Eleazer Grant, born 24 Jun 1748 @ Tolland, Connecticut, was the third child of Esther (Parker) Ladd, but her first child by way of her second husband Ephraim Grant.
Eleazer Grant was Quartermaster 17th Regt., NY militia; 2nd Lieut. 5th Co., 2nd Regt., NY Line.
Eleazer Grant married twice:
The Eleazer Grant family resided @ Pittsfield, Massachusetts 1772-75; his wife joined the church there. His family numbered 9 persons; they removed 1775-77 to New Lebanon, New York.
After his first wife died in April 1793, Eleazer Grant married
Per The Grant Family, Capt. Grant was on a committee to draw up a remonstrance against a portion of the new [New York] state constitution; member of the committee of safety 1778; (tax) collector; poormaster; assessor; moderator; commissioner of highways; Justice of the Peace for many years; fence viewer; supervisor; on committee of correspondence to "preserve the free exercise and enjoyment of the inestimable right of suffrage" 1792; an important and influential man; one of the minority in the town who did not become Shakers. Before him was brought on a charge of vagrancy Ann Lee, the founder of the sect, who told him that she would soon hold meetings in his house; not long afterwards she bought the house through a third party, came dancing down the hill with her followers, took possession and held a meeting, and the next day demolished the house.
Eleazer Grant died 13 Mar 1806.
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