Sarah (Jewett) Conant (1702 - 1764)

Born 4 Jun 1702 in Rowley, Essex, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Wife of Joseph Conant — married 9 Dec 1725 in Boxford, Essex, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died 1764 at about age 61 in Falmouth, Cumberland, Province of Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

SARAH JEWETT (Thomas, Ezekiel, Maximilian, Edward), was born in Rowley, Mass., June 4, bapt. July 12, 1702. She married in Boxford, Mass., Dec. 9, 1725, Joseph Conant, of Ipswich, Mass. He was born in Beverly, Mass., Nov. 9, bapt. Nov. 16, 1701. They settled in Ipswich and removed to Falmouth (now Portland, Maine), where he was admitted inhabitant April 22, 1728, on the payment of £10 and received several lots of land. "He is said to have been the first settler of Saccarappa Village which he reached by going up the Presumpscot River in a canoe." (Conant Family.)

Sources

• Jewett, Frederic Clarke, History and Genealogy of the Jewetts of America, Volume I, The Grafton Press, New York, 1908. Pgs. 39-40. 63-4.
• Conant, Frederick Odell, M.A., A History and Genealogy of the Conant Family in England and America, Thirteen Generations, 1520-1887, Privately Printed, Portland, Maine:1887, Pgs 183-4.
• Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915, database, FamilySearch (15 January 2020), Sarah Jewett, 1702.
• Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001, database with images, FamilySearch (18 February 2020), Joseph Conant and Sarah Jewett, 09 Dec 1725; citing Marriage, Boxford, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009706.