A Man Named Daniel

A Man Named Daniel by Joseph Cone, a tenth generation descendant of Daniel Cone of East Haddam, Connecticut, tells the story of the 'Scottish prisoner captured in the bloody last battle of the English Civil Wars and deported to New England in 1653."  Because Daniel became a servant of the Winthrops, a leading Puritan family in New England, Joe was able to discover "enough primary historical documents to construct a dramatic account of Daniel's life in these early years in the American colonies."  Daniel's story comes alive in Joe's rendition. The book is available from www.amazon.com

A Man Called Daniel cover

A descendant of Daniel Cone's youngest son Caleb, Joseph Cone is a writer, editor, documentary film maker and science communication researcher who is the assistant director of the Oregon Sea Grant program at Oregon State University. He was raised in New Haven, Connecticut, earned degrees from Yale and the University of Oregon. He has lived in Oregon since 1975.

Joseph Cone, 10th generation descendant of Daniel Cone
through his youngest son Caleb.

Joe invites questions and comments about A Man Named Daniel. You can email Joseph Cone here.

My family members will quickly understand why I included Joe's photograph in this post. There is definitely a family resemblance between Joe and our grandfather Charles Newton Cone, a descendant of Daniel Cone's
son Ebenezer.

Cones listed in Hornellsvelle Rural Cemetery

I've been doing some research on the cemeteries around Hornellsville (now Hornell) Steuben county, New York. My great grandfather Frederick Namaan Cone was born there 29 March 1859. His grandfather and namesake, Namaan Cone died there 29 October 1855.

Looking at Painted Hills Genealogical Society's web site, I found several Cones in the listing for the Rural Cemetery for the Town of Hornellsville. This cemetery is maintained by the Rural and Hope Cemetery Association (PO Box 177, Hornell, NY 14843, phone 607-276-6268. Among the updated listing of burial, I found the following Cones:

CONE, Catherine L , Born 1909 , Died 1979 
CONE, Dorr T , Born 1895 , Died 1943 
CONE, Edoth T , Born 1873 , Died 1955 
CONE, Gary P , Born 1936 , Died 1987 
CONE, Lela V , Born 1902 , Died 1972 
CONE, Leroy , Born 1894 , Died 1965 
CONE, Mildred , Born 1907 , Died 1976 
CONE, Nelson W , Born 1871 , Died 1927 
CONE, Paul W , Born 1909 , Died 1992 
CONE, Pauline , Born 1939 , Died 1989 

There are also Cones in the Panama Union Cemetery:

CONE, Betsy E.   Born 1827 Died 1898           
CONE, Celista Melissa     Died 10-26-1850 Age 14y10m23d    - Dau of David & Sarah Whitcomb Cone       
CONE, David Spouse of Sarah W  Born 1792 Died 1898           
CONE, Delancey D. Spouse of Julia L. P  Born 1842 Died 1920      - Vet-CW Co G 15 Reg NY Eng GAR star       
CONE, Julia L. (Palmer) Spouse of Delancey D.   Born 1850 Died 1939           
CONE, Luther     Died 4-19-1849      - Son of David & Sarah Whitcomb Cone       
CONE, Sarah (Whitcomb) Spouse of David   Born 1795 Died 1878           

And in the East Ripley Cemetery off Route 20 in Ripley, New York:

CONE, Almira T. Pratt Spouse of Charles P.   Born 7-09-1856 Died 2-23-1887 Age 30y7m14d    - Dau of Richard Edward & Mary Ann (Doan) Pratt, b. Crowland, Welland, Ontario, Canada LOT 22W        
CONE, Ellen            - One data--assume dod  LOT E46        
CONE, Mr.             - Book record 1919 LOT E46        
CONE?, H.            - May be Harvey Cone, recarved on old creek stone LOT E46   

And in Bath National Cemetery:   
  
CONE, Patricia A. , spouse of Raymond J. , died 29 Sep 2010 nee Castner
CONE, Raymond J. "Ray" , Spouse of Patricia Castner , born 3 Oct 1919 , died 7 Feb 2009 s/o Jay & Clara

Have not yet been able to determine if any of these Cones are related to my family.

