Person:Samuel Grant (6)

m. 16 Nov 1625
  1. Priscilla Grant1626 - Aft 1669
  2. Matthew Grant1628 - 1639
  3. Samuel Grant1631 - 1718
  4. Tahan Grant1633/34 - 1693
  5. John Grant1642 - 1684
m. 27 May 1658
  1. Samuel Grant1659 - 1710
  2. John Grant1664 - 1695
  3. Matthew Grant1666 - 1734/35
  4. Josiah Grant1668 - 1732
  5. Nathaniel Grant1672 -
  6. Mary Grant1675/76 - 1711
  7. Sarah Grant1678/79 -
Facts and Events
Name[1][2][3] Samuel Grant
Gender Male
Birth[1][2][4] 12 Nov 1631 Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage 27 May 1658 Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United Statesto Mary Porter
Death[2][5] 10 Sep 1718 Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Probate[5] 10 Oct 1718 Administration to sons Matthew and Samuel.
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 Matthew Grant, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995)
    2:803.

    "Samuel (Grant), b. Dorchester 12 November 1631 [CTVR 23; Grant 37; and Goodwin Anc 1:106]; …"

  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 1 Children of Matthew1 and Priscilla (____) Grant., in Patterson, D. Williams. A Genealogical Study of the Grant Family: Descended from Matthew Grant, of Windsor, Conn., 1635. (Hartford, Conn.: Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company, 1892)
    4.

    "4 … Samuel Grant,2 b. at Dorchester Mass., 12 Nov., 1631; admitted freeman, 18 May, 1654; 1658/9, Jan. 8, the town voted he should ' try and seal measures for the town'; two years later he was employed to 'shingle the inside roof of meeting-house.' When 18 yrs. old he was employed by John Bissell to attend the Conn. River ferry. In Feb., 1674, his father gave him (and his brother John) lands on the east side of 'that river; i. e. without the East bds. of W.'; m. at W., 27 May, 1658, with Mary (dau. John Porter. They joined the First Ch. in W. in 1685; were membs. of the E. W. ch. in 1700; res. on the little eminence on the bank of the river, in the rear of the Theol. Institute, which eminence was the only ground in the meadow which was not covered with water in the great flood of 1638-39.—Old Ch. Rec. This was found to be too low for a home, and they moved back to the first terrace, on the higher ground, on spot now occupied by Mr. Roswell Grant. He was one of the petitioners 13 May, 1680, for a separate township organization, that they might have religious services of their own east of the Great River; d. there 10 Sept., 1718, acc. to inventory of his estate."

  3. Samuel Grant, in Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
    2:292.

    "Samuel (Grant), Windsor, eldest s. of Matthew, freem. 1654, m. 27 May 1658, Mary Porter, had Samuel, b. 20 Apr. 1659, John, 24 Apr. 1664; Matthew, 22 Sept. 1666; Josiah, 19 May 1668; Nathaniel, 14 Apr. 1672; Mary, 23 Jan. 1676; and Sarah, 19 Jan. 1679."

  4. Windsor Vital Records [NEHGS], in Connecticut, United States. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records
    126.

    "Grant, … Samuel, b. Nov. 12, 1631, in Dorchester; m. Mary Porter, May 27, 1658 [MG]"
    "Grant, … Samuell, s. Mathew, Sr., b. Nov. 12, 1631 [Col. 1:56]"
    "Grant, … Samuel, had 8 children b. in Windsor. Dated Aug. 17, 1677 [MG]"

  5. 5.0 5.1 Grant, Samuel, Windsor, in Manwaring, Charles W. A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records. (Hartford, Conn.: R. S. Peck & Co., 1904-06)
    2:394.

    "Probate Records, Vol. IX, 1715 to 1723. Page 301.

    Grant, Samuel, Windsor. Died 10th September, 1718. Invt. £202-15-00. Taken by Samuel Rockwell and John Elsworth.

    Court Record, Page 84—7 October, 1718: Adms. to Matthew Grant and Samuel Grant, sons of the deceased.

    Page 118—2 February, 1719-20: Adms. now exhibit account of debts due from the estate amounting to the sum of £222-10-00. Accepted."