Roger Conant 400: 59. Roger Conant

Just one of the many books which mention Roger Conant

Our Roger Conant Club in East Budleigh, Devon, UK, is planning to launch a website devoted to the founder of Salem. I suggested that a section should include books, articles and website material devoted to Roger Conant, so I was invited to make a list. Well, I started, and this is what I have so far. There may be the odd mistake, and I’m sure that there could be many more items to be added. Please let me know if you think I’ve missed something.

I wonder whether the character of Roger Conant appears in a film.

Anyway, here’s my list:

Manuscripts and other documents:

The Conant Family papers are archived at the Peabody Essex Museum near Salem

https://www.pem.org/

Books

Bailyn, Bernard – The Barbarous Years, The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675, New York: Alfred A. Knopf 2012

Bartlett, Sarah S. Roger Conant in America: Governor and Citizen, An Historical Address Delivered at the Conant Family Reunion, Hotel Vendome, Boston, June 13, 1901. See Roger Conant in America as Governor and citizen by Sarah Bartlett

https://ia800200.us.archive.org/14/items/rogerconantiname00bart/rogerconantiname00bart.pdf

Bradford, William – History of Plymouth Plantation. Edited, with notes, by Charles Deane, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1856

[Does Bradford refer to Roger Conant, Book II, p.170?]

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015014559044&view=1up&seq=198

Conant, Frederick Odell – A history and genealogy of the Conant family in England and America, thirteen generations, 1520-1887, Portland 1887.

https://archive.org/details/historygenealogy00cona/page/n4

Conant, Thomas – Upper Canada Sketches, Toronto: William Briggs, 1898 [pages 9-20]

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/64749/64749-h/64749-h.htm

Endicott, Charles M. (1847) Memoir of John Endicott, first governor of the colony of Massachusetts Bay (John Endicott and Roger Conant co-led Salem Village after John Winthrop moved the capital of the Massachusetts Bay Colony to Dorchester.)

https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/public/gdcmassbookdig/memoirofjohnende00endi/memoirofjohnende00endi.pdf

Felt, Joseph B. – Annals of Salem, Salem: W. & S.B. Ives; Boston: James Munrow & Co., 1845

https://www.noblenet.org/salem/reference/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Annals-of-Salem-Felt-v.1.pdf

Gardner, Frank A. – Roger Conant: Salem, 1626. The Leader of the Old Planters, Salem, Mass: Roger Conant Co-operative Bank, 1926

Gardner, Frank A. – Roger Conant, Family Edition Supplement. Contents: A Visit to East Budleigh, by Wallace B. Conant; The Old Planters’ Grant of 1635: Notes communicated by Grace Patten Conant; collaboration in research by Alice G. Lapham; The Old Planters’ Path and the First Landing Place on Bass River, Salem, Mass [?], n.d.

Hubbard, William – A General History of New England, Boston, 1848

https://archive.org/details/generalhistoryof00hubb

Lapham, Alice Gertrude – The Old Planters of Beverly Massachusetts and the Thousand Acre Grant of 1635, 1930, Carlisle, Massachusetts: Applewood Books

Leavitt, E.W. (1890) A Genealogy of One Branch of the Conant Family, 1581-1890 (printed privately)

https://archive.org/details/genealogyofonebr00leav_0)

Little, George Thomas – Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1909

http://dunhamwilcox.net/me/me_bio_conant.htm

Rose-Troup, Frances – John White, The Patriarch of Dorchester, Dorset and The Founder of Massachusetts, 1575-1648, With An Account Of The Early Settlements In Massachusetts, 1620-1630, New York & London: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1930

Shallop, Benjamin - The Founding of Salem: City of Peace. Paperback, 144 pages. The History Press, 2022

Sheppard, Lilian – Raleigh’s Birthplace: The Story of East Budleigh, Budleigh Salterton: The Granary Press, 1983 [pages 45-46]

Shipton, Clifford K. – Roger Conant: A Founder of Massachusetts, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1944.

https://www.seekingmyroots.com/members/files/G001153.pdf

Stone, Edwin Martin – History of Beverly, Civil and Ecclesiastical: From Its Settlement in 1630 to 1842, Boston: J. Munroe, 1843

https://archive.org/details/historyofbeverly00ston

Thornton, John Wingate – The Landing at Cape Anne or The Charter of the first permanent colony on the territory of the Massachusetts Company, Boston; Gould and Lincoln; New York: Sheldon, Lamport and Blakeman, 1854

https://archive.org/details/landingatcapean00thor

Webber, Charles H. & Nevins, Winfield S. – Old Naumkeag: an historical sketch of the city of Salem, and the towns of Marblehead, Peabody, Beverly, Danvers, Wenham, Manchester, Topsfield, and Middleton, Salem: A. A. Smith & company; Boston, Lee & Shepard, 1877

https://archive.org/details/oldnaumkeaghisto00webb/page/n8

Roger Conant as depicted in fiction:

Olson, Charles – The Maximus Poems, New York: Jargon/Corinth, 1960

Hawthorne, Nathaniel – Main Street in The Snow-Image and other Twice-Told Tales, 1852

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/513/513-h/513-h.htm

Articles

Daniel, David – Why did Jeff Conant fly 5,286 miles from Berkley, CA. to visit us last month? in Otter Valley Association Newsletter, vol.38.1 (January 2017), pages 7-8.

https://www.ova.org.uk/sites/default/files/common/Newsletter%202017-01.pdf

Downes, Michael – A tribute to East Budleigh's other hero in Otter Valley Association Newsletter, Summer 2022, pages 13-15.

Sabine, Lorenzo - Report on the Principal Fisheries of the American Seas, in Cod and Whale Fisheries: Report of Hon. Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of State, United States. Department of the Treasury pages 108-113, 293-298. Originally published in 1853.

https://shareok.org/handle/11244/35684 (House-32-2-Executive-23.2-Serial-676.pdf)

Websites

https://augustinesalley.wordpress.com/ [Joseph Bolton]

https://www.ova.org.uk/article/east-budleigh-%E2%80%93-historical-sketch [Vivien Brenan – East Budleigh – Historical Sketch]

http://www.lyndon-estate.co.uk/history/index.html

[Lyndon Conants, UK]

https://conant400.blogspot.com/2022/07/conant-connections-past-and-present-at.html [Michael Downes]

https://climbingthemooneytree.wordpress.com/2018/02/05/roger-conant [Kelcey Mooney]

Gloucester historian Mary Ellen Lepionka kindly contributed the following three essays to my blog site, as follows:

Roger Conant on Cape Ann Part I: The Dorchester Company [12 March 2019]

https://conant400.blogspot.com/2020/01/roger-conant-on-cape-ann-part-i.html

Roger Conant on Cape Ann Part II: The Rescue Party [January 2020]