Another Mayflower Passenger in the Cone Family Tree - Edward Doty

Yesterday I mentioned my great grandfather Frederick Naaman Cone's membership in the Mayflower Society which was traced to William Brewster. Today I add his descent from Edward Doty.

Frederick Naaman Cone son of
William Warner and Eliza (Utley) Cone
Eliza Utley, daughter of Philip and Harriet (Pratt) Utley
Harriet Pratt, daughter of Jeremiah and Jennet (Pratt) Pratt
Jeremiah Pratt, son of Edward and Mary (Pratt) Pratt
Edward Pratt, son of Daniel ad Mercy (Doty) Pratt
Mercy Doty. daughter of Edward and Sarah (Faunce) Doty
Edward Doty, son of Edward and Faith (Clarke) Doty

If one describes the passengers on the Mayflower as two groups "Saints and Strangers", then Edward Doty would have fallen in the later group. He is often listed as the servant of fellow passenger Stephen Hopkins. Some interpretations are that he was apprenticed to Hopkins. He was included in the signing of the Mayflower Compact.

His birth place and parentage in England have not been discovered. It is generally presumed that he was born some time between 1597-1602 based on his inclusion in the Compact but his exclusion from the distribution of lands. Claims that he was baptized May 14, 1598 have been discredited.

Edward had a bit of a temper, which he may or may not have passed on to his descendants, and was involved in 1621 in the only duel fought in the Plymouth Colony. He and Edward Leister (another servant to Stephen Hopkins) fought each other with swords and daggers. They were both wounded before others were able to separate them. Sentenced to be tied together at their heads and feet for one day, their piteous condition and continual pleadings led to their separation after only an hour.

He was declared a 'freeman' in 1633 so by then had obtained some stature in the community. William Bradford records that he was married twice but the name of his first wife is unknown. He married Faith Clarke January 1635 in Plymouth. She had arrived on the ship Francis with her father Thurston in April 1634. Edward and Sarah were the parents of nine children.

He died August 23, 1655 in Plymouth and is buried in the Plymouth Burying Hill.

For those who would like to pursue their relationship to Edward Doty, in addition to the Mayflower Society, there is also The Pilgrim Edward Doty Society

Edward Doty's oil lamp on display at the Mayflower House Museum
from the Pilgrim Edward Doty Society website

Mayflower Ancestors

     As Thanksgiving approaches, my thought turn to Plymouth and the story of the Pilgrims feast of thanksgiving with the Indians. I do not remember when I first learned that I was descended from some of the Pilgrims but I certainly knew as early as elementary school. My grandfather's brother William Lawrence Cone had produced an extensive Cone Genealogy which mentioned several of the Mayflower passengers but I did not know that he and his father were members of the Mayflower Society.

The General Society of Mayflower Descendants (commonly called the Mayflower Society) was organized in Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1897 in an effort to honor the memories of their Pilgrim ancestors. Membership is limited to those who can prove descent from one of the 102 passengers who arrived aboard Mayflower in 1620. I had always assumed that the Cones had traced their lineage to Stephen Hopkins for the acceptance into the Mayflower Society. My great grandfather Frederick Naaman Cone's great grandmother was Rhoda Hopkins and direct descendant of Stephen and Giles Hopkins. Today I was reading "Mayflower Ancestral Index, Volume 1" compiled by Milton E. Terry, PhD. and Anne Bordin Harding published by the Society in 1981 and discovered that they had proven their descent from William and Mary Brewster.

So for interested Cones out there, I will repeat the lineage here.

7859 Frederick Naaman Cone son of William Warner and Eliza (Utley) Cone*
7866 William Warner Cone, son of  Naaman and Joanna (Warner) Cone
36787 Joanna Warner daughter of Thomas and  Rhoda (Hopkins) Warner
17896 Rhoda Hopkins*, daughter of  Elisha and Drusilla (Conant) Hopkins
23368 Elisha Hopkins, son of Nathaniel and Abigail (Merrick) Hopkins
23368 Abigail Merrick, daughter of Joshua and Lydia (Mayo) Merrick
23197 Lydia Merrick, daughter of Thomas and Barbara (Knowles) Mayo
23261 Thomas Mayo, son of Nathaniel and Hannah (Prence) Mayo
27343 Hannah Prence, daughter of Thomas and Patience (Brewster) Prence
4708 Patience Brewster, daughter of William and Mary (?) Brewster, Pilgrims

William Brewster was born circa 1566 some sources suggest Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England and others Doncaster, Yorkshire, England. The son of William and Mary (Smythe) (Simkinson) Brewster, joined a large family of half siblings. His father William was the postmaster in Scrooby for some time. He was the third William Brewster in a line going back to William Brewster 1510-1558 and his wife Maud Mann(1513-1558).

