A N C E ST R Y

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R CO N T E M P O RA I ES.

L A M RD C H UNC EY M A RSHA L . . A , ,

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M T T H E W G R A N T O F W I N D S O R C O N N E I A , , C T C U T ,

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AN D THROUGH W HOSE APPRECIATIVE SYM PATHY A N D ENCOURAGEMENT TH IS U N D ERTAK I NG HAS B EEN B ROUGHT TO A S CCESS L ISS E U FU U ,

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AUTHOR WOULD MOST R ESP ECT ULLY , F ,

DEDI CAT E

T H S O U I V L M E .

P R E F A C E .

T HE author has had two objects in V iew in

h work fi the preparation of t is ; rst, to give an account of the ancient sources of th e family of

General Grant ; and secondly, to illustrate, in

the some degree, early history of the town of

th e ah W indsor, and of families whose pioneer c e stors assisted in founding the colony of Con - ne ct icut . Those ancestors were fellow towns ’ t wo men with General Grant s , hundred years

a ago, in the wilderness, surrounded by the sav ge

th e foe , and they lie, now, with his in same old l d. h graveyar It is natura , therefore , t at their de scendant s should feel a personal interest in him whom the fortunes of war and his own skill in arms have justly made so distinguished . T hese sentiments have animated the writer, m k h and, doubtless, senti ents not unli e t ese have influenced a large number of zealous correspond ents and friends who have aided in this labor of vi P R E CE FA .

. n love Amo g these , the author would call atten h t e . tion especially to the services of Hon J . T Hammond rumbull , President of the Connect icut n Historical Society, who has made importa t m contributions to these pages . W illia W ood , m Esq , a Scotch gentle an , of New York , has rendered great assistance in a special field of in quiry in which some investigation has been

Dr. . made . Henry R Stiles has displayed much m ’ interest in the develop ent of the author s plans, and a free use h as been made of many facts and papers which are found in his History of Ancient W V indsor. aluable aid has been received, also, f n L . k D L. D rom John W ard ea , , a well nown a m ntiquarian of Boston ; fro John B . Porter,

D . . . M . , of Coventry, Jabez H Hayden , Esq , of

w . W indsor Locks, John O en Pettibone, Esq , of

Weatogue, and Charles J . Hoadly, Esq . , of m k Hartford, Connecticut ; and fro Frederic

Saunders , Esq . , of the Astor Library, Francis h . t e H . Houston, Esq , of Mercantile Library, and

D . LL. George H . Moore, , of the Historical Li b k Es ar . . r y, New Yor Jesse R Grant, q, the t fa her of General Grant, besides having con

has tributed largely to the work , given the proof

o sheets an intelligent and careful revision . T P E CE R FA . vii all of the many kind friends who have aided th e author in any manner in his labors, he would return the most sincere acknowledgments .

In conclusion , it may be suggested that Gen d m eral Grant should, at some future perio , ake

an a pilgrimage to W indsor, the Mecca of his ce st ral the history, and he will see there early

for town records, preserved now more than two centuries , which were written carefully, and in a

th e h w scholarly manner, by pioneer, Matt e Grant

in f u eal and Hart ord he will find, g arded with j i h . T t e ous care by Mr rumbull , in Historical Li brar the y, manuscript old Church Book, which is also in the handwriting of Matthew Grant . They are interesting and suggestive relics of the T past. hey have furnished the materials of his tory for many generations of men since Th e ” Recorder acted his part in the busy scenes of f li e .

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as S T C —The Grant urveyor and own lerk, Wood

d C s —The S s bri ge ontrover y, im bury Boundary

—M r s s —M r s Line , . Jo eph Loomi , . William Phelp , ” The Palaz ado —C s Plot, aptain John Ma on , ’ —i s —C S s K ng Philip War , aptain amuel Mar hall , - ’ -The of s - s — s Wept Wi h ton wi h , Matthew Grant

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S t S —A C A amuel Gran , enior, hurch Member, ” - —S of s s Bound Goer, ettlement Ea t Wind—or, S —The Famil The amuel Grant, Junior, Minor y, - — s C s l N s Grant hurch Member , Bib ical ame ,

N S — H of N or oah Grant, enior, Martha untington — — T he S of T The A l wich, ettlement olland , l ot m T —The of T l d ent at —olland, Petition the —o lan s The Re v. . S O . Pioneer , — Mr teel rdained , Lieut The . Peter Buell , Buell Family X CONTENTS.

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C N of n aptain oah Grant the Fre ch and Indian War,

S s —The C u annah Delano , rown Point Expedition , — — Is u Captain rael P tnam , Fort Lyman rebuilt,

A S i — f of s —~O s cout ng Party, De eat Die kau, ver eer of s s - - and A Ma on , Pay Roll General ccount, — H s f C A ss . onor rom the onnecticut —embly , Lieut S —A N ew C S John tark, ampaign, couting Par — — s h of C of . tie , Deat aptain Grant, Death Lieut —C N of Solomon Grant, aptain oah Grant the — of s f w Revolution , Evidence De cent —rom Matthe -The A . ss Grant, Lexington larm , Lieut Je e

- of T s f C s rant, Ratio roop rom the o onie G — l , s Th e C Removal to Penn ylvania , onnecticut Re — — — T h I s s s e s . H erve , ndian , Wild Bea t , Gov unt — — ’ in t on St . C C s g , General lair, aptain Grant De

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CH PTE rv A R . — — iss H Root Grant, Judge Root, M annah Simp — — son — i s of s d , Po nt Plea ant, Birth place a Pre i ent, — — us ss s Georgetown , B ine at Galena , Re idence at — C S of his S ss ovington, Kentucky, ecret ucce , — M r . as ss Grant a Poet, General Uly es Sim son — p Difli culties t N —S Grant, abou a ame , criptural — — N s A s S d ame , necdote , erve through all the — s — S s of f ss Grade , General cott, View Pro e or Ma

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—The —The Seafield A s —C s l tan , Bard , rm , a t e — — 1 of Se afield Grant, Grantown , Ear , Baron — - s Glenelg, Major General Jame G rant .

— The H s T H s Grant ome tead , itle to the ome tead,

The Old H s —Thc s H s s ou e , Wind or ome tead ,

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vesant and Beekman Estates in N ew York .

3 . — The s s s of w Dorche ter Record , Fir t Entry Matthe ’ ” s N s for C s. Grant ame , Rayle owe

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’ s —His amil —S s Matthew Grant Record , F , u annah — y The . Rockwell , Rockwell Family

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The C s i s of 1 6 8 and l 6 o —The on titut on 3 s , Preamble ”— of 1 6 8 S s w 3—, choole , Roger Ludlo the Law The s A C s . 1 Maker, olde t merican on titution 0 1 .

— — The of 1 66 ss The ls Freemen 9, Governor Bi ell , El

—C f s s -Th worth Family, hie Ju tice Ell worth , c xii CONTEN TS.

amil — I of S Eno F y, John Fitch , the nventor team

s Th e s d s boat , Gri wol Famil—y , Governor w and s T he H Matthe Roger Gri wold , — ayden amil —T he H amil The s F y, olcombe F y, Loomi

The s l The Family, Mar hal Family, Mather

—The O —The Family, wen Family, Pettibone

—The s amil —The S s Family, Phelp F y, tile Family , The — Wolcott Family, Governor Roger Wol — T he s O . cott, two Governor liver Wolcott

— s s of s in . Per ecution the Puritan England , Dr Leighton , S -The a cotch Preacher, Whipping, the Pillory , — f M r . m r the Kni e, the Brand, Willia P ynne, Bar

ri ster .

The s T s of La t Will and e tament Matthew Grant,

s s Witne se John Loomi s and Thomas Dibble .

’ Ca tainN oah s s N p Grant Mu ter Roll, Prince, egro, ”

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f . S o VVar Lieut olomon Grant th—e French and Indian , . s A S s HoosuC Lieut John Leven , cout toward , ” C — of —His aptivated , Death Lieutenant Grant,

Coventry Estate .

The of So Will Lieutenant lomon Grant, My Well ” Beloved Brother N oah Grant . N EN S CO T T . xiii

1 3 . — — The l i N Delano Fami y, Phil p de La oye , Jonathan —The -A Delano , Iron rmed .

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of —An f Genealogy General Grant, Extract rom Edward - — of s C tai Ros Everett, John Porter, Wind or, ap n - l of Hon. C u s wel Grant the Revolution , ol mbu

—The T of Delano , itle General .

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The I A ss of s r naugural ddre Pre ident G ant.

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T H E names and the memory of those who , ff in blood and su ering, were the founders of a U S mighty nation, now the nited tates , should The be held in reverence . historian of Mas ‘f s achu se t t s I says , when speaking of them , am not preserving from oblivion the names of heroes , whose chief merit is the overthrow of and Cities , Provinces , Empires but the names of the founders of a flourishing town and col ony, if not of the whole British empire in ” America . T heir descendants preserve with honest T o pride, the sacred record of their heroism . have crossed an unknown ocean to a new coun try, three thousand miles distant from home and kindred, to have braved the perils of the

flood, the pestilence, the ambush in the wilder th e ness , stratagem , the massacre , the scalping ’ knife, the midnight horrors of the I ndian s e all blazing torch, to hav encountered these ’ dangers in the e fi o r t to reclaim a continent

irt Ma n H . V l o . A , . II ppendix p . M at t a n 2 /z et a Gr nt , The P io eer .

from the savage, and consecrate it as the dwell ing place of civilization and freedom must have developed a character in these, our early settlers , unsurpassed in the annals of human suffering and human daring . T he purpose of these hardy pioneers in abandoning their native land , was to secure in the N e w W orld what was denied them in the old, the enj oyment of civil and religious D liberty. oubtless they made some mistakes in developing into practice their ideas of liber t y, but those mistakes were characteristic of the age in which they lived ; many a greater enterprise has been fraught with more abu nd M r ant errors . . Edward Everett has said of them , I n coming to this country, our fathers i most certa nly contemplated , not merely a safe retreat beyond the sea, where they could wor ship God according to the dictates of their own conscience, but a local government founded on T popular choice . hat their foresight stretched onward through the successive stages of colo nial and provincial government which resulted in the establishment of a great republican con federacy, it would be extravagant to pretend . But from the primitive and venerable compact 1 1 t h N 1 62 0 signed on the of ovember, , on board the M ayflower while she yet nestled in the entrance of Provincetown harbor, after her

M at t /row Gr ant The P ioneer . 4 ,

ed from sea to sea, and the seats of the two highest titled representatives which the clan has had of late years are on both the eastern Se afi e ld and western shores , the Earl of , a

Grant, having a seat at Elgin , near the Spey

Bay, and Baron Glenelg now deceased, a Grant

Gle nm o r ist o n v of , ha ing taken his title from n Gle elg, a town situated on the straits opposite Sk T to the Island of y . heir country was di vide d by the Loch N ess and a chain of lakes giving easy access , on either side , to the ocean , and I nverness , their ancient capital , has always - been an important sea port town . I t is quite probable, therefore, that many representatives of this clan were often found in all the ports * h O . 2 t c of England I ndeed, on the 9 of tober, in the same year that Matthew Grant N ew embarked for England, the ship H and maid, in charge of Captain John Grant, reach ed Plymouth with a company of passengers for the new settlements , and the ship James 1 2 t h 1 6 2 arrived, June , 3 , from London, in T he command of Captain Grant . number of

Sir S s us s Walter cott inform that, at thi very period , S r s s the cotch were g eat traveller , and there were thou and s of them in the military s ervice of the nation s of the conti s nent, and engaged in carrying on an exten ive inland com a merce in ll the northern parts of Europe . Ta les of a

G a nd a t/z r . l r e Vo . . f p 333 . Th e firs t inhabitants of Dorche s ter came chiefly from Sd s D D or ce t S s [ Ye county of evon , and omer et, and Mink ” ’ fr om som otn r l Bla ke s Anna ls o Do cn e e at es . r erte r . 1 0 p f , p . V i e r J l at thew r ant The P on e . G , 5 pioneers in N ew England of Scotch descent o r seems to have increased rapidly, and they

aniz ed . 6t h 1 6 g in Boston , as early as Jan , 5 7 , S ’ S the cots Charitable ociety, of which there - were twenty seven members the firs t year, among whom were James Grant, Alexander D Grant, and Peter Grant . irect evidence as to the descent of General Grant from the ah cient Scottish clan of Grants cannot easily be procured, at this late day, but there can be scarce any room for doubt in the minds o f those who weigh rightly the Circumstantial evi de ” nced I t is not, however, we confess , a u v q estion of ital importance, for General Grant has certainly been the architect of his s own fortune , and, in this republican country,

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d z . B os on h e D r ake s H ist . a n A nt o t . 88 T q f , pp , s s A d T s G name of John , Jame , lexan er and homa rant are found s S s s s 1 6 1 in the li t of cotch pri oner ent from London in 5 , after the H d S . N. E. ir a nd G of s an t . en . battle Worce ter, in the John arah

. h e R 0 o n Wa r d Dea n E5 . e e . 8 S g. pp 3 7 7 , 3 ( j , 9 ) the account of the Clan of G rants in thi s work . “ —A d A s d lexan er llyn , a gentleman ofmean and e ucation , S s ds d 1 6 G a cotchman , re ident in Win or, marrie in 9 3, Mary rant, Sh e w as a granddaughter of Matthew G rant . then about eigh teen years of age . TT h e author has no admiration of vain-gloriou s boasting as s r s m s s i s o s d to ance t y, but the que tion u t, omet me , be c n i ered whether t h e pioneers of N e w England were a race of serfs or the ' old T s s is d refuse of society from the world . hi ubject ably ss H s s F cu ed by olli ter, who remark rom actual examination, it appears that more than four-fift hs of the early landed proprie s o f H d W e t he rsfie ld and W indsor b e lon e d s tor artfor , , , g to familie

s d G . O s s that had arm grante to them in reat Britain ther ettler , s s of in variou part Connecticut, at an earlier or later day, bearing s s family name that appear never to have borne arm , are believed w r ant The P ioneer . 6 M at the G , the sentiment contained in the well-known lines of Pope is everywhere approved of :

s Honor and shame from no condition ri e,

s . A ct well your part, there all the honor lie

G r ant wit h Matthew his wife Priscilla, both — aged twenty nine years , and an infant daughter, named also Priscilla, embarked from Plymouth,

England, with a party of one hundred and forty emigrants , who had been gathered chiefly D D from orsetshire, evonshire, and Somerset ac shire . M r . Everett gives the following count o f them ; T here was a large body of ‘ ’ ‘D West Country, or orchester men , in ’ Gov . Winthrop s expedition , who were, many ’ of them of M r . White s church, and all were enlisted, so to say, under his auspices and encouragement ; and they were the fi rst in the

fi . 1 6 0 eld Early in M arch, 3 , they were ready to depart, and a large vessel was chartered at Th Plymouth for their separate conveyance . e faithful pastor, guide at once in things divine and human —which in that age of trial ran

s to have been de cended from the landed gentry, or other genteel

Engli sh familie s . H llist r Hz r C nn o er t . o . Vo l I . p .

R e v. s D s C John White, pa tor in orche ter, hief town in the D s s s C county of or et m the we t of England on the Briti h hannel . H e preached unto u s 1n the new hospital the word of G od ) , t he R in the fore part of the day and in the latter part of day . o er C a g l p . M att hew r ant The P ioneer . G , 7

strangely together, as in what age do they not, — went with them to their port of embarkation ; met with them in the new hospital at Plymouth, where they gathered themselves into a church under the ministers of his selection ; held with them a solemn fast of preparation, and preached to them the last sermon they were to hear from his lips

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20t h 1 6 0 And so on the of March, 3 , the D orchester emigrants embarked in the Mary S u eb and John , TCapt . q , master, a vessel of T four hundred tons . hey had a prosperous voyage of seventy days and arrived at N au tas ot h ket, j; on the 3 of May, about ten davs in

' c hes . l II r t S eec V I . Ev e e t r o . 0 . p p. 3 9 A com le t e w as d p church organization perfecte at Plymouth , d and w as ds s d D or Englan , the church afterwar tran ferre from

s ss . ds C . G w as che ter Ma to Win or, onnecticut Matthew rant ‘ S s ds 6 s. . 8 8 8 . T s one of the member tile Win or, p 35 , 44, 5 hi is s A church now the olde t evangelical church in merica , and S C s except the outhwark hurch , London , the olde t orthodox con ”

r e at ional . a be H a d in z H en Es . g g church in the world j . y , q ’

St ler Wind:or . . z , p 7 4 1 T he statement that Matthew G rant came in the Mary and is d D r S His Anet s. t John ma e upon the authority of tile . .

Wmdr or . A , p fter a careful weighing of the evidence this s s s it s ss eem to be the mo t probable account, although correctne d s s cannot be verifie , at thi day, with ab olute certainty . Matthew G w as d D rant , un oubtedly , admitted a freeman of orchester 1 6 1 in 3 . N ow H s s I called ull , a mall village nine mile , by water, s outh s c s ea t fr m Bo ton . ant Th e P ioneer . 8 [Wat t hew Gr ,

advance of the Arabella, and the vessel T he D which accompanied her . orchester com “ pany contained many persons of note or fig fi ” ure, and digni ed by the title of Master, having adult families and good estates in d England, three irectors of the London Com pany which held the charter, three men of mili tary experience, a numerous party of young men, either single or with wives and children , T and a frugal store of worldly goods . hey were attended by their pastors , M essrs . Mav ” W So . R o erick and arham we came, says ger Clap , who was one of the passengers , by the hand of God, through the deeps comfort o r ably ; having preaching , expounding of the k word of God, every day for ten wee s together ” by our ministers . T N hey landed at antasket , and having ex lo r e d p the coast, the main body established themselves on a neck of land fit to keep their ” cattle on called by the I ndians M attapan , which they named from the place they had left d D S in Englan , orchester, now outh Boston a

. suburb of the city of Boston H ere, they had, at first, many privations . Roger Clap says

the place was a wilderness . Fish was a good help to me and to others . Bread was so scarce that I thought the very crusts from my father’s table would have been sweet ; and when I could M a t w ant The P ioneer t he r . G , 9 have meal and salt and water boiled together I ‘ asked who would ask for And, again, I n our beginnings , many were in great straits fo r want of provisions for themselves and " ff little ones . Oh the hunger that many su ered and saw no hope in an eye of reason to be sup plied, only by clams , mussels , and fish . N evertheless the new settlement prospered, 1 6 and in 33 , an early writer styles it the ” “ n N greatest tow in e w England . I t set the

o f example, that year, that municipal organi z at io n which has since prevailed throughout N e w England and has proved one of the chief f t n sources o i s progress . I t has bee supposed that the fi rst stated provision for a public ” school was made here . A house is still standing in D orchester which was built i n 1 6 M w 33 , and we can readily imagine that atthe

“” Grant was present at its raising . J

Everett . Fe w except students in the history of N e w England are D s w as s s aware, probably, that orche ter ettled before Bo ton or C s s G R s even harle town . When many mo t odly and eligiou R K C s s did d Incou r people, in ye eign of ing harle ye fir t, un er e a e m e nt C G Sd K hariiz s A D C . g of a harter ranted by ye ing , . 1 62 8 R s s s C , emove them elve and their Familie into ye olony of ye ss s s N e w w as s Ma achu ett Bay in England , then it that the fir t Inhabitants of Dorchester came over and were ye first Company C S t S or hurch ociety that arrived here, next to ye own of alem w as e w n i nd G Ne E . H st a en who one y ar before g . .

Re . Vol. V 8 uotin Ro er Cla g . p. 3 9 , q g g p .

' T he H u s is s t h e d s d 1 Minot o e . It aid to be ol e t woo en s U S s w as s hou e in the nited tate . It the headqu arter of G eneral r ant The P ioneer . 1 0 M atthew G ,

m Church membership had been ade, from the first, the principal qualification for freeman ship , and, in one year after his arrival , Mat thew Grant had been admitted a freeman . About four years after the debarkation at N the D t be antasket, settlers at orches er had gun to agitate the question of a removal to the valley of the Connecticut, and M atthew

Grant was ready for any new enterprise . T he chief motive of the D orchester men in leaving Massachusetts was undoubtedly, as

Gov . Bradford, of Plymouth , has stated it, a hankering after the fertile lands on the

Connecticut River . Winthrop , also , gives as “ their principal reasons for emigrating, the fruitfulness and commodio u sness of Connect icu t and the danger of having it possessed by D ” others , utch or English . Already had the D 1 6 utch, in June, 3 3 , erected a fort at H art ford , and in October of the same year, Wil liam H olmes acting for the Plymouth Trading

M at ianu nck Company had built a house at , T ” now Windsor . his , says Gov . Wolcott, “ was the fi r st house ever erected in Co nne ct i ”

. 1 6 cut Early in June, 3 5 , a pioneer corps D came from orchester, but the first settlement of any importance at Windsor was made by

s s s , . Wa hington for a ea on , during the revolution N. E. Hist . and Gen. Re V l X . o . XII. 6 g p . 4.

M hew Gr ant The P ioneer . 1 2 att ,

Th e crops they raised were small for they had cleared but very little of the ground for til lage ; besides most of their time had been ne ce ssar ily devoted to the construction of huts T he against the winter . winter came on early and was very Winthrop adds they lost the greater part of their cattle this h winter ; yet, some w ich came late, and could ut not be p over the river, lived very well all T he o the winter without any hay . people als were put to great straits for want of pro vis T ‘ ions . hey ate acorns and malt and grains

T hey lost nearly worth of cattle .

D r . H arris mentions Matthew Grant as one of the party who left D orchester in the autumn of A large portion of this was u company compelled, however, to ret rn R on board the sloop ebecca, during the win

t e r . r , to Massachusetts I n the ea ly spring,

1 6 1 6 6 D o r April , 3 , with stout hearts , the h r ff c este men renewed their e orts , and with h . T e new much better success settlement, fi d like the rst they had ma e in Massachusetts,

D bu t 1 6 was called by them orchester, , in 3 7 ,

’ Dr . Ha r r is Account Dor ehester Ma ss . Coll. Vol I f . o , X.

G h is s A TMatthew rant, in church book, give li st of those members of the church that were so in Dorchester and came up , ” . s us His here with Mr Warham , and till are of . own name is ’ s Stiles Winds or 8 in the li t. , p . 44 . M hew r ant The P ione r att e . G , 3

by order of the Court, the name was changed to Windsor .

Matthew Grant was chosen , immediately on his arrival in Windsor, the first Surveyor o fli ce r s for the town , two of which were after ofli ce wards chosen annually, and this , which was one of much responsibility, he filled most of his life . About nine years after his arrival in Windsor, his first wife , Priscilla died, and he 2 t h 1 6 married on the 9 of May, 45 , his S R second wife usannah ockwell, the widow of e l William Rockwell . M r . Rockwell was an de rl y man, possessed of a good estate, and, with his wife, had been a fellow passenger with Matthew Grant from England in the Mary and John . H e had tarried a few years at D o f orchester, and following the tide emigra tion , had removed thence to Windsor . I n D 1 6 2 r . 5 , on the removal to Guilford of R T Bray ossiter, the first own Clerk , who was a man of distinction and fine education , Mat thew Grant succeeded him as Recorder or “ ”

D r . S T . own Clerk Few men, says tiles , filled so large a place in the early history o f W indsor, or filled it so well as honest M at fi in thew Grant . H is name gures almost

v d o f e ery place of trust, and the early recor s the town show that his du ties were always con “ scie nt iou sly H e was a M 1 at thew Gr ant The P ioneer . 4 , prominent man in the church ; evidently was j ust and exceedingly conscientious in all his public and private transactions and duties ; not es as Recorder, he often added explanatory w or in correction , to the records , hich have considerable value to the investigator of the present day ; he was the compiler of the old

Church Record which , in the absence of some of the earliest records of the town of W ind ’ 1 6 - o can sor, 3 5 5 , assumes a value which - scarcely be over estimated ; in short, he was a pious , hardworking, conscientious , christian ” model Tow n ler k man, and a C . H e was a man of strong convictions and a T strict sense of duty . his is shown in the proceedings connected with a controversy ’

. W ar ham s 1 668 which arose in Mr church, in , when a portion of the members desired to leave their first pastor, now grown old i n the service of the sanctuary, and organize another Th parish under the R e v . M r . Woodbridge . e adherents of the latter had called a town meet ing at which they succeeded in securing a vote m in favor of giving the new inister a hearing, but Matthew Grant refused to enter the pro ce e din s T he g of the meeting upon the records . entry appears however, on the books , in a

’ * St ile Wind or s s a nd 6 . , pp. 5 9 35 M atth w r ant Th P i e e oneer . 1 G , 5

strange hand and beneath is found a protest,

. 8 by the town clerk, as follows Aug th .

