"Daniel Cone was possibly the first of the name in America. His birthplace has not been found, nor has the exact date of his birth been ascertained. … The first mention of Daniel Cone … is in a letter from John Winthrop, Junior, Governor of the Connecticut Colony, to Peter Stuyvesant, Governor of New Netherlands, dated March 2, 1657 (concerning a debt of one John Cockrill for whom Daniel had stood bound, upon which Cockrill escaped to New Netherlands). …
The next we hear of him is in the spring of 1662, when he appears as one of the 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. … The town was called Haddam. … Daniel Cone received his allotment of four acres on the town site, on the west side of the river, with land in the 'meadow' and timbered land adjoining, in 1662, and removed thereon the same season. …
He resided in Haddam until 1680, when he removed to the east side of the river, to near 'Machi-Moodus.' 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. …"
