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Grant Family PETER1 GRANT (c1631-c1710) m. (1664) JOAN _______ (b. c1644) JAMES2 GRANT (1672-1735) M . (1693) MARY NASON (B . C1672) JAMES3 GRANT (B . 1703) M . (1726) SARAH JOY (B . C1705) ANDREW4 GRANT (B . 1736) ANDREW5 GRANT (1766-1853) M . (1790) ZEBIAH WALKER (1763-1816) LUCY6 GRANT (1794-1858) M . (1815) WILLIAM HARLING REED (1779-1858)

Peter1 Grant (c1631-c1710) and Joan (_______) (Grant) Grant PETER1 GRANT was born in Scotland about 1631.1 Peter Grant married _______ _______ in Scotland.2 Peter Grant was a member of the clan Grant who fought Oliver Cromwell’s English forces on 3 Sep 1650 at the battle of Dunbar. He was among the 5,000 Scot prisoners taken there and marched to Durham, England. The Cathedral at Durham was converted into a prison for the Scottish prisoners. 1,600 of them died in 58 days from disease and wounds. Of the surviving prisoners, 900 were sent to Virginia and 150 to New England. Peter Grant was among those sent to New England. He arrived on the ship Unity, arriving in Boston near the end of December 1650. He was sold as an indentured servant to the proprietors of the iron works in Lynn, Mass.3 Richard Leader, the manager of the Lynn Iron Works, left Lynn in 1652 to become manager of the sawmill at Kittery, Me. (within the area that became Berwick, Me. in 1713). He took with him some or all of the Lynn works’ indentured servants, including Peter Grant. Leader left in 1656 for Barbados, and in the same year Peter Grant was freed from his indenture and granted land in Kittery (Berwick). They named their parish “Unity,” no doubt in honor of the ship on which they had come to New England.4 A by-product of this somewhat discreditable, but none the less picturesque, incident in our early history was the formation of the Scots Charitable Society organized in Boston January 6, 1657, “for the relief of Scotchmen.” This date represents the proximate time when the prisoners from Dunbar and Worchester were finishing their terms of servitude. Those who had not formed local connections naturally drifted to Boston without employment and possessed of little of this world’s goods. They were at first looked down upon as aliens and classed in the public records with Negroes and Indians. A Scotch prisoner in New England in 1660, was the analogue of a European alien in 1860 and this society was formed to assist them. Among the charter members are found the names of some who served time in the Lynn Iron Works.5

Peter Grant was one of those unemployed former servants who found his way to Boston and helped found the Scots Charitable Society. By 1657, he was at Dover, N. H., but apparently finding prospects there not to his liking, was back at Kittery by 1659.6 He bought property in Kittery from JAMES EMERY in that year.7 In 1661, Peter and James Grant were ordered by a local court in Kittery to return to Scotland to their wives, which would indicate that both had been married at the time of their capture. They do not appear to have returned to Scotland, perhaps because they could not afford the fare, or perhaps because after 11 years their wives must have remarried, assuming them dead. It has been claimed that Joan was Joanna Ingersoll, daughter of George2 (Richard1) Ingersoll.

Peter’s brother, James Grant, had likewise become a prisoner of the English—probably at the Battle of Worcester, in 1651—and had been sent to New England as a servant in 1651, on the ship John & Sara.8 He may be the James Grant who married Joan _______.9 Prepared by Stuart Bloom, PO Box 487, Earlville, IL 60518. [email protected]. Copyright © 2005 by Stuart Bloom. All rights reserved.

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Grant Family On 10 July 1664 Peter and Joan Grant, wife of James Grant, were taken to court for living together while unmarried. Joan was pregnant at this time and it was believed that Peter had a wife living in Scotland. Peter claimed that the child was not his but promised to care for it, and Joan claimed that the child was her husband’s. The court decided otherwise and penalized Peter £10 or 10 lashes.10 The child, Elizabeth, was called his daughter in the will of one Niven Agnew.11 Peter Grant married JOAN (_______) GRANT “under court pressure” on 28 Nov 1664. She is described in the marriage record as “big with child.”12 Peter Grant was fined in 1680 “for lying drunke in the high way,” and in 1691 for profaning the Sabbath, when he and other Scotsmen killed a deer.13 Peter Grant made his will on 19 Oct 1709. He names his wife Joan and “them seven” children.14 His estate was inventoried on 2 Mar 1712/13.15 Peter and Joan (_______) (Grant) Grant had the following children, all probably born at Kittery:16 i. William Grant, born about 1670.17 He married (1) Jane Warren on 4 Aug 1690.18 She was the daughter of James and Margaret Warren.19 He married (2) Martha Nelson on 26 Dec 1695.20 His will was made 24 May 1721 and proved 22 Oct 1722.21 ii. JAMES2 GRANT, born on 23 Mar 1671,22 q. v. iii. Alexander Grant, born about 1673.23 He was single in 1721 and was living

in 1637.24 iv. Mary Grant, born about 1676.25 She married Joseph Pray.26 v. Grizel Grant.27 She married John Key.28 vi. Daniel Grant, born about 1680.29 He was single in 1721.30 vii. Hannah Grant.31 She was living, unmarried, in 1721.32

