Rachel (Miller) Grant (abt. 1746 - 1805)

Born about Jun 1746 in Pennsylvania

Wife of Noah Delano Grant III — married 4 Mar 1792 in Greensburg, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, United States

Descendants

Died 5 Apr 1805 at about age 58 in Deerfield, Portage, Ohio, United States

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Biography

Rachel was Noah Grant's third wife and he was her second husband, the first being a Mr. Kelly. She was the daughter of Colonel Miller of Jamestown, Virginia ^[1] Not the daughter of Robert Miller from Pennsylvania.

An article in the The American Genealogist, New Haven, Connecticut: D. L. Jacobus in 1975 disputes some of this information for the following reasons, 1) The president referred to her as Miss Kelley, and a search for land or probate records for Rachel Miller or Rachel Kelley found nothing that would indicate a previous husband.^[2]

Her headstone indicates a birth of Jun 1746, and while many believe this makes her too old to be the mother of the children shown, it is on her headstone^[3] To make her more the right age, the assumption is that the digits are reversed and should be 1764, which would make her 40 when her last child is born.^[4]

A search of DAR and SAR databases and records indicate no birth record for Rachel^[5][6]

Sources

1. ↑ U S Grant Library Genealogy, 6th generation
2. ↑ See attached image
3. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #13788938
4. ↑ http://fabpedigree.com/s085/f099125.htm
5. ↑ Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed 25 Feb 2019), "Record of Noah Grant", Ancestor # A047086.
6. ↑ SAR Patriot #: P-169151

• Grant, Arthur. The Grant Family, A Genealogical History of the Descendants of Matthew Grant of Windsor, Conn. (A.V. Haight, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., 1898); pp. 33, 65: https://archive.org/details/grantfamilygenea00gran/page/33/mode/1up; https://archive.org/details/grantfamilygenea00gran/page/65/mode/1up