Peter Grant (1781 - 1829)

Born 4 Nov 1781 in Coventry, Tolland, Connecticut, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Permelia (Bean) Grant — married 12 Nov 1807 in Maysville, KY

Descendants

Died 10 Jan 1829 at age 47 in Point Pleasant, Bland, Virginia, United States

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Biography

Name

Name: Peter /Grant/

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Data:

Text: http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=26914960&pid=2033453280

Note: #N1753

Find A Grave Memorial# 13833663

Birth: Nov. 4, 1781 Coventry Tolland County Connecticut, USA Death: Jan. 10, 1829 Point Pleasant Mason County West Virginia, USA

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Was his mother Anna Richardson (below) or Anna Buel (above)?

Peter Grant, s. of Capt. Noah Grant the 3rd and his first wife Anna Richardson, was b. Nov. 4, 1781 at Coventry, Conn. [Peter's full date of birth is via the marginal note in the 2nd Edition of Pres. Grant's "Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant." The first edition in 1885 does not contain marginal notes regarding his ancestral family. They were added in 1895 by his elder son Frederick Dent Grant, but not published until 1903.] Peter d. Jan. 10, 1829 from drowning in the Kanawha River at Point Pleasant, West Virginia.

Peter's half brother by his father's second wife was Jesse Root Grant, father of Gen. Ulysses Simpson Grant, 18th President of the United States.

Following the death of his mother, according to Pres. Grant [ibid., Personal Memoirs...] Peter accompanied his father to Westmoreland County, Penn. and by 1802 settled at Maysville, Mason County, KY. On Nov. 12, 1807 at the east adjoining county of Lewis, KY [Kentucky Marr. Rec.], Peter m. Permelia Bean, dau. of Richard Bean and Anna Phillips, b. Nov. 2, 1786 at Lewis County, KY. Permelia d. Apr. 28, 1847 at Louisville, KY.

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Peter Grant and Permelia Bean had ten children, all b. at Maysville, KY:

• i. Clarice Grant, b. Aug. 15, 1808, d. Mar. 19, 1875 at New Orleans, LA; m. in 1826, James Hewitt.

• ii. Lawson Bean Grant, b. July 1, 1810, d. Mar. 23, 1887 at Higginsville, Missouri; m. and left descendants.

• iii. Solomon K. Grant, b. July 14, 1812, d. Aug. 15, 1851 at Louisville, KY; m. in 1837, Elizabeth Fitzgerald Thornton.

• iv. Orvil Root Grant, b. Apr. 23, 1815, d. circa 1850 at Malden, West Virginia; m. in 1837, Marian Minerva McFarland.

• v. Peter Buell Grant, b. May 13, 1817, d. circa 1895 at San Jose, CA; m. in 1839, Elizabeth Bradley Hendley.

• vi. Anna Richardson Grant, b. Mar. 10, 1819, d. June 26, 1858 at New Orleans, LA; m. in 1838, Mortimer Oliver Hubbard.

• vii. Permelia Grant, b. Jan. 19, 1822, d. circa 1848 at Keokuk, Iowa; m. in 1841, Dr. Volney Spalding.

• viii. Noah Grant, b. Apr. 1, 1824, d. Oct. 4, 1867 at New Orleans, LA; m. circa 1850, Eliza Colston Marshall.

• ix. Susan Amanda Grant, b. Mar. 26, 1826, d. an infant July 6, 1827.

• x. Rachel Maria Grant, b. Mar. 18, 1829, d. childless Aug. 29, 1853 at New Orleans, LA; m. in 1852 p 24 Aug 1852] Alfred Gray Morgan.^[1]

Sources: 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). Details regarding the children are abbreviated in this memorial.

Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, 2nd Edition, 1903.

Family links: Parents:

• Noah Grant (1748 - 1819)
• Anna Richardson Grant (1752 - 1789)

Spouse:

• Permelia Bean Grant (1786 - 1847)*

Children:

• Clarice Grant Hewitt (1808 - 1875)*
• Lawson Bean Grant (1810 - 1887)*
• Solomon K Grant (1812 - 1851)*
• Peter Buell Grant (1817 - 1895)*
• Anna Richardson Grant Norton (1819 - 1858)*
• Rachael Maria Grant Morgan (1829 - 1853)*

• Calculated relationship

Burial: Pioneer Graveyard Maysville Mason County Kentucky, USA ^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ "Kentucky Marriages, 1785-1979," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FWPC-R25 : accessed 04 Dec 2013), Peter Grant in entry for Alfred Morgan and Rachael Maria Grant, 24 Aug 1852. Jefferson, Kentucky
2. ↑ Maintained by: Don Blauvelt Originally Created by: Paul (Dakota) S Record added: Apr 02, 2006 Find A Grave Memorial# 13833663 http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=13833663

Source S2

Title: Ancestry Family Trees

Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.;

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• Tom Bredehoft,Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/S14C-1R7 : accessed 14 October 2012), entry for Noah /Grant/ III.

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Notes

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