James2 Grant (1672-1735) and Mary (Nason) Grant (b. c1672) JAMES2 GRANT (PETER1) was born in 1672, probably in Kittery, Me.33 He was a carpenter,34 and is probably the James Grant who was wounded by Indians in 1692.35 James Grant married MARY3 NASON (JONATHAN2 RICHARD1) on 6 Oct 1693.36 Mary Grant died before 1709, for by that year James Grant had married Rachel Stone, daughter of Daniel and Patience Stone, with whom he had six children.37 James Grant was a Captain in an Indian war of 1725.38 James Grant was living in 1735, when the town laid out to him land that had been granted to his grandfather, James Grant.39 On 3 Nov 1735 in Berwick, Captain James Grant was “baptised in his bed being at the Point of Death.”40 James and Mary (Nason) Grant had the following children, all probably born at Kittery: i. James Grant, born on 8 Oct 1694.41 He died on 15 Feb 1701.42 ii. Peter Grant, born on 14 Dec 1696.43 He married Lydia Fost on 24 Feb 1717.44 He married (2) Mary (Lord) Stuart.45 She was the widow of Joseph3 Stuart (Samuel2 Duncan1), who died in 1734.46

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Grant Family James3 Grant (b. 1703) and Sarah (Joy) Grant (b. c1705) JAMES3 GRANT (JAMES2 PETER1) was born on 8 Dec 1703 in Kittery, Me.52 SARAH4 JOY (EPHRAIM2-3 THOMAS1) was probably born in 1704 or 1705, probably in Kittery.53 James Grant married Sarah Joy on 9 Mar 1724/25 in Berwick, Me.54 James Grant was baptized in Berwick, along with his namesake son, in December 1725.55 James and Sarah (Joy) Grant had the following children, all baptized in Berwick: i. James Grant, baptized in December 172556 ii. Mary Grant, baptized on 31 Dec 172757

iv. Ephraim Grant, baptized on 25 Apr 1731.59 He married Hannah _______, possibly Hannah Canney.60 He died about 1799.61

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v. ANDREW4 GRANT, baptized on 30 May 1736,62 q. v.

Andrew4 Grant (b. c1736) ANDREW4 GRANT (JAMES2-3 PETER1) was baptized in Berwick, Me. on 30 May 1736.63 Andrew Grant married Patience Gooden64 by whom he had four children65 before she died in 1766.66 Elizabeth Dunton was born in 1751,67 probably the daughter of Timothy Dunton.68 Andrew Grant married Elizabeth Dunton on 27 Nov 1767 in Woolwich, Me.69 Andrew Grant was one of the very first settlers of the area which became Hampden, Me., settling there on the Penobscot River in 1772.70 Andrew Grant was serving as Captain of the Third Company of Col. Josiah Brewer’s Penobscot Regiment in 1777.71 Andrew Grant fathered the following child; it is not clear which of Andrew’s wives was the mother:72 i. ANDREW5 GRANT, probably born in November 1766, q. v.

Andrew5 Grant (1766-1853) and Zebiah (Walker) Grant (1763-1816) ANDREW5 GRANT (ANDREW4 JAMES2-3 PETER1) was born in Woolwich, Me., probably in November 1766.73 From 26 May 1780 to 26 Dec 1780, Andrew Grant served in Capt. Solomon Walker’s company of Lt. Col. Joseph Paine’s regiment in the in the forces commanded by Gen. Peleg Wadsworth.74 ZEBIAH5 WALKER (ELEAZER4 WILLIAM1-3) was born in Eastham, Mass. on 25 Sep 1763.75 Andrew Grant and Zebiah Walker, both “of Frankfort,” were married in Prospect, Me. on 26 Dec 1790.76 In Hampden, Andrew Grant rose to the position of Lieutenant Colonel of the militia and commanded a regiment at the Battle of Hampden, 3 Sep 1814. This was not one of the glorious chapters in the annals of American arms. The main action of this battle consisted of the militia companies running away from the first charge of the British regulars and the subsequent plundering of the town by the British. Andrew Grant was court-martialed, found to be culpable, and relieved of his command for two years.77 Zebiah Grant died in Hampden on 28 Oct 1816.78 Andrew Grant married Hannah _______79 with whom he had one child.80 Hannah was born