Cones in the Apprentices of Connecticut 1637-1900

Researching in the library this morning, I came across Apprentices of Connecticut 1637-1900, compiled by Kathy A. Ritter and publishing by Ancestry Publishing, Salt Lake City, Utah in 1986.  There were three listings for Cones in this volume.

Page 6. "Bab, William of Middletown, aged about 11, child of Benjamin Bab dec. of Middletown bound to William Cone of Middletown until 21 which will be on 04 Nov 1781 to learn the trade of shoemaker."

Page 35. " Cone, Lucinda, of Middletown, child of Joseph and Sarah Cone, bound to Clarissa Redfield of Middletown until age 18, which will be on 25 Dec 1809 to learn the trade of housewifery."

Page 35. "Cone, Elijah, ran away from David Townsend, Jr. of Hebron. Elijah is age 17. Reward 3 pence."

Childhood was not about fun and games. 17th century children were expected to work and learn a trade either at their own home or to be bound out to someone else until the trade was perfected. If you were unlucky enough to be orphaned, the town leaders would insure that you were bound to someone to learn a trade, in return for your support. Thereby ensuring that you would not become a ward of the community.

In the case of Lucinda Cone, I have found another source. Maria R. Miller, writing in The Needle's Eye: Women and Work in the Age of Revolution, University of Massachusetts Press, 2006,  includes the following,

                  In 1804, Middletown selectmen bound an impoverished thirteen-year-old
                  Lucinda Cone, to the widow Clarissa Redfield, who promised to "give said
                  Apprentice a Bible, and to Board her whilst learning a Trade. (page 73)

Lucinda's father died in 1804. She was the fifth and youngest daughter among Joseph and Sarah (Starr) Cone's ten children. Her three younger brothers probably remained with their mother.

Originally, I thought Elijah Cone, the runaway apprentice, might be my 5th great grandfather. His age seems to indicate that he is the son of that Elijah Cone and brother to my 4th great grandfather Ira Cone. Searching on www.genealogybank.com, I found the image of the advertisement placed in the Connecticut Courant (Hartford) Monday, January 30, 1792 transcribed below:

                Run-away from the subscriber the 5th inst. an apprentice boy named Elijah Cone,
                17 years of age; had on when he went away an orange coloured coat, knit
                vest pattern, black sattinet breeches and felt hat. Whoever will take up said
                run-away and return him to the subscriber shall have Three Pence reward
                and no charges paid. All masters of vessels and others are forbid harbouring
                or carrying off said apprentice on penalty of the law.
                                                                               DAVID TOWNSEND, jun.
               Hebron, Jan. 10, 1792.

Hebron is less than 20 miles from East Haddam.

Frederick Naaman Cone's Descent from Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower

Continuing my series of Pilgrims in the Cone Family Tree, today I add information on Stephen Hopkins another of the 'Strangers' who accompanied the 'Saints' on the Mayflower in 1620.

Frederick Naaman Cone, son of William Warner and Eliza (Utley) Cone
William Warner Cone, son of Naaman and Joanna (Warner) Cone,
Joanna Warner, daughter of Thomas and Rhoda (Hopkins) Warner,
Rhoda Hopkins, daughter of Elisha and Druscilla (Conant) Hopkins,
Elisha Hopkins, son of Nathaniel and Abigail (Merrick) Hopkins,
Nathaniel Hopkins, son of Nathaniel and Mercy (Mayo) Hopkins,
Nathaniel Hopkins, son of Stephen and Mary (Merrick) Hopkins,
Stephen Hopkins, son of Giles and Catherine (Wheldon) Hopkins,
Giles Hopkins, son of Stephen and Mary (?) Hopkins

Actually both Giles and Stephen were passengers on the Mayflower.

