Daniel Cone\'s descendants can be grateful that this Scottish prisoner of the English Civil War became a servant in the most prominent family of early New England, the Winthrops.
This story of Daniel as soldier, prisoner, trusted servant, then freeman, husband, and pioneer, brings alive the challe.
As a result, Daniel is mentioned in a number of documents, through which his Life can be traced in colonial Massachusetts and Connecticut, from the mid-seventeenth century until the early eighteenth.
Daniel Cone\'s descendants can be grateful that this Scottish prisoner of the English Civil War became a servant in the most prominent family of early New England, the Winthrops