Person:Conant Cone (1)

Name^[1]	Conant Cone
Gender	Male
Birth^[1]	6 Jul 1760	East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States
Marriage		to Alice Houghton
Death^[1]	1799	Princeton, Mercer, New Jersey, United States (probably)Died insane.

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 [115] Conant Cone, in Cone, William Whitney. Some Account of the Cone Family in America: Principally of the Descendants of Daniel Cone, Who Settled in Haddam, Connecticut in 1662. (Topeka, Kan.: Crane & Company, 1903)
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[115] Conant Cone, son of Joseph Cone and Martha Spencer, b. East Haddam July 6, 1760, m. Alice Houghton, second dau. of Joab Houghton May, 1780. She d. June 3, 1824, aged 62 years. He was a gallant soldier during Revolutionary War, enlisting Feb. 16, 1777, for three years in Capt. Eliphalet Holmes's company, in regiment commanded by Col. Jedidiah Huntington, of Connecticut Line. Took the field at Peekskill, N. Y., spring of 1777. Remained in camp until ordered to Gen. Washington's army in Pennsylvania in Sept. 1777. Was in battle of Germantown. Wintered at Valley Forge 1777-8. Was in battle of Monmouth, June 28, 1778, and served in 1779 in repelling forces in Gen. Tryon's 'Invasion,' and was discharged Feb. 16, 1780. He removed to Princeton, N. J., soon after marriage, and all his ch. were born there. He d. insane in 1799."