Because there were so few people in New England in those early years, one is often related in more than one way to those first settlers. Such is the case in our lines to Stephen Hopkins as demonstrated below;

Frederick Naaman Cone, son of William Warner and Eliza (Utley) Cone
William Warner Cone, son of Naaman and Joanna (Warner) Cone,
Joanna Warner, daughter of Thomas and Rhoda (Hopkins) Warner,
Rhoda Hopkins, daughter of Elisha and Druscilla (Conant) Hopkins,
Elisha Hopkins, son of Nathaniel and Abigail (Merrick) Hopkins,
Abigail Merrick, daughter of Joshua and Lydia (Mayo) Merrick,
Joshua Merrick, son of William and Abigail (Hopkins) Merrick,
Abigail Hopkins, daughter of Giles and Catherine (Whelden) Hopkins,
Giles Hopkins, son of Stephen and Mary (?) Hopkins

So we are descended from two of Giles and Catherine (Whelden) Hopkins' children Stephen and Abigail.
Nathaniel Hopkins and his wife Abigail Merrick were second cousins. Obviously with Merrick and Mayo in both trees they were cousins on more than one side. I'm afraid it may take me a few more days to nail down those relationships.

Stephen's life is among the most interesting of all the Mayflower passengers. He has been extensively researched by historian Caleb Johnson who's book "Here Shall I Die Ashore" tells his story.

Mr. Johnson is currently the editor of the scholarly historical and genealogical journal, the "Mayflower Descendant" and much of his research can be accessed at http://mayflowerhistory.com/,

Otsego County New York Cones in 1917

While researching at the Allen County Public Library's Genealogy Center in Fort Wayne, Indiana, I came across the "American Agriculturist Farm Directory and Reference Book of Otsego and Herkimer Counties, New York, 1917."  This book included a road map of both counties and was published by the Orange Judd Company of New York (and Minneapolis, Chicago, Atlanta and Springfield, Mass.) My Cone family ancestors were in Otsego County by 1800 but had moved on by the mid-19th century, so I wondered if there were any Cones remaining in the county by 1917.

Page 56 lists:
CONE, MONT S. (Bertha) 3ch "Cone Homestead" farmer engineer (asparagus) O 33a rd2 Unadilla Unadilla tn H54-1/2

The key to abbreviations helps us translate the entry.

Mont S. Cone and wife Bertha as well as 3 children are living on the "Cone Homestead". He works as a farmer and engineer and specializes in growing asparagus for sale. He owns 33 acres. His mail is delivered  to Rural Delivery 2. He lives in Unadilla Township. H indicates the highway on which he lives is 54.

It will require some further research to discover if this location involved any of the 300 acres owned by my ancestor Ira Cone.

Remembering Grandfather Charles Newton Cone on the 115th anniversary of his birth.

Charles Newton Cone was born December 6th, 1898 in Worthington, Minnesota. Son of Frederick Naaman and Helen Brown (Newton) Cone. He was their fourth child following older brother William, and sisters Molly and Flora.

Charles Newton Cone in Seattle Circa 1932
photograph from family collection.

Since yesterday was the anniversary of the 1933 passage of the 21st Amendment to the United States Constitution (it repealed the 18th amendment which had instituted a nationwide Prohibition on alcohol in 1920), I thought it might be interesting to provide a little information about Worthington and why our ancestors chose to live there. The truth is many of our ancestors would not have celebrated the repeal of Prohibition.

John Champion and Lydia (Hornell) Clarke and their daughter and son-in-law Charles Shepard and Mary Elizabeth (Clarke) Newton were among the first families to settle in "National Colony" a community founded on the principles of temperance and education. The Illustrated History of Nobles County, lists them as Charter Members of the Union Congregational Church in Worthington.

Today we might think those who would participate in this kind of settlement as reactionaries. In their time, living in a community focused on temperance and education would have been considered the goal of the educated, liberal class. In an advertisement that appeared in the Thursday, July 20, 1876 edition of the "Worthington Advance" seeking settlers, the community is described as,

"Temperance and Education... were among the chief inducements which brought to this locality the intelligent class of people, who have located here....The educational interests of the town and county are in the hands of advanced men, who appreciate the importance of superior education facilities and who will have them whatever they may cost."
The entire advertisement, including map can be found on the Worthington Minnesota website. It makes quite interesting reading.

This is the site of home of Charles Shepard Newton and family just outside Worthington
photo taken by Granddaughter Cecily Cone Kelly in 2009. House is no longer there.

