Alice Cone

Alice Houghton, youngest daughter of Col Joab Houghton, married Conant Cone of Princeton NJ, who was a co-patriot and companion in arms of Col Joab. They had children as follows

• Spencer Houghton born at Princeton April 30 1785 became one of the most noted preachers in the Baptist church and was pastor of the First Baptist Church of New York City
• Catharine who married John Norvell a partner of Spencer H Cone of the Baltimore Whig and removed to Lexington Ky and afterward to Michigan and was United States Senator from that state
• Eliza who became the wife of James Leslie Esq of Philadelphia
• Martha
• Amelia single
• Joseph who was an artist and engraver in Baltimore and married Mary Ann Diffendaffer

The history of the life and most remarkable career of Rev Spencer Houghton Cone was published in a volume of 500 pages by his sons Edward W and Spencer W Cone in 1856. He was a student in Princeton College at twelve years of age, a full grown man in size and a teacher at fourteen, a celebrated actor playing in the best theatres in New York Philadelphia and Baltimore at twenty, and a soldier and captain of artilery in the war of 1812. He was also an editor and publisher and during the last forty years of his life, one of the most talented and popular preachers of his generation, possessing as a public speaker extraordinary endowments. Such was his command of language that he never hesitated for a word or recalled one that he had uttered