John Tant

Bef 1645 - Bef 1702  (< 57 years)

• Name	John Tant  [1]
  Birth	Bef 1645  [2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Bef 12 Nov 1702	St. Mary's County, Maryland   [2, 3, 4]
  Person ID	I3158	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of PNH
  Last Modified	22 Oct 2020

  
  

  Family	Margaret Bloomfield,   b. Between 1651 and 1654   d. 1726, St. Mary's County, Maryland (Age ~ 75 years)
  Marriage	Bef 1665	St. Mary's County, Maryland   [2]
  Children	+ 1. James Tant + 2. Elizabeth Tant,   b. Bef 1689, St. Mary's County, Maryland d. Aft 1724, St. Mary's County, Maryland (Age > 37 years)
  Family ID	F2478	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	22 Oct 2020

  
  

• Notes

  First recorded in 1673, an immigrant servant; free later that same year. A "taylor" in 1675, a planter by 1676, with one slave, later four slaves and one servant. Dr. Lois Green Carr's records (citation details below) call his wife only "Margaret", but she notes his their household also contained "Patrick Blomfield, son of John Blomfield." His will of 17 Oct 1702 bequeaths to his son James and heirs, personalty, and also confirms to James and heirs the estate "Dry Dockett". To son Mark at 18, all of his other lands, except if Mark dies without issue, lands to pass to daughters … and "to Japhaele and Maryeena Blumfield and Ellinor Dickins, personalty". Thus another Bloomfield connection to the Tant family.

  
  

• Sources

  [S312] John Medley (1615-1660), St. Mary's County Maryland, His Descendants, by Mary Louise Donnelly. Ennis, Texas: Mary Louise Donnelly, 1995. [S393] Linda Reno, 11 Sep 2012, post to MDSTMARY-L. [S134] Mike Marshall, Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia’s Northern Neck Counties. [S247] Maryland State Archives, Biographical Files of 17th and 18th Century Marylanders, by Dr. Lois Green Carr., year only.