Amos Grant (1765 - 1821)

Born 22 Sep 1765 in Stonington, Connecticut

Ancestors

Died 10 Apr 1821 at age 55 in North Stonington, Connecticut, United States of America

Biography

Amos Grant, born 22 Sep 1765 @ Stonington, Connecticut, was the fifth child of Sarah (Breed) & Joshua Grant ^[1],^[2].

He married about 1788 @ North Stonington, Connecticut, ____ Edgecomb . They had at least 2 children, born at North Stonington ^[3]:

1. Amos Grant; d. @ Griswold, Connecticut; private in militia 1813
2. Gurdon Grant, b. about 1791; married 1) @ Troy, New York, Lydia Silliman, daughter of Robert Silliman; d. 1837 or '38; married 2) (unknown); d. 6 Dec 1862, age 71

Amos Grant died 10 Apr 1821 ^[4] @ North Stonington. His grave is represented to be in Grant Cemetery, North Stonington, New London County, Connecticut, USA ^[5]. No grave marker is depicted.

Sources

1. ↑ Breed Family Association #16 (March, 1963), Charles B. Newhall et.al.; p. 16, no. 135: https://archive.org/details/BreedFamilyAssociationVol161963OCR/page/n59
2. ↑ Breed Family Association #8 (December, 1929), John Breed Newhall presiding; p. 235, no. 113: https://archive.org/details/breedfamilybree_0/page/235
3. ↑ The Grant Family (1898), p. 41: https://archive.org/details/grantfamilygenea00gran/page/41/mode/1up
4. ↑ "Connecticut, Deaths, 1640-1955", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F7J1-RYZ : 11 June 2020), Amos Grant, 1821.
5. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #20790086

• Wheeler, Richard Anson. History of the Town of Stonington, County of New London, Connecticut, p. 402, no. 48: https://archive.org/stream/historyoftownofs00whee_1#page/n424/mode/1up