Pilgrim Brewster was an educated man who had studied at Peterhouse, Cambridge and then entered the service of diplomat William Davison. His skill in Latin proved extremely useful in his travels with Davison which included the Netherlands. Unfortunately, his employ was terminated when his mentor was imprisoned and William returned to Scrooby and was able to obtain the position of postmaster once held by his father.
It was in Scrooby that he became a member of the Separatist Congregation. Perhaps his earlier experiences in Holland helped him recommend that the Congregation relocate to that country.

While living in Leiden, William taught English at Leiden University and also printed pamphlets on religion directed at the English market. It was his publication of a pamphlet that criticized the English king and the royal effort to seize Brewster that led to the congregations decision to depart for the New World. Brewster was the lay leader of the congregation that sailed on the Mayflower and was accompanied by his wife Mary and sons Love and Wrestling. He remained the congregation's religious leader until Pastor Ralph Smith arrived in 1629.

The Brewsters moved to Duxbury in 1632 and began to farm there. His daughters Fear and Patience both died in the smallpox epidemic of 1634. William lived until April 10, 1644. He is buried in Burial Hill, Plymouth.

Eliza Utley Cone and Rhoda Hopkins have other lines to the Mayflower but those are stories for another day.

People with surname Cone who served in the American Revolution, Part III

This is last of three posts for people with the surname Cone who served in or supported the American Revolution as listed in the Daughters of the American Revolution data base. This is by no means a complete listing of all Cones who served in the Revolution, these are only the names of those whose descendants have proven their service and qualified for membership in the DAR.

• Solomon Cone
• Born 1757 in Haddam Connecticut
• Died 1816 in Guilford, Connecticut
• Service - Sergeant for Captain Willey and Colonel Joseph Spencer, Lexington Alarm and East Haddam
• Spouse - Sally Richmond

• Sylvanus Cone
• Born 21 Jan 1734 in East Haddam, Hartford County, Connecticut
• Died 3 May 1812 in East Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut
• Service - Corporal Militia 1779
• Source - Bates, Rolls and Lists of Connecticut Men in the Revolution, Vol. 8, P 211
• Spouses - Hannah Ackley, Mary Elizabeth Graves, Eunice Spencer

• Timothy Cone
• Born 25 May 1735 in East Haddam, Connecticut
• Died 19 Dec 1800 in E. Haddam, Connecticut
• Service - Sergeant 5th Regiment
• Spouse - Abigail Dickson

• William Cone
• Born 14 Mar 1733 in East Haddam, Connecticut
• Died 22 Apr 1793 in East Haddam, Connecticut
• Service - Captain, soldier for Captains Meigs and Sumner, Captain Militia
• Spouse - Elizabeth Bailey

• William Cone
• Born 6 Apr 1755 in Middletown, Connecticut
• Died 1834 in Odstock, Vermont
• Service - Private for Captains Return and Jonathan Meigs
• Spouse - Abia Atkins

• William Cone
• Born (circa) 1745 on the Pee Dee, North Carolina
• Died (post) 24 Jun 1816 in Bulloch County, Georgia
• Service - Patriotic Service
• Source - O'Kelley & Warren, Georgia Revolutionary Land Records, P 26 and Hemperley, Military Certificates of Georgia 1776 - 1800, P 15.
• Spouse - Keziah Barber

• William Cone
• Born 14 Oct 1757 in Guilford, Connecticut
• Died (ante) 27 Nov 1827 in Grand Island, New York
• Service - Corporal, also Private for Captains Mills, Walker, Colonels Patterson, Voss
• Spouse - Roxanna Chadwick

• William Cone
• Born circa 1758 in North Carolina
• Died 1820 in Saunderville, Washington County, Georgia
• Service - Private in Richmond Company
• Spouse - X Beacham

• William Cone
• Born circa 1734 in North Carolina
• Died before 20 Feb 1801 in Martin County, North Carolina
• Service - Patriotic Service, soldier for Captain Samuel Allin, Colonel John Bradford
• Source - Haun, North Carolina Revolutionary Army Public Accounts 1775-1776, Vol A, P 100; Pruitt, Abstracts of Land Entries, Martin County 1778-1795, P 72
• Spouses - Elizabeth Morris, X X Hirst

• Zachariah Cone
• Born 23 Feb 1739 in East Haddam, Connecticut
• Died circa 1802 in Hebron, Connecticut
• Service - Private, Civil Service, Member of Grand Jury, Hebron
• Spouse - Mary Gilbert

If you are a descendant of one of these men and interested in becoming a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Sons of the American Revolution, or the Children of the American Revolution  please follow the links above to contact the organization directly so that they may refer you to a local resource. Each prospective member is responsible for proving their own descent and each organization has resources to help.

