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Sixt/_ Generation. 229<br />

yard College, I784). Born on the same day<br />

and hour with her husband, she was a lineal<br />

descendant in the seventh generation from<br />

Roger Conant, the founder of Salem, who was<br />

a grandson of John Conant of Gittisham, near<br />

Honiton, Eng., where the Conant family had<br />

been settled for many generations. This fam-<br />

ily is believed to have been originally of Nor-<br />

man origin. _" She died Nov. Io, I859, aged 7 I<br />

years. In her were united, in a remarkable<br />

degree, the wisdom, prudence, energy, and<br />

firmness of purpose which characterized her<br />

ancestor Roger Conant.<br />

Of several notices and biographical sketches<br />

of Mr. Whiting published at the time of his<br />

death, the following is extracted from the editorial<br />

columns of " The Liberator:<br />

Gen. Reg., July, I848 ; Felt's Ann. of Salem ; Stone's Itist. of<br />

Beverly ; Gibbs and Farmer's Reg. ; Young's Chronicles ; tlutchin.<br />

son's Hist. of Mass. ; Life of Rev. John Conant, I823; Middleton's<br />

Biog. Dict. ; Alien's Biog. Dict. ; Thornton on the Landing at Cape<br />

Ann, or the First Charter. See Note 6, p. e-64 on Roger Conant.

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