At a town meeting warned by the townsmen , b th e y the desire ofseveral inhabitants , to see de 1v 1n sires o f the town concerning g g Mr . Wood ’ bridge a call to preach once on the Lord s day, and it was voted by a full vote . [So far, the entry, is in another handwriting, then follows the protest] T his as a proviso : I here express to clear myselffr o m having any hand in assenting to the d warning of the town meeting, so calle , as

George Griswold has entered in this book , ’ 8t h 68 Aug . the , , for he and some others came to [my] house after they had been together, and desired me, being the town recorder, to enter their town vote, made this day, that Mr . Wood bridge shall have the liberty to preach on the

Sabbath . I told him I would not have no hand iness nor ent er t heir ‘v t T in the bus o e . hen he de t h e sired me to let him have town Book, wherein

I used to enter such things . H e being a towns man I laid the book upon the table, and there he wrote himself what is entered by his own T hand . his I certify .

Matthew Grant .

A u t 1 1 668 . g . 7 ,

The town records of Windsor bear frequent M t t w r ant The P ioneer 1 6 a he G ,

testimony to the usefulness and effi ciency of

Matthew Grant, as a public surveyor, and his

life was certainly a busy and eventful one . Among other entries i n the records we find the following 2 The m e t March 4, town to give information to persons chosen to run the

nd S . line between Windsor a imsbury First, you must understand that our south—bounds betwixt H artford and Windsor extend half a

mile beyond the Chestnut tree westward, and extends itself something beyond t he foot of the o u mountain where y will find a tree marked, and from there you will traverse a way by your

compass north and by west, which is the line S to be set out between Windsor and imsbury, and you are carefully to extend this line till

- you meet with our north bounds . M T T HEW G R N T A A ,

S M U EL M R S H L L A A A ,

O H N LO O M I J s ,

A CO B D R K E j A , T H O M S ST O U G H T O N A .

Matthew Grant, evidently, set a high value

his . upon personal integrity H is testimony, in a matter concerning lands in dispute, April , 2 1 1 6 , 75 , between Joseph Loomis , Junior, and S enior, preserved in the State Archives at

Hartford, is as follows M att he w r ant The P ioneer . 1 G , 7

And if any question my uprightness and ff legal acting about our town a airs , that I have been employed in , a measuring of land , and getting out o f lo t s of men which has been d r om our r st be innin her e come one by me f fi g g , x S t s ne t e i 0 er e . p . 4 y I never got out any land n to any man , until I k ew he had a grant to it ’ r f om the townsmen , and town s approbation or about recording aft er the book was turned to m e 2 . , which is near 3 years since I , can say t been car e ul t o do wi h a cleare conscience, I have f ’ nothing upon one man s desire .

H is name occurs , frequently, as a witness in of the purchase of lands , which the following will serve as an example . W Se n Mr . illiam Phelps , . had bought, some 1 6 N assah e an time in 3 5 , land from g , situated P o u o nno c i n q , and, not being able to prove full payment of the same , he, very honestly, bought T he it over again . paper describing the trans 1 action is dated March 3 , T hese presents testify, whereas there was

h b V\7 il a parcel of land purc ased formerly y _

Se n W 0 liam Phelps . living at indsor about 3 ’ n P a u anick years since, of Sehat, an I dian , a q S achem , and I [Phelps] not being able to prove full payment of the said purchase, in considera

' tion whereof I now engage to make u p t he full ’ ' payment by paying to the said Se hat s kins M t thew Gr a t The P i neer . 1 8 a n , o

N assahe an P a u anick man , g , Sachem of q , 4 trucking coats , or what upon agreement shall satisfy them to the value thereof. [H ere are mentioned other conditions , and the bound aries of the land]

os . Owned already paid in two coats , and 4 in wampum for a third coat, and six bushels of I ndian corn and fifteen shillings in wampum for the fourth coat and fifteen shillings in wam pum is at six a penny . (Signed)

C o e r no ss t gg y e . A S U T H Ew, ’ Co e tn gg g osset s sister . P A TA C KH O U SE , ’ Na ssahe a n s s is ter g . A M A N NAW E R , ’ Na ssa he a n s sister g .

N A A H E A SS G N . Witnesses H EL SAM U EL P P S . H E R N T M AT T W G A . N T L ET T J O H BA R . K L N D T I M OT H Y B U C A .

The ffi following note or a davit, bearing no W date, is also found in the land records of ind s o r Coggeryno sse t ( Poquonock) testifies that t he land on the east side of the Great

2 0 ant T e P i n M atthew r h o eer . G , designed as a garrison or place of refuge from the I ndians . I ts remains are still visible at

Windsor . Matthew Grant has furnished the following “ dcscr 1p t 1o n of it T o return again to the common ways from the ferry at the rivulet , i t ascends up upon the side of the bank to the ’ house that was C apt. Mason s , and bounds r ’ west by the fence that was J ohn St ong s , on the top of the bank , and east by Samuel Mar ’ shall s s at the foot of the bank, and then turn to the gate, and is to be three rods in breadth betwixt John Strong’s garden on the south and ’ se e in I Henry Clark s on the north . And g int e r e d allasadow am into the p , I will speak a

. 1 6 little of the original of it About 37 years , when the English had war with the P e n S quot I ndia s , our inhabitants on andy bank gathered themselves nearer together from their , remote dwellings to provide for their safety, fo r t f in alaz ado W set upon y y g, and with p , hich some particular men resigned up out of their properties for that end and was laid out in small parcels to build upon ; some 4 rods in fi ve S1x breadth , some , , seven , some eight ; it was set out after this manner The P i n er r ant o e . 1 M at thew G , 2

P ALAZADO PLOTT

D.Wilson

Ri e vul t . 60 Mat t hew Grant had cleared six acres but resigned up all o f it except the small par ” cel on which his log dwelling stood, within - ‘ ‘ n . the palisade, and next to the tow house j

Captain John Mason, who commanded

* T hi s description together with th e p lot which w as mad G d A T W a e s by Matthew rant, are copie from book of owne y “

s 1 6 Se e Conn His . COIL . in Wind or, begun by him in 5 4. . , p ’ s i s S t le Wind or . al o s , p

H . H E s s s h as i Jabez ayden , q , of Wind or Lock , who s a s ds is made a map of the ancient e t te in Win or, able to point ’ a G s He s s H e out the ex ct location of Matthew rant lot . ay , ds s and S H s had but nine ro on the treet , the Bell chool ou e s ds s his his his tan now, I am ure, on lot . In what part of lot s s d do T w as s hou e too , I not know . here only a lot of four acre e his S alaz ado b tween and the north ide of the p . 2 2 M at t hew r ant Th e P i oneer . G ,

in was successfully the Pequot war, appointed from Windsor and had come from England with the goodly company in the Mary and

John . H e was a veteran who had learned skill and discipline under D e Vere in the cam

ai n . p g of the Palatinate, on the continent T here were thirty W indsor men in Mason’s force which was sent against the Pequots . n 1 6 8 U 3 , the towns were placed by the Court a war footing. All persons who were over sixteen years of age were ordered, unless ex

cu se d . , to bear arms M agazines of powder and shot were to be maintained in every town . T h e magazine at Windsor was to contain one barrel of powder and 3 00 weight of lead . But of all the I ndian wars of those times the most important in regard to its magnitude 1 6 and its results took place in 75 , with the confederate tribes , under King Philip . I t was the last terrible contest between the M assachu 1 and setts , Plymouth and Connecticut colon es e the I ndians , in which the v ry existence of both belligerents depended on the issue de was feat to either annihilation . We are u n at n able, this day, to realize the conster ation and alarm which were experienced by our fore fathers when the tocsin of war was sounded for this fearful struggle . M ore than a thou —a sand men, large army for those days , atthew Gr ant The P ioneer 2 M , 3 were enlisted througho u t N ew England for a winter campaign under Major General Josiah

W . inslow, the Governor of Plymouth colony W indsor furnished one company which was commanded by Captain Samuel Marshall .

W inslo fou n r . w d Gen , Philip with a la ge body of I ndians entrenched in the center of a ft swamp in Rhode Island . A er most severe fighting and heavy losses the colonists were vic * T t o r io u s . he I ndians were nearly annihilated, and never recovered from the blow received at the famous swamp fight . Windsor shared with other towns the sor row and the glory of that victory . Matthew Grant entered on the town books this mourn ful record “ Here I set down the deaths of several

’ Of ss s s A s Ma achu ett men , Major ppleton company ’ s i 2 2 s 1 0 2 C M s . . C . la n , wounded ; apt . o ely 9 do do ; apt ’ ’ O s . 1 0 C . s s . 1 1 C liver 5 do do . apt John on 3 do do . apt . ’ ’ G s D . 1 1 . C s . ardner , 7 do do apt avenport 4 do 1 5 do . ' s e :Of C Wounded , whereof ome hav died onnecticut, Major ’ ’ ’ T s — le s 20 C M 2o. C . Se a . . s s reat company, apt y , apt ar hal , ‘ ‘ 0 1 C . C s 1 Of . s 4 apt Waite , 7 . Plymouth , apt Bradford , and ’ C . G s 20 T s 2 . s s apt orham . rooper , Lo t in the wood , 5 . C s s D s G s aptain lain , avenport, John on, ardner, Mar hal , and h ’ G w o U s s . C allop , commanded nca Indian Wounded, apt.

C . S a l is s Bradford, apt e ley, mortal y it feared ( afterward dead) , h C . M as on C s w n S apt , . apt . White . Lieutenant ou ded , avage , T S U T 20 . ing, wan , and pham . otal 7 ’ Dr ake s Old Indi h l a n 6 . . 1 n C r o ic e 1 8 8 . . 7 p ‘ 4 ’ Also Hubba r d s India n lVa r s , . p .

Watt s . b From Conn . a son of th e celebrated Capt . John Mas on . P M at t hew r ant The ioneer . 24 G , persons who went against the I ndians and were 1 t h wounded that they died . I t was on the 9

D 1 6 . of ecember, 7 5 ’ VI rsh l N th l S l a a a . Capt . amuel , Pond, D S Ebenezer ibble, Richard axton , ” Edward Chapman .

' John Fitch also died of his wounds . Connecticut suffered more s ev e 'j r ly in this S battle, than any one of her ister colonies . Of her three hundred men , eighty were either kill ed or wounded . A subscription was raised in 1 6 6 ff n June, 7 , to aid the su erers in Ki g ’ Philip s war, to which Matthew Grant and his S T sons amuel , ahan , and John contributed .

I t was appropriated, by order of the Court, chiefly to relieve the wants of the Simsbury peo

u . e n ple, whose town had been b rned Mr . F imore Cooper has beautifully narrated these events in the early Indian wars o f N ew Eng in T he W land his romance, ept of Wish — ton Wish, the scene of which is said to be laid S it s in W indsor . ome of incidents also , are,

r probably, borrowed f om the histories of other

t . owns At H adley, which is a few miles north W t he of indsor, settlers were attacked, while at church , when an old man with a long white beard, who proved to be one of the fugitive

j udges of Charles the First, came forth from his hiding place, and led the astonished wor ant T e P i n 2 M atthew r h o eer . G , 5

The shippers to victory . novelist makes ex

e ll n c e t use of this romantic occurence . Matthew Grant resided during t he las t years W of his life with his Son John . hen he went So n d to live with this he was alrea y, a second S time, a widower, for his wife usannah had died T h e eleven years before . colonies now ex

e r ie nce d p a cessation from I ndian hostilities , ’ and the decline of Matthew Grant s life found him in the enj oyment of peace and tranquillity S “ oon, however, at a full age, like as a shock of ” corn cometh in his season, having seen the goodly number of nearly four score years the pioneer was gathered to his long home . T h e Eventful had been his life . voyage across the ocean , the j ourney through the wilderness , a home among savages ; he was spared to see the foundations of a colony securely laid, and then he entered into his rest . 2 T C H A P E R I I .

SA M U EL G R N T SEN I OR S M U EL G R NT uN A , ; A A , j I O R N O H G R NT SEN ; A A , I OR .

M U EL R N T SA G A , the oldest son and the D o r second child of M atthew, was born in 1 2 N chester, M ass . , on the th of ovember, 1 6 1 a 3 , about one year and a half after his p N ’ rents had landed at antasket . We have on record but few events of his life . H e seems to — have been a God fearing, faithful , and indus t rio u s member of the community, as , indeed , likewise, were all the family of Matthew . H e was baptized and taken into fellowship with the Windsor Church in the twenty-eighth year

’ 1 6 8— of his age . About this time, 5 9 , January 8 , at a town meeting i t was voted that Sam uel Grant should try and seal measures for the ” T wo T town . years thereafter the ownsmen made a bargain with Samuel Grant to shingle

r o o f o f the inside the meeting house . H e is to get the shingle in the woods and cut them , hew them , and lay them on one inch and a quarter thick generally , and seven inches in ” 3‘ 1 6 breadth one with another . I n 6 5 he was

’ dsor S s Win . I 2 tile , p 5 .

2 8 Samuel r ant unior . G , ff

1 68 organized, and in February, 7 , the town S of East Windsor voted that amuel Grant, N S Senior, and athaniel Bissell hall have liberty to set up a saw-mill with the use of ten acres of land u pon the brook that is known by the name ” of Ketch . T he descendants of Samuel Grant s till r e side o u the ancient homestead at Eas t Wind sor H ill . k S M U EL R N T u We now but little of A G A , J 1 6 nior . H e was born in W indsor in 5 9 . H e married first H annah Filley, and after her de cease Grace Minor, the daughter of Captain S John M inor, of tratford, who was the son of

T Captain homas Minor, of Stonington , Con

977 17 0 1 2, ne i u T ct c t . Captain homas was the first of the name in this country, and was a son of Wil S liam , of Chew Magna, omersetshire, England . An ancient pedigree of this family from H enry 1 r e se r v e d ‘ M inor, who died in 3 5 9, is p j Sam

T hese autograph s were traced from the original s at Hartford T H on . H . by . J . rumbull ‘l‘ Captain John Minor moved first to Stratford and after s He w as s s ward to Woodbury . fir t and foremo t among the se t t le rs as s at Woodbury , an interpreter to the Indian , a land sur ve or y , a captain of militia , and a deacon in the church . He was S s 1 666 town clerk of tratford for about ten year from , and of N o ant o T lla d 2 ah Gr f o n . 9

u n10r was uel Grant, J , , like his father and grand

a father, faithful member of the church , and we 1 00 find his name recorded, in the year 7 , among those who having Owned the Covenant in u n o ther churches , and thereby put themselves der church watch have entered into ye same state in this church, viz . , ye Second Church of

' H e Windsor was twice married, and left at his decease nine children . I t is here interesting to notice that in the

first five generations of the Grant family, the christian names of all the descendants of M at w the Grant were biblical names , with one ex ce t io n p only, in the family of Samuel , Junior, and if we examine the eight names of the eight members constituting the pedigree of General

Grant, from Matthew Grant, we shall discover that seven of these also were biblical names , a fact illustrative of the religious character of our forefathers , as well as of a singular custom , in this respect, which prevailed among them . Cap N tain oah Grant, the grandfather of General

Grant, was the first to depart, in any consider able degree, from this custom , for, in a family

d s its . He w as s Woo bury for thirty year , from beginning al o , for

s s t s G C . twenty year , almo alway , a member of the eneral ourt '

n ls . is n A c en Wo dbu . a H E t . a nd Gen. Cother s i t o 8 . See o N. ry, p 5 R Vol XIII 1 1 1 6 s e . 6 C T was g . . pp . , 4 . aptain homa Minor of equal di stinction among t h e early settlers at N e w London and ’ S S l s V l 1 e e s s 2 d c . o t H H . C d . toning on . o li ter i t onn , , . I . p 5 5 . G ant o l d 3 0 N oah r f To lan .

of ten children, he has given eight of them u nscr i Scriptural names, and the other two p tural ones . N O H R N T S A G A , the son of amuel Grant,

Junior, was born at the H omestead in East H D e 2 . e c. 1 6 1 6 Windsor, , 9 married Martha N Huntington , of orwich , Connecticut, who was descended from Christopher Huntington WIfe ofSu san and his Ruth Rockwell , daughter k nah Roc well . Samuel Huntington, one of the D signers of the eclaration of I ndependence, S and Governor of the tate of Connecticu t, r ev olu and General Jedediah H untington , of

T he . t ionar . y fame, were of this family H on T u k The J . H ammond r mbull remar s : de scent of the General from both wives of Mat u thew is curious . Martha H ntington who married the first N oah Grant being the great granddaughter of Susannah (the second wife of Matthew) by her first husband William ” N Rockwell . oah Grant, the first of this name, was a resident of East Windsor until T the town of olland, which is situated twenty miles east—northeast from H artford in the

' T s e t t le d whe n be~ county of olland, was , he came an inhabitant of the new town . Mr . T rumbull says again

N fi S N oah athaniel , son of the rst amuel , , and his elder brother, Samuel Grant third a r ant o T llan N o h G f o d. 3 1

and John Grant, their cousin , were petitioners 1 1 in May, 7 3 , for the incorporation of the new T town , afterwards named olland . I n April of that year, the Committee appointed by the town of W indsor to lay out lands which had been purchased formerly from the I ndians to be settlers in the proposed new town , then W longing to indsor, granted and set out lots , N among others , to oah Grant, to his cousin , T e R homas Grant, Jos ph and Josiah ockwell , T and others of the family connection . hey as T h signed seventeen lots of forty acres each . e first settlement in T olland was southwest of the centre of the township , on what has been known , nearly from the time of the settlement, ’ ” W as Grant s H ill . [Maj or F . . Grant, of

East Windsor, says that his grandfather also , l Captain Ebenezer Grant, owned and at ’ “ Grant s H ill] The lot granted to N oah fi S Grant can still be identi ed . I t was the ixth described in the record of the Committee . ' H is house was about two miles southwest of T h e olland meeting house , and was occupying 1 1 8 it as early as the beginning of 7 , perhaps N half a year earlier . H is eldest son, oah, was in all probability born here, and not in

Windsor, as the Genealogical Register has ’ T * it . I n Waldo s H istory of olland, i t is

6 1 2 2 1 2 p ° 5 ) s 7 , , 3~ t o l and 3 2 N oah Gr an f To l .

‘ h e T 1 20 said that came to olland before 7 , but in the T olland Records it is mentioned that a town meeting which was held Feb . ‘ 1 1 —1 8 7 7 , granted him a lot of land over ’ his house e against cross the highway, and in a p 1 1 1 N T tition dated April 5 , 7 7 , oah , homas , and N athaniel describe themselves as inhabi tants of T his petition is as follows

e b T o D ebe t e r y H on the Govenor, Gove e nor Counsel and Representatives of y Ginr ael Cort A se mble d H olden At H artford May T h e r t issio n S b 1 1 . e u 9 , 7 7 Humbel p of our T fole r e t h scribers I nhabitants of oland Is as . W h arast s ouer N umber being Co nside r abe l I n t Crest We pray y We M ay H ave town privi t lidg Granted to ous y We m ay be Abel to Maintain and uphold Good Orders Amongst ous and N ot Lef to perish for Lack of V ision D T Sec. 1 1 1 ated oland April 5 , 7 7 .

W I L L I M T O N N T H O N Y SL YTER A EA , A A ,

O SES OO M I S O SE H T H E R M L , J P MA ,

N O H R NT M U EL R N T A G A , SA G A ,

O H N U N T I N G TO N S M U EL O C K W ELL J H , A R ,

O SI H O CKW ELL T H OM S R N T J A R , A G A ,

N T H N EL R N T EZ EK I H O R T E R A A I G A , H A P , ” ‘ ‘ Sec. j

i f hif Conn. Ar c ves T s ds V ol D o . . c 6 , own and Lan , 5 . 4 . J N s s H r s Dr S r ote from the record at a tford furn i hed by . tiles , ah r an o T lland N o G t f o . 3 3

I n December of the same year the town was ffi organized by the election of a full set of o cers , town meetings began to be held and town busi ness transacted, apparently with full powers . E In 1 8 1 8 arly the next year, , at a town meeting all the hona fide residents in the town were as ce r t aine d and recorded . N Like his forefathers , oah Grant seems to have been a zealous supporter of church wor fi nd ship , and we the following entry in the 1 1 2 town records bearing date June 9, 7 3 Vot ed T o r , hat the church hath liberty to S S dain Mr . tephen teel pastor of a church in ’

T Vot ed T . S oland . , hat the charge of Mr teel s ordination be done at the expense of the town . Vot ed T N , hat oah Grant shall be one to see that provision be made for the ordination of ” M r . Steel .

H e served also , as a selectman of the new ’ ’

1 2 2 2 2 . town in 7 , 4, and 5 ft A er a life of great activity and usefulness , N fi T oah Grant, rst, died in olland, October 1 6 1 2 N , 7 7 , leaving four children , oah, Adon S iram , olomon and Martha . H is widow Mar tha married, afterwards , Peter Buell of Coven

. l s S d S E s . S and made originally, by y ney tanley q Mr tan ey, al o , as as . T has s well Mr rumbull , found indi putable evidence from

s s N G was s . deed , and other paper , that oah rant from Wind or ” Waldo :Ea r l H r o Tol nd isto la 0. y y f , p 3 2k 34 N oah Gr ant of Tolland.

T try . his entry is found in the first Book of “ Coventry Records ; Lieut . Peter Buell and u Martha Grant his wife, were married Jan ary ° 1 2 8- y 7 . 7 9 General Peter Buell Porter of N iagara

Falls , a native of Salisbury, Connecticut, the Secretary of War under John Quincy Adams was the great grandson of M artha Buell .

Jesse Root Grant is also her great grandson .

’ D o n B u ell I n Carlos j a general the late war, u ar e was also of this family, and these B ells , probably, descended from William Buell the W pioneer at indsor .

s s s s Dr . Many of the e fact are from note furni hed by Porter, of Covent Mr. W eeler adds that Peter Buell and Martha his wife had

h R ev. S was five c ildren, one of whom , the amuel Buell, an eminent divine and preached on Long Island . He w as the immediate

ss . s . predece or of the Rev Lyman Beecher, at Ea thampton He ’ w as n Se . 1 1 1 6 1 8 Th om on Hi s s st . L bor p , 7 , and died in 7 9 . p . I. ll 4 P 9 .

