Roger Conant

Bef 1592 - 1679  (> 87 years)

• Name	Roger Conant  [1]
  Birth	Bef 9 Apr 1592  [2, 3, 4]
  Baptism	9 Apr 1592	All Saints, East Budleigh, Devon, England   [2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Death	19 Nov 1679	Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts   [2, 3, 4]
  Person ID	I38316	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of AW
  Last Modified	12 Sep 2022

  
  

  Father	Richard Conant,   b. Abt 1548   d. Bef 22 Sep 1630 (Age ~ 82 years)
  Mother	Agnes Clarke,   b. 16 May 1548, Colyton, Devon, England d. Bef 22 Sep 1630 (Age < 82 years)
  Marriage	4 Feb 1578	Colyton, Devon, England   [4]
  Family ID	F22509	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Sarah Horton,   b. Abt 1598   d. Between Nov 1660 and 1 Mar 1678 (Age ~ 62 years)
  Marriage	11 Nov 1618	St. Ann Blackfriars, London, England   [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Children	+ 1. Lot Conant,   b. Abt 1624   d. 29 Sep 1674 (Age ~ 50 years)   2. Mary Conant,   b. Abt 1632, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts d. Bef 1685 (Age ~ 52 years)
  Family ID	F22507	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	12 Sep 2022

  
  

• Notes

  He came from London to Plymouth in 1624. First at Nantasket, then Cape Ann in 1625, Salem in 1626, then Beverly. He was a salter, probably a freeman of the Salters' Company and a citizen of London. He was literate and held several public offices. He is generally considered to have been a leader among the "Old Planters", which is to say, the emigrants to Massachusetts before 1630 who were not members of the Plymouth Separatist religious group that arrived in 1620. Some contradictions exist in the records concerning his exact status and the precise date of his arrival. Robert Charles Anderson discusses these contradictions at length in The Great Migration Begins (volume 1, pages 455-59). He is a character in Nathaniel Hawthorne's story "Main-Street".

  
  

• Sources

  [S6596] Robert Charles Anderson, "The Conant Connection: Part One, Thomas Horton, London Merchant and Father-in-Law of Roger Conant." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 147:234, 1993. [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011. [S647] Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines by Mary Walton Ferris. Volume 1, 1943; volume 2, 1931. [S6594] A History of the Conant Family in England and America by Frederick Odell Conant. Portland, Maine, 1887.