East Haddam Revolutionary Heroes

Daniel Cone was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1626.  In 1651 he served in the Scottish army as a loyalist to King Charles II.  He was taken prisoner at the Battle of Dunbar by English troops under the command of Oliver Cromwell.  Parliament ordered the Scottish prisoners to be sent to New England as indentured slaves.  Daniel was shipped to Boston and sold to John Giffard of the Iron Works of Lynn, MA, to work at hard labor.  He then worked as a servant for John Winthrop, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.  He eventually gained his freedom and became one of the original 28 settlers of Haddam.  In 1685 he moved across the Connecticut River as one of the first settlers of East Haddam.