"2. Thomas Grant, baptized at Hessle, Yorkshire, 12 Feb. 1600/1, died at Rowley, Mass., before 1643; married at Cottingham, Yorkshire, 21 Sept. 1624, Jane Haburne, baptized at Cottingham, 10 Oct. 1602, died at Rowley in 1696. They had six children born at Cottingham, four of whom survived. The family left England not long after the baptism of the youngest child in December, 1637, for they were in New England before January, 1639. We know this because at that date William Stickney was admitted into the First Church of Boston, and in 1698 Samuel Stickney of Bradford, Mass., son of William, deposed that he 'came over from England to New England in the same ship with Thomas Grant & Jane Grant his wife, who brought wth them Foure Children, by name John, Hannah, Frances, & Ann … And ye said John being deceased, I do affirm that the Sisters of John Grant above named, now by Marriage known by ye nams of Hannah Browne, Frances Keyes & Ann Emerson are ye same yt came over wth their Father & Mother and by them owned wth said John for their children.' [Essex County, Mass., Probate Files, No. 11510.]"
