We want to honour Roger Conant, one of Devon's unsung heroes, with a blue plaque in the village of East Budleigh, where he was born. He crossed the Atlantic and founded the city of Salem in Massachusetts in 1626. Previously he acted as a peacemaker and helped to prevent bloodshed and a possible civil war between settlers in New England as seen in this painting. It shows Roger Conant in a famous episode of 1625, was created specially by Budleigh artist John Washington and is entitled 'Blessed are the Peacemakers'.