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John Brown

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John Brown

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    Matthew Grant

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    • 5th Great-grandfather of John Brown — 8th Generation
    • Ahnentafel No:
    • 226 
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    • Birth Date:
    • 27 Oct 1601 
    • Birth Location:
    • England 
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    • Death Date:
    • 16 Dec 1681 
    • Death Location:
    • Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut 
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    • Marriage Date:
    • 16 Nov 1625 
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    • Children:

    • Priscilla Grant (Ahnentafel No:113 )

      Samuel Grant

      Mathew Grant

      Tahan Grant

      John Grant

    • Notes: 
    • Arrived in Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1630 aboard the ship Mary and John.

      In 1914 the Grant Family Association presented an ancestry for Matthew Grant that claimed he was the son of John Grant and Alice Tuberville. This was almost immediately met by those who rejected this claim. (See The Genealogical Magazine, Vol. 3, pp. 63-64, and The American Genealogist, Vol 51, pp. 236, 239)

  • Additional marriages for Matthew Grant


    • Spouse:
    • Susanna Capen
    • Marriage Date:
    • 29 May 1645
    • Marriage Location:
    • Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut

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  • Sources for Matthew Grant

    • 5 The Genealogical Magazine, DEC 1915 - SEP 1916, Vol. 3, pp. 63-64.
    • 9 Andrews, Henry Porter, The Descendants of John Porter of Windsor, Conn. 1635-9, Vol. 1, Saratoga Springs: G. W. Ball, Book and Job Printer (1893), 264.
    • 11 Dillon, Arthur Orison, The Ancestors of Arthur Orison Dillon and his Poems, Pomona, California: Printed by the Progress Publishing Company (1927), 17.
    • 12 Ferris, Mary Walton, Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines: A Memorial Volume Containing the American Ancestry of Rufus R. Dawes, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Wisconsin Cuneo Press (1931), Vol. 2, pp. 371-378.
    • 13 Grant, Arthur Hastings, The Grant Family: A Genealogical History of the Descendants of Matthew Grant of Windsor, Conn. 1601-1898, Poughkeepsie, New York: Press of A.V. Haight (1898), 1.
    • 14 Hibbard, Augustine George and Lewis Mills Norton, History of the Town of Goshen, Connecticut: with Genealogies and Biographies, Hartford, Connecticut: Press of the Case, Lockwood and Brainard Company (1897), 462.
    • 15 Hughes, Thomas Patrick and Frank Munsell, American Ancestry: Giving the Name and Descent in the Male Line of Americans Whose Ancestors Settled in the U.S., Vol. 11, Albany, New York: Joel Munsell's Sons, Publishers (1898), 198.
    • 16 Marshall, Edward Chauncey, The Ancestry of General Grant, and their Contemporaries, New York: Sheldon and Company (1869), 163-165.
    • 17 Pack, Charles Lathrop, Thomas Hatch of Barnstable and Some of his Descendants: The Descent of Alice Gertrude Hatch and her Husband . . ., Newark, New Jersey: Society of Colonial Wars in the State of New Jersey (1930), 88.
    • 18 Starr, Frank Farnsworth, Various Ancestral Lines of James Goodwin and Lucy (Morgan) Goodwin of Hartford, Connecticut, 2 Vols., Hartford, Connecticut: (1915), Vol. 1, Pages 99-110.
    • 19 Stiles, Henry R., The History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut, 1635-1891, Vol. 2: Genealogies and Biographies, Hartford, Connecticut: The Press of the Case, Lockwood and Brainard Company (1892), 302-304.
    • 20 Wheeler, Richard Anson, History of the Town of Stonington, County of New London, Connecticut, From its First Settlement in 1649 to 1900, New London, Connecticut: Press of the Day Publishing Company (1900), 400.