Source:Robert Charles Anderson. Conant Connection

Article in two parts exploring the English connections of Roger Conant, founder of Salem and Beverly, Mass. (Roger Conant on WeRelate)

Part One, Thomas Horton, London Merchant and Father-in-Law of Roger Conant, gives the family of Roger Conant's wife Sarah. Although Sarah Horton's name had been known for decades, this is the first known determination of her parentage. The author traced another marriage in the same parish that Roger and Sarah married, between a Margaret Horton and Richard Culverwell. Richard and Margaret were found in the parish of St. Margaret Moses from 1618 to 1644. Those registers also contained the burial record for Richard's mother-in-law, Katherine Horton, widow of Thomas Horton. Further investigation revealed the family of Thomas Horton, as well as the will of Katherine, which names her daughter Sarah Conant, thereby confirming that Sarah Horton, married Richard Conant, was the sister of Margaret Horton and the daughter of Thomas and Katherine.

Part Two, Roger Conant, Two Culverwell Familes and the Puritan Ministerial Network, examines the connections between the man Margaret Horton married, Richard Culverwell, and Thomas Horton's first wife, Margaret Culverwell, daughter of Lawrence. The author found background on each family back to Somerset, but did not find a definitive connection between the two Culverwell families. The author then turns to the various connections of the Culverwells and Roger Conant to important early Puritan ministers.