When Martha Cone was born on 6 September 1784, in Connecticut, United States, her father, Sylvanus Cone, was 50 and her mother, Hannah Ackley, was 42. She married William Hall on 6 December 1803, in Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She died on 25 October 1853, in New York, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Indian Hill Cemetery, Middletown, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America.
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Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
Connecticut became a state on January 9, 1788. In 1650, before it was a state, the boundary of Connecticut ran north from the westside of Greenwich Bay and the coast of the Pacific Ocean. During the 1600s, Westmoreland County was in Connecticut when the boundaries were changed Westmoreland County went to Pennsylvania.
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Irish (Roscommon): possibly a shortened form of McCone .
English (Suffolk): from Middle English coin, cone ‘wedge, corner’; the reasons for its adoption as a surname are unclear.
Americanized form of North German Kohn or Köhn, or Kuhn .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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