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Grant Family in Maine about 1808.81 Andrew Grant of Hampden made his will on 21 Aug 1846. His will names wife his Hannah and makes her executrix; the children and heirs of his deceased eldest son Daniel Grant, viz. Joel Thompson Grant, Hannah Johnson, and Zebiah Johnson; his youngest son Andrew E. Grant; his daughter Lucy Reed, wife of William H. Reed; and his daughter Ruth Smith, wife of Daniel Smith.82 Andrew Grant died in Hampden on 8 Feb 1853.83 His will was received and filed on 29 Mar 1853 and proved in the April term 1853.84 i. Daniel Grant, born on 10 Aug 1792.85 He married Ruth Thompson on 17 Jan 1819.86 Daniel Grant died in June 1827.87 Ruth died on 10 Oct 1840.88 ii. LUCY6 GRANT, born on 8 Oct 1794,

married William Harling Reed, q. v. iii. Ruth Grant, born on 28 Apr 1798.89 She married Daniel Smith.90 She was living in 1846.91

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He deposed in 1701 that he was 70 years old. [GDMNH, 226*] He was ordered to return to his wife in Scotland in 1659. Internet, citing Banks Internet, citing Massachusetts Historical Society Oct. 1927, “Scotch Deported to New England 1651-52,” 16ff. Internet, citing Massachusetts Historical Society Oct. 1927, “Scotch Deported to New England 1651-52,” 16ff. Internet, citing Banks Stackpole, Old Kittery and Her Families, 427 The passenger list for this ship [NEHGR 1:377-379] includes several men named James Grant, as well as a number of other Grants. Stackpole, Old Kittery and Her Families, 427, says that he was, and further claims that she was Joanna Ingersoll, daughter of George2 (Richard1) Ingersoll. GDMNH, 225* says that the identification of the James Grant is uncertain and does not believe that the James Grant who married Joanna Ingersoll was the James Grant who was the brother of Peter Grant. As far as her claimed relationship to George Ingersoll, he does not appear to have had a daughter Joan or to have a place in his family for another daughter born early enough to have been married by 1664. The child was born and named Elizabeth. She was raised by Peter’s kinsman James Grant and his wife Elizabeth Everell. The kinsman James left his foster daughter Elizabeth

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property in his will. Peter’s will states that he has 7 children and he names them, excluding Elizabeth. Peter’s son James Grant, in his will calls Elizabeth his half-sister, as she would have been through their mother. [Internet, citing Banks] GDMNH, 225* GDMNH, 226*, citing “a certif. copy of the Kittery town book, long lost” Diane Rapaport, “Scottish Prisoners in SeventeenthCentury Maine and New Hampshire,” New England Ancestors, Winter 2004 GDMNH, 226* GDMNH, 226* Stackpole, Old Kittery and Her Families, 472, includes among Peter1 Grant’s children Peter Grant, a fisherman of Newcastle, N. H., who married Mary Thomas. GDMNH, 226*, has a listing for this Peter Grant, but does not show him as the son of Peter1. It is likely that there were other children born between their marriage and 1670. GDMNH, 226* Stackpole, Old Kittery and Her Families, 472 Stackpole, Old Kittery and Her Families, 472 Stackpole, Old Kittery and Her Families, 472, which misreports the year as 1795 Stackpole, Old Kittery and Her Families, 472 GDMNH, 226* He deposed in 1634 that he was age 61. [GDMNH, 226*] GDMNH, 226* She was about 80 in 1756.

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of Prospect, 1789 to 1832,” Bangor Historical Magazine 9:166-174 (1894), reports the same marriage and says that on the date that the intention was published, 25 Nov 1790, they were both of “this town.” The towns of Hampden and Prospect were not established until 1794. Both Prospect and Frankfort are near neighbors to Hampden. All three areas were in 1790 within the boundaries of Hancock County. Harry J. Chapman, “The Battle of Hampden,” Sprague’s Journal of Maine History, 2:4 (October 1914) Bangor Historical Magazine 4:96-97, citing her gravestone: “Ziba (?), wife of Col. Andrew Grant, died Oct. 28, 1816, aged 53” U. S. Census, Maine, Penobscot Co., Town of Hampden, household 32, family 32, Andrew Grant household i. Andrew E. Grant, born about 1832, living in 1850 [U. S. Census, 1850, Andrew Grant household] U. S. Census, 1850, Andrew Grant household Penobscot County PR 19:130131, photocopy of recorded copy in compiler’s possession. Ruth Gray, Abstracts of Penobscot Country Maine Probate Records 1816-1866 (Camden, Me., 1990), 86, reports that the will calls Lucy (Grant) Reed’s husband William M. Reed, but an examination of the actual document shows this to be an error. Gray, Maine Families in 1790, volume 2, 292, citing his gravestone Penobscot Co. PR 19:130-131 J. B. R. Walker, Memorial of the Walkers of Old Plymouth Colony (Northampton, Mass., 1861), 341; called eldest son in his father’s will Walker, Memorial of the Walkers of Old Plymouth Colony, 341 Walker, Memorial of the Walkers of Old Plymouth Colony, 341; deceased when his father made his will in 1846 Walker, Memorial of the Walkers of Old Plymouth Colony, 341 Walker, Memorial of the Walkers of Old Plymouth Colony, 341 Walker, Memorial of the

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