Deborah (Conant) Derby (1688 - 1763)

Born 20 Feb 1688 in Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Wife of John (Derby) Darby — married 1706 in Concord, Middlesex, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died 13 Apr 1763 at age 75 in Concord, Middlesex, Province of Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

Deborah Conant was born on 20 Feb 1688 in Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony. She was a daughter of John Conant and Bethiah Mansfield. About 1703, she married John Darby, son of John and Alice Darby, who was born in Marblehead, Massachusetts on October 8, 1681, and was a weaver by trade. John and Deborah settled first in Beverly, where most of their children were born. In about 1720, they moved to Ipswich, and from there to Concord, where John died on March 7, 1753. His name was spelled Darbie in his will, which was dated in 1747. Deborah died in Concord on April 13, 1763. She was a descendant of Roger Conant, the original governor of Cape Ann & Salem^[1]

Children

John Derby and Deborah Conant had the following (8) children:^[2]

1. John, b. 27 Dec. 1704
2. Andrew, b. 26 Jan. 1706/7
3. Benjamin, b. 12 March 1710/11; died young
4. Ebenezer, b. 23 Nov. 1712
5. Deborah, b. 11 Apr. 1714
6. Benjamin, b. 28 Nov. 1715
7. Joseph, b. 10 June 1718
8. Mary, b. 12 June 1720

Sources

1. ↑ Derby, Webster. Derby genealogy: a record of the descendants of John Darby of Marblehead, Mass., ten generations (Darling & Co., Printers, Keene, Mass., 1903) Page 5.
2. ↑ A History and Genealogy of the Conant Family in England and America, Thirteen Generations, 1520-1887; By Conant, Frederick Odell, M.A., Privately Printed, Portland:1887 p. 177

See also:

• http://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Essex/Beverly/Images/Beverly_B083.shtml
• Conant, Frederick. A History and Genealogy of the Conant Family in England and America (Portland, Maine, 1887), p. 177.
• Find A Grave: Memorial #98025521