Though many of the family maintained the temperate ways of the National Colony, Charles was not among them. He continued to enjoy an 'old-fashioned' each evening until the last days of his life.

Pilgrim William Bradford

Continuing my posts on how my great grandfather Cone was related to four of those hardy souls who made the 1620 trip on the Mayflower. Today I'm focusing on his relationship with William Bradford one of the most interesting Pilgrims and perhaps the person who first identified their group as such. Below is his relationship with William Bradford:

Frederick Naaman CONE son of
William Warner and Eliza (UTLEY) CONE
William Warner CONE, son of Naaman and Joanna (WARNER) CONE
Joanna WARNER, daughter of Thomas and Rhoda (HOPKINS) WARNER
Thomas WARNER, son of Eleazar and Joanna (HALE) WARNER
Eleazar WARNER, son of Thomas and Delight (METCALF) WARNER
Delight METCALF, daughter of Rev. Joseph and Abiel (Adams) METCALF
Abiel ADAMS, daughter of William and Alice (BRADFORD) ADAMS
Alice BRADFORD, daughter of William and Alice (RICHARDS) BRADFORD
William BRADFORD, son of William and Alice (CARPENTER)(SOUTHWORTH) BRADFORD
William "The Pilgrim" Bradford

More about William Bradford...

William was born in the Yorkshire English village of Austerfield, the son of William and Alice (HANSON) Bradford. He was baptized in Austerfield March 19, 1589/90. Orphaned very young, he was raised first by his grandfather then shuttled back and forth between a number of uncles. He was about 12 years old when he began attending Separatist services in Scrooby. It was against the wishes of his family that he joined that church when he was 16 becoming close with the family of fellow church member William Brewster.

When James I became King of England he tried to put an end to separatist church movements and imprisoned many of the Scrooby congregation. In 1607, the congregation voted to leave England for the Netherlands where freedom of religion was permitted. Immigration without permission from the Crown was banned. None the less, members of the Congregation singly and in small groups made their escape to Holland. Beginning in Amsterdam, and eventually settling in Leiden.

Bradford arrived in Amsterdam in August 1608, and lived with the Brewster family until he was able to claim his family inheritance when he turned twenty-one in 1611. Those funds allowed him to purchase his own home, to practice the trade of weaving and most importantly marry Dorothy May. Their son John Bradford was born in Leiden in 1617.

The story of the Congregation's decision to leave Leiden for the New World is well known. The 100 foot ship Mayflower with a crew of no more than 40 and 102 passengers must have been dreadfully crowded. The three month voyage probably seemed an unending night mare. They had planned to arrive in Virginia and ended up instead far to the north. Harsh weather prevented them from trying to continue south after their arrival in what would become Massachusetts. It was William Bradford who was responsible for applying the term "Pilgrim" to their party. He wrote in his journal;

     "With mutual embraces and many tears, they took their leaves of one another; which
     proved to be the last leave to many of them... but they knew they were pilgrims and 
     looked not much on those things, but lifted their eyes to heaven, their dearest country
     and quieted their spirits."

During the first harsh winter in Plymouth nearly half of the settlers died. Many do not remember that the first deaths happened before the group had even decided on the location for their settlement. Dorothy (May) Bradford slipped and fell over the side of the Mayflower and drowned in frigid Cape Cod Harbor while William was ashore with the exploration party. It must have been a bitter sweet debarkation for him after that.

William Bradford went on to become Governor of the Plymouth Colony. He was remarried to Alice Carpenter Southworth and had three children including our ancestor William Bradford. Much of what we know about the Plymouth colony comes from William. His Of Plymouth Plantation, a history of the colony from 1621 to 1646 and his Journal were published. The Pilgrim Hall Museum website  has a wonderful article on William Bradford including passages from his journal.The museum also contains a chair attributed to William Bradford that descended through the Bradford and Hedge families.

Among the legion of William Bradford's descendants celebrating Thanksgiving 2013        
                                                      Ed and 10th great grand daughter Cecily (Cone) Kelly with                                                 grandchildren Cooper and Cassidy (12th generation descendants)