ov. Roger Conant was s. of Richard and
Agnes, br. it is said of Dr. John of the gr. Assemb. of Divines
at Westminster, b. in the hundred of E. Budleigh, bapt. at the
parish ch. of the same, in Devon, 9 Apr. 1593; appoint. 1625, gov.,
superintend. for the Dorchester project. of the planta. as
Endicott, wh. supersed. him, was, 1629, for the Gov. and Comp. of
Mass. bef. the com. of Winth. the first chart. Gov. in the
country. [Felt, I. 106. Hubbard, 109, 10.] Gibbs says his gr.f.
John was of French, i. e. Norman, extract. his ancest. for many
generat. hav. been at Gittisham, betw. Honiton and Ottery St.
Marys. He req. to be freem. 19 Oct. 1630, was adm. 18 May
foll. was rep. at the first gen. Ct. of Mass. 1634, d. 19 Nov.
1679, in 87th yr. at Beverly (wh. he earnestly desir. to be name
Budleigh). Young, Chron. 24, gives him four s. I think he had
five; but even the assiduous fondness of Felt, in a Mem. of gr.
dilig. filling fourteen pages of Geneal. Reg. II. has not furnish.
complete fam. acco. His abstr. of the will, made 1 Mar. 1678,
refers to s. Exercise and childr.; s. Lot's ten ch.; gr.ch. John,
s. of Roger; gr.ch. Joshua C. whose f. may have been John, or
Roger; ds. Eliz. C. prob. never m.; Mary, w. of the sec. William
Dodge, and her five ch.; Sarah, and her ch. John and four ds.; a
gr.ch. Rebecca C. whose f. may have been either of the s. John,
or Roger; beside cous. Mary, w. of Hilliard Verin, but whose d.
is unkn.; Adoniram Veren, and his sis. Hannah, with her two ch.
and three ds. of his cous. James Mason, dec. and it is equally
unkn. wh. she was. Of Exercise, perhaps the third s. b. at Cape
Ann, a. 1636, bapt. 24 Dec. 1637; Joshua; and Lot, above, is all
that is kn. to me; John was of Beverly ch. 1671, prob. d. bef.
his f.; Roger, the first b. ch. at Salem is spok. of next. His w.
was Sarah, but neither h. nor w. unit. early with the ch. ROGER,
SaIem, s. of the preced. the first ch. (said the rec. as early as
1640) b. in Salem (tho. the c]aim has been by a recent tradit.
put in for John Massey), and had a gr. of ld. on that score, says
Felt; had John, bapt. 26 May 1662, was of Marblehead, there d.
Saturday 15 June 1672, as his w. wrote in her Bible, still t seen.
His youngest s. Samuel d. not 9 May preced. as oft. said, but S 4
May, as his mo. wrote 3 Mass. Hist. Coll. VII. 255. At
Charlestown th was cont. Four of the name had, 1834, been gr. at
Harv. five at Yale, five at the other N. E. coll. [RWHITNEY.GED]