Excerpt from John Conn of Groton, Mass., And Some of His Descendants

On 7 May 1767 the selectmen of Groton, in a petition addressed to the judge of probate for Middlesex County, stated that Rosanna Conn, widow of Mr. Juo. Conn, lateof Groton, deceased, had lost her reason and on account of age and infirmity was unable to care for herself or her estate. They therefore asked for the appointment of her son-in - law, Mr. Jacob Gragg of said Groton, described in another document as husbandman, as guardian over the said Rosanna, and the Court, holding that Rosanna was a person non compos, made this appointment on 11 May 1767. But John Conn, son of John and Rosanna, had come over from Ireland and taken into his hands his mother's effects, of which he refused to give any account. Therefore, at the request of Jacob Gragg, dated 1 June 1767, he was, as John Conn of Groton, cited by the Court on 10 June 1767 to appear for examination; and at this examination, on 23 June 17 67 he mentioned his brother George, accounted for some of his mother's property, and said that his mother had given him a note for £250 to bring his wife and family from Ireland. (middlesex Probate Files, The children of J ohn1 Conn were said to have been above the ordinary height, with broad shoulders and powerful frames, knit together with strong, elastic muscles. The son John it is evident, did not come to New England until after the father s death. Al though the births of children of the daughter Margaret Gragg are found in the Groton records, beginning with a son born 18 Mar. 1739 [1739 it is possible that she was married and that her elder children were born before she came to Groton perhaps in Ireland. Her brother George Conn was of Littleton on 13 Mar. (vide infra), but had probably been in that town only a short time, for his daughter Rosanna is said to have been born in Ireland about 1745. It is probable, therefore, that all the children of J ohnl Conn were born in Ireland; but whether all of them (except John) emigrated to New England with their father is uncertain, as is also the year of the father's voyage.

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