Contributed by Stuart Ward of Halifax, NS

From The History of Kings County by Arthur Wentwoth Hamilton Eaton, MA, DCL

Mika Studio, Belleville, Ont, 1972 originally published 1910.

The Cone Family

This respectable Connecticut family was represented in Cornwallis by Reuben Cone, the Grantee, son of Stephen and Mary (Hungerford) Cone, of East Haddam, Conn., where he was b. May

30, 1723. He m. "Nem" _____, and had children:

i Mary, m. April 11, 1766, to John Hoben, to whom she bore children: Anna, m. to Jacob Eckerson; John;Reuben; Mary; Elizabeth, m. Dec. 16, 1790, to John Rand, son of Thomas, b. July 14, 1762, d. Dec. 23, 1830.

ii Roxanna, m. to Amasa Bigelow, son of Isaac and Abigail Bigelow, and had 10 children.

iii Dorothy, m. Dec 15, 1768, to Jethro Chase, son of Stephen Chase, and had 10 children: Stephen; Esther. Rueben; John; Hannah; Benjamin: Experience; Samuel; Dorothy; Jethro.

iv Reuben, Jr., d. in Cornwallis, April 6, 1962.

v Moses, d. unmarried.

vi Mehitable, b. in Cornwallis, June 24, 1763.

vii Reuben, Jr., b. March 12, 1768.

The Cone Genealogy, published in 1903, does not carry this family on.

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