Cecily Cone Kelly

Charles N. Cone and Patents

      In talking to my cousin Bob Brim about how his grandfather Frederick Naaman Cone had learned to read German to help my grandfather Charles N. Cone with the products he was developing for the plywood industry, I began wondering about the information I could find on my grandfather's inventions. How wonderful to be living in the Internet era! In just a few seconds I found his U. S. Patent number 3956860 with a Filing date of Mar 23, 1973 and Issue date of Jun. 29, 1976 http://www.google.com/patents/US3965860?printsec=drawing#v=onepage&q&f=false.
     As children, my sisters, brother and I spent a good deal of time each summer visiting our grandparents in Oregon. An integral part of each visit with our Cone grandparents was a trip to Pacific Adhesives, Inc first in Beaverton and then in Hillsboro. We remember seeing railroad cars emblazoned with the PACO logo, the intricacies of the labs and of course the stacks of 50 pound bags of dried animal blood in the warehouse. Alright, to be honest, we remember most the smell of those bags YUCK!
     We were proud of the work our grandfather was doing. Many conversations centered around how things were going with what my grandmother (Hazel Allen Cone) termed "Old Foamy." The more than three years between the filing and issue dates for "Plywood Manufacturing Using Foamed Glues" does not begin to speak to the time and resources Charles N. Cone invested in this process. In fact, he had filed and then abandoned two previous patent applications, one in 1969 and one in 1970 for "Old Foamy." Grandaddy was 77 when the patent was issued.
     Blessed with an inventive mind, Old Foamy was not Charles' first effort to patent his ideas and developments. On Nov 6, 1931, he filed for Patent number 1976436 "Adhesive and Process of Making Same" which was issued in 1934. The first paragraph states, "My invention relates to the process of making a laminated construction unit, the laminated product of said process, the process of making the adhesive for such unit and the adhesive product of said last process." http://www.google.com/patents/US1976436?pg=PA4&dq=foam+glue+plywood+process+and+cone&hl=en&sa=X&ei=EjotUYz1AoXWrQHMtoGwBQ&ved=0CEgQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=foam%20glue%20plywood%20process%20and%20cone&f=false
      The key to why the "Old Foamy" patent was so important to Charles can be found on the first page of his earlier patent. "Charles N. Cone, Seattle, Wash., assignor to I. F. Laucks, Inc., Seattle, Wash., a corporation of Washington." This statement meant the any income or royalties derived from this process belonged to Charles' employer, not to him. From the employer's point of view, they were providing the employment, facilities, and resources for the development of the process. Grandfather understood that but it planted the seed of necessity to develop and own the rights to his inventions. It was not until 1956 that he founded Pacific Adhesives, Inc. At age 58, he was determined to own the fruits of his mind.
     His father, Frederick Cone, did not pass until December 1957 so I'm certain that he was proud of his son's accomplishments. Grandaddy (Charles) worked until his 89th birthday still contributing to the development of the plywood industry. He died a month later. I have many photos of the older Charles Newton Cone, but the one below shows his confidence and determination, even as a young man.

    

  
   

Cone Grandchildren on Oregon Beach 1935

 

 

Frederick Naaman Cone
Born 29 Mar 1859, Hornellsville, Steuben County, New York
Died 29 Dec 1957, Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon
 



 

Through www.ancestry.com, I've recently connected with my second cousin, grand daughter of my grandfather's sister Flora Harriet Cone. Also named Flora, she has been sharing some wonderful photographs of the extended Cone family. Our mutual great grand father Frederick Naaman Cone is pictured above.

Great grandfather Cone's life journeys took him from New York state to Worthington, Minnesota; to Mapleton, Utah; to Salem, Oregon and finally to retirement in Portland. A farmer, from the mid 1920s to mid 1930s, he raised prunes somewhere in Marion County outside Salem. We're trying to determine exactly when he moved off the farm and though Marion County land records are probably the quickest answer, we have not located those on-line.

During the time period in question, all but one of his children also lived in the Portland - Salem area.
Daughter Molly and her husband Rev. Thomas Acheson were in Salem where he was pastor of the Jason Lee Methodist Church. Daughter Flora and her husband Charles R. Brim were also farming in rural Marion County in 1934. Son Charles Newton Cone and his wife Hazel Allen Cone were living in Portland where he was working as a chemist in the plywood industry. Only oldest son William Laurence Cone and his wife Rhea Wauneta Watts Cone and their four daughters remained in Utah.

 

Cousin Flora sent a wonderful photograph of the Northwest based Cone grandchildren lined up by age on the beach at Neskowin, Oregon in 1935. If the inserted caption is too difficult to read, the grandchildren are from left: Bob Brim ( he wants us to notice that he was standing on his toes to seem taller), Josephine Brim, Helen Acheson, Barbara Brim, Fred Brim, Mary Acheson, Chuck Cone, Flora "Lally" Brim, and Tom Acheson.