1 He was not a relative of th e Grants .

6 a t ain N oah r ant The F ir st . 3 C p G ,

’ t h e in Genl . Lyman s Regiment , of one of Con ne ct icu t companies from Windham coun t y which borders upon T olland . Capt . Ebenezer N Grant, the uncle of the second oah, com m ande d in the same war, at a later period, a company from Windsor . H e was then about N forty years of age . oah Grant the second, and Solomon his brother took the field, early, though in different companies . “ ” T he troops , says H ildreth, destined for the Crown Point expedition , some six thou N ew N e w sand men , drawn from England, N ew . Jersey and York, advancing under Gen Lyman of Connecticut to the head of boat nav i at io n r L g on the Hudson , built there Fo t y

r . man , called afte wards Fort Edward Johnson

( who was afterwards knighted, ) j oined them with the stores and artillery, assumed the com ” mand and advanced to Lake George . T h T e . . u H on M r r mbull , who has given the colonial records . and archives at H artford t a careful examination, is of the opinion hat “ N oah Grant enlisted in one of the two regi ments under Lyman , ordered to be raised by the T March Assembly . hese regiments were full and on their way north, by the end of June . Putnam and Grant were both employed i n

’ H ildr eth s United States V ol 62 , . II . p. 4 . - Ca t ain N oah r ant Th e Fir st . p G , 3 7

reb u ilding and strengthening Fort Lyman , N in the ovember following, and it is highly build probable that both helped to it, in July ’ and August . Grant s first appearance in service, so far as can be learned from the records , is on the scouting party with Rodgers and Putnam from the camp at Lake

N o 2 v . George from Oct . 9 , to 3 , H e a was then Lieutenant Grant . If he had been

- new comer to the camp , he could hardly have been selected for such a service . H e had doubtless been long enough with the army to ” acquire some knowledge of the country . Meanwhile the French commander Baron D ieskau , Johnson being encamped at Lake

G eorge, had ascended Lake Champlain intend ing to surprise Fort Edward . A body of the English having been sent out against him was

C . N . R C G o 1 . amp at Lake eorge , v 3 , 7 5 5 eport of apt ’ R s and s r s s advanc odger company, of their ki mi h with the enemy ed G uard . Captain R odgers states that after reconnoitering on the 2 9t h of October and discovering a Small F ort and several small Log ” C s e F ds s fi nd amp within y ort, afterwar two canoe appearing and ing there was a party coming by land I ordered T wo B att oe s into e . G 6 6 y water Lieut rant with men, and I went into ye other with men and Put on Board Each a Wall piece and Went out towa rd s ”

s. A s ye canoe fter a two hour engagement, both on land and water, C . s apt Putnam being in charge of the party on hore , they were s and victoriou , with none killed and but one wounded, made ye s H S Be t of their way to eadquarters . ( igned ) O B E T RO G E S R R D R , S EL T N M I RA P A , U “ N H G NT OA RA . ’ - D . H st . . oc. i . N Y O Ca la ha V l n. ol. 1 6 g 4 pp . 7 7 8 a t ain N aan r ant 771 3 Fir st . 3 C p G ,

8 1 repulsed on the th of September, 755 , when Dieskau having followed the fugitives in to camp was driven back and mort ally wound

' ed . Gen . Johnson was also wounded early in

v the action , and the command ha ing devolved on Gen Lyman, to him and the Connecticut troops belongs the honor of winning victory from apparent disaster . Lieutenant N oah

’ Grant was probably in this battle . I nst e ad o f

' hiS s u cce s s . no w following up , Gen Johnson allowed the French to entrench themselves at T iconderoga and employed himself in erecting, at the southern extremity of Lake George,

Fort William H enry . T M r . rumbull continues here his narra

I n October it was decided to discharge s i x the volunteers , excepting hundred to be engaged in garrisoning Fort Edward and Fort

William H enry, and rebuilding the former — . N r e fort I n this service oah Grant enlisted, N o v 2 . 3 , and was appointed to oversee the masons employed at Fort Edward . H is weekly returns , addressed to Colonel Whit ’ r ing, Commandant, show the numbe of men D D e c. d ec. 2 l st . ow employed, 3 to H is n D e c time, in the same service, is entered from . — I 2 6. to Jan . H is pay roll for service in c o mmand of the Connecticut company in gar a t ain N oa/z r a nt T/z e Fir st . C p G , . 3 9 rison at Fort Edward* shows that he served ’ N o 1 T v . 2 d from 3 , 75 5 , ime of Enlistment 2 6 1 6 D —o u to March , 7 5 ischarged which day he again r e-enlisted for the next o campaign , having been pr moted to the cap t aincy of the 7 t h company in the 2 d (Woos ’ ter s) Connecticut regiment . His Pay Roll

' and G e ne r al A ccou nt were presented by him

1 6 . o r June 7 5 , at W indsor H e gave an der for the payment of the amount due him to ’ ” * Captain Ebenezer Grant, of Windsor . 1 The subj ect of our narrative had distin gu ishe d himself so greatly in the campaign just ended that his services received special no tice from the Colonial authorities , and, in 1 6 M ay, 7 5 , the Connecticut Assembly granted to “ Captain Israel Putnam the number of S s fifty panish milled dollars, and thirty uch N dollars to Captain oah Grant, as a gratuity for their extraordinary services and good con duct in ranging and scouting, the winter past, 'for the annoyance of the enemy near Crown ” int P o . jfi

T s s “ Mr . rumbull tate in another letter that G rant Render ‘ C d F D e r 1 6 ed a bill to the olony, ated ort Edward , c . , ’ 1 s for 5 day work hewing timber for the Barrack, framing, ‘ ‘ 2 6 T o 2 6 D s s and Jan . , ay work, ma onry, attested ’ " as O s s s. Conn. Ar r/l iv es Wa r . b’him ver eer of the Ma on ,

V oc. 2 8 . VOl. . D 5 e his 1 S e autograph on page 40 . t r H s C n V l Hollis t i t . on o . . 1 , . II p . 5 8 . 40 Cap t ain N oalz $2726

s s s T f m T hi ignature wa traced by Mr . rumbull ro the

s f original order in the archive at Hart ord . a t ain N on/z Gr ant Th F ir t e s . C p , 4 1

Captain N oah Grant remained in garrison with his company several months at Forts William Henry and Edward with other hardy O f L ie u t e n American rangers , one whom was S a ant John t rk, afterwards a successful gene ral of the Revolution . Early in the spring of 1 6 p 7 5 , reparations were begun by the Colo nis t s for a vigorous campaign . A force of seven thousand men , thoroughly equipped, was gathered at Lake George under the com W * mand of Maj or General inslow, but after the capture of Oswego by the French in August, General W inslo wwas ordered not to proceed on his intended expedition against T iconderoga and

Crown Point, but to fortify his camp so as to guard against any attack which might be made on it, and to endeavor to prevent the enemy . from penetrating into the country by the way o f South Bay or W ood Creek of Lake Cham plain . M eanwhile Forts Edward and William H enry were put in a proper posture of defence

‘ and secured with numerous gar r iso nsj Many small scouting parties were sent out now from the forts against the enemy, and the subj ect of N fr e our narrative, Captain oah Grant, was quently a companion of these courageous

s ss . G rand son of the econd governor of Plymouth, Ma , of that name . ‘ ' V a ca ule s /z in ton l . . 2 M a r s/z a ll s Li é o Wa s o . . 1 M / f g , I p 3 7 j

T. V ol. . . 2 . N. Hist . III p 3 a t ain N oah r ant Th e C p G , Fir s t .

s rangers in their perilou expeditions . On 2o th 1 6 the of September, 7 5 , at Fort William * H enry, Lieutenant Kennedy of the regulars , who had been out on a scout about forty days with some of the M ohawks and H ighlanders ’ went into several O fthe enemy s settlements ; and after making what discovery they could of the situation and strength of the country, burned

~ some houses , and a great quantity of board and some storehouses—one especially that contained a very large quantity of cordage, canvas , and — other naval and warlike stores and other dam 8 £ 1 0 ages to the amount as he supposed of or ,

000 sterling . H e brought one scalp and two prisoners , who were the tavern keeper and his wife whose house, with others , they also T burned . hey went out with sixty at first, but reduced them to eight when he was out, to pre T vent discovery . hey all returned but three

' G r ant o f viz . , Captain , Connecticut, and a cadet —a of the regulars , and one of the H ighlanders poor drunken fellow, not able to travel , they left behind to surrender himself to the ene

A lieutenant of the British regulars ranked a Captai n ( G rant of the colonial troops . ’ l V Ma s Hist . V o . z les Fr ench a nd India n Wa r s in s . Coll T . m s 01 Se r 2 . A s fourth . p . 4 7 fter having exa ined everal biographie is is s v G eneral G rant, the writer convinced that he the fir t to gi e, s at the pre ent day, a correct account of the manner and the place of the death of thi s mo st di stingui shed member of the G rant fam

d a t a in N oah Gr ant The Secon . 44 C p ,

be ham , the adj oining town to Coventry, qu e at hing his property valued at £900 sterling

A . Wh N T h e . e e le r to oah . H on Richard was the first to call public attention to the exist

ence of this will . He says I can prove in a court o fj u s t ice the connection of the Gene ’ D r S H ral with N oah Grant of . tiles istory of W T h e indsor . proof exists in the H artford and Windham probate records , and in the town records of T olland and Coventry .

P T I N N O H R N T CA A A G A , the third of this N S name, the son of oah Grant and usannah D T 20 1 8 elano , was born in olland June , 74 , about two years before the removal of the fam ily to Coventry . When his valiant father, the famous captain of scouts at Lake George, los t his life in the expedition o f which some account N has already been given , oah Grant, the third, was a lad eight years old and the elder of two sons . I t was a hard fate to be left fatherless b ut at a tender age, we shall find that his whole fo r life was a stormy one, his lot was cast in those t roublous times which tried mens ’ souls , with a generation of heroic champions of liberty who defied and beat down the power of the British King in these his colonies , and established on its ruins a free and independent nation . As Matthew Grant was a founder in the wilderness of one of these colonies , so, in a t ain N oah r ant The Second. C p G , 45

N a later age, was Captain oah Grant of the

Revolution , one of the founders in blood and t suffering of this migh y republic . W e are unable to appreciate the sentiments which filled the hearts of our forefathers when the storm—cloud of war burst upon the coun try, and throughout the provinces of Massa chu se t t s and Connecticut, especially, was the The excitement most intense . bloody massa cre at Lexington by British troops sent out by

General Gage, the royal governor of M assa chu se t t s , from Boston , summoned the whole T o people to arms . illustrate the spirit which prevailed everywhere we are told that Mat thew Buell , a farmer of Connecticut, was plowing in the field when news came that blood had been shed ; he i nstantly uny oked his cat

— ’ The evidence as to G eneral G rant s descent from Matthew G rant may be summed up as follows ’ 1 T he 1 G 2 S G S . line ( ) Matthew rant, ( ) amuel rant, (3) am l ’ G is s s fr G ia s N his rant e tabli hed om Matthew nt ote Book,

C s ds . hurch Book . and the Wind or town recor

2 . T N G d s T hat oah rant I . remove from Wind or to olland ’ has been proved from t he archives at Hartford . Waldo s Early

History of T olland (p . 1 2 2 ) has the following entry in the re cord s N G : N 1 2 of the children of thi oah rant oah , born July ,

1 1 8 S . 2 s N 7 , olomon , born Jan 9, al o , in reference to oah G One N G S s Of 0n rant II . oah rant married u annah, daughter J

D Nov. 1 6 and son N a 2 0 athan elano 5 , 7 4 , had one , o h , born June ,

. T s s N w as 1 8 G . 74 hi la t, oah rant III , the grandfather of Gene ral G rant . The entailment to him of the estate of Lieutenant

S is R e . R olomon Grant , which mentioned b the v Marvin oot s s s T us se e corroborate the above tatement . we , that the fact ’ of General G rant s descent from Matthew G rant could be proved s in a court of ju tice . Se ond 6 a t ain N oah Gr ant The c . 4 C p ,

tle, and leaving his plough standing in the fur r o w a , repaired to the house to take le ve of his wife and family . Putnam , who was also at W ork in the field, did the same, starting for Cambridge without waiting t o change his ap parel . Stark was sawing pine logs without his coat ; he shut down the gate of his mill , and commenced the j ourney to Boston in his shirt I t is not merely a pleasing

fiction of the poet, but a fact in history that

T s hey left the plough hare in the mold,

T s s heir flock and herd without a fold,

T h e s s ickle in the un horn grain,

T he - am ere d i corn, half g , on the pla n,

nd s s ss A mu tered in their imple dre , For wrongs to seek a stern redress ;

To s s w o right tho e wrong , come weal , come , ’

TO s o er come . peri h, or their foe

N oah Grant took the field with the firs t party who marched to avenge the outrage at L ex ingt o nj ' H e was then t wenty-seven years of age , an age suitable for military service . — for inde e nde nce At the first drum beat p , having received an appointment as a lieutenant of Of militia, he hastened forward to the scene danger . H e remained on duty with the army

’ * f Mr s . Ellet s Dom stic H t the Am. Re v . . 2 . e is . of p 3 M ore set T than one hundred men out from C oventry, and t here were but few town s in the State which were not represented s t h e at Lexington and Bo ton , immediately after alarm reached ’ f C i . Hinma n s Amer . Re v . 2 2 . onnect cut . p Gr ant Th Sec nd a t ain N oah e o . C p , 47

gathered at Cambridge, under Generals Arte mas Ward and Israel Putnam , and shared in the glory, the excitements, and the perils whi ch attended the victorious engagement and s ubsequent defeat at Bunker H ill . I t is probable that he was not called into action at the Battle of Bunker H ill , but formed part of the reserve which was stationed by order of

General Ward at Cambridge . General Washington was appointed by s -in- Congres , the commander chief of the Con t ine nt al army, and arrived in camp at Cam 2 1 bridge July , 77 5 . H ere he found gathered together an army of fourteen thousand five

’ hu ndre d m e n who were mostly raw and undis cipline d troops . H is first duty was to organize this army and prepare it for effective serv ice against the veteran regiments of British regu ’ Th e lars . subject of our narrative, Lieutenant N r Of in oah G ant, was not lost sight in this sp e ct io n and reorganization of the army by the

Eo mm ande r -in- his as chief, and commission a W ’ lieutenant was renewed, by ashington s orders , in the Continental army . After the evacuation of Boston by the

British , General Washington hastened forward

' N e w to York , anticipating the design of the

' t o T he enemy capture that city . arrival of

General H owe , the disastrous battle on Long a i t The Second 8 ta n N oah r an . 4 C p G ,

Island, and the retreat to H arlem River, fol lowed in quick succession . I n all the v arious engagements and movements of the Conti ne nt al army, in this campaign , the sons of

Connecticut bore a most conspicuous part . u General P tnam , the brave Colonel Knowlton who was killed at Harlem H eights , and a host S of others represented the tate of Connecticut .

T h e N chivalrous Captain athan H ale, who was “ hung as a spy, and whose last words were, I f

I had ten thousand lives , I would lay them down in defence of my injured, bleeding coun ” try, was a native of Coventry, Connecticut,

com an and was , without doubt, a friend and p ion, in his earlier years , of Lieutenant Grant. Th e old Beekman mansion is still standing, in N e w the city of York, in the greenhouse near which , Captain H ale received his trial and con de m nat io nf A succession of disasters to the American

arms , at this time, threw into the hands of the be British many thousand prisoners , and it came a diffi cult task to provide adequately for

their comfortable subsistence . We shall not attempt a recital of the horrors of the prison S houses , among which were the ugar H ouse, N ew N e w the Bridewell , the Jail , and the W ll b u t a prison ships at the a a o . We h ve made allusion to the terrible s u fferings of our coun S a t ain N oah r ant The econd. C p G , 4 9 t r yme n in these dismal dungeons merely for the purpose of mentioning the name of one who was evidently a kinsman of Lieutenant N oah

Grant, although the author is unable to trace T the relationship . here is found in a list of ‘American prisoners who were exchanged at N D 1 S ew e c. 1 80 York, 7 , 7 , by Abraham kin e ner, the commissary gen ral of prisoners , the in name of Jesse Grant, who was a lieutenant Colonel W ebb ’s regiment of Connecticut ' * troops . T he similarity of the names of this Lieu tenant Jesse Grant and of the father of Gen eral Grant is certainly remarkable . I n the absence of exact evidence as to the campaigns and actions in which Lieutenant N oah Grant ser ved during the whole period of co n e c the revolution , we are left somewhat to j ture . I t is probable that there were intervals of furlough after certain periods of enlistment, and some portion of this service was evidently S rendered with the militia of his native tate, in extraordinary campaigns and expeditions , and not in the continental line . Among the many r calls for troops to se ve in the State, were those N e w N ew for London , Groton , H aven , Fair

' Sa ell s Recor ds h R f Wa 2 2 o t e e v. r . His n is j f , p 3 . ame ‘

s Hinma n Am . . 2 Re v . A found al o in s . p 35 mong the Officers en

d Sa ell . 2 0 is title to half pay ( fi , p 4 ) the name ofLieutenant Benoni

C . Grant, from onnecticut i N o Gr a t T S d 0 Ca ta n ah n he econ . 5 p ,

D be field and anbury, and out of the State, 1 sides the call for Boston in 775 , and for ’ 1 6 Washington s army in 77 , a special enlist m 1 ent was made against Burgoyne in 777, and l for other campaigns , and it is quite probab e that Lieutenant Grant j oined a company or reg * l im e nt . 1 a on this kind of service I n 777 , most every able-bodied man turned out against a Burgoyne, until fter his surrender, and the harvest was gathered by old men , boys and ‘ ‘ T h e D W Women . j language of aniel ebster M T he referring to assachusetts , bones of her inde e nd sons, fallen in the great struggle for p ence now lie mingled with the soil of every ” N e w — state from England to Georgia, is no less applicable to her sister state Connec ticut . Shoulder to shoulder they entered into the con d test for free om, and in no other state, was the display of patriotism at all comparable with that in Massachusetts and Connecticut, and, indeed

o f N e throughout the whole w England . ’ ’ N e w England s dead Ne w England s dead " On every hill they lie ; T h e principal facts which are given in this sketch in reference to the military services of Captain N oah G rant have been furni shed

hi n. h n C s so T e H o . . C . Cox C ss by , late ommi ioner of s Hon H H s s . . . T C . . d E s Pen ion , Wa hington , J rumbull, J oa ly, q , H d r D . on. R . C H A artfor , J B . Porter, M . ovent y, ichard . S Hon Sw d s Wheeler, tonington , W . ift, Win ham , Jo eph

s E H . s . T d . Es F E s . Bi hop , q ollan , L ebard , q. Lebanon , W uller, q

C . Brooklyn , onnecticut, and the widow of the late Mr Weaver, s d b ss s of Windham , have al o ren ered valua le a i tance to the author in the preparation of thi s sketch . ‘ Notes r om Dr P or ter . 1 f .

2 a t ai n N oah r ant Th e Second. 5 C p G , f Jesse R . Grant, Esq . in orms us that his father served during most of the revolution , I t ending finally, as a captain . was towards the close of the war that Captain Grant married

Mrs . Annie Richardson , who was of the Buell

r t he family, of Coventry, and, on his eturn, at cam ai nin s end of his p g g , he found himself a wid ower, his wife having died, leaving two sons , T h e Solomon and Peter . desire to emigrate westward was now prevalent throughout Con ne ct icu t , and among the first to brave the dan gers of a frontier life were found the hardy soldiers who had fought in the armies of the N v . re olution Like many others , Capt oah

Sir C s as sh e is s as sh e w as , that onnecticut, mall in territory, mall S V in population when compared with the tate of irginia , had more troops in the field during the revolutionary wa r than the V ” great State of irginia . Thi s statement and the above proportions are verified by the f on following table, derived rom the report of G eneral Knox to C ss 1 0 s s s s ea h gre in 7 9 , howing the number of oldier furni hed by c State in the war of the revolution

Soldie s . P o ul a ion i n 1 90 7 . r p t , N e w Hampshire ss s s Ma achu ett , including Maine . Rhode Connecticut N e w Y ork N e w Jersey s Penn ylvania . Delaware Maryland V irgin ' North Carolina S outh Carolina G eorgia

’ Hollister s Histor o Conn V ol 2 y f . . II . p . 5 7 . in V oah r ant Th e S c nd a t a t e o . C p G , . 53

n Grant was i fluenced by this desire for change, and he set out from Connecticut, with his

t 1 0 youngest son Pe er, about the year 79 , and his first tarrying place was in W estmoreland

County, Pennsylvania, near the small village of r v T he G eensburg, on the Monongahela ri er . country was , here, almost a wilderness bears ,

. The w panthers , and wolves abounded d ell ings of the settlers were chiefly log-houses of

T h e the most rude construction . I ndians still

v t he ho ered around the abodes of white man , and they were, at times , by no means agreeable neighbors . Pittsburgh , then a small hamlet of fi v e about hundred inhabitants , was situated T twenty miles below Greensburg . ravelling was , mostly, accomplished on horseback, along s ffi deviou and di cult paths through the forest, although there was a roughly laid out road, and a mail carriage to Philadelphia . Venison fi sh and were plentiful , and flax woven into cloth by the women furnished the simple dress of the adventurous emigrants . Captain N oah Grant married at Greensburg 1 2 March 4, 79 , his second wife , Miss Rachel

Kelly, a lady, who was destined to be the grandmother of General Grant . Aft er residing nine years at Greensburg, Captain Grant s et 1 out again in the spring of 799, for the Eldo R rado of the west, the Connecticut eserve a t ain N oah r ant The Second. 54 C p G ,

T he fame of this new country, which was to be settled by his old friends and companions from the east, had reached his ears , and embarking on board one of the rude vessels which nav igat ed the M onongahela, with his wife and five children , a horse, two cows , and a small supply of household goods , he passed down into the f beauti ul Ohio river, and landed in Colum fi biana county, at an insigni cant hamlet of a half dozen cabins , on the bank of the river, a place which has since been dignified with the name of Liverpool . T h e State of Connecticut had acquired in 1 662 , the title to an extensive tract of land in the west, under a general charter from Charles

. 1 86 U I I I n 7 , she ceded to the nited

States all her right and title in these lands , with the reservation of about three and a half mil o f lions acres , constituting, afterwards , more than ten counties , which were styled the Con ne ct icu t R eserve . T h e fi r e lands T were portions of the Reserve which were assigned to citizens of Connecticut who had suffered from the burning of their property by the Brit T he ish in the revolution . sale of her lands in Ohio laid the foundation of the m u nifi ce nt

A s T G C a htabula, rumbull , Lake , eauga , Portage, uyahog , H n Medina, Lorain , uron, Erie, and the norther portion of Ma S i s honing and ummit count e . 1 H s O t s 1 Erie, uron , and a mall part of t awa countie . in N oah Gr ant The Se ond Ca t a c . p , 5 5

. school fund of Connecticut Oliver Phelps , ‘ E s fi W and q a native of indsor, a large com 1 pany of gentlemen , purchased, in the year 795 , fo r the sum o f one million two hundred t hou in sand dollars , the lands remaining unsold the

Reserve . The following description is as applicable to this country, at the period of which we write, as it was before the revolution T he west ern and north western territory of the U nited States was an almost pathless wilderness at the commencement ofthe revolution . A few hardy adventurers had explored its forests they were followed by a few woodsmen , who shoul dered their rifles and plunged into the wilder t wo ~ slowl ness , and then came a wagon or , y breaking its rough way, bearing families whom the hardships of frontier life had emboldened T to seek a new home . hese enterprising pio nee r s r o , whose adventures shed a coloring of

Thi s di stinguished gentleman w as also engaged in efforts s fo r th e s s N e w Y on a gigantic cale ettlement of We tern ork . Th e Phelps and G orham purchase embraced over six million s of i m s s s com r s s G n . acre p g now, even countie in the ene ee cou try Oliver Phelps may be considered the Cecrops of the Genesee

H . ll. w Yor k . 0 i st Co Ne . country . , p 4 7 -T s d s :O s here were even irector of the company liver Phelp , Sufli e ld H C 2 d C s s s C d ; enry hampion , , olche ter ; Mo e levelan , S s S C anterbury ; amuel W . John on ; Ephraim Kirby ; amuel R N st ds h . T e Mather, Junr , Lynn oger ewberry, We Win or . w as H C annual meeting of the company held at artford, onnec “ ” . T ds O tient hey called their lan in hio N e w Connecticut . ’ Whitt es s or o Cle v eland l Ea Hist . 1 68 . ey r ty y f , p 7 6 a t ain 1 Voa ant S h r The econd. 5 C p G , mance over the early history of the whole r e gion, braved perils we nowadays shudder even to hear of ; for they were forced to dispute the grounds they occupied with fierce tribes of

’ Th e S D I ndians hawanees , elawares, and W N yandots of the orth , and the Cherokees , S Creeks , and Catawbas of the outh , who often waged bloody wars against each other, were alike disposed to meet with ferocious hostility the white men who dared invade the country they I t was to this country that adventurous N e w England men were now hastening . I n 1 797 , only two years before the arrival of Captain Grant in Columbiana county,a fe w families , who were the first pioneers , had crossed the Ohio , and settled within its limits .

One of these was named Carpenter, and short l y before Captain Grant had come among them , a noted I ndian chief, White Eyes , had stopped

int ox at the dwelling of Carpenter, and being

icat e d k . T o , had threatened to ill his son prevent this Carpenter was compelled to take T his life . his event created great excitement, and fears were entertained that the I ndians would visit summary vengeance upon them . T he storm passed over, however, and peace and quiet were soon restored .

