- John Sargent (Loyalist)
John Sargent (
December 24 1750 , Salem -January 24 1824 ) was an American Loyalist duringAmerican Revolution .A
Methodist merchant fromSalem, Massachusetts , he was the second son of Colonel Epes Sargent, by his second wife, the widow Catharine Browne (she was a Winthrop and a descendant of GovernorJohn Winthrop ). He is the very first signatory among the Salem Addressers of GovernorThomas Gage on his arrival in Salem in 1774, and thus after the war he was proscribed and exiled in the Banishment Act of the State of Massachusetts in 1778. He went toBarrington, Nova Scotia , where he had three sons and a daughter (having married the widow Margaret Barnard in Boston in 1784) and attended the 8th, 9th and 10th General Assemblies of Nova Scotia.References
* [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=53260369 ADDRESS PRESENTED TO HIS EXCELLENCY GOVERNOR GAGE, JUNE 11TH, 1774, ON HIS ARRIVAL AT SALEM. - signed by Sargent]
* [http://files.usgwarchives.org/ma/statewide/loyalists.txt Banishment Act of the State of Massachusetts, 1778]
* [http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=3116 John Sargent] in the "Dictionary of Canadian Biography "
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