Lieutenant Cone in Acadia in 1755
Looking for the first name of Lieutenant Cone who served in Captain William Brintnall's company in Governor Shirley's Regiment (under the command of Lieutenant Colonel John Winslow) in Acadia [Nova Scotia] in 1755-56. This regiment captured the French forts, and then was ordered to round up the Acadians for deportation -- fictionalized by Longfellow in "Evangeline."