’

D . Hist . Am r Rev m e . s Eller s o . . M r . p Ca t ain N oah r ant The Second p G , . 57 But Captain Grant had not yet reached the ’ T he e mi rat io n se t Reserve. tide of g in more strongly toward this country after the right o f u r isdict io n d 1 800 j over it was ce ed, in , to the general government. I t was about this time that Captain Grant removed to the R e serve, taking up his residence in Portage

D e e r fi e ld county near a rude settlement called ,

' T he which is now a pleasant village . man a e m e nt fi ne g of these lands in Ohio , and the c c introduction of them to publi noti e, in order to invite settlers , was almost entirely under the control of men from Connecticut and s R Ma sachusetts . General ufus Putnam , of fi - v . Massachusetts , was the rst sur eyor general

General Moses Cleveland, of Canterbury, Con ne ct icu t m , from who the city of Cleveland was ’ ‘ a e nt fi named, was also the land company s g I t

G S H . s s C eneral amuel Par on , of Middletown , onnecticut, purchased a tract of twenty-four thousand acre s in T rumbull 1 8 county in 7 8 . ’ d His v a n . 1 i tlese s Ea r l t o Cl l . W . e e h t y y f , p 5 9 -G eneral Parsons was chief-justice of the North Western 1 8 1 -He as s T erritory from 7 5 to 7 8 7 . w de cended from Benja s s at S rin ss s s min Par on the pioneer p eld , Ma achu ett Benja s s T s s s 0 ds C i min Par on , homa Par on , Win or, onnect cut , who s s s Y s had a lot in the pali ado , John Par on , of ork , Maine, Jo eph s s N ss s s S s s Par on , of orthampton , Ma achu ett , and amuel Par on , s H s d s and of Ea t ampton , Long I lan , were , probably, brother , s 1 6 0 wh o is came into thi country, about 3 , with their father, d d s h is n id supposed to have ie oon after arrival , leavi g a w ow, who d ds s d . E . s s ied in Win or, and everal young chil ren John Par on , N e w Y is d s Es . a q , lawyer of ork city, a e cendant from John

s s Y . Par on , of ork, Maine m e s e a t r om Sa u l H . Par son Es a r a ndson o Gen r l No es f , q, g f

Pa r sons . i a ant T Se 8 Ca t a n N o h r he cond. 5 p G ,

is not surprising, therefore, that the Reserve was settled, in great measure, by the sons of

s . Connecticut and Ma sachusetts I ndeed, it was almost as though these two States had been

transplanted entire to the banks of the Ohio , Th e same pronunciations , the same social customs , ideas, political faith, and other dis t inct iv e a e o le features that characterize p p , may be found in these eleven counties , which are peculiar to Connecticut and Massachusetts .

W e can well understand, therefore, that Cap h tain Grant felt quite at ome, again , among the people with whom his boyhood and many of the y ears of his manhood had been passed in N ew England . The first settler i n Portage county was the T h . w o Hon Benj amin appan, drove a yoke of oxen, with a load of farming utensils and 1 household goods , from Connecticut, in 799, and halted at a place in the wilderness, which he called Ravenna . At about the same time, D a Lewis y came into Portage county, fro m

Granby, Connecticut, and named the place ‘ where he stopped D e e r fi e ldfi in honor of the town in which his mother resided in Massa chu se t t s T . Moses ibbals and Green Fros t from Granville, Massachusetts , accompanied

‘ D a Mr. y and, in one year afterwards , Captain

Grant j oined the adventurous party.

H s l Oh . i t . C io ol .

60 a t ain N oah r ant The Second. C p G , domestic animals so high that the wolves could not jump or climb them . I n Knox -w county, which lies about sixty miles south es t o f the Reserve and but a short distance above

Columbus , forty wolves were caught in the T he winter of 1 80 5 in steel traps and pens . S * H on . amuel H untington who was the gov e r nor 1 80 8 of Ohio in , resided, first, at Cleve land, and, afterwards , at Painesville, both of which towns are in the Reserve . H e had been absent to the eastward of Cleveland on a j our ney, and when returning; toward evening, was u k T attacked, f riously, by a pac of wolves . heir ferocity was so great that he broke his um o ff brella in pieces in keeping them , and hav ing, fortunately, a very fleet horse, to this cir cum st ance he owed the preservation of his life . T o compensate, however, for this annoy ance from wild beasts , game and fish were fi sh plentiful , and formed no small part of their T h . e food, especially in the spring and autumn fi k rivers were lled with delicious pi e, white perch, salmon, spotted perch, black cat, yellow cat and sturgeon, and in the forests a few buf falo and an abundance of wild turkeys and deer were found .

General St . Clair was the first governor of

He w as a nephew and the heir of G overnor Samuel Hun t u N C i ting o , of orwich , onnect cut . a t ain N oah r ant The Second C p G , . 61

N T the orth Western erritory, from its organ iz n at io i n 1 7 85 to the year 1 803 . Captain Grant had resided but about five / Qaa a years at D e e r fie ld when the chief stay of his P e nns l household, the wife he had found in y T vania, sickened and died . his was a severe T blow to him . hey had been married thirteen e years , and she had borne him sev n children , who his , with the one brought from home in The Connecticut, made a family of eight . old soldier had not been thrifty . H e loved ’ ” too well to fight his battles o er again , to d talk of the thrilling scenes he had witnesse , for he had received an excellent education in the land of his youth, but he had managed to secure only a very sm all ' s t o r e of the good

n r thi gs of this world . H e had inherited f om his uncle, Lieutenant Solomon Grant, a life ‘ interest in the Coventry e st at efi but this had passed out of his hands before he was thirty sle n years of age, and he had, now, only very der resources to relieve the necessities of in creasing age . H is family was, therefore, bro ken up and scattered , on the death of his wife .

Jesse, as we shall see in a subsequent chapter, soon learned to provide for himself. The G rant place in Coventry w as entailed to the family of 62 Ca t ain N oah Gr ant The Second. p ,

’ T he declining years of Captain Grant s life were passed, quietly, in the family of his son Peter, who had removed to M aysville, in the State of Kentucky . H ere, at the goodly - N age of nearly seventy two years , Captain oah

Grant, of the war of the revolution , departed this life on the fourteenth day of February, As Matthew Grant was a founder of D the towns of orchester and Windsor, and of the colony of Connecticut, as his grandfather, N T the first oah Grant, was a founder of olland, so he, also , was a founder of the great State t he of Ohio , which has at present day two and a half millions of inhabitants , and ranks the third in population of all the federal states . From such a brave and h ardy line of an ce st or s is sprung, in a later generation , the U General of the Armies of the nion . I t is a T race which has known no rest . heir energies have not been dwarfed and enfeebled in the

o f luxu r . lap y I f there is anything in blood, we have it, here, exemplified . For eight gen e rat ions , this family has gone out to possess the land, to subdue and control it, and , at last, when torn asunder with civil discord, they have risen i n their strength and given it newness of life .

G w as s N G . f N oah rant IL , old by oah rant III , and, a ter the

s ss R . abolition of entailment at the end of the revolution , Je e s C 1 8 s G rant vi ited onnecticut, about the year 3 3 , and old out the s for s d s w as intere t of the family three thou and ollar , which , at - s its In a r t Notes o D r . Por te r . lea t, one third of true value . ( p , f ) T C H A P E R I V . — J ESSE R O OT G R A N T G EN ER A L U LY S SES SI M P

SO N G N T R A .

J ESSE R OOT G R A N T was born near Greens

t in burg, which is situa ed Westmoreland

County, Pennsylvania, twenty miles above

R o n Pittsburgh on the Monongahela iver, the fi 2 d 1 . the 3 of January, 794 H e was the rst ’ son by his father s second wife Rachel Kelly, N and Cap tain oah named him , in , memory of the land of his nativity, from the H on . Jesse ’“ Root who was t he / m o st eminent counsellor of

* L a s s R L . D . w s C C Je e oot, , born in oventry , onnecticut, d De 2 8 1 6. He N ss c. , 7 3 receive a collegiate education at a au N e w e rse G T H . a s all, J overnor rumbull gave him captain ss s D e c 0 commi ion , in t e fir t year of the revolutionary war, . 3 , 1 6 and d s s W i 7 7 , he joine Wa hington army, th a compau which s d H H e as w as . w rai e , principally, at artford promote to the - s f Of . 1 wa s ta f with the rank lieutenant colonel In May, 7 7 9, he s ss cho en a delegate to the old congre of the confederation , and s d s He w as in that tation he continue until the clo e of the war. s d as F 1 6 licen e an attorney at Windham , m ebruary, 7 3 , and he

s as s s S a . H e had few equal , a lawyer, and no uperior in the t te w as appointed a judge of the Superior Court of Connecticut in 1 8 1 8 C s ff d 1 80 7 9, and m 7 9 hief Ju tice, which o ice he hel until 7 , s d He w as d 1 H when he re igne . a elegate f om artford to the C U S s s onnecticut convention to ratify the nited tate con titution , 1 8 8 1 8 1 8 C in 7 , and in a member from oventry of the con d R ve nt io n to form the constitution of Connecticut . Ju ge oot

2 2 2 M S. d i n C 1 8 8 s . Fr om ied oventry, March 9 , , aged 5 year M in R t hi a nd-ne w ut b notes b Rev . a r v oo s r he Contr ib ed y , g p . y

Dr . P or ter o Cov ent r . , f y 6 esse R oot Gr ant 4 7 .

that day, and was , for many years , chief j us tice of the Superior Court of Connecticut . When young Jesse was but eleven years of age his mother died, and her decease was the cause of the immediate breaking up of the family

‘ T he circle . old soldier ofthe revolution had not

” provided his son with riches , but he had given — and him somethi ng better character, we shall fi nd that sterling integrity, industry, frugality, and a manly independence were always his hab its o f life and motives of action . A part . of his youth was passed in the family of T o d n Judge , of Youngstow , Ohio , and in 1 8 1 2 , he went to reside, with the intention of - learning the business , with his half brother at Peter Grant, who had a tannery M aysville, T — Kentucky . hree years later, at twenty one years of age, he was prepared to set up for

i n D e e r fi e ld himself charge of a tan y ard at , — Portage county, and at twenty four years of age, - he took a tannery at Ravenna, the county seat of the same county .

Faithful industry had, thus far, brought its own reward, but now there came a season of — ill health and disaster . H e had contracted the fever and ague , a disease which was prevalent at Ravenna, but after a short period of sick ness and reverses , he settled again in a pros pe r ou s business in a more distant locality in esse R oot ant J Gr . 65

S the same tate, at Point Pleasant, Clermont -fiv e county, twenty miles above Cincinnati , on and the Ohio River, more than two hundred - miles south west from his late residence . A favorabl e opportunity had offered itself for e s t ablishin g, at this place, a tannery, and, after getting his business into successful operation , here it was that he chose as his wife a young lady by name Miss H annah Simpson . H e h 2 t 1 8 2 1 . was married on the 4 of June, Miss Simpson was the second daughter and third child of John Simpson, and was born and o brought up in M ntgomery county , Penn sylvania, twenty miles from Philadelphia . M r . Simpson was a highly respectable farmer of

American ancestry for several generations . N one of the family connections were ever as ir ant s p for fame or political notoriety, but were more solicitous as to their standing in regard T h e to integrity, veracity and independence . family had removed to Ohio a few years previ o u sl T h e y, and settled in Clermont husband has , himself, portrayed the character — of the lady who thus became his life lOng com panion and the mother of his children in the following highly interesting language “ At the time of our marriage Mrs . Grant was an u h npretending country girl andsome, but not

ss R Es Extract from a private letter from Je e . Grant, q. 66 esse R o t t 7 o Gr an .

r i sl o in vain . She had p e v o u y j e d the Metho dist Church ; and I can truthfully say that it has never had a more devoted and consistent member . Her steadiness , firmness and strength of character have been the stay of the family

She through life . was always careful , and most watchful over her children ; but never

r austere, and not opposed to their f ee partici p at io n in innocent T he of P o int it s village Pleasant is , as name fi h signi es, pleasantly situated on the nort ern bank of the Ohio, and, although it was , at that early period, a hamlet of quite modest propor tions , yet we can easily imagine that the rich profusion of delights spread out by bounteous —a nature on every side, variegated landscape, a fertile soil , and a salubrious climate rendered it a far more desirable residence than many others which abound more with the adorn T ments of art . his was not what the world would call a proud birthplace for one who was soon to sway the destinies of half a continent, but, in truth, surroundings like these, the beautiful river Ohio , the silent forest, the

' grassy meadow or waving wheat-fi e ld fu r nishe d a scene which the poet or the novelist would have been delighted to select as the birthplace U of his hero . lysses Simpson Grant was born

a The New Yor k Led er . From letter of Mr. Grant to g

t r ant 68 yesse R oo G .

an education . Although my business had s e t been good and reasonably uccessful , y I did not feel able to support him at college . So I suggested West Point ; that met his app r oba tion , and I made application , and by the veriest accident in the world I obtained the appoint ment for

M r . Jesse R . Grant found it advantageous to make another business change about the e ar 1 8 1 y 4 , the support of a large family de manding it, and having sold out at Georgetown he formed a partnership in the leather business at Galena, Illinois , with Mr . E . A . Collins, of

Clermont county . I made an agreement him k with , by which he took his stoc and mine and went to Galena, and started a leather store , and I took his tannery and carried it on . I enlarged the tannery and pushed b usiness to T h e the greatest possible extent . result was that we were After several years of this partnership Mr . Grant was able on the 1 8 first of January, 54, to retire from business with a competency, and having sold his i nterest

. n in the Galena store to M r Collins, his you gest son Orville being now in business in Chicago , he resides , free from the cares of life, at a quiet retreat which he had previously selected at

M r G Shoe and Lea ther R F . e or rom a letter of rant to the p ter ,

er 1 Shoe a nd Leather Repor t . t 6 7 esse R oot Gr an . 9

u Covington, Kentucky, a pleasant sub rb ofthe city of Cincinnati . ’ r T he secret of M . Grant s success may be summed up in his own words —“ Preferring W to do a sure business to a large one , I orked on such means as I had, and never involved myself in debt . Soon after I commenced bus ine ss at Point Pleasant, General Lytle, of n ff Cinci nati , o ered me an empty tannery he

a nd n t he had in that city, agreed to fur ish all means necessary to carry it on , but I was t afraid to take the responsibili y, and adhered to my fi rst policy of a sure thing rather than T he a large one . man who did take the place retired ten years ago on a fortune of a million of dollars . I kept on in a moderate way, m supporting my family well , teaching the the practical lessons of life, and fitting them for f uture usefulness . I f I had taken the Gene ’ ral s tannery, I should, no doubt, have come into possession of a sudden , overgrown for

e . tune, and spoil d my children As it was, old when I was enough to retire, my boys were fi and fully quali ed to take my place, I have the ’ consolation of knowing t h at l have educated my children all well , and have made them all

' be sides knowin moderately wealthy, g that they are all doing well for t h e m se lv e H aving

Shoe a nd L a h r r e t e Repor te . t a t 70 7 esse R oo Gr n .

-fiv e reached the goodly age of seventy , and h as with the wife of his youth , who been his for - companion forty eight years , still living,

M r . Grant enj oys in his retirement the j ust rewards of a life of integrity and faithful in d u s t r y . We have omitted mentioning in it s proper connection the fact that M r . Jesse R . Grant has displayed, frequently, a happy talent in framing verses , which might have given him a lasting reputation if he had enj oyed better ad o f vantages education in his youth . We shall see, in another part of this work, that there was , in very ancient time, a distinguished Bard o c in the clan of Grants in the Highlands , and casio nal displays of poetic genius among the various members of the Grant family are to be expected . We will permit M r . Grant to de scribe, himself, the circumstances under which t hese specimens of his poetry were written . H e says T here was an old Englishman i n the neighborhood [of Georgetown] by the name of h im s e lf a Boler ; he styled poet, was occupied as a school teacher, and was very poor . H e always signed his published productions Back ’ Woodsman . About forty years ago he wrote me for leather for a pair of shoes . His letter in - was rhyme, and was published in our village ’ ast i at r paper called the C g o . I t commenced R r a t 7esse oot G n .

“ e sse R G NT— J . RA Beloved friend, n s I ca not go , and therefore end

T h s ss s i little letter, and le new , ' T o s let you know I m out of hoes .

I did not keep a copy, and have forgot ten the rest of the poetry ; but the author went

- on to say he wanted strong cow hide, broad

straps , bottoms six inches wide, and not such as were worn by the dandies ; that cash was

scarce with him , but he would pay in hides or grain . I knew that he had neither . I said

C KW OO SM N—Sir BA D A , my aged friend,

T s s s s he e line in an wer back I end , T o thank you for your rhyming letter, ” s Ca sti a tor Publi hed in the g . T he story Of your worn out shoes

Is s s , to a tanner, no trange new ; We oft en hear that story told

s s ar e By tho e who e feet pinched with cold,

T s hen they apply to get ome leather, T o guard against the frosty weather

T s is s hat ca h carce they oft complain , A nd wish to meet their bill s in grain

O s s s ther , who wi h to be upplied ,

l s s Wil promi e oon to bring a hide . S us is uch pay by greatly prized ,

is s But not alway realized .

N ow t s , one hing here I mu t relate, A s written in the Book of Fate ’ ’ A s so you ve grown old, you ve grown poor, A s poets all have done before ; A nd yet no one of common sen se

s Will charge that fault to your expen e, N or otherwi se dispo se the weight ’ Than charge it to a poet s fate . 2 esse R oot a 7 y Gr nt .

D F ame ate with me , though , need not flirt, ’ For I m not poet enough to hurt . ’ The tis s s world , aid, owe all a living ; ‘ us What can t be bought, then , m t be given,

A nd t s , hough I have not much to pare, I can at least give you a pair

O r for —Of s s leather a pair hoe ,

T s s hat you may ally forth for new , A nd when another pair you want, - s s t o . R . NT Ju t end a note J GRA .

The backwoodsman called and got his leather, but I never saw the hides or grain . In reference to the dissolution of partnership with Mr. Collins, at Galena, he writes

On the final winding up our business , we invoiced one hundred thousand dollars . I took the Ohio tannery, and Mr. Collins had the Gale na store . A part of our advertisement of disso lution was as follows d - In eighteen hundre forty one, O ur part nership w as first begu n ; h as We two t en became one, T o deal in leather ; Some little bu sine ss we have done

While together.

’ For s a dozen year we ve toiled together, in In making and vending leather,

S s uited to every tage of weather, E r e dry or rain But now the time has come to sever

A nd we are twain .

A C s is s E . . ollin till on hand , hi s A nd occupies s former tand , a s In which he alw y held command, l sses Sim son r a t Gener al Uy p G n . 3

T o buy and sell

A s s matter now are being planned, ' l May he do wel . “ R G Old off J . . rant, the wheel , A s and as s s firm true mitten teel , Does yet a strong desire feel

s T o do ome more .

Expect, then, within the field ,

A s bran new tore .

Our s s hearty thank we humbly end,

s f T o every cu tomer and riend, Who has stood by u s to th e end With free good-will ;

A nd sa u y, in f ture, we intend

To serve you still .

N ow one thing more we have to say

T o s tho e who owe, we want our pay Then send it on without delay The full amount For still we have s ome debts to pay ; O n firm account . R Y s &c . . . G NT our , , J RA . G EN ERAL U LY SSES S IMPSON G RANT was born h th e 2 t 1 822 . on 7 of April , Considerable dis c ussion seems to have arisen among th e various members of t h e family in deciding upon the n th e ame of youthful warrior, and it is quite certain that the fates were unpropitious on this f - question , and determined to de eat the best laid schemes of family or kindred, for whatever may have been the diffi culty experienced in giving n ffi the child a ame, still greater was the di culty

Sh and L th Re or ter N Y . S . 1 868 . ae ea er p , , ept , l ses s ener a U s Sim son Gr ant . 7 r G ly p

n . f of keeping that ame Mr. Grant, the ather, h r t e U . S remarks in eference to initials . , A superstitious person might almost think there was something Providential about these signifi k him for cant initials being stuc on to , they were h m not given to i at his christening . When the a h e u question arose, fter his birth , what sho ld be called, his mother and one of his aunts proposed for Albert, Albert Gallatin ; another aunt pro posed Theodore ; his grandfather proposed H i h a h ram , because he thought t at was andsome n — h ame . His grandmother grandmot er by m ’ — courtesy, that is, his other s step mother was an e nthusias a great student of history, and had t ic admiration for the ancient commander, U lysses ; and she urged that the babe h n U . and should be amed lysses I seconded t at, h e w as christened Hiram Ulysses ; but h e was a lways called by the latter name , which be him d k w self preferre , when he got old enough to no e about it . But Mr. Ham r [the representative in ’ na Congress] knowing Mrs . Grant s me was S had n S m n impson , and that we a son amed i pso , somehow got the matter a little mixed in mak th e na Ul s ing nomination , and sent the me in y H a U ‘ ‘ ses S . Grant instead of ir m lysses Grant. j

m ss M r s . S s s T s Je e and imp on had ju t read ele achu , and ’ ss ro s w s U ss s both were impre ed with the he father, the i e ly e ’ R a n ich r ds o s Per s . Hist .

The e w or k d T N Y Le ger .

6 Gener al Ul ss s Sim s n a t 7 y e p o Gr n . the line of subtlety and fraud ; h e is the friend t f of truth ; he says nothing hat is alse, but when it is necessary he conceals what is true ; bis wis dam is as it w er e a seal u on lz is li s which is , , p p , ” never br o/z en out or an iin or t ant ur os f p p p e. Lieutenant Grant served with distinction in and h v t o the Mexican war, , a ing been promoted a captaincy, resigned, and retired to private life . He entered with zeal into th e contest for th e U and k th e nion, with what success is nown to h world . T e story of his exploits has been well n m c arrated by his any biographers . A few an e ’ dotes from Brigadier-General Hillyer s reminis cences of General Grant may be found interest h f ffi ing. Hillyer ad been a sta f o cer with the had r a th e f k General , and esigned fter all of Vic s a for v a h e burg . Rejoining Grant gain a isit fter h im Cul e came East, Hillyer accompanied to p p th e per, where General assumed the command of all the armies . ” “ k Hillyer, said Grant, I thin I should have failed in this position if I had come to it th e I in beginning, because should not have had u confidence eno gh . You see I have come — through all the grades of the service captain , — I colonel , brigade, division , corps , army and M l l ’ am confident in myself now . cC e lan s mis in fortune, I always believed, was his clearing all

’ H st ich ar ds on s Per s. i R . ener al U sses Sim son Gr ant G ly p . 77 th e confi grades at once , and feeling a want of ” dence in this great and absolute responsibility . T a d not v his nec ote, whether true or , is ery characteristic of Grant’s simple retrospections : a since Culpepper, he has been made Gener l and

Secretary of War, his experience has inclined i i c towards civil , administrat ve and pol ti al duties, ad from grade to grade, conquering them as he v a ance d in the army. And this rare advant ge h e i has has had, that his promot on been rapid as th e ac well as experimental , so that he knows all d tive men and min s of the present generation, and he knows the material of it probably better than any living American . a f Hillyer lived in St . Louis when Gr nt le t his little farm near by to enter the firm of B oggs Grant, Real Estate Agents, Houses d d to Rent. In those ays he had a esk in Hill ’ ye r s law offi ce . Was the General silent then as now ‘4 him N o. We considered more than com ’ m onl So y talkative . he is now ; but he won t ff nor T talk for e ect, before strangers freely. his reticence of Grant, so much talked of, is partly discrimination and partly th e form of an old bashfulness he had when a boy. Anybody h whom e knows can hear him speak at any time. “ was St . In . Louis I liked Grant He enter taining, and I was attracted towards him by what 8 ener al U sses Sim son 7 G ly p Gr ant .

k k I hardly new at that time . Afterwards I new m h e e it to be a manhood, the sa e t at he dev lop d in battle so well . I was in New York when I f heard of his appointment, and soon a ter came a telegraph message to join his staff:I was at ’ n e the Pla ters House, in St. Louis, on busin ss , ft s W t o soon a erward , and ishing see Grant he rode up during the day with some of his staff ffi n s a d . o cers, they had one empty hor e ’ ‘ ’ Here, Hillyer, said Grant, here s your Th e a w horse . bo t has been aiting for me three u quarters of an hour. Stir yo rself ‘ am e I not going, Grant, I n ver entertained ’ i the notion a minute n earnest . c ’ Come along" I an t listen to that. Time presses ’ But I have not written to my wife . . h o h f Well " t at y u ad better do . A ter om 1 ou can this next action I am g g nto, y come — ’ home if you don t get your head knocked off — ’ first and fix up your business . f In brief, Hillyer ound himself going down th e m his river in ten inutes, to own bewilder t a ment, wondering greatly whe her he could st nd up in action . Did you notice any strong traits of charac ter in Grant soon afterward ‘Z His courage and soldierly vanity in action uk first str c me, and his entire willingness to n al Ul s Sim son r ant Ge er y sse p G . 7 9

fight . He never talked before action as if he had any personal forebodings, but grew more cheerful and concentrated as the time of battle o approached . His indisposition to leave any p i i h d w as s t on he a taken often uncomfortable . I

’ t remember at Pit sburg Landing that he, Raw ff ffi lings, myself and some other sta o cers were in a place where the artillery of the enemy was d T concentrate . heir fire was terrible, and every s n o in ta t I expected to have my head shot ff.

