Biography of Conant Surname of Pawlet, VT Pawlet (VT) One Hundred Years Hiel Hollister  1867  J. Munsell, Albany CONANT, Capt. JOHN, son of John G. Conant, who died in Wells in 1830, aged 60; m. Martha da. of Findley McNaughton, and settled at West Pawlet.  His wife died in 1859, leaving four children: Daniel, who recently died in Little Falls, N.Y.; Orlando, rail road engineer; Charlotte, who married Harvey Pratt, of White Creek, N.Y., and Maria, a graduate of Castleton academy and teacher of drawing, painting, etc. CONANT, RUFUS P., from Enfield, N.H., 1811, settled at West Pawlet in the cloth dressing business. He married Fanny Lathe, who died in 1829, aged 41 ; next he married Nancy Goodrich.  He removed with most of his family to Wisconsin, about 1847, where he recently died.