and Sarah CONE; since which time has been one of the largest, if not the largest, farmers and stock-raisers in the town.
Mercy Ann, wife of S. G., died May 1, 1847, aged twenty-three years.
He married, March 19, 1862, Julie E. FOWLER, third daughter of Hiram and Sarah Fowler, of English descent. They have two children, viz., Sarah A., born July 21, 1867; and Salmon F., Jr., born Jan. 12, 1876.
About twenty years ago S. G. Cone, with great characteristic foresight, which has ever marked his business career, went to the state of Illinois, and invested largely in real estate, purchasing 2000 acres in Livingston county. Then it was a wild expanse of prairie, but he has transformed it to one of the finest agricultural regions in the State.
Colonel North visited this locality in 1874, and in speaking of Mr. Cone's farm says, "I rode with Mr. Cone over the entire of his 2000 acres on one of his rounds of inspection, and wherever we went nature's first great law was plainly discernible; order had wrought out its perfect work! Between landlord and tenants it was agreeable to see there were feelings of mutual friendship and reciprocity. The leases between them have been so carefully and explicitly drawn, that no doubtful questions arise about which to cavil; so that, from his remote home in Unadilla, Mr. Cone, like a veteran commander surveying the battlefield from a distant standpoint, can direct with particularity the operations on his broad acres in Illinois, with more satisfaction and better results than did the political generals of the last war the campaign of the Army of the Potomac from their quarters in Washington.
"From the particulars that I have written we can arrive at the conclusions, first, that he is a model farmer; and second, that he is, beyond all contingency, a very rich man. The realization of this fact has no effect in puffing him with pride or restraining him from labor, for each successive day finds him at his habitual work on one or the other of his Susquehanna valley farms, an example of industry and thrift worthy of imitation."
Excerpt from History of Otsego Co., NY, page 351
["Otsego County History"]
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