Grant sat on horseback , straight and cheerful , as you have sometimes seen a man of a hot day go

on a . out to be rained , r ther enjoying it He ffi kept us all in half agony . One o cer said to me Go tell the Old Man to leave here for ’ ’ God s sake . ’ k No " Tell him yourself. He ll thin me ’ and afraid, so I am, but he sha nt think so fi re T . here we sat, the crossing upon us At last one of the green members of th e staff rode up to Grant, saying m l General , we ust eave this place . It is

not r . necessary to stay ight here If we do, we ’ shall all be dead in five minutes . h ’ "’ I guess t at s so said Grant, and he rode

r . away, to our elief f ” “ As to ear, continued Hillyer, Grant used to say that he had Seen men who said they 80 Gener al Ul sses Sim son r a t y p G n .

k a had n v never new wh t it was, but he e er seen a nybody who said it of them . Another thing me t that struck with Grant, was his own attemp o n frequently to supersede his w good luck . At D onelson , he went to Commodore Foote and begged him to run past the rebel guns w ith a

t wo . gunboat or Foote replied, saying that he would be shot to pieces . Grant maintained that he would suffer no more than in ordinary bom bardm e n T k t . his too place before Farragut ’ made a practical demonstration of Grant s theory . th e Now, had Foote done this, rebels would D have evacuated Fort onelson , and the battle and capture there which made Grant histori c l wou d never have happened . “ Grant developed wonderfully in the war, and though I , as a democrat, opposed his elec had tion , I no doubt that he was the safe, strong

h a . T man , wort iest to lead the rmy here is needed no better instance or proof to this effect than the : 1 86 following I was at City Point, in 5 , and sitting close by Grant I saw him break the seal

T n . of a letter. hen he smiled good aturedly ’ n " What s that, Ge eral Grant

A letter from Sherman . Read it a I read the letter, and it said th t Sherman l could no longer hold At anta, his line being too long . He asked permission to destroy the town - and move to the sea , subsisting upon the coun al Ul sses Sim son r ant Gener y p G . 8 1 try and turning at bay to fight Hood whenever the latter pursued him too closely . All this seemed brilliant and soldierly to me, and I asked

Grant what in it made him laugh . ‘ w he said, I was wondering hat Hood could find to subsist upon if he followed ’ in the rear of Sherman . This was th e General supplying an error of u S geni s . herman supposed that Hood would follow him . Grant knew that Hood could not eat off the barren and devastated country. So he sent this word to Sherman You have my permission to destroy Atlanta and march to the sea after you detach Schofie ld and to go to Tennessee . Hood will not follow you ; he ’

. N ow " will march upon Nashville , see Had S off his f herman carried whole orce seaward, mistaking the effect of his movement upon N e Hood, ashville would have fall n , Indiana and r Ohio been invaded, and the Southern Confede acy been an accomplished fact . ” “

J . Grant, said Hillyer, is stern as upiter There is no finer story of two stern men than T Grant and George H . homas before the battle of Nashville . Thomas has a dislike of being whipped, and he is cautious and sedate to the last the degree till time for decision has come . Grant sent word to Thomas to move out of his k works and attac Hood . Thomas was not 4k= 8 2 Gener al Ul sses Sim son G ant y p r .

r ready, and he went on delibe ately with his prep ar ns atio . Grant telegraphed again : The coun try is excited . Attack " Thomas was not yet

. T J quite ready hen Grant sent ohn A . Logan e k to Louisvill , to be ready to ta e command, and ‘ telegraphed again : If you do not attack Hood before date, I shall be under the painful ’ J necessity of relieving you . ust at that time T homas was ready, not by necessity, but by the ff completion of his a airs, and the happy collu sion of events made the battle of Nashville an honor to both . W e shall say nothing in reference to the mil i r a v ta y chie ements of General Grant . His deeds speak for themselv es . The D victor at onelson, Vicksburg, Chatta no o a o g , App mattox, needs no eulogy . After v some of his great ictories, General Scott show ed his appreciation of his genius by presenting him his - v a copy of auto biography, ha ing writ ten on one of its blank pages : From the oldest to the ablest general in th e

' ” N F ELD Scor r . world . W I I h U lysses S . Grant is a wort y representative Th e of a line of brave and intelligent ancestors . w spirit of Matthe Grant, the pioneer, and the De live s a ain . valiant Captain Noah , g in him s scended -from one of the Founder of New Eng

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8 ener al Ul s s Sim s n a 4 G y se p o Gr nt .

the s s s vi s s s o s o of ju tne of my ew , I hall continue to do , long as I hold my pre s ent offi cial po s ition . Th e military renown of Alexander re s ts upon h is con que s ts of the unmilitary horde s of th e Ea s t by the large s t s a s s and fine t rmy, in every re pect, that Greece up to thi time had produced ; t hat of Hannibal re s ts upon h is s ucce s sful s s A s s pa age of the lp into Italy, oppo ed only by the barbar ous s his s s tribe on line of march , and , con equently, by ra h ’ and incompetent R oman con s uls ; C ae s ar s on h is conque s t s - s s G his s s of the emi barbarou tribe of aul , and ub equent defeat of the demoralized force s of Pompey . Frederick th e

N . v G reat and apoleon I of our period, on their ictorie s over s e s s armie gr atly inferior to their in di cipline, and led by gen e r als incompetent from age and military talent while G rant h as r s s l s c u hed one of the mo t formidable rebe lion , whether s s e m we regard the number , the intelligence , and the mean h as ss as al gaged in it, that the world ever witne ed ; and, le e d h is s s g by detractor , both at home and abroad, again t

s s s f s s t s u leader uperior to him el in general hip , again t roop s his s perior to own in chivalry, da h, and all other fighting qualitie s ; operating in a country every inch of which was s th e s s known to them , and rendered defen ive by all re ource of nature and art s kilfully combined ; and thi s he did by s s was for his mea ure of which he the originator, taking own po s ition the mo s t important and mo s t difficult one of the work to be done . H A s s s appily for merican patrioti m , the de cendant of the ’ men who are now defaming Grant s military action s will live

s s s s s to blu h for their ire , and glory in the grand re ult of ’ G s s s s rant triumph and when the e detraction , which are as as s s s ephemeral the heet which contain them , now cattered s s s s broadca t through railroad car and grog hop , and their s s s s author , hall have long pa ed away from the memory of ’ G s i s of man , rant name and m litary fame , like tho e the great s m captain who have preceded him, will loo up, grander and as s s s ss s grander, they recede into the mi t of ucce ive age . s s Very re pectfully your , D H M H . . A AN.

s S . 8 1 868. We t Point, ept , P A R T I I .

M ISCE LLA N EOU S PA P E RS.

T H E CL N F GRANTS. I . A O

— “ " m ar afi e ld M o S and as Coa of r s E l of Se . o . t A , tt , t F t

T m:Highland Clan of Grants is one of the most ancient and honorable of the Scottish h clans . It is asserted, by some, t at they are of D r a anish descent, f om Aquin de Grand, or Gr nt . is O thers say that the surname Grant, derived

r and r from the French word g , g eat or valorous , N and that they came originally from ormandy. S kene, however, denies these statements and maintains that they are of Gaelic origin, the clan itself having claimed that they are a branch of the Macgregors , and this , he declares , is o a t s 86 l e Clan f Gr n . the ancient and unvarying tradition of the * country . T h e earliest account we have ofthe Grants 1 2 1 begins with Gregory de Grant, who, in 4, was Sheriff of I nverness T heir ancien t seat was at Strathspey, which was about twenty fi ve miles south of the city of I nverness , and Gle nm o r is t o n they afterwards acquired , Glen u r u ahar t q , and other estates , including the T h as peerage of Se afield. e ancient clan W di v ide d into two principal divisions , the Grants of Grant at Strathspey, and the Grants of

m r i t o n U r u ahar t Gle n o s and q . T he Strathspey Grants , who were the chief and oldest portion of the clan , occupied a ter r it ory about thirty miles square south of and N T h e bordering on the present shore of airn . Grants of U r qu ahar t and Gle nm o r is t o n dwelt N west of the Loch ess , their territory extend ing from about the site of the present town of

Kilmore, perhaps fifty miles southward and twenty miles in a westerly dir ect io nsi' Th e Grants of Gle nm o r is t o n were not the chiefs of T the clan . his honor belonged to the house of Freuchie, worthily represented by the pres ’ fi l Se a e d. ent noble proprietor, Lord Still,

Buelz a na n And . Scot S e ur na m s . , . , p 43 . ’ S i hla nd Cl leene s H a n . s . l. 2 g V o II . p 5 5 . m our na l Scott . A . Ne w Yor Ma r c/z 2 6 1 6 . j , k, , 8 4 ’ Cla n f a t/re s . Br o w ne i hl n C a ns 1 M p of s H g a d l .

lan o r ant s 8 8 Th e C f G . ated at about the site of the present town of Ki] more on the Loch N ess was held by the Grants from an early period, and was, from its posi “ tion , of considerable military importance . I t r was one of the chain of fo tresses which , from e earliest times , stretch d across the Great Glen from I nverness to I nv e r lo chy and secured t h e country from invasion . I t is on the western promontory of U r qu ahar t Bay and overhangs N e Loch ess . I t was besi ged and taken by

1 . T Edward I . in 3 03 his castle was held for the King by the great family of Grant; of

Freuchie, now styled Grant of Grant, and in 1 0 5 9 King James I V . granted three charters of the lordship of U r qu ahar t and baronies of U r qu ahar t and Gle nmor ist on to John Grant of Freuchie and his two sons , from the latter of whom are descended the Grants of Glen ” m o rist on Co r r mo n and y y . T he fame of the Grants was sung about

fifty years ago by a lowland poet, Sir Alexan de r Boswell

Come the G rants of Tullochgor u m ’ ‘ Wi their pipers gaun before em ” s Proud the mother are that bore em .

N s h s ext the Grant of Rot iemurchu ,

his s has Every man word and durk , ’ “ a Every man s proud s a Turk is . The ancient war cry of the clan was Craig

Statistica l flccount o Scotland XI . . V f . Vol The Clan of Gr ant s: 89

Elachaidh - , the rallying place, of which there Th e were two in Strathspey . division of this tribe called Clan Chirin has properly the cry, “ ’ a R av o ch w S Cr ig to hich is added tand sure, ’ T h the o t hers saying Stand fast . e war cry

v -a- S is sometimes gi en, now days , tand fast, ” Ellachie s it u at Craig , their hill of rendezvous , ed in the united parishes of D u t ilh and R o t hie mu r chu s -Ellachie r ock , being named Craig , or o alar m The f . badge of the ancient clan was - inus s lv st r is e . the pine, p y I t is important that some account should be, also , given of the tartan which was the distinctive dress of the Grants , for all the clans had a costume . Possibly the distinguished representative of the family at W ashington may desire to appear in the ancient tartan of his clan , at the brilliant W fetes and receptions in the hite H ouse, certainly it would be eminently suggestive and T h e . S historical following, then, is the cale of proportion for the colors of the Grant tar

—1 i }1 1 8 l tan, red, blue, red, blue, red, a" 1 if 1 2 1 azure, red , 5 blue , red, green , red, 5: f 2 % if s 2 1 green , red, blue, red , blue, red,

1 f r e e n 1 is i green , red, g , red, 5 blue, red, 1 8 5 if i 2 s9 azure, red, blue, red, blue , red . T 1 f his is calculated from a standard of 3 o an

' Lo an V l 2 s Scottish Ga el. o 6 g . I . p . 9 . - a t s 90 The Clan of Gr n .

' fe e t t wo inch . A web of tartan is two , inches * wide . Lodge’s Genealogy of the Peerage fur nishes us the following historical account of T he s m the Grants . urna e of Grant is of great antiquity in Scotland, and its earliest history is lost in traditionary uncertainty ; but, so early as the reign of Alexander I I . 1 2 1 n [ 4] Gregory de Gra t, from whom the pedigree of the Earl of Seafi e ld and Lord u Glenelg is uninterruptedly ded ced, was

Sheriff of I nverness . H is son Dominus Laurentius de Grant is 1 2 8 T witness to an extant deed dated 5 . his Sir Lawrence had two sons John and Ralph , fi who , rmly attached to the interest of Bruce Sir against Baliol , joined the brave William Wallace in defence of the liberties of their country, and were, at length, carried prisoners by King Edward I . to London from whence they were liberated upon bail in 1 297 . From

Sir John , the elder of these brothers , proceed m ed, through seven uninterrupted ale de ” scents , the present titled families of the 1 0 Grants . John Grant, in 5 9, was a good poet, and has in the family archives the name n of Bard . I t is said that no e of his poems are extant .

2 The lan o r ant s 9 C f G .

ff Grants of Grant is situated in Ban shire, four miles west of Cromdale . I t is said that this castle contains many interesting paintings . e Grantown , a pretty villag which has sprung up during the las t century, is situated on the Spey River i n a detached part of Inverness

- shire . I t possesses a town house, prison, hospital, and two free schools . I t has a pop u lat io n of about six hundred . Burke’s Peerage furnishes us the following list of the present representatives , in the High o f lands , this ancient and noble clan Earl of Se afie ld ( Sir John Charles Grant — V R e idhav e n Ogilvy, ) iscount , Baron Ogil

‘ ’ v S y, Baron Strathspey of trathspey, co s I n

v e r ne ss . and Moray, etc An ancestor assumed the additional name Ogilvy . Motto , Stand S — ff fast eats , Cullen H ouse, Ban shire, Cas n tle Grant, I verness , and Grant Lodge, Elgin . k Bur e calls the earl in one place, a Grant of

Grants , and in another, a Grant of clan Chi aran . We will not decide the question .

Baron Glenelg ( Charles Grant, ) of Glenelg , n co . I verness A Grant of Grants . Motto , “ W . S at e r nish e Stand sure eat, , I nv rness shire . H e was principal Secretary of State for the D D . d Colonial epartment ied, unmarrie , April 2 1 866 3 , , at Cannes , France, when the title T became extinct . his is so recent an event The lan o Gr ant s C f . 93

however, that some notice of Lord Glenelg may be interesting . His brother, Right Hon . H Sir . Robert Grant, G . C . , Governor of 1 8 1 8 8 au Bombay, born 7 5 , died 3 , was the thor of two very beautiful hymns which are — found in most of our hymn books . The first lines of one of them are “ s s ss Je u , I my cro have taken A ll to leave and follow thee

And, of the other,

s d When gathering cloud aroun I view, " s A nd days are dark and friend are few .

Sir D Alexander Grant of alvey , Bart . A - U ni Grant of Grants , vice Chancellor of the versity and principal of the Elphinstone col — D lege, Bombay residence, Bombay . escend

e d . from John Grant, the Bard

Sir . Archibald Grant, of Monymusk, co

Aberdeen , Bart . A Grant of Grants . Sir George M acpherson Grant of Ballen h T he l . dal oc . , co Elgin Grants were in the T h e female line . Macphersons assumed the name of Grant.

Gle nm o James Murray Grant, Esq . , of riston , co . I nverness and M oy, seats , Glen m o r ist o n , co . I nverness , and Moy House, co . Moray .

Kil r as t o n . John Gran t, Esq . , of g , co Kil rast o n Perth , seats g H ouse , Bridge of Earn ,

Perthshire . The Gr ant Homest ad 94 e .

. Kin h co r t . Robert Grant, Esq , of , co Mo r Ki a . S nco r t h y eats , and Forrer Houses , M orayshire .

I n this country, in the French and I ndian war, Maj or James Grant of the H ighland regiment, of the British regulars , was defeated

1 1 1 8 D u . September , 75 , near fort Quesne — T he same officer was a maj or general i n the e British army, at the battl s of Long Island , a n e Brandywine, and Germ ntow , and def ated N ew s General Lee in Jer ey . H e died very

B alle ndalloch old, at his seat at , near Elgin , in May H e was maternal uncle to the father of Sir George Macpherson Grant, of the present day .

TH E — E 2 . G R ANT HO M EST EA D TW O H U N DR D Y E R L A S O D . If we suppose that Matthew or one o fhis an ce s t or s wh e r e o r , came, at some remote period, the light of history is dim and uncertain , from l U r u ahar t the immediate vicinity of Cast e q , e t he N situated on the west sid of Loch ess , or of Castle Grant in the country of the Grants o f

G r ant t he , younger scions of the clan being com p e lle d by the action of the l aw of primoge ni t ure t he which enriched elders at their expense, to seek prosperity in other lands , so , perhaps , may we imagine did N oah Grant the son ofthe second ‘ oc Col H s . . D . . i t d N Y. 5 r o /1 1 a ] X . . . 0 , vol p 9 3.

T Gr ant 9 6 he Homest ead. l osse ssio n o f y, through many generations , in p

m ale r r e r e se nt at iv e s the p of the family . Ma j or Frederic W illiam Grant, the present owner of the homestead, in a letter to the writer, speaking of N oah Grant who settled in T ol

o f land, Captain Ebenezer Grant, his own grand father, and other children of Samuel Grant , J : T he unior, says old house they were born in stood on the same spot on which I now live, and some of its timbers were used in the con 1 struction of the new one in 7 57 . Another singular fact is that the farm on which I now live has come down in regular descent from fa ther to son since the time of Samuel, the elder ’ Yes , it is the old farm , and Maj or Grant s title to the land is derived from Matthew the pioneer . H is son Samuel reclaimed it from the S d I ndians . ince the savages roame there , no white men bu t . G r ant s hav e lived upon this land. We are carried back almost in imagi nation to the castles of the ancient clan in the

H ighlands . I t would be an interesti ng subj ect of inv e s t igat io n to trace out the history of other an cient homesteads which are sometimes found T h i n N ew England and the older states . e r e homestead, whereon M r . Elihu Marshall f m sides, in Windsor, has descended ro the

‘ pioneer Captain Samuel Marshall , who pur t H m t ad The Gr an o es e . 97

S chased it in 1 670 from an I ndian achem . T he — Ellsworth place, the home of the late

Chief Justice Ellsworth, bears date from the 1 6 year 5 5 , when it was purchased by Josias T fi Ellsworth . his ground was rst occupied ’ Sir R Salt o nst all s by obert men , and was , at one ir S . time, owned by Robert I t is now the residence of M r . Frederick Ellsworth, the T h e grandson of the Chief Justice . home stead o f the H aydens is owned and occupied by Mr . George P . H ayden of Windsor, a N N e w relative of Mr . athaniel H ayden , of

T by York . his homestead was purchased the ‘ i' W m H a de n 1 6 2 pioneer illia y in 4 , and has T h remained in the family to this day . e Loomis homestead is the oldest ofany in W ind T o sor . his homestead was acquired by J se h S 1 6 p Loomis, enior, in 39 , and has de scended in t he family to its present p r oprietor

T W . Mr . homas . Loomis , a cousin of Mr T N e w . H ezekiah B . Loomis of York hese t he latter homesteads , of Loomis and H ayden families , are older than the Stuyvesant and He bought land at the extre me nort h end ofthe st r eet run ri and s s d and his ning north ea terly from the pali a o , built home u 1t H His s s d pon , probably before leaving artford hou e too at i s sa s H d the junct on of the road , y twenty or thirty rod from ay en Station :his home lot included the s ite of the railroad s ta d d . T he ds s d an tion groun , for a con i erable extent, at aroun t h e s a s H d ite ofthe origin l hou e, have never been out of the ay en

. G H s family, but are now owned by Mr eorge P . ayden, who live -N s within a few rods of the spot where th e first house stood . ote of Mr . Jabez H. Hayden . 5 The Dor chest er R cor ds 98 e .

k N ew ir Bee man estates of York City . S * Petrus Stuyvesant arrived in N ew York in 1 6 k 47 , and William Bee man purchased the The Beekman estate in 1 670 . Beekman and n Stuyvesant estates have not, also , been oce The pied continuously as homesteads . Van

Rensselaer property at Albany is, undoubtedly, older than the Windsor homesteads .

T H E FI R ST EN T R Y I N T HE DO R C H EST ER 3 .

R ECO R DS .

The following is the fi r st ent ry of Matthew Grant’s name found in the old town records of D orchester, Mass

’

1 6 . Anno , April 3, 33 I t is agreed that a doble rayle with m o r t e se s in the posts of 1 c foote distance one from the other, shall be set up in the marsh, from the corner of Richard Cr e eke Phelps , his pale eastward to the , by d the owners of the cowes under named, p por i l 2 t onal 0 . y, foote to every cowe

s F Cowe . oote . L 2 Mr . u dlowe 40 1 20 Mr. Johnson H enry Woolcott 3 60 8 r . Rosseter 4 0 T 2 0 r . erry 4

N s S s Es N ew Y ichola William tuyve ant, q of ork city, is of s s d s who thi honorable ance try, kin ly inform the author, 3 me mb r s s G S s from y, that the princely e tate of overnor tuyve ant, ” his o rie s 1 6 B uw e . called , were purcha ed about the year 5 4

’ 1 00 M at t hew r ant s F amil R e or d G y c .

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. M T T H EW O R A N T s FA M I LY R EC R D 4 A O .

An extract from the manu script N ote

his Book of Matthew Grant, giving family

record, furnished by the H on . J . H ammond T rumbull of H artford, Connecticut, for the ’ supplement to Stiles H istory of W indsor. Matthew Graunt was married to his first P r issill 62 N a 1 v 1 6. wife , in the year 5 , o ember e are 1 6 2 She died in the y 44, April 7 , being 43 2 years of age and months . Children Pris e ar e 1 626 silla Graunt was borne in the y , Sep tember 1 4 ; Samuel Graunt was borne in the e ar e 1 6 1 N e 1 2 T h y 3 , ovemb r ; a an Graunt was e ar e 1 6 borne in the y 33, Februarie 3 ; John e ar e 1 6 2 0 Graunt was borne in the y 4 , April 3 . 2 1 6 M ay the 9 , 45 , Matthew Graunt and VVil i m R Susanna [wid . of l a dckwe ll] were

married . Matthew Graunt was then three

and forty years of age, seven months and 1 60 1 eighteen days ; bo rn e in the year , Octo S be r 2 T u e s da e . 7 , y usanna Graunt was then v three and forty years of age, se en weeks and eare 1 602 4 days ; borne in the y , April the 5 , C Monday . hildren of Susanna by her first — husband J oan Rockwell was born in the ye are 1 62 2 J w as 5 , April the 5 ohn Rockwell borne

s S records in Ma s sachu sett proper . omewhat more than four XX s ss Gen Re . L pages of th e original record are mi ing . . g . vol ,

6 etc. p 1 3, ’ w ant s R u s 1 M at the Gr le . 0 1

1 62 J - 1 8 S in the year 5 , uly the ; amuel Rock in 1 6 1 well was borne the year 3 , M arch the 28 ; Sara R ockwell was borne in the ye are J 2 1 6 8 . 3 , uly the 4 “ N 1 1 666 S ovember 4, , my wife usanna 6 died, being aged 4 years and 5 weeks and 2 1 4 dayes , and since shee and I married is ” 2 year, 4 weeks . ’ M TT HE GRA NT s R U LES FO R M E SU R N G 5 . A W A I L N D A .

