Joseph 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

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[241] JOSEPH CONE, son of Conant Cone [115] and Alice Houghton, b. Princeton, N. J., 1793, m. Mary Cave, dau. of Thomas Cave, of Prince Williams county, Va., Feb. 13, 1817. He was a Baptist minister; was a devoted and untiring pastor, and an instructive and earnest preacher. Being in ill-health in the winter of 1830, and desirous of going to a milder climate, he took passage on board the brig Mary and .Eliza, Capt. Wilson, from New York to St. Augustine, Fla. He d. at sea, Jan. 4, 1830, and was buried at the old Spanish cemetery at St. Augustine. She married 2 Richard Mackie, and d. Aug. 8, 1882, aged 84 years.

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447. Joitx NORVAL. b. May. 1818; d. in infancy.

448.• HORACE, b. March 10. 1820, in. Amaranth Roberts; d. Oct. 24, 1885. 449. LAURA, b. Dec. 13, 1821, m. Robert E. Love; d. May 26, 1863.

450. ELIZA LESLEY, b. Nov. 3, 1823, m. William Addison. He enlisted in Confederate Army, and was killed at Fair Oaks June 1, 1862. She d. Jan. 5, 1855.

451.* ALICE H., b. Feb. 12, 1825, m. William M. Maelure. Res. New York.

452.JOSEPH, b. Nov. 23, 1827; d. 'nun. 1861.

453.SPENCER, b. Dec. 1828; d. 1829.

454. SPENCER, b. Jan. 30, 1830; d. in infancy.