Ancestry of
Ulysses S. Grant

18th U.S. President

Priscilla -----

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• • 5th Great-grandmother of Ulysses S. Grant — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 129 
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT Feb 1601 
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  • Death Date:
  • 27 Apr 1644 
  • Death Location:
  • Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Matthew Grant
  • Marriage Date:
  • 16 Nov 1625 
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  Priscilla Grant

  Samuel Grant (Ahnentafel No:64 )

  Mathew Grant

  Tahan Grant

  John Grant

  • Notes: 

  • Some sources claim that Priscilla's maiden name is Grey, daughter of Rev. Anthony Grey, but this claim has been thoroughly disproved.(See NEHGR 102:153)

• Sources for Priscilla -----

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1948, Vol. 102, p. 153.
  • ² The American Genealogist, 1959, Vol. 35, p. 25.
  • ³ The American Genealogist, 1975, Vol. 51, pp. 236, 239.
  • ⁴ The Genealogical Magazine, DEC 1915 - SEP 1916, Vol. 3, pp. 63-64.
  • ⁵ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 2, G-O, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 803.
  • ⁶ Brogan, Hugh and Charles Mosley, American Presidential Families, New York: Macmillan Publishing Company (1993), 471-473.
  • ⁷ 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.
  • ⁸ 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.
  • ⁹ 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.
  • ¹⁰ Marshall, Edward Chauncey, The Ancestry of General Grant, and their Contemporaries, New York: Sheldon and Company (1869), 164.
  • ¹¹ Starr, Frank Farnsworth, Various Ancestral Lines of James Goodwin and Lucy (Morgan) Goodwin of Hartford, Connecticut, 2 Vols., Hartford, Connecticut: (1915), Vol. 1, page 106.
  • ¹² 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), 303-304.
  • ¹³ 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.