John Conn

Biography

He was born about 1684 in Ireland.

He emigrated from Ireland to Massachusetts. [1]

By about 1715 John Conn had married a Rosanna (of unknown maiden surname).

He folowed the Presbyterian religion.

In 1747 he resided in Littleton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.

By 1750 he had moved to Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.

He passed away on 16 Mar 1759 in Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts [2] [3] and was buried at the Old Burying Ground in Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. [4] [5]

Parents' Marriage

Marriage: 01 Dec 1670 St.Nicholas, Aberdeen, Scotland [6]
Husband: Thomas Conn
Wife: Marjorie Robertson
Child: Edward Conn
Child: John Conn.
Children

John. Conn, b: 1712
George Conn, b: 1716; d: 1796
Mary Conn
Thomas Conn
Margaret Conn.
Excerpt

Dr. Granville Priest CONN was a physician in Concord.

He was born on 25 January 1832 in Hillsborough, New Hampshire, and was the son of Sarah (Priest) and William Conn. William Conn was the fourth generation in descent from John Conn, who came from the north of Ireland about 1712, and died in Groton, Massachusetts, in 1759, at the age of seventy-six.

He was educated in the common schools in Hillsborough, and at Francestown Academy, after which he spent two years at the Institute of Captain Alden Partridge in Norwich, Vermont. His professional education was received at Woodstock, Vermont, and Hanover, New Hampshire, and he was graduated from the Medical Department of Dartmouth College in the class of 1856, and received the degree of A. M. from Norwich University, Vermont, in 1880.

He commenced the practice of his profession in Randolph, Vermont, in 1856, and moved to Richmond, Vermont, in 1861. In August, 1862, he entered the army as Assistant Surgeon of the Twelfth Regiment Vermont Volunteers, which was a part of the Second Vermont Brigade (nine months men) and was mustered out of the service July 14, 1863. He settled in Concord, New Hampshire, October 19, 1863.

In 1865, he became a member of the Board of Health, and the following year instituted the first sanitary inspection of a whole city that was ever made in the state, and probably the first house to house inspection ever made in this country. After the State Board of Health was established in Massachusetts in 1869, Dr. Conn commenced working for a similar board in New Hampshire, which was brought about in 1881. He was chosen its Chairman, and has been its President ever since. In 1877, he was elected Railroad Commissioner and re-elected in 1879. He is a member and Medical Director of the Grand Army of the Republic, Department of New Hampshire, was President of the New Hampshire Medical Society in 1881, and has been its Secretary, with the exception of two years, since 1869. He is a member of the American Medical Association, the American Public Health Association, the International Association of Railway Surgeons, the Medico Legal Association of New York, the New ... [7]

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25 Apr 2022

John Conn (abt. 1684 - 1759)

John Conn

Born about 1684 in Ireland

Son of Thomas Conn and Marjorie Robertson

Brother of Edward Conn

[spouse%28s%29 unknown]

Father of Margaret (Conn) Gragg

Died 16 Mar 1759 in Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts

22:59: N Gauthier edited the Biography for John Conn (abt.1684-1759). (merge cleanup) [Thank N for this]

Sources

↑ Passenger and Immigration Lists Index 1500s-1900s on ancestry.com
↑ Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records compiled by Jay & Delene Holbrook of Holbrook Research Institute in Provo, Utah, USA; for John Conn, b: c1684; d: 16 Mar 1759 Groton, Massachusetts @75yrs
↑ Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records 1620-1988 on ancestry.com; for John Conn, b: c1684; d: 16 Mar 1759 Groton, Massachusetts @75yrs
↑ Epitaphs from the old burying ground in Groton, MA by Samuel A. Green; Little, Brown & Co. of Boston, MA in 1878
↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #87677386 for John Conn, b: 1683; d: 16 Mar 1759 Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA; buried: Old Burying Ground, Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA; with gravestone photo
↑ "Scottish & Irish Background of the Rev. Hugh Conn of the Colonial Clergy of Maryland" by W. Clark; Familia 1994; on ancestry.com & books.google.com
↑ "Men of progress" by Richard Herndon; New England Magazine of Boston, MA 1898; biographical sketches and portraits of leaders in business and professional life in and of the state of New Hampshire
Index to the Probate Records of the County of Middlesex, Massachusetts; published in 1912 Cambridge, MA, USA
Middlesex County, Massachusetts Probate Index citing 1759 Will #4910 for John Conn of Groton, Middlesex County, MA
"John Conn of Groton, Massachusetts and some of his descendants" by Mary Gazelle Hoffman, b: 1890; on archive.org
"Descendants of John Conn of Groton, Massachusetts" by Mary Gazelle Hoffman, A.M., of Lewiston, NY; NEHGS v81 p23-45
New England Historical and Genealogical Register by New England Historic Genealogical Society of Boston, MA; online at http://www.americanancestors.org; citing v69 p300; Text: Diary of James Parker on 24 Feb 1786 - changed a 1/2 Johannes for John Conn.
"History of the town of Harvard, Massachusetts" by Henry S. Nourse; printed for W. Hapgood in 1894 Harvard, MA
Ancestral File #51CL-26 by Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/2CY9-GNK
https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/15418971/person/71...