Rules which I haue lamed by e xperance in practic for h e lpes

m e as e rin in u g Land . In the e use of the Compas In runing upon a poynt e uery fi u e rod open s one rod be

t en ant e s and so . w e to poy . fower rod upon twenty onward Runing out upon three poynt e s 6 rod in length and drawe a strayght loyne from the cand of the first poynt to the cand of the third poynt :and the said loyne will cut of one quarter of a rod of the length of the second poynt in the midell but drawe a way the sayd loyne upon a square from the cand of the first poynt thin the second poynt will be six rod and a half : and the third poynt will be senen rod and one quarter in length . ’ F O M AT T HEW G RA NT s Note Book contr ibuted b Hon. R M , y bu H. Tr um ll. 7 .

6 T H E CO N ST I T U T ON S r A N D . I o 1 63 8 1 65 0 O F T H E C LO N Y F U O O C O N N ECT I C T . The P r eamble F o r asmu ch as it hath A llmi ht e pleased the g y God, by the wis dis

o f diu ne ru ide nce position his y p , so to order and dispose of things , that we the inhabitants

W H ar t e fo r d and residents of indsor, and W eath e r sfield , are now cohabiting and dwelling 1 0 2 The Ear ly Constit utions:

’ v o n t he Co nect eco t t e in and pp river of , and

a i n n ' the lands thereunto d oy ei g. And well W t o ath e r knowing here a people are gathered g , the word of God requires that to m aynt ayne v nio n the peace and of such a people, there should be an orderly and decent government established according to God to order and dispose of the affayr e s of the people at all seasons as o ccat io n shall require ; doe there fore asso t iat e and co nioyne our selnes to be as Co mm o nwelt h one Publike State or ; and doe, se lu e s o v t for owr and successors , and such as adio ne d t me shall bee y to vs att any y hereafter, enter into Combination a nd Confederation to ’ m a nt a ne se aru e gather, to y y and p the liberty and purity of the go spe ll of our Lord Jesus " h ’ w we now p fe sse as also the disciplyne of We ll the Churches , according to the truth of o s e ll the said g p , is now practised amongst vs . r O Ciuell ff And also , in A aires to be guided and ou e r ne d O r g according to such Lawes , Rules , ders and decrees, as shall be made, ordered, and decreed, as followeth [the constitution

I t was provided in Section I . that the gen crall Court shall have power to administer ius d tice according to the lawes here establishe , h and for want t ereof, according to the rule of ” the word of God . th e 1 6 0 n At revision in 5 , it was ordered, i

1 0 The Ear l onstit ti s 4 y C u on . t u t ions . More than this , I might say, it is the mother of them all . I t has been modified in different States to suit the circumstances of the people, and the use of their respective territories ; but the representative system

A me r ican e r e u blics was peculiar to the p , first unfolded by Ludlow, and by H ooker, H aynes , S S ' Wolcott, Steele, herman, tone, and the other far-sighted men of the colony wh o mus t have advised and counseled to do , what they and all the people in the three towns met together in a mass t o sanction and adopt as ” i " “ their own . Kings have been dethroned, says Bancroft, the eloquent a n American historian, recalled, dethroned gai , and so many constitutions framed or formed, d stifled or subverte , that memory may despair of a comple t e catalogue ; but the people of Connecticut have found no reason to deviate essentially from the government as established by their fathers . History has ever celebrated the commanders of armies on which victory has been entailed, the heroes who have won laurels in scenes of carnage and rapine . H as it no place for the founders of states , the wise legislators who struck the rock in the wilder ness , and the waters of liberty gushed forth in " —Hollist er copious and perennial fountains , 8 H t nn . . . . is . Co , Vol I p 9 ‘ The Freemen o 1 6 f 69 . 1 0 5

7 . A LI ST O F THE FR EEM EN o r ANCI ENT WI N D

SO R AN D SOM E OT CES O F THEI R DESCEN , N I DANTS

r1 h 6 t 1 6 . o f all . October , 9 A list the free

n W r men that li e within the limits of indso ,

in reference to the order of the General Court , ’ 1 6 May 3 9, requiring ye same .

. A E els ton T H Mr llyn Mathew, Begat gg , imothy all , T as A s E e ls ton A H s s hom lyn, Jame gg , nthony o kin ,

Aluar d Th o. E e ls t on R H Benedic , gg , obart ayward , ’ l i s s S e r . s s E e s wor t B e na a H John Bi ell, , Jo ia , olcomb, ’ ss . Elmor s Loom s John Bi ell, Jun r , Edward , Jo eph y , T m s ss . s F Loo s homa Bi ell , Mr Jo ep itch , Jo hn y , S s s T s F d T s Loom s amuel Bi ell , homa or , homa y , N s s F lar S l Loom s athanael Bi ell, Walter y , amuel y , l i N ath ane ll Loom s John Barber, Wil iam F lly, y , S l s S s amuel Baker, Wi liam Fi h , amuell Mar hall , M ade sl John Bartlet, John y, h ’ l D c. o n r C e S . Wi liam Buel , Walter aylar, J Moore

T S C . imothy Buckland, amuel aylar, John Moore , Jun , N s C S M s ichola Buckland , John aylar, imon ille , T s M ss s homa Burnam , John o e , N G Peter Brown , athan illet, William Morton , N e D C G r . . . e wb r Mr . aniel lark, Jonathan illet, J , Mr Benj y, C Cor ne lus G O Edward hapman , illet, John wen , ’ N ath anell C s G Os S e n r . ooke , Jo ep illet, John bon , ,

C G s . John oult, Jacob ibbe , Mr Will

Ch risto :C S G s WilliamP h el s un. p row, amuel ibbe , p , J , T s D G T s homa eble , Mathew rant, imothy Phelp , H D e nslo S G G s enery , amuel rant, eorg Phelp , De nslo T G Is ack s John , ahan rant, Phelp , D G A s John rak, John rant, bra Phelp , D G G s Houmfr Job rak , eorge ri wold , y Pinne , D D H N ath anell Jacob rak , anell aydon , Pinne , G P hillu s s E anno . H s Jame , John o ford, eorg p , 5 4k 1 06 The F r eemen o f 1 669 .

Eltwe d P ome r S s . a y, John tille , Mr John W rham, N M r H s a T s S . . W olcott S e n icola P lme r, homa tonton, , , T a S He ne r W olcott un imothy P lmer, John trong, y J , A R l R u S S W braham andal , et rn trong, imon olcott,

R S T . VVitchfielil John ockwell, tephen aylar, Mr John , S R Te r R s amuel ockwell, John y, obert Wat on, T s R owl l Tr all o l s homa y , Wi liam , J hn Wi liam , N s S e nch on T Tr all N l icola , imothy , athan Winchel , H S ll s O n T i ll enry ti e , we udor, Jonathan W nche . R 1 1 * ichard Vore, 3 These are stated inhabitants of M asacoj ' and haue been free men for Windsor .

T s s Holcom P e t tebon homa Barber, Jo hua , John , C s s T as as s S John a , hom M kell, Jo eph kinner , S l H amuel Fi ly, Luk ill , Peter Buell, ' G rifi e n S l John , amue Pinne , Mi all H umf r s c o e s . y, Jo eph Phelp T his is a tru e list as neer as we could com at, and be informed

S s John Moore, amuel Mar hall , ” G R Str on Mathew rant, eturn g i

It will be eminently proper, in accordance with the plan which the author has laid down for himself, in the preparation of this work , to present here some notices of the descendants O f those pioneers who came to Windsor, Connec

1 1 2 s as True number , an error of one in the li t given in

C . l Rec. onn Co .

A ft erwar ds Simsbur . f , y

Th e s t h e . F Conn. Col. Rec. 1 66 I electmen of town rom 5 ,

on H . T ll . 1 . Th e s s 1 6 H . . 77, by J rumbu , p 5 9 de cendant of s s s l the above pioneer , hould con u t for further information in t s s —The Histo a nd Genea lo ies o reference to heir ance tor , ry g f

. k n e w k M D. Br oo N Yor . Ancient Winds or Henr R. Stiles , by y , , ly ,

dsor Descendant s 1 0 8 The Win .

nifi e d and commanding ; and his manners , though wholly desti tute of haughtiness and arrogance, were such as irresistibly to excite in in others , whenever he was present the sense of

f r i . e o r it y. His very attitude inspired awe H is imagination was uncommonly vivid ; his wit brilliant and piercing ; his logical powers very o great, and his c mprehension fitted for capa U i ci o n s views and vast designs . n v e r sall y, his eloquence strongly resembled that D of emosthenes ; grave, forcible, and inclined to severity . I n the numerous public stations which he filled, during a period of more than h e a thirty years , regul rly rose to the first rank — of reputation and in every assembly, public and private, in which he appeared, after he had n fairly e tered public life, there was probably no W man , when ashington was not present, who would be more readily acknowledged to hold ” the first Ch aracter . T he monument erected to his memory in u - the ancient b rying ground at Windsor, bears the following inscription “ L V ER LLSW ORT H LL . D I n memory ofO I E , . , t J an assis ant in the Council , and a udge in t h e Supreme Court of the State of Co nne cti cut A member O f the Convention which d t h e S forme , and of tate Convention which U adopted the Constitution of the nited States, The Windsor Descendant s . 1 09

U Senator and ChiefJustice of the nited States , o ne of the Envoys Extraordinar y and Minis ters Plenipotentiary who made the Convention o f 1 800 between the U nited States and the

French Republic . Amiable and exemplary in all the relations of domestic, social and Christian character, per m ane nt l f y useful in all the o fices he sustained, in whose great talents , under the guidance of

e n flexible integrity , consummate wisdom and fi lightened zeal , placed him among the rst of the illustrious Statesmen who achieved the I n dependence and established the American R e

. 2 1 public Born at Windsor, April 9 , 745 ,

N ov . 2 6 and died , W N . . e w Oliver E ood, Esq , of York

City , is a grandson of the late Chief Justice

Ellsworth . He is a son of Joseph W ood,

Esq . , and Frances Ellsworth of W indsor . T heir children who are now living are Frances W l o ~ o c t t Co wle s W . S , ife of the Rev ylvester w N e w Co les of Gowanda, York, Oliver Ells

W N e w . worth ood of York, Rev George W I ngersoll ood of Ellington , Connecticut , D W f. S elia illiams Lyman , wife of Pro . C . W Lyman of Yale College , and illiam Cowper W ood of Joliet , Illinois . J M ES EN o l 1 6 6 A , sett ed in Windsor, in 4 , and his descendants have always held a distin 1 1 0 The Windsor D escendant s . gu ishe d position in the local and family history The of the town . records give us no informa tion as to the part of England from which he he came , but that enj oyed a good social posi tion among the early pioneers is Shown from the fact that after the decease of his first wife,

‘ Anna Bidwell, and afterwards , of his second wife, he married into excellent families . H is S a r and daughter married, also , amuel Phelps , g son of the venerable William Phelps, who was from one of the best families of England . H e possessed a good estate, for those times , his name being recorded among “ those having a family, a horse [and] two oxen , the second of — the fi ve classes of tax payers in the list which is given in the old Book of Rates . H e seems to i have been of an enterprising spir t, and was largely engaged in the purchase of real estate . 1 666 J I n April , , James Eno and ohn M oses , acting as agents for the town of Windsor, N assah e an P o u on bought from g , sachem of q - noc, a tract of twenty eight thousand acres , for which servic e the town granted him lands T ’ known as ilton s M arsh , situated under the

Simsbury mountains . J ames Eno was a member of the church of t England, and was herefore, not in harmony, u r i in regard to his religious belief, with the p j 1 66 tan founders of Windsor . I n 4, he united

T e Windsor Descendant s 1 1 2 h .

a c f ristocrati amily in England, and became one of the most distinguished men in the Colony, was brought up as a member of th e household “ ”

. T of old Mr Eno of Windsor. his was also J who probably, ames Eno, second, was then about 5 0 years of age D v J d a id Eno , son of ames Eno, secon , of

H o me adow S . Windsor, settled at p , in imsbury

. 1 2 1 02 He was born Aug , 7 , and died in the th e of campaign to Cape Breton , at conquest h 1 t at island, in 745 . General Roger Eno was a lieuten ant-colonel ’ 1 in Arnold s expedition against Quebec , in 775 , and commanded a regiment which was raised in 1 777, in the Revolution , and was stationed on Long Island Sound ; and other soldiers in t h e Of J Revolution , this family, were ames Eno, J no E . Erasmus Eno, Abijah Eno, and ames h t e J J . Alexander Phelps , father of ohn Phelps, f . o k Esq , New Yor City, married Elizabeth J Eno, daughter of Captain onathan Eno .

Th e of . . line of descent Amos R Eno, Esq , W d of New York City, from the in sor pioneer,

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1 J m . is as follows ( ) ames Eno, Anna Bidwell, 2 Elizabeth Holcomb, Hester Eggleston ( ) D J . 1 6 1 . ames, b 5 , m Abigail Bissell ; (3) avid,

J . . 1 02 . . b 7 , m Mary Gillett ( 4) Capt onathan , b

S . 1 In . 1 8 . 73 , m Mary Hart ; ( 5) almon, b 779,

Mary Richards ; ( 6) Amos Richards Eno . r D s ndant s The Windso e ce . 1 1 3

. th e Amos R . Eno, Esq , originated project which resulted in raising among the gentlemen N e w sum of York City, the of as a t gif to General Grant, and as a substantial testi monial of their appreciation of his distinguished U services in the war for the nion . J OHN ITCH F , the inventor of steamboats, was 2 Conne ct i J an. 1 1 born , 743, at East W indsor, J cut, and was a great grandson of oseph Fitch , fi th e . W indsor pioneer His rst steamboat, the the D Perseverance, ran on waters of the elaware ’ 1 88 8 . 1 8 1 in 7 and 9 In 7, a committee of the New York Legislature reported that Th e boats of Livingston and Fulton were , in substance , J 1 1 the invention patented to ohn Fitch in 79 , and that Fitch , during the time of his patent, had th e exclusive right to use the same in the ”

U S . t nited tates Fitch , however, met wi h many discouragements, and derived no advantages from

his . 1 8 invention He died in poverty, in 79 , near Bardstown , Kentucky . E DW AR D GR I SW O LD and Matthew Griswold were brothers from a family of excellent social h position in Kenilwort , W arwickshire , England . Edward Griswold removed from W indsor to

Killingworth , which name is a corruption of him Kenilworth , and was, probably, selected by fo in honor of his rmer home in England . His son , Francis Griswold, settled in Norwich , Con 1 The Windsor D s t 4 e cendan s . ne cticut , and his son George Griswold, remained P o uonnoc in q , W indsor. George Griswold was the ancestor of Bishop Alexander V iets Gris wold . w Matthe Griswold, brother of Edward Gris

’ in wold, settled Lyme, Connecticut, and was the ancestor of Governors Matthew Griswold and Roger Griswold . George Griswold, Esq . ,

h . . n and Nat aniel L Griswold, Esq , well know are merchants of New York City, descendants f rom Matthew Griswold . f W . . o k Almon Griswold, Esq , New Yor , is m a descendant fro Edward Griswold, who settled at K illingworth , Connecticut.

Major General Orlando B . W ilcox and Eben f . . O D N W ilcox, Esq , etroit, Michigan , are de

’ s . cendant s fr om Edward Griswold . George B

. N e w C Granniss, Esq , of York ity, is also w descended from Ed ard Griswold . WI LLIAM HAYDEN was of a family of the b " first respecta ility in England . He came to D 1 6 0 orchester, Massachusetts, in 3 , was made a h 1 6 ft e freeman t ere in 34, and settled a rwards at Of th e Hartford, Connecticut . He was one sol diers enlisted at Hartford by Captain J ohn Mason W 1 6 of indsor, for the Pequot war in 37, and — G r e or was s 1 6 1 . e s Eliphalet g y at Wind or in 4 H ettled , s t lk w s s N orwa C . afterward , i h the earlie t p ion eer , at , onnecticut

T he on. 8 . n H s N . is de sce Dudley Gregory, of Jer ey City, . J , f G ded rom Eliphalet regory .

1 1 6 The Windsor Descendant s .

D D his r aniel died, and aniel had seen grandfathe ’ T-rumbull s H of W illiam the pioneer. istory n D Connecticut gives this ho or to Sergeant avis , ’ but Captain Mason s narrative proves that Dav i s did not enter the fort . W illiam Hayden received land in the first d 1 6 l distribution at Hartfor , in 39, and so d the 1 6 2- th e same in 4 3, at which time he purchased homestead at W indsor which was deeded by him to his son Daniel in 1 669. W illiam Hay den went with th e first settlers to Fairfi eld in 1 66 h 4, and t ence , the next year, with the first n ss settlers to H omo o e tt now Clinton . He was a d deputy in the general court in 1 667. He ied

2 1 66 . Sept. 7, 9 D Of Lieutenant aniel Hayden, W indsor, was ’ a trooper in King Philip s war. Nathaniel Hayden was a soldier in the expedition against “ ” 1 0. n the Spanish West Indies, in 74 Ensig Nathaniel Hayden served also in th e French and th e H Indian war, and in Revolution ezekiah - d Hayden , the brother of the gran father of Na

. N ew thaniel Hayden , Esq , of York , enlisted k at early, was ta en prisoner the battle of Long J Island, w as for a time confined in the old ersey and d n Prison Ship , , finally, ied of starvatio , probably in the old Church in New York . Lieu

v of . tenant Le i Hayden , the grandfather Mr

“ H r Nathaniel ayden , served in a troop of caval y The Windsor Descendant s .

. N t under Putnam Captain a haniel Hayden, who commanded the Lexington “ alarm party W d T from in sor, Lieutenant homas Hayden , a Ezr Hayden , Oliver Hayden, and Isaac Hay in den were also soldiers the revolution . d r. 1 8 Samuel Hay en , J , built, in 73 , the house now occupied by the family of the late Levi a Hayden . Capt in Nathaniel Hayden built the now S house occupied by his grandson , amuel

B . Hayden .

N . athaniel Hayden, Esq , of New York , n m Preside t of the Chatha Bank , is in the follow ing line from th e pioneer : 1 ) W illiam Hay

D . 1 6 . 2 . 0 den ; ( ) Lieut aniel , b 4 , m Hannah — W ilcox se n . 1 6 8 111 . ; ( 3) Samuel , b 77 , Anna

1 0 . Holcombe ; ( 4) Ensign Nathaniel , b . 7 9, m

1 . Marvin Gaylord ; (5) Lieut . Levi , b . 747, m W S 6 . 1 . Mary trong ; ( ) Levi , b 773, m ealthy

Haskell ; ( 7) Nathaniel Hayden . Mr. Hay ’ den is descended on his mot her s side from Gov cruor Roger W olcott .

J . abez Haskell Hayden , Esq , of W indsor o L cks, to whose investigations this work owes t a much of its interest, is a brother of Na h niel Th e t h Hayden, Esq . o her brot ers are Oliver

Hayden of East Granby, the late Captain

S S . amuel . Hayden, H Sidney Hayden of d u Win sor, A gustus Henry Hayden of Charles

. C . and ton, S , Levi Gaylord Hayden of Wind

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SOI . The Winds r s ts o De cendan .

S. Captain Samuel Hayden assisted, with

’ t he great zeal , in raising a company for war, in 1 862 k , at W indsor Loc s, and, on its organiza tion , he was appointed its captain . His regi u n a ment was ordered to Lo isiana, and was e g ged

1 1 86 . in a battle April 4, 3, at Irish Bend An h ad order to retreat, which been given , was not Sur heard by Captain Hayden , and being it is rounded by the enemy, supposed that he was clubbed to death with a musket . He sus t aine d a Christian character through all his army the fi i life . He perished in ft eth year of his age . His youngest brother succeeded in recovering his remains, which now rest with his ancestors in - the old burying ground at W indsor. THOM S OLCOM B E th e Of A H , pioneer this name , 6 1 D 1 0 . was born in , in Hole, evonshire, England 1 i He came to W indsor in 63 5 . Will am Fred

M . D. eric Holcombe, , of New York City is descended from the W indsor pioneer in the fol lowing line Thomas Holcombe ; ( 2) 111 6 . 1 6 . 1 0 l st . 8 Nathaniel , b Nov 4, 4 , 7 , Mary

N 2 . 1 d 6 . Bliss ; ( 3) athaniel , b 73 , m Martha

D d . 1 6 8 1 6 . Buell , 94 ; (4) avi , b about 9 , m M 1 2 1 ehitable Buttolph or Buttles , about 7

. 1 2 . S (5 ) Reuben, b 7 5 , m usannah Hayes , 6 1 0 6 N . 1 about 7 5 ; ( ) ahum , b May 7, 7 3 , m

R e be ccah . 1 2 . M oore, 79 (7) Augustine, b “ ’

1 1 . u u I 1 8 2 Jan . 3 , 797, m Lucy B sh, J ne , 5

( 8) W illiam Frederic .

1 20 The Winds r D scenda t s o e n .

part of this work, that the Loomis homestead W is the oldest in indsor, which is still in the possession of the same family, and it is certain that Mr . Joseph Loomis arrived with the earliest party, or with the Rev . M r . Huit, i n 1 6 3 9, as this place , which is one of the most desirable in W indsor, would have been selected immediately by othe rs . I t is S ituated at the northern end of what is called the . island, overlooking the Farmington river, and com manding an extensive V iew of the surrounding — country, including the Connecticut valley , W the indsor meadows , and the mountains in N O the east . finer location could have been W found by Mr . Loomis in indsor ; and among W his nearest neighbors were Henry olcott,

r George Phelps , and Matthew Allyn , who we e of the very best of the pioneer families . D o f eacon John Loomis , the oldest son

M r . Joseph Loomis, was associated with Mat 1 6 2 thew Grant, and others , in 7 , in running the boundary line between W indsor and

S . o imsbury He co perated , also , with Mat thew Grant in sustaining the services of the W Rev . M r. W arham in indsor, in opposition to the party of the Rev . Mr . W oodbridge . N T athaniel and homas Loomis, two other sons of M r . Joseph Loomis , were in Captain ’ and Mason s first troop of horse . Joseph i ds r s ndant s 1 2 1 The W n o De ce .

N athaniel Loomis were also troopers in King ’ Philip s War .

I n the French and I ndian war, we find the names of the following soldiers who were o f this family, Ezra Loomis , (died at Louis berg) Eliphalet Loomis , Abel Loomis , (died)

John Loomis , ( died) and Ebenezer Loomis , and in the revolution were Stephen Loomis , r E i ha . l J , George Loomis, Jonathan Loomis , p let Loomis , (died Gideon Loomis , and W R atson Loomis . Elijah Loomis and emem

L it chfi e ld brance Loomis , of county, who were, probably , of this family, were taken prisoners at Harlem Heights , and confined on board the prison ships , or in the prison houses O f N e w York . Elijah Loomis died in prison and Remembrance Loomis , having been ex changed, died on his way home . N e w Hezekiah Bradley Loomis , Esq . , of

York City, is descended from the pioneer of this family in the following line Mr . 2 D Joseph Loomis ; ( ) eacon John Loomis , T m Elizabeth Scot ; ( 3) M r . imothy 1 6 1 111 . 6 . Loomis , b , Rebecca Porter ; ( 4) O i h d a . 1 0 . Loomis , b 7 5 , m Jane Allyn , ( 5)

1 . Ozias Loomis , b . 745 , m Sarah Roberts ;

( 6 . 1 . S ) James Loo mis , b 779 , m Abigail her ff wood Cha ee, (7) Hezekiah Bradley Loomis . T he name Rebecca Porter will be noticed in 6 1 2 2 Th ds r e Win o Descendant s .

the third generation of this lineage . She was — a grand daughter of the pioneer John Porter, whose daughter Mary married Samuel Grant, son of Matthew Grant .

Besides Hezekiah B . Loomis , Esq . , of N e w . York, the other sons of the late Mr

James Loomis of W indsor, who are now liv ff ing are James Cha ee Loomis , Esq . , of b Bridgeport, Connecticut, the eldest, Os ert N k . ew Burr Loomis , Esq , of Yonkers , Yor , and Colonel John Mason Loomis of Chicago ,

Illinois, who entered the service as colonel of the 26t h Regiment of Illinois Infantry in the U late war for the nion . Colonel Loomis sacrificed brilliant pros u peets in b siness in accepting this command, consideri ng It to be his firs t duty to respond to the call of his country in her hour of need. H e was a brave and gallant offi cer and served with great distinction as a brigade commander, under both G e neral Grant and General Sher N 1 m an. at o . 0 He was the battles of Island , k M Madrid , Corinth, Vic sburg, ission Ridge n or Chatta ooga, and in many other important actions .

