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Ulysses S. Grant Genealogy

Arthur Hastings Grant, The Grant Family: A Genealogical History of the Descendants of Matthew Grant of Windsor, Conn., 1601-1898 (Poughkeepsie, N. Y.: Press of A. V. Haight, 1898).

First Generation

Matthew Grant, b. Oct. 27, 1601; d. at Windsor, Dec. 16, 1681; m. (1) Nov. 16, 1625, to Priscilla _____ [d. at Windsor, Apr. 27, 1644, aged 43 years, 2 months]; m. (2) at Windsor, May 29, 1645, to Susanna (Capen or Chapin) Rockwell [b. Apr. 5, 1602; d. at Windsor, Nov. 14, 1666; widow of Deacon William Rockwell; probably daughter of Bernard Capen].

On March 20, 1630, he embarked with his family on the "Mary and John" at Plymouth, England, and reached Boston harbor May 30, 1630. He settled at Dorchester, Massachusetts, and was admitted a freeman May 18, 1631; but, with many others, he disliked the close union of church and state that characterized the colony of Massachusetts Bay, as well as the growing tendency to establish the government in the hands of a privileged class and to minimize the voice of the people in the conduct of their own affairs. Accordingly, in Oct. 1635, he went overland to the Connecticut River, with the party that prepared for the settlement of Windsor, although his family probably did not remove to Windsor until the following April. There, freed from the trammels of a royal charter, he assisted in forming a true democracy, the germ from which American political institutions have grown. His lot was in the Palisado, next the town lot. This he gave to his son John, with whom he spent his declining years. It is said that he was a carpenter. He was the first, and for many years the principal, surveyor; deacon of the first church; recorder (town clerk) 1652-77; townsman (selectman) many years, frequently receiving the highest number of votes; on the committees to lay out the bounds between Windsor and Hartford in 1651 and 1660, and to view the state of the town in 1651 and 1654. The absence of records makes it impossible to give a complete list of the offices he held, but he was one of the important men of the town. Of him Dr. Stiles says, in his History of Ancient Windsor: "Few men, indeed, filled so large a place in the early history of Windsor, or filled it so well, as honest Matthew Grant; his name figures in almost every place of trust, and the early records of the town show that his duties were always conscientiously performed." In 1654 he compiled "A Book of Records of Town Ways in Windsor." He was also the compiler of the "Old Church Record," which has furnished the basis for the histories of most of the families of ancient Windsor. He was a type of the best settlers of New England, and left to his descendants an untarnished name and the example of an unswerving fidelity to the public trusts committed to him, for he quaintly comments on his own work: "I have been careful to do nothing on one man's desire."

Second Generation

Children of Matthew Grant and Priscilla _____

Third Generation

Children of Samuel Grant and Mary Porter

Fourth Generation

Children of Samuel Grant and Ann Filley

Children of Samuel Grant and Grace Miner

Fifth Generation

Children of Noah Grant and Martha Huntington

Sixth Generation

Children of Noah Grant and Susannah Delano

Seventh Generation

Children of Noah Grant and Anna (Buell) Richardson
Children of Noah Grant and Rachel (Miller) Kelly

Eighth Generation

(Brothers, sisters, and cousins of USG)

Children of Peter Grant and Permelia Bean

Children of Susan A. Grant and Bailey Washington Hudson
Children of Susan A. Grant and Henry Grimes

Children of Jesse Root Grant and Hannah Simpson

Children of Margaret Moody Grant and John Marshall

Children of Roswell Miller Grant
Probably the last two by 2nd marriage
and the others by 1st marriage
Children of Rachel Maria Grant and William Tompkins

Ninth Generation

(Children, nieces, and nephews of USG)

Children of Ulysses S. Grant and Julia Boggs Dent

Children of Virginia Paine Grant and Abel Rathbone Corbin

Children of Orvil Lynch Grant and Mary Medary

Children of Mary Frances Grant and Michael John Cramer

Tenth Generation

(Grandchildren of USG)

Children of Frederick Dent Grant and Ida M. Honoré

Children of Ulysses S. Grant, Jr. and Fannie Josephine Chaffee

Children of Ellen Wrenshall Grant and Algernon Charles Frederick Sartoris

Children of Jesse Root Grant, Jr. and Elizabeth Chapman

Eleventh Generation


Children of
Julia Grant and Michael Catacuzéne-Speransky
(from The Grant Family Magazine Supplementary to the Grant Family
History
, ed. by Arthur Hastings Grant, Feb. 1900-Dec. 1910, p. 764)


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