Samuel GRANT

Samuel married Mary POTTER on 27 May 1680. Mary was born about 1638. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Josiah GRANT was born on 19 Mar 1668 in East Windsor, Hartford Co., Connecticut; died on 28 Mar 1732 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut, USA.

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Matthew Grant, the progenitor and emigrant ancestor of the Grant family of New England, was b. in England on Tuesday, Oct. 27, 1601. He came to this country May 30, 1630, in the good Ship Mary and John and landed at Dorchester, Mass. He was admitted a freeman in the Massachusetts Colony in 1631, but did not long remain in Dorchester, for as early as 1635, he took an active part in forming the company that migrated to Windsor, Conn., and went with them to that place, and was elected first town clerk thereof, which office he held for a good many years. he also held the position of town surveyor, and took a prominent part in the organization, and also in transplanting the congregational Church there, which had been previously formed in Plymouth, England, and first transplanted in Dorchester, Conn.

Matthew married Priscilla ? on 16 Nov 1625. Priscilla was born on 27 Feb 1600; died on 27 Apr 1644. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]