Person:Mercy Grant (3)

Note: I cannot find any further information about this woman aside from the two brief references quoted here. Based on the ages of her children she was likely born sometime in the 1720s or 1730s. One online discussion group had a message which listed her as a child of Beriah Grant and Martha Park, but no evidence or citations were provided.

One more clue: "The History of Sullivan County" has this passage: "In the spring of 1790, Joshua Grant, the father of Thomas, moved from Groton, Connecticut, bringing with him two other sons, Ephraim and Nathan," and "[John Gorton] came from Connecticut in 1793, with his cousins, Thomas and William Grant,... Thomas Grant at that time had three children and Gorton two." This would imply that Mary and Joshua are siblings, making Thomas, William and John Gorton cousins.

Is this possibly the same person as Person:Mary Grant (97)?

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1. ↑ Van Benschoten, William Henry. Concerning the Van Bunschoten or Van Benschoten family in America: A Genealogy and Brief History. (Poughkeepsie, NY: A. V. Haight Co. Printers, 1907)
   p. 292.

   Elizabeth Gorton, b. Nov. 19, 1791, at New London, Conn., dau. of John and Sarah (Gates) Gorton, and grand-dau. of Samuel and Mercy (Grant) Gorton.

2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Gorton, Adelos. The Life and Times of Samuel Gorton: the Founders and the Founding of the Republic, a Section of Early United States History, and a History of the Colony of Providence and Rhode Island Plantations in the Narragansett Indian Country, Now the State of Rhode Island, 1592-1636-1677-1687 : With a Genealogy of Samuel Gortons's Descendants to the Present Time, Compiled from Various Accounts, Histories, Letters, and Published and Unpublished Records. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: George S. Ferguson, 1907)
   p. 169, 182.

   Samuel Gorton ... married Mary Grant ... married Mercy Grant.

3.   Quinlan, James Eldridge. History of Sullivan County: embracing an account of its geology, climate, aborigines, early settlement, organization, the formation of its towns, with biographical sketches of prominent residents, etc., etc. (South Fallsburg, N.Y.: Fallsburg Print. Co., 1965).