Samuel Rockwell Grant (1726 - 1796)

Born 30 Jun 1726 in East Windsor, Connecticut

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Died 17 Apr 1796 at age 69 in Wapping, Connecticut

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Biography

Samuel Grant, born 30 Jun 1726 at East Windsor, Connecticut, was the second child of Thomas Grant and Elizabeth Rockwell.

Samuel Rockwell Grant b. E. Windsor, June 30, 1726; d. Wapping, Connecticut, Apr. 17, 1796; m. Mabel (called Mehetabel in E. Windsor church record) Loomis, of East Windsor [d. Windsor, July 26, 1805; she was the dau. of Moses Loomis and Elizabeth Bidwell]. They resided at Windsor, Connecticut, where they were innkeepers. They owned a covenant in the church at East Windsor. The 2d Congregational Society of S. Windsor first met in his barn. Samuel Grant was a surveyor; also a lister.^[1]

According to Family trees on Ancestry and Rootsweb, Samuel Rockwell Grant and Mehetabel Loomis had two daughters named Tryphena Grant:

1) Tryphena Grant born in 1761 and died on Jan 10, 1764. :2) Tryphena Grant born 1768 and died on Jan 10, 1814; married Jabez Morgan.

Samuel Rockwell Grant died 17 Apr 1796 at Wapping, Connecticut.

Sources

1. ↑ Grant, Arthur Hastings. 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.

• The Grant Family (1898), pp. 24, 48: https://archive.org/details/grantfamilygenea00gran/page/24/mode/1up; https://archive.org/details/grantfamilygenea00gran/page/48/mode/1up