Nem (Rowley) Cone (1725 - 1810)

Born 21 Mar 1725 in East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut

Ancestors

Wife of Reuben Cone — married 1743 in East Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut

Descendants

Died 5 Nov 1810 at age 85 in Cornwallis, Kings County, Nova Scotia

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Research Notes

Please note she was not called Naomi in the Connecticut birth records, in her father's will or in any other document. Some secondary sources (including Mayflower Five Generations) have copied Nem or Nam as Naomi, and many online family trees confuse Nem Rowley with Naomi Gaines, wife of James Ackley. The name Nam, Nem or Nemo is specific to Nem Cone, she was likely named after her paternal aunt, the wife of Samuel Fuller, who was also referred to as Nem.^[1]

Biography

Nem Rowley was born 21 March 1725 daughter of Ebenezer Rowley and Mary Church of East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut^{[2][3] [1] [4]}

Circa 1745, she married Reuben Cone, son of Stephen Cone and Mary Hungerford, also of East Haddam.^[1]. There is a gap in East Haddam marriage records at this time, however in 1753, her father's will left Nem and her sisters each 200 pounds, and named them by their first names only^{[5] [1]}. In 1760, Stephen Cone, brother of Ruben Cone then petitioned for Nem's 200 pounds, as she and her husband had already left for Nova Scotia^[1]

Their children included:

1. Mary Cone, who was born in 1743. She married John Hoben on 11 April 1766^{[4] [6] [1]}
2. Dorothy Cone, born circa 1746 in East Haddam Connecticut^[7]. She married Jethro Chase the son of Stephen Chase on 15 Dec 1768 in Cornwallis^{[8] [6] [1]}
3. Roxanna Cone, who was born in 11 February 1755 in Connecticut, who married Amasa Bigelow on 9 Nov 1773, and then James Lyon in 1806 ^[1].^{[9] [6]}
4. Moses Cone, born about 1755, who died unmarried^{[6] [1]}
5. Reuben Cone, born circa 1759, who died on 6 April 1762 in Cornwallis.^{[4] [6] [1]}
6. Mehitable Cone, who was born on 24 June 1765 in Cornwallis.^{[8] [4] [6]}, who may have married George Fox, a Loyalist who settled in New Brunswick circa 1783^{[10] [1]}
7. Reuben Cone, born 12 March 1768^{[8] [6] [1]}

In 1760, the family moved to Nova Scotia and were among the first grantees in Cornwallis^{[6] [1] [4] [11]}

Nem Cone was noted in Cornwallis records November 5, 1810^[1], so this profile indicates she died after that date.

Research Notes

Please note she was not called Naomi in the Connecticut birth records, in her father's will or in any other document. Some secondary sources (including Mayflower Five Generations) have copied Nem or Nam as Naomi, and many online family trees confuse Nem Rowley with Naomi Gaines, wife of James Ackley. The name Nam, Nem or Nemo is specific to Nem Cone, she was likely named after her paternal aunt, the wife of Samuel Fuller, who was also referred to as Nem.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14} Nem Rowley, Wife of Reuben Cone of East Haddam, Connecticut, and Kings County, Nova Scotia: An Edward Fuller Line by Karen Lynne Pogoloff, published in Volume 67 (2019), pages 175-183 of the Mayflower Descendant: A Journal of Pilgrim Genealogy and History. Boston, MA: Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1899- . (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010)
2. ↑ Barbour Collection- CT, Rowley, Naomi d/o Ebenezer & Mary b 21 Mar 1725 E Hdm LR2:1121, D106.
3. ↑ MacGunnigle, Bruce Campbell, Mayflower Families through Five Generations, Volume 4, General Society of Mayflower Descendants, Plymouth, MA., Third Edition, 2006 Ed. Fuller, pg 107
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4} Eaton, Arthur Wentworth Hamilton; The History of Kings County, Nova Scotia, Heart of the Acadian Land, Giving a Sketch of the French and Their Expulsion: And a History of the New England Planters who Came in Their Stead, with Many Genealogies, 1604-1910; Salem Press Company, 1910 - Kings (N.S. : County) - 898 pages
5. ↑ Will of Eleazer Rowle, Haddam, LDS Film 1,597,690.
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 6.7} Page 416; New Englanders in Nova Scotia R. Stanton Avery Special Collections, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, MA. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010.)
7. ↑ The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:3MZW-Y9M : accessed 2016-12-07), entry for Dorothy /CONE/.
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1 8.2} Gladys Wall and E.H. Phillips. Brown Wall Fisher and Allied Families. 1971. Page 146
9. ↑ Some Account of the Cone Family in America: Principally the Descendants of Daniel Cone who settled in Haddam, Conn. in 1662 by William Whitney Cone, publishe by Crane in1903, page 277, person 3606.
10. ↑ New Brunswick Historical and Genealogical Society First Families Pages; listing for George Fox gives the following source: MC80/2354 Saint John Branch, NBGS: Arrivals 99: our first families in New Brunswick, page 102.
11. ↑ SMITH, LEONARD H., JR., and NORMA H. SMITH. Nova Scotia Immigrants to 1867. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1992. 546p.

See also:

• Homer W. Brainard, "Henry Rowley and Some of His Descendants," The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record Vol 37 (1906): in 4 parts: p57-66;97-103;203-208;251-256, p. 98.
• Mayflower Descendant 36:17. Vol 2, p 1121. East Haddam Land Records. "Ebenezer Rowle and Mary Church were married 6 Jun 1719 and their children were named."