Conant, Roger

1626 - 1672  (46 years)

• Name	Conant, Roger
  Birth	1626	Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts   [1, 2]
  	"being the first child born in Salem."
  Gender	Male
  _UID	81E8654DC8C044549BF04837B0C2D727B559
  Death	15 Jun 1672	Massachusetts Bay Colony, British North America   [1]
  Person ID	I11332	Tree_1
  Last Modified	11 Feb 2021

  
  

  Father	Conant, Roger,   b. Bef Apr 1592, Devonshire, England d. 19 Nov 1679, Beverly, Essex County, Massachusetts (Age > 87 years)
  Mother	Horton, Sarah,   b. Abt 1598, London, Middlesex, England d. Bef 1 Mar 1677/8, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts (Age < 80 years)
  Marriage	11 Nov 1618	London, Middlesex, England   [1, 3, 4, 5]
  	Address: St. Ann Blackfriars
  Residence	1624	Hull, Plymouth County, Massachusetts   [1, 2]
  	Address: Nantasket
  	Dawes-Gates: "At Nantasket Roger is said to have been “the principal person” as well as a “pious sober and prudent gentleman,” “religious and well affected.” After about a year’s residence there he was requested by the Dorchester Company of England, a group made up of various investors and a few idealists who had been maintaining a fishing settlement at Cape Ann [now Gloucester], for approximately a year, to go there to “be their governor in that place,” having charge of both the fishing and of the plantation."
  Residence	1625	Essex County, Massachusetts   [2]
  	Address: Cape Ann
  Residence	1626	Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts   [2]
  Family ID	F2733	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Weston, Elizabeth   d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	1650	Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts   [6]
  Family ID	F3704	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	11 Dec 2023

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 1626 - Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts Marriage - 1650 - Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts Death - 15 Jun 1672 - Massachusetts Bay Colony, British North America  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S1553] Dawes-Gates ancestral lines, 16 January 2021; Conant Family; pg 221-227. [S346] Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, 6 December 2014; pg. 453. [S346] Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, 4 December 2014; pg. 454. [S2498] New England Marriages to 1700 (Torrey), Vol. 1, pg. 361; marriage of Roger Conant & Sarah Horton; 16 January 2021. [S1803] Vital Records from the NEHGS Register, 17 March 2021; 147:235-7, The Conant Connection. [S2498] New England Marriages to 1700 (Torrey), Vol. 1, pg. 361; marriage of Lot Conant, Sr. & Elizabeth Weston.