When Joshua Coon Sr. was born in April 1733, in Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island, United States, his father, Rev Daniel Coon (born MacCoone), was 37 and his mother, Elizabeth Eliah Hall, was 33. He married Margaret Burdick on 7 April 1763, in Hopkinton, Washington, Rhode Island, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Hopkinton, Kings, Rhode Island, British Colonial America in 1774 and Hopkinton, Washington, Rhode Island, United States in 1790. He died on 16 September 1826, in Brookfield, Madison, New York, United States, at the age of 93, and was buried in Burhyte Farm Cemetery, South Brookfield, Madison, New York, United States.
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Irish (Galway): shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Cuana (see Cooney ).
Americanized form of German Kuhn .
Americanized form of Dutch Coen or Koen .
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