H oratio Gates Loomis , Esq . , of Chicago, * r n Illinois , is the g a dso n of Phineas Loomis

’ A s s s e arl e r 1od thi family left Wind or at an y p , and there is s t e b s no publi hed record of h m , it may e intere ting to fur

The n s s ndant Wi d or De ce s .

. 2 6 1 8 1 0 dren are, M aria Loomis , b M ay , ,

. 1 1 8 1 2 Burlington ; Mary Loomis , b M ay 3 , ,

D 1 . e c. 8 . d . 3 4 ; H oratio Gates Loomis , b Oct

2 1 8 1 . . 3 , 4, Chicago , Ill ; H enry Loomis, b 8 1 8 1 1 . Aug . 3 , , Burlington

M r . H . G . Loomis is descended from the pioneer Mr . Joseph Loomis , in the following line : ( 1 ) M r . Joseph Loomis ; ( 2) Deacon m D 1 . 66 John , . Elizabeth Scot ; (3) avid, b 5 ;

1 0 1 . ( 4) Eliakim , b . 7 , m Mary Loomis ; ( 5) Die m 1 8 . da ia 6 Phineas , b . 74 , m H olcombe ; ( ) H 1 8 . l Luther, b . 77 , m arriet Brad ey ; (7) Hora tio Gates Loomis . CAPT A I N SA M U EL MA RSH A LL had a lot in the ’ liz a o p a d . H e was killed in King Philip s war N D e c. at the attack on the arragansett fort,

T h N e . H on John M ilton iles , formerly U nited States Senator, from Connecticut, was the son of M oses Niles of Windsor and N a was S omi Marshall , and a descendant in the ixth generation from Captain Samuel Marshall .

T he . H on Elisha Marshall Pease, ofAustin , T T exas, Governor of exas , is the son of the T E nfi eld late Lorrain . Pease, of , and Sarah W Marshall , of indsor, and is a descendant in the seventh generation from Captain Samuel

h J . Mars all . Maj or General ohn C Robinson , U ’ nited States army, married Sarah Maria The Windsor Descendant s 2 . 5

s Pea e, a sister of Governor Pease . General ince Robinson distinguished himself, at the p h c tion of the rebellion, by the eroic defen e of M cH e nr U Fort y, which saved to the nion the state of Maryland, and, probably, the city of W ashington . N e w k Edward Chauncey Marshall, of Yor

City, and Brevet Brigadier General Elisha Gay

o f U lord Marshall , the nited States army, are descended from the W indsor pioneer in the fol

: 1 S . lowing line ( ) Captain amuel Marshall , m W 2 D 1 661 . Mary ilton ( ) avid, b . , m Abigail

D 1 6 2 . Phelps ; (3) avid, b . 9 , m Sarah Phelps N D . 1 2 8 (4) avid, b 7 , m . aomi Griswold ; ( 5)

. 1 6 . Capt Elihu , b . 7 5 , m Sabrina Griswold ;

6 . 1 111 ( ) Chauncey, b 794, . Mary H otchkiss

Ward ; (7) Edward Chauncey and Brevet Brig.

Gen . Elisha Gaylord Marshall . The R e S M U EL T HER v . A MA , came to W ind

1 68 . T sor in 4 his name does not appear,

’ t he list 1 66 al therefore, in of freemen for 9, though no family has had a more honorable t record than his one, in the subsequent history T of the town . imothy, the father of the Rev . - in Samuel Mather, was born England, was a D M assachu se t t s and freeman of orchester, , mar

1 6 0 . . ried , about 5 , the daughter of Maj Gen

O f . T he Atherton the same town Rev . Rich Sam ard Mather, the grandfather of the Rev . r s dant s The Windso De cen .

L ancas uel Mather, was born in the county of U ter, England, had studied at Oxford niversity , W and had succeeded the Rev . Mr . arham as D the pastor of the church in orchester, which position was filled by him with great faithful ness and acceptability during a period o f t hir t y It t 1 66 . three years , un il his decease in 9 is a curious coincidence that while the Rev . Rich ard IVIat he r was the successor of Mr . Warham D d at orchester, his gran son was also a succes

. sor of Mr . W arham , following the Rev . Messrs W oodbridge and Chauncey in the First Congre

at ional W g Church , at indsor, and uniting the r two s o cre t e s . Descended from a highly respectable and gifted ancestry, he was one, and by no means v a the least, of a circle of noble men , whose ried talents and pious lives , have rendered the name of MA T H ER distinguished among the families of N e w England even to t he present ” 1 6 1 day . Graduating at H arvard College in 7 he went first to Branford, Connecticut . From thence he was called, in the providence of God, d to W indsor, where the powers of his min , the amiability of his character, and his piety, speedily won the esteem and love of his peo difli cu lt ie s ple, and composed the which existed among He married the daughter of ’ * W o Sziles inds r . 1 2. , p 9

The Windsor D scenda t e n s.

M athe r a r General Frederick Ellsworth , p om ine nt t lawyer of New York Ci y, is descended from the Rev . Samuel Mather in the following : 1 . m 1 6 1 . line ( ) Rev Sa uel , born , 5 , m H annah T S Dr . 6 2 . 1 . reat ; ( ) amuel , b 77, m Abigail

1 1 6 111 . Grant ; ( 3) Nathaniel , b . 7 , Elizabeth

' 1 . J ll . E S Allyn ; ( 4) Oliver, b 749, m emima 1 8 111 worth ; 5) Ellsworth, b . 7 3 , . Laura Wol cott ( 6) Frederick Ellsworth Mather .

Rev . Oliver W olcott Mather, ofWindsor, is

k . the only brother ofGeneral Frederic E Mather . ’ General Mather s grandmother was a sister u of the disting ished Oliver Ellsworth, Chief Of U Justice the nited States , and General Mather’s great great grandmother was a grand T h e daughter O f Matthew Grant . mother of dau h General Mather , Laura Wolcott was a g t er D of octor Christopher Wolcott, and a D granddaughter of octor Alexander Wolcott, who was a son of the distingu ished Governor

Roger Wolcott . General Mather is a graduate ofYale Col lege of the class of 1 833 . He was commis sio ned a General of brigade in the New York

S . tate Militia, under Governor Seward H e was a member of the assembly of the N ew

York Legislature in 1 845 .

— s ] s s s r Th e ance s tor of Joel Mun el , the di tingui hed hi to ical N e w Y W inds or about publi s her at A lbany, ork, came into o o s wh 1ch Is 1ve n 1n th thirty years after the li t of freemen , g e

G l C . text, was reported to the enera ourt s s ant s The Wind or De cend . 1 29

Records also Show his long offi cial connec tion with , and active interest in the public schools and different charitable institutions in in the City of New York .

J O H N OW EN came early to W indsor .

T he . D . D . Rev John Jason Owen , , de 1 8 1 86 ceased April , 9, and Edward Hezekiah

. N e w Owen , Esq , a lawyer, of York City, are T h e in the sixth generation from John Owen . f R Dr . ev . Owen was the author of the ollow ing valuable works , Commentaries on the Gos lVIark T h e pels of Matthew, , Luke, John , and ’ o f H o m er s Acts of the Apostles , also editions ’ T X e Iliad, Homer s Odyssey, hucydides , ’ ’ no ho n s X C r o ae dia p Anabasis , enophon s y p , etc . J O HN P ETT I B O N E was admitted a freeman of

20 1 6 8 . Windsor, by the General Court, May , 5 S H e married arah, daughter of Bagot Eggleston ,

. 1 6 1 66 . Feb , 4 H e removed with the first

1 66 M ass aco e settlers in 9, to , which plantation S was incorporated as the town of imsbury, May 1 2 1 6 0 S 1 1 , 7 , He died at imsbury, in 7 3 , and his wife died in the same year . Colonel Jonathan Pettibone of the third generation was several years ajustice ofthe peace, n and a representati v e . H e was commissio ed a colonel of one of the Connecticut regiments with 6 which he marched in August, 77 , to New 6* 1 0 The lVindsor Descendant 3 s .

k t he n was Yor , for defe ce of the city, where he attacked with a malignant disease known as the camp distemper . He reached Rye, New

York, on his way home where he died Sept .

26 1 6 66. , 77 , aged T he line of descent of John Owen Petti

. W bone, Esq , of eatogue, in Simsbury, from 1 the pioneer is as follows ( ) John Pettibone,

S 2 . m . arah Eggleston ; ( ) Lieut Samuel , b

1 6 2 . S 7 m Judith hepard ; ( 3) Col . Jonathan ,

1 1 . . b . 7 0, m Martha Humphrey ; ( 4) Col Jon

. 1 1 . J athan, b 74 , m H annah Owen ; ( 5) ohn

. 2 2 1 8 . Owen Pettibone, b Oct . , 7 7

Of the above family John Owen Pettibo ne,

. n Esq , is the present representative . H e oce m pies the do icile erected by his late father, which is but a short distance from the dwelling erected by his ancestor John Pettibone, the pioneer, more than one hundred and fifty years ago , which is still tenanted, and of which he is

now 8 2 . the owner . His age is nearly years has Mr . Pettibone contributed much valuable material to these pages .

M R . LL M H EL S EORGE HEL S WI IA P P and G P P , who are believed to have been brothers , were St af of an ancient and honorable family, in hir e for ds . , England William Phelps is men t io ne d by the Dorchester historians among “ those gentlemen past middle life with adult

e Windsor Descendan s Th t .

B o s t o n who ers from the colonies assembled at , had co nside r e dwhat number ofsoldiers might

be necessary, if God called the colonies to war ” with t h e Dutch . H e was a deputy for seven 1 6 8 years and i n 5 , was again made a magistrate, o fli which ce he held for four years . H e served frequently on the petit jury, and was appointed

. 1 6 1 with Mr Welles of Hartford, in 4 , a com mit t e e on lying.

Joseph Phelps , the fourth son of M r. W il liam Phelps , settled i n that part of W indsor M assaco e S . called , now imsbury Permanent as 1 66 settlements were made here early as 4 , 1 66 and in 7 Joseph Phelps received, from a committee of the General Court, a grant of M assa o e land in c . H e was distinguished for his bravery in numerous conflicts with the I n dians who were a source of terror to the inhab T h it ant s of Simsbury . e settlement was burn in 1 6 6 ed 7 , and the hardy pioneers were driven back to W indsor ; but their superior endurance fi enabled them, nally, to drive the I ndians m from this part of the state, and compelled the v T to lea e forever the valley of the unxis ,

Governor Stuyve s ant anticipated an invas ion of N e w A s N ew s a m terdam by the men of England , and cau ed a p lis ade or wall to be erected about the northern part of the s s s t o city, and other defen ive mea ure be adopted at an ex ’ s of s S s s pen e guilder , or about tuyve ant abil h s s t e s . W all s ity and watchfulne prevented inva ion treet, s s it s a s s of the pre ent day, take n me from thi wall, or pali ade . The Windsor D escenda t s n . 1 33

’I< r i r now th e Farmington v e . Joseph Phelp s

S 1 68 . enior, died in Simsbury, in 4

His son , Joseph Phelps , of the third gen W c . o f ration from Mr illiam Phelps , was one S H e the most prominent citizens of imsbury. and was , for many years , Justice of the Peace , — was elect ed twenty eight times a representative in the General Assembly. D Ensign avid Phelps , of the fourth gene e r at io n , was distinguished for his services in the revolutionary war . H is son General N oah

Phelps , then a captain , was a chief proj ector and principal actor in the expedition against T 1 lu n . v o iconderoga, in April , 77 5 W hen the teers reached Lake Champlain , Captain Phelps crossed it in a boat and entered the fort as a O spy . H e pretended that his bj ect was to get

“ On F R s s the armington iver, eight or ten mile we t of the C s s t s l th e onnecticut, lived a con iderable tribe, ome ime cal ed h Se ous T s . T e p , but more commonly the unxi were at an s Se uas s en s 0 s H early period ubject to q , the achem w old art ford to the Engli s h and they mu s t have formed a part ofthat s s was great tribe or confederacy, who e principal eat in the val R ley of the Connecticut iver . Th e Indian s of M as s acoe or Simsburv were s mall in num s r of T s ber and were unque tionably a po tion the unxi . Many ’ s of them fled from their country during King Philip war, and 1 1 0 s in 1 0 s in 7 , only a few familie remained ; 75 , the la t rep n i h ad r e s e t at ve di s a ppeared . Th e Wind s or Indian s s eem to have had their principal s P o uonnoc t eat at q , a place on the Farming on river , five or i i s Th e s s x mile s above t junction with the Connecticut. fir t s th e En lish was S h o achem known to g ehat, or Sheat, w died s was s d not long after the ettlement of the town , and ucceede ” ’ is N as sah e n —Abr id ed r m De For es t s Hist by h nephe w ga . g f o C 6 . onn. India ns 2 , pp . 5 , 3 9 1 The Windsor D es da t s 34 cen n . shaved and succeeded in ascertaining the con struction of the fort and strength of the garri

So t . n son importan was his informatio , that d the works were capture , on the following night, without the loss of a single man . Gen eral Noah Phelps was a Maj or-General O f the — Connecticut Militia , and for twenty two succes sive years a j udge of the court Of probate . N o ah A mhe r s t Colonel Phelps , son of Gen eral Noah Phelps left Yale College to serve in the revolutionary war . H e filled, afterwards , ffi many o ces of honor and trust, and died and

his v is buried in nati e town , Simsbury . H e

fi v e Six left sons and three daughters , of whom , including the eldest, and youngest, whose ages range from 65 to 84 are still living . T h e sons were 1 . Noah Amherst, educated at Yale College, practised law several years in H artford, several times represented that town in the Legislature afterward successively held the o ffi ces O f H igh S ff J heri , udge of the County Court, Collector Se c of the Customs at the port of Middletown ,

r e t ar & c. r e y of State , H e is still living and sides in H artford . H e is the author of the

H istory of Simsbury . ff 2 . Je ery Orson, served as paymaster in 1 8 1 2 the Connecticut volunteers in the war of , She r iff o f u was also the Co nty, Judge of the

1 6 The Windsor Descendants 3 .

d In and D v . Mary Case ; ( 4) Ensign a i , Abigail

i . 1 0 . Pett bone ; 5) Noah b 74 , m Lydia

62 In . N . 1 Griswold ; oah Amherst, b 7 ,

Charlotte W ilcox ; ( 7) George Dwight Phelps .

Th e a . . l te John J Phelps, Esq , of New k th e Yor City, was descended from pioneer Wil th e liam Phelps in following line ( I ) Mr. Wil 2 111 liam Phelps ; ( ) Joseph , . Hannah Newton ;

1 66 111. (3) Joseph , b . 7 , Mary Collier, Sarah Case ,

D . and Mary Case ; (4) Ensign avid, m Abigail

D d . 1 . Pettibone ; 5) Captain avi , b 733 , m Abi

. 6 gail dau of Edward Griswold ; ( ) Alexander, l 111 . Elizabeth Eno ; (7) John Jay Phe ps . h at S Mr. P elps was born imsbury, Con

ne ct icut 2 1 8 1 0 . v n , October, 5 , Lea i g his ’ th e father s roof at early age of thirteen years, he d t t commence , withou o her resources than the h im brave spirit within , the battle of life . His career was varied and uniformly successful . B e

in D . fore his majority, partnership with George

“E Th e Hon. s s s on N s Eli ha Phelp , a of General oah Phelp , was N ov . 1 6 1 S U born , 779, married Lucy mith , of pper Mid wn C H h e was dle t o e A 6 1 8 . S D e c. 1 0 , onn died pril , 47 born , 2 A rIl 1 1 8 d Ya 1 . He 1 800 79 , died p 9, 47 gra uated at le in . read Litch fi e ld C S S was S C . law at , onn , tate enator, peaker of onn R s s s & . i H s s C c &c. H s ou e epre entative , member of ongre , , s on S s S M s s r h as , John mith Phelp , of pringfield , i ou i , been C s s Se His r e . Member of ongre , daughter Lucy Jane mar ied

. E is A s R s . N e w Y . H r A nn mo Eno , q , of ork daughter Ma y A N k —F nz E s . e w Y r a married John llen , q , of or n P e ibone h n e tt E s . yo Ow . q D C G s of s 1 aughter of aptain eorge Gri wold , Wind or .

T m 1 0 1 61 . hey were arried June , 7 c ndant s The Windsor Des e . 1 3 7

ic E f . P re nt e s . , q, he edited a newspaper in Hart ord d l In early manhoo , he manufactured g ass in Penn h th e sylvania, and made t at acquaintance with fi V coal elds of the Lackawanna alley, which d fi t . was, af erwar , so much a source of pro t

At a later period, he laid the foundation of his large fortune as a wholesale merchant in the the 8: City of New York , where name of Eno Phelps is still synonymous with all that is env ia ble in mercantile fame . — T hey dissolved after ten years co partner ship and each commenced new firms , and these di fferent branches are S till in successful opera tion . Each of these men took hold of real estate and operated with great boldness . ha Before he was forty John J . Phelps d buil t a splendid block on the site of old Grace T Church , and another on that of the Park hea tre . H e also initiated that march of trade to ward the north side o f the town which has con t inu e S T d ever ince . hese operations were equaled by those ofhis partner, Mr. Eno , who t finished by building the Fif h Avenue Hotel .

Mr . Phelps lived to see greater changes in busi ness than had previously occurred in an ordi of a fi r s t nary lifetime . I nstead floor and base 1 00 ment worth $ , 5 per year, he beheld marble v h palaces de oted to dry goods . He also be eld d great houses grow up , wiel ing immense capi s D escendant s 1 3 8 The Wind or .

k tal , and employing hundreds of cler s , paying from to rent, and selling mil im lions upon millions annually . H e saw the porting business merged into that of j obbing, and witnessed the removal of the combined trade far up town , so much so that it would be diffi cul t to find a yard of calico or broadcloth on sale within three qu arters of a mile of Pearl

1 a As a director of the Er e R ilway, Mr . Phelps received t he thanks of his adop te d city in a j oint resolution of its legislative boards . ide nt i H e was also , for a considerable period, fi e d D with the management of the elaware,

Lackawanna, and W estern Railway Company which has become, of late years , a highly pros n pero s incorporation . I t has been created by the consolidation of other companies of ’ which Th e L ige t t s Gap Railroad Company was the first organized, and Mr . John J Phelps 1 8 0 was elected its first President in 5 , and held this O H’ICC after it received the corporate name of Th e Lackawanna and W estern Railroad

Company, when he resigned the presidency in 8 h 1 53 . T e name of the company was again T h e D changed, about this time, to elaware, W Lackawanna, and estern Railroad Company, and M r . Phelps remained in the Board of Man

s From the daily newspaper .

1 0 The Windsor D escendant s 4 . formerly the President of the Connecticut M u tual Life I nsurance Company, was the founder of this company, and from the period of its in e t io n U c p was its chief manager . nder his guid ance mainly, its business increased from small beginnings , until it is now one of the oldest,

a th e wealthiest, and most popular comp nies in

Dr . country. Phelps was born in Simsbury, in H 1 80 2 . e cd April , graduated at the Yale M 1 8 2 ical College in 5 , and settled in the city k of New Yor where he resided only two years , being compelled, on account of failing health , to abandon the practice of his profession , and return his . 1 8 6 to native town In 4 , he obtained a pol icy of insurance upon his life, and being thus led , a a to investig te the subject of life insurance, he p plied that year to the legislature for the charter an of a company which , when org ized, bore the name of the Connecticut Mutual Life I nsurance

Company. He insured, himself, among his f riends, the first one hundred policies in the com pany and t hus laid th e foundations of its exten sive business . r l D . Phe ps was a pioneer in life insurance in f for this country, and he has le t a reputation en e r gy, sagacity, and probity which is greatly to be envied . His mind was well stored with the truths r and whe n ofhisto y, science , and philosophy, , free

‘ f C ffi n rom the ares of his o cial positio , he display ds r escen a The Win o D d nt s. 1 4 1

r ed, often , in conversation g eat erudition . He e d c died, universally respect d, at Hartfor , Mar h

1 8 1 86 6 . , 9, aged 7 years w N . . N e Isaac Phelps, Esq , of York City, is descended from the pioneer George Phelps who fi W settled rst in indsor, and removed afterward

W e st fie ld . to , Massachusetts

Joseph Phelps, the son of George Phelps, in i his -ln company w th John Porter, Junior, father law S S T , amuel Grant, amuel Rockwell , homas Bissell and others made the first settlement at 1 6 0 h e W . 8 East indsor In , was a petitioner to t th e the General Court, wi h the inhabitants on a east side of the river, for a separate town org n iz at ion and church privileges . th e Joseph Phelps , of third generation, was a prominent man in East W indsor. He joined the church there in Abigail Bissell , who was afterward his wife, joined also at the same 1 1 2 he time . In the summer of 7 , was engaged h ad in a scout with Lieutenant Crocker, and a n a arrow escape from the Indians, losing his h blanket, coat, and hat, besides ot er articles . He

i ~ n - a o nt e d a . 28 1 1 1 8 was pp , J , 7 7 , with Joseph S ’ Rockwell and erg t . Bissell , to hire a school

s for East W . 1 1 ma ter ‘ indsor He died in 75 , aged 73 years .

T s . Th e R e v . imothy Edward was th e pa s tor ofthi s church w as He s s . Th e R e v died and buried in Ea t Wind or . Jona

s D . D . s s v w as h is son. than Edward , , the di tingui hed di ine, Th e Windsor Descendant s .

Captain Daniel Phelps of this family enlist e d in th e the revolution , for whole war. He k D r. was at New Yor and New Rochelle . Isaac f m 1 Phelps served for three years ro May 777, in h t . the 4 Connecticut Regiment Isaac Phelps , t he Junior, also served in revolution . Josiah Ph elps was in the revolution and was in service at Old Milford . The ac line of descent of Isa Newton Phelps,

Esq . , from George Phelps, is believed to be as hill r f : 1 . P u ollows ( ) George Phelps, m y Ran

2 . 1 6 111. dall ; ( ) Joseph , b 47, Mary Porter ; (3)

6 . . . 1 8 Joseph , b 7 , m Abigail Bissell ; (4) Capt

. 1 0 . 1 2 6 Joseph , b 7 4 ; (5) Joseph , b about 7 5 ( ) d . 1 68 . . 1 8 1 6 Joseph , b about 7 , m Betty Sadd, , w dau . of Matthe Sadd and Molly Grant ; (7)

Isaac Newton Phelps . f a It will be observed, rom this line ge, that f Mr. Isaac N . Phelps is descended rom Matthew

Grant and John Porter, two of the ancestors of

General Ulysses S . Grant . - Mr. Isaac N . Phelps was for twenty eight years the leading hardware merchant of New f York City . He laid the oundation of his for th e firm tune in this trade, in connection with late S f of heldon Phelps . He retired rom active th e 1 8 8 and has business about year 4 , since de v oted his time chiefly to banking and real estate - operations . He is the vice president of th e

1 The Windsor Descendant s 44 .

. 1 8 e s American house on that, coast In 47 , he t ablishe d himself in New York , in which city he has since been actively engaged in an honor able and successful mercantile career. h T e . line of descent of Royal Phelps , Esq , P he l s of W e st fie ld from George p , , Massachusetts ( 1 ) G is believed to be as follows eorge Phelps, P hillur D 2 m . y Randall and Frances ewey ; ( )

J . T an J . 1 1 1 George , ( 3) ohn, m hankful 7 ; - 6 J . 1 1 1 1 J ( 4) ohn , b March 4, 7 5 ; 5) ohn, d .

6 . 1 0 1 802 . 1 80 May , ; ( ) Rev Royal Phelps, b 7 S ff m . Hannah pa ord ; ( 7) Royal Phelps .

h . T e . late Anson G Phelps, Esq , of New k Yor City, was descended from George Phelps,

W . T th e the indsor pioneer homas Phelps, of V at V e st fourth generation, settled Simsbury, now

1 . T h Canton , in 745 Lieutenant homas P elps, his D son , married orothy Lamb W oodbridge, daughter of Haynes and Elizabeth W oodbridge - T and grand daughter of Rev . imothy and Dor othy Woodbridge of Simsbury . Anson Greene h d u P elps, their son , married Olivia, a ghter of n Elisha and Elizabeth ( Olcott) Egglesto , of

. 20 Hartford, Connecticut She was born March , h e 1 784. T following is the line of descent of m . : Anson G . Phelps, Esq , fro George Phelps P hillur d 2 1 . ( ) George Phelps, m y Ran all ; ( )

1 6 1 In . T John , b . 5 , Sarah Buckland ; ( 3) homas,

T . 1 1 1 111 . b . ( 4) homas, b 7 , Margaret The Windsor D escendant s . 1 45

6 0 Dor . T . 1 Watson ; 5) Lieut homas, b 4 , m , othy Lamb Woodbridge ( 6) Anson Greene

Phelps .

