John Sargent

John Sargent (24 December 1750 – 24 January 1824) was an American Loyalist during the American Revolution. He was exiled to Canada where he subsequently became a politician.

Early life Sargent was born in Salem, Massachusetts on 24 December 1750. He was the second son of Colonel Epes Sargent, by his second wife, the widow Catharine Browne. He was a younger brother to Paul Dudley Sargent, a distinguished Revolutionary War soldier, and the younger half-brother to Winthrop Sargent (1727–1793) and Daniel Sargent Sr. (1730–1806), a prominent merchant.

His maternal grandparents were Ann Dudley, daughter of Joseph Dudley, and John Winthrop (1681–1747), son of Wait Winthrop, grandson of John Winthrop the Younger and great-grandson of John Winthrop, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Sargent's paternal ancestor, William, came to America from Gloucester, England, before 1678. Among his first cousins was Dudley Saltonstall, a notorious Revolutionary War naval commander. Through his brother Winthrop, he was uncle to Winthrop Sargent (1753–1820), a major in the Continental Army who was appointed the first Governor of the Mississippi Territory by president John Adams, and Judith Sargent Murray, an early American advocate for women's rights, essayist, playwright, poet, and letter writer. and thus during the American Revolution he was proscribed and exiled in the Banishment Act of the State of Massachusetts in 1778.

Following his exile, he went to Barrington Township, Nova Scotia, where he attended the 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th General Assemblies of Nova Scotia.

Sargent died in Barrington at the age of 73.