Hon. Shubael CONANT, Esq.

Male 1711 - 1775  (64 years)


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  • Name Shubael CONANT  [1, 2, 3
    • He studied theology, and was licensed to preach by the Windham County Association, May 21, 1734. The next year he was married to Eunice, the eldest daughter of the Rev. Eleazer Williams (Harv. 1708), and began his career as a lawyer in Mansfield. His clerical education was, however, still remembers, and in 1743 he was invited to become successor of his father-in-law in the Mansfield pulpit but declined. Meantime, in 1739, he had been appointed a Lieutenant-Colonel of Militia, and in 1741 had represented the town in the General Assembly, --an office which he filled in thirty sessions between this date and 1760, being also Speaker of the House at twenty-one sessions, from 1753. In 1760 he was advanced to the Upper House, and held that position till his death; being also from 1766 Judge of the County Court and of the Probate Court for Windham District. He was for several years a deacon in the church in Mansfield, and probably no one of his generation exercised a wider or more healthful influence in the town and county than he. [1]
    Prefix Hon. 
    Suffix Esq. 
    Birth 15 Jul 1711  Windham, Windham County, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Male 
    Fact Son of Josiah Conant and Joanna Dimmick Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Grandson of Exercise Conant, and great-grandson of Roger Conant, the predecessor of John Endicott in the government of the plantation which was the forerunner of the Massachusetts Bay Company 
    Death 16 Sep 1775  Mansfield, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Person ID I93897  Main Tree
    Last Modified 8 Feb 2019 

    Family 1 Eunice WILLIAMS,   b. Abt 1711   d. 10 Sep 1736 (Age 25 years) 
    Marriage 1735  [1
    Family ID F39232  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 8 Feb 2019 

    Family 2 Ruth CONANT 
    Marriage 20 Apr 1738  [1
    Family ID F39233  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 8 Feb 2019 

    Family 3 Sarah AVERY,   b. 1718, Tolland, Tolland County, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 17 Nov 1778 (Age 60 years) 
    Family ID F39231  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 8 Feb 2019 

  • Sources 
    1. [S10360] Ancestry.com: Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College Vol. 1, 1731-32.

    2. [S10358] Allyn S. Kellogg, Memorials of Elder John White one of The First Settlers of Hartford, Conn., and of His Descendants, (Hartford: printed for the Family, by Case, Lockwood and Co., 1860).

    3. [S10359] Ancestry.com: Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College, Vol. III, Annals 1767-68.