Th e f . T ather ofMr Phelps, Lieutenant hom ’ th e fi m as Phelps, was among rst to enlist fro

Simsbury in the army of the revolution , and he served throughout the whole war. He was, dur ffi ing a considerable period of this service, an o cer Son under General Greene, and he named his

Anson Greene in honor of his old commander. n Mr. A son Greene Phelps was born in Sims bury. His father died soon after his birth , and, at eleven years of age, he lost also his mother. He removed, at the age of eighteen years, to Hart 1 8 1 ford, and, about the year 5 , to New York e w City . His commercial life in N York was identified with the history of the city for half a - century. He was the founder of the well known D 81 his Co. firm of Phelps , odge , and mercantile

. H e career was one of remarkable p rosperity. d was, however, especially istinguished in his day as and generation, a devout christian and philan h ist H e t ro Dr. p . was a devoted member of ’ Spring s church , ofwhich he was for many years Th e S an elder. Colonization ociety, and many t other charitable institu ions, owed much of their prosperityto his benevolence and watchful energy.

. k 0 N e . . w Mr Anson G Phelps died in Yor , Nov 3 , 8 o -f 1 53, at the advanced age f se venty our years , s n a t s 1 46 The Windsor De ce d n .

D a n . The H o . W illiam E odge m rried Me

J . lissa ; ames Stokes, Esq , married Caroline ;

Benj amin B . Atterbury, Esq . , married Olivia ;

D J m . and aniel a es, Esq , of Liverpool , England,

m r W . ar ied Elizabeth , daughters of the late

Anson G . Phelps, Esq . u has f Mrs . Sigo rney le t us some beautiful th e verses descriptive of character of Mr . Anson ‘ P h el s f G . p fi A brief selection rom them will be found interesting :

Th e s of s s of l care con cience and the ru h wea th , S his s s nor th e e wept not away meekne , tim To all s s cultivate hou ehold charitie , N or the answering con s cientiou s z eal To con s ecrate a portion of h is gain ’ ’ To s th e s s man relief and Redeemer cau e . 1“ Oh prai s e the Lord his For the example of godly life , ” nd for its s s s A ble ed clo e .

OH N T I ES W 1 J S L came to indsor in 63 5 . s M D N H . S . . e w enry R tile , , of Brooklyn , k Yor , is descended from the W indsor pioneer i n the following line John Stiles ; ( 2)

T D m s Th e children ofLi e ut . homas and orothy La b Phelp

e H s . A u . 1 6 G e A s s wer William ayne , b g 7 7 eorg ugu tu ,

2 6 . T s . N ov . 1 1 . b , 7 9 , d July homa Woodbridge , b ' A s G r e e n 2 1 8 1 d N e 6 1 2 e b . w May , 77 ; n on , March 4, 7 , ied in

T s . F e b 28 1 8 . M r s . D Y . . . ork Lieut homa , d . , 7 9 orothy L

A u . 1 2. Phelp s d . g 79 h n A s O s T e childre of the late n on G . and livia Phelp are l z d s s s C O . E i abeth Woo bridge (decea ed) , Meli a, aroline A s G Olivia L d A nn Caroline Harriet N . n on ; ; y ia , Th e s th e lat e fact in reference to the lineage of ,

s E s . O e A n s on G . Phelp , q , were communicated by John w n

E s . Pettibone , q

T s s 1 4 8 he Wind or D e cendant s .

ble s e ct a . p I nfluenced, however, by a sense of duty and a desire to enj oy religious liberty, fift — when about y two years of age, he aban do ued his ancestral mansion and emigrated to

America, in company with the Rev . M r .

Warham , was made a freeman in Boston , Oct . 1 1 6 0 1 6 9, 3 , and removed in 3 5 , with Mr . ’ W ar ham s t o church , Windsor, Connecticut . He was the companio n of Matthew Grant in his j ourneyings , and his name appears first in Mat ’ o f thew Grant s list the church members . He was a member of the first general assembly in 1 6 1 6 3 7 , and in 43 was elected a member of o fli ce the house of magistrates , which he held

u 1 6 . ntil his death , in 5 5 W t Simon olcot , a younger son of Henry

Wolcott , the pioneer, was admitted a freeman of W indsor in 1 654 . H e removed afterward 1 680 to Simsbury, and, in , to East Windsor, where he died in 1 687 . Governor Roger W olcott was the son of Simon Wolcott, and S 1 6 8— was born in imsbury in 7 9 , but resided, his most of life , in East Windsor . He was one of the most remarkable men Connecticut H e has ever produced . was a j udge of the S 1 2 d - and upreme Court in 73 , eputy governor — chiefj udge of the Supreme C ourt in 1 64 1 the second in command of the expedition which d t h e L ou isbe r 1 resulte in capture of g, in 745 , The Windsor Descendant s . 1 49 and in the year 1 75 0 was made governor of the colony . H e died at East W indsor, May

1 6 . 7 , 7 7 H is son , Oliver Wolcott of Litch D field, Connecticut, the signer of the eclara tion of Independence, and his grandson, Oliver

W ~ olcott, of the same place, were both gov r nor s T he e of Connecticut . second Oliver W olcott was also Secretary of the T reasury of the U nited States under the administrations of U W ashington an d Adams . rsula Wolcott, the daughter of Governor Roger W olcott, became the wife of Governor Matthew Gris f he h o . S dau wold Lyme was the wife, the g S ter, the mother, the ister, and the aunt of a n -dau h gover or of Connecticut . H er grand g ’ U Gi is wold M cCu r d ter, rsula ( ) y, was the

. M cCu r d . mother of Robert H y, Esq , of N e w k de Yor City, who is scended from two ' C governors of onnecticut, and from the W “ W indsor pioneer, H enry olcott, some ” time a M aie st r at e of this Jurisdiction . T he only male descendants who are now living of the H on . Oliver W olcott, the signer D of the eclaration of I ndependence, are his

n W . grandso s, Joshua Huntington olcott, Esq , s a of Bo ton, M ssachusetts , Frederick H enry N e w W olcott , Esq . , of York City, and

Charles Mosely W olcott, Esq . , of Fishkill T N e w . Landing, York hey are the sons of o P r it ans 1 5 0 P ersecution; f Me u .

k t Lit chfi eld Frederic W olco t of , and Betsy N H untington, of orwich , Connecticut .

E R SE U T I O N S r T H E U R T N S I N 8 . P C o P I A

E N G LAN D .

1 6 0 About the year 3 , Archbishop Laud D r Ed called before h im in the Star Chamber . for ward Leighton, a Scotch puritan preacher, writing against the queen of Charles L , and the k bishops in a boo entitled, An Appeal to the ’ ”

S . Parliament, or ion s Plea against Prelacy T h e tone of the book was disrespectful and fa natie, but we lose sight of its demerits in the wh o atrocious punishment of the author, vain l y pleaded , in this infamous court, that he had ff an o ended through zeal , and not through y personal malice .

H e was degraded from the ministry, pub licl — y whipped in Palace yard , Westminster, placed in the pillory for two hours , had an ear

o ff cut , a nostril slit, and was branded on one S W SS . of his cheeks ith the letters , ower of ” Sedition . After these detestable operations , he was sent back to prison , but at the end of one short week , before his wounds were healed, he was agai n dragged forth to another public whipping, the pillory, the knife, and the brand ; and after he had been deprived of his other i n ear, slit the other nostril, and burnt on the

P er secutions o t he P ur it a f ns .

D £ 1 0 Earl of orset the fine was increased to , 000 , and it was ordered, also , that he be burn n ed in the forehead, slit i n the ose and have his ears cropped, in addition to the above sen B uckm e r o ff tence of the Chief Justice . was let more easily, as he had been a chaplain to Arch k bishop Abbot, but Spar es the printer was fined £ 00 5 , and was made to stand in the pillory ff with a paper on his head declaring his o ence . D r . Leighton and M r. Prynne were men e of eminence, and although th ir zeal in the cau se of reforming their country may have led has them too far, the present generation much to thank them for . T hese events transpired in the same years in which the early pioneers of Wi ndsor aban doned the homes of their forefathers for a - dwelling place across the ocean , in the wilder ffi ness , among savages, and they will su ce as an illus tration of the spirit of that age . Certainly, their persecutors had not learned the divine principles which are expressed so beautifully by the Bard of Avon :

Th e quality of mercy is not s trained as It droppeth , the gentle dew from heaven

U pon the place be neath . It is twice ble ss ed ” s s i s s It ble eth him that g ve , and him that take .

Th e facts and the language of the above paper are s e le cte d with s ome abridgment from The Socia l His tory of Gr ea t

in l . 1 Br ita V o . . , I I , p 99 . ’ M att/t ant s Will I ow Gr . 53

— HE ST W LL AN D TEST M ENT o r M AT 9 . T LA I A O F S TH EW G RANT W I ND OR .

( CO PI ED FRO M T HE O RIG I NAL O N FI LE I N T HE O FFI C E O F T HE

COURT O F PRO B AT E FO R T HE D IST RI CT O F HART F O RD . ) “ h W indz or D t I 68 I . G ecember 9 , Mathew rant of being aged and y uder present we aknes yet of competency of vnde r standing doe by this declare my last will conce rninge the di ss

s s as po e of my e tate followeth .

o S s son is I st . I d e declare that my son amuell my elde t already satisfye d with th e porti on I made over to hime in land

l d t is conce rnin e . a rea y recorded to him , and hat my will g him adl C once rnin e son T i is s y. g my ehan my w ll that hee hall haue as a legassy payd to hime in country pay by my son John

s u s s s the full ome of five po nd , and thi to bee payd two year

t s A lsoe a o nt v af er my decea e . I doe pp y hime to gather pp all

s o w e in s s all the debt g to me in thi towne or el ewhere , and my

is son T s his own e will , hee my ehan hall have them for .

dl is son wh om e liue d 3 y . My will that my John with I have s th e ome time, I doe give to hime all my meadow land in great

A lsoe s l e in e be low e meadow . I give to him my pa ture land y g the hill agaynst T homas Dible s home lott and my owne z A lsoe , I doe give him the sayd John my home lott and orchard with the old housinge which I built before hee came to dwell in itt . A lsoe I doe give to hime my wood lott lyinge in the quarter

s . A lsoe s s s lott , I give to my onne John all the re t of my e tate e xce t in e m w e ar e in e s s s p g y g clothe , my onne John hall paye to my sonne Tehan fiu e pounds as is already expressed in my will ' conce rnin e t he s afi or e sa d s g hime, at time and manner y , and al o unto my daughter Hu mfe rye s fiu e pound in country pay two e er s aft er s y my decea e . A lsoe my will is and I doe giue my daughter Humfe rrye s as a legassy fiue pound to be payd in country pay t wo years after

. h my decease A lsoe I gine her all my w e aringe cloat e s . I doe make my son John sole executor of thi s my last will and testa m as w itne s T HEW G NT . ent my hand, MA RA

' W it nes O HN LOO M Y S Se n . J ,

The mark of x THO MAS DIB LE. ’

I M atthew G ant s Will. 5 4. r

John Loomys Senr and Thoma s Dibble S enr both of them personally appeared and gaue oath that thi s was the last Will and T estament of Mathew G rant de ce ast as it s dated :December

s six e D in the ninth one thou and hundred eighty one . ated

W ndz or : I 1 6 1 y March , 8 .

Before me, B ENJAM IN NEW B ERY

H S A HEW G A A N I NV ENT O RY O F . T E E TAT E o r M T R NT O F

W I N SO DECEA SE T KEN NY . 1 OT H D R, D, A JA

sh . lb . . d A n Old house and homestead with a small — — orchard 2 5 00 00 5 acres of meadow and 3 acres of pasture at — — 8 o o o o 6 lb . per acre 4 — — 2 3 acres of woodland in the northwest feild 2 3 00 00 — — In wareing cloath es w oolin linin o 6—I o—o o In bra ss pewter one spit t O I I 3 o o

2 s s Old s wt h In che t , beding with ome lining —4 — other things 0 2 —0 6—0 6 A ndj rons s 8:T s 0 1 0 0 0 , tramell ubb —9— Books other small things 0 1 —0 1 —00 2 s s 8: 8: s 02 6 0 0 word , a broad axe old iron other thing —5— s s rindst on s 0 1 1 6 0 0 a bed ted, wedge , 36 other thing g — — in booke debts due to him from many persons o s 1 8 o o —— I I 8 1 8 0 6

‘ T s T M I BB E Se u HO S D L n . aken by A , x mark . O HN L OOM Y S J .

[The Will and Inventory are recorded in the records of the

C C H . V ol a ounty and Probate ourt at artford . 4, p ge 8 8 Th e i is . forego ng copy of the Will made from

th e or i inal s l s is g pre erved in the fi e . It in the hand ' of Loom s Sen . s s s writing John y , the fir t ub cribing witness ] A C C H 2 d 1 8 ounty ourt held at artford, March , 6

ale as se ee

T he last will T estament of Mathew G rant w as exhibited

L i ant S l r ant 1 5 6 eut en o omon G .

Ell al‘l sa T j Kilborn , I ac ucker, N G T oah Lyon, eorge ryon,

s C T Jo eph Luce, aleb alcott, m ‘ W s s Z e h aniah T ha er . Jo iah Lewi , p y , N s T attin t on Prince, egro, Jame g , N Jupiter, egro, Jacob White,

s O s . Jo iah wen, I rael Warner

s S s Jo iah Pinney, ylvanu Willoughby, s T Eno Parker, imothy Wheeler, “ D s Sam s aniel Pear e, Well ,

D R ss s aniel u , Ephraim Well ,

s s s Jo eph Roger , Ichabod Well ,

R s s ufu Root, Jame Webb,

s Z Jo hua Read, ebulon Waterman,

s S Jame imon , William Young, G S s s eorge mith , Jo eph Spark , A S s H bner covell , Jame unt . S Se olomon y,

The termof service of each man and th e amount of pay due are also entered in other bolumns but are here omitted .

— EU TEN NT SOLOMON R NT or 1 1 . LI A G A T HE R ENCH AN D ND AN R F I I W A .

a S l of C r lis e Lieuten nt o omon Grant, ovent y, probably en t d

as t one s s A s a priva e, in of the companie rai ed in ugu t and

S 1 e of l th e Col eptember, 75 5 , on r ceipt an urgent ca l upon

ir W in s th e S . e of ony, from John on, for r inforcement the

. A s al s ss G Ass northern army peci e ion of the eneral embly,

e A s 2 t wo s s t h h ld ugu t 7, ordered regiment to be rai ed for hwit ,

and ff a t o v s . The s o ered extra p y olunteer two regiment ,

c a b S T t i u C e e omm nded , y amuel alcot and El h haunc y, wer

m l e and e e a e in Se tember pro pt y fill d, wer on th ir m rch arly p r ’ S m ra s was a e S e e 8th e h s olo on G nt will m d ept mb r , wh n e wa ieut enant Solomon r a t I L G n . 57

“ ” h about going in the expedition to Canada . T e roll s of

s s ot s the e regiment are n complete, and it doe not appear to which company Solomon belonged . ‘

1 6 was G a A s se In March, 75 , he appointed by the ener l m

2d a th C C . Sla bly Lieuten nt of the 4 ompany, apt John p, of

s d R Col. N fi ve Man field, in the 3 egiment ( athan Whiting) , of

be s . At s regi ments ordered to forthwith rai ed the ame time ,

Noah was appointed Captain of the 7 th Company of the 2d ’ R egiment (David Woo s ter s) .

6 s of i I s I n 1 L . t u . May, 75 , ieut John Leven , K llingly, Lie t ’ ’ s s C s R i of John Pay on ompany, Lyman eg ment, who had

s s C s e t been rai ing a company of volunteer for rown Point,

hi his On I out with s command on march northward . the sth

2 th was H l and or 5 of June , he at a fmoon , while in camp there , s s Hoosuc is s s ent out a cout toward , [that I uppo e, toward

was s Hoos uc l s s s . what then We t , and now Wi liam town, Ma ,

s s s l s where the ettler had a ma l fort and block hou e, about

s . T s s was Lieut thi time] hi cout under the command of . l m S o o on Gr ant . When about twelve mile s we s tward from

Hoos uc was i s s a , the party attacked by Ind an , ever l killed ,

s s C Of s and four or five carried pri oner to anada . the pri on e r s T s s s , homa Wil on, of Killingly, Jonathan Ea tman , of

s Z C d Wood tock, and ebadiah olburn, of Win ham , returned to

~ C in th e I . Th e a s i a onnecticut, autumn of 757 f ct above g ven p pear from the petition s of the s e men to the G eneral A ss em “ ” i s . D s . 2 2 1 2 . C . Ar . 0 8 bly, in onn ch ve War, Vol VI oc 7 , 7 , 7 “ s i s th e 2 th Lieut . Leven cert fie , that on 5 day of June, the

' s aid s cout was be s et by the enemy and s undry of the s ai l ” “ i s n s a I h s cout killed . W l on and E as tma y that on the 5t

1 6 s i under of June , 75 , being ordered out with a cout ng party h l m n a nt t e command o L ieut . S o o o Gr f , [they] were captivated by a par ty of the enemy Indian s about twelve mile s to the

s Os ueh we tward of Fort, and from thence carried to an 1 5 8 L ieut enant Solomon Gr ant .

” s n t Indian town about eight mile s from Montreal . Wil o e

S . 1 0 1 . turned to Killingly, ept , 75 7

is ff s I 2 : e There a di erence of ten day , June 5 and 5 nin ’ between Le ve ns s s tatement and that of the returned captive s .

s N either of the two petition mention s the death of Lieut .

is was Grant, but there hardly room for doubt that he among ‘ the kille dfi Local tradition agree s s ub s tantially with the s e

s Th e l f fact . reader wil find below an extract rom a carefully prepared and generally tru s tworthy manu s cript Hi s tory of

N C s orth oventry, written five and twenty year ago, by the

R s h mini s ter of that pari s h . Mr . oot make the place of t e “ ” a S s th e s ttack , near pringfield, in tead of we t border of

s s s s Ma achu ett . S everal month s may have elap s ed before the certainty ’ G s was his s C of rant death known to friend in oventry .

Th e his s was 1 6 Inventory of e tate not made until March , 1 757 Solomon Grant fir s t occupied the farm [which was Jas ’ G s in He was per ilbert place , a bachelor, and built the hou s e which was taken down to make room for the pre s

ne s " He ent dwelling . O a ked him Why he built had no ’ ‘ ’ ‘ s . e s hou ekeeper I int nd, he replied, to build a cage fir t, ’ an d then catch the bird to put in it . In the old French war i hi it fell to his lot to go and s erve h s king . When on s way

th e ar m h e was s s off his tojoin y, ' urpri ed and cut , he and com

s six s S rade , in number, by the Indian , near pringfield, in the

s h is his S . night. Previou to leaving home he made will, [ ept

*A z ls of T l was a ariah Wil , ol and , one of the p rty under m as . S olo on Gr ant e w command of Lieut , when the latt r kill 2 1 He as s 6. w ed , June 5 , 75 carried pri oner to Canada , and l not s N ov. 1 8. On h is relea ed til , 75 journey home , he died , ’ ' N ov. s H is . Za s w as t o To Z na . Waldo f , p 44. Will a pri ’ C S s C s A 2 . vate in apt, John lap ompany, and enli ted pril

H . T. Hon.

’

L ieut S l mon r ant s Will. 1 60 . o o G

I m r imis e ise - j . I give and d v unto my well beloved N r Of s du brother, oah Grant, all and every pa t my real e tate A t his se i th e s r ing his natural life . decea I g ve whole of aid ’ s s s s s on s e tate to my aid brother olde t then urviving, and at

is s O s s o an h decea e to the next lde t male heir, and on , to be s s d s ss e tate entail, in manner afore ai , ucce ively from one gen i n s s e r at o to another to the late t po terity. t m l- I e . I give and bequeath unto my wel beloved brother A G s al s s doniram rant, after my debt and funer expen e are i s n s pa d, and al o he payi g what I hall hereafter bequeath , the whole of my movable e s tate . — I tem . s s a I give and bequeath to my well beloved i ter, Marth s s Price , one hundred pound in old tenor bill of credit, to be paid out of my movable e s tate . I m l - e s te . I give and bequeath to my we l belov d brother ; s l c Of t s Benjamin and Elia Bue l , ea h them twen y pound , in

ls s . old tenor bil of credit, to be out of my movable e tate - I tem . i m s s I g ve and bequeath to y well beloved i ter, Abi al s s g Buell, ten pound in old tenor bill ofcredit, to be paid

out of my movable e s tate . - I tem . I give and bequeath to my well beloved brother, S fi ve s s amuel Buell, pound , in old tenor bill of credit, to be

paid out of my movable e s tate . - I m . te I give and bequeath unto my well beloved s i s ter, H fi ve s Old s annah Kimball , pound in tenor bill of credit, for us e S s i S the and benefit of the chool in a d ociety, to be paid

out of my movable e s tate . All the above legacie s to be p aid by my Executor after

s of . named, within the pace one ye ar after my decea s e s e e l- I do hereby con titut , mak , and ordain my wel beloved A be m s s brother , doniram Grant, to y ole Executor of thi my s il T s s la t W l and e tament, and I do hereby di allow, revoke , s e f T s s s and di annul all and every oth r ormer e tament , Legacie , s s s m e n Beque t , and Executor by in any way before amed , ratifying and confirming thi s and no other to be my la st Will

and Te s tament . In witne s s whereof I have hereunto s e t my hand and s e al th e w day and year above ritt en .

S . . OLOMON GRANT . [L S ] The D elan F ami 1 61 o ly.

S S s igned, ealed , Publi hed , Pronounced, and declared by s G as h is s T s the aid Solomon rant, la t Will and e tament, in the pre s ence of the s ub s cribers

HIN E A S STRONG R . P , J C LE B FA I RCHILD A ,

OZ IAS STRONG .

The Inventory accompanying the Will gave the property as s s —Contr ibuted b H o about nine hundred pound terling y n .

— H E EL NO LY T D M . 1 3 . A FA I

l P hili N as f r D e p de La oye, or a terward w itten lano, came “ ” “ F N ov . 1 1 62 1 to Plymouth in the ortune, 3, from Ley ” n s s us H o de as emisie Unmas hed . , Win low inform ( yp , p “ born of French parents ; who coming to age of di s cern

s n y s ment, demanded al o commu ion with , and proving him s elf to be come of such parents as were in full communion

s was with the French churche , hereupon admitted by the church of Plymouth ; and upon letters of r e com m n on was s ad e dati from the church at Plymouth, hee al o ” l s He mitte d into fe low hip with the church at Duxbury . was s on , probably, the of Jean and Marie de Launey [or de

z De c. 1 60 Lanoue] bapti ed 7, 3, in the Walloon church of

s 1 6 1 is s as Leyden . In a depo ition given in 4 , he de cribed “ l of D x irt -six Phi ip De Lanoe, planter, u bury, aged about th y ” s T s s his 1 60 1 60 h is year . [ hi refer birth to 4 or 5 , but if age

is i s at death correctly g ven , he mu t have been born about

1 602 s i , which make ident ty with the child of Jean and Marie , ’ b z in 1 60 . S e e S s Genea l. D ie apti ed 3, more probable avage

1 At D D e 1 6 E s t iona 1 . c. 1 ry , uxbury, he married , 9, 34,

D 2 I 6 M ar us t s . her ew bury, and ( ) in 5 7, y, dau of William Pont and s s s He D widow of Jame Gla . removed from uxbury to

was of s s D in Bridgewater one the purcha er of artmouth, 1 62 The D elano F amil y .

1 6 2 1 662 1 68 1 5 , and of Middleborough , in and died, , aged ” s about 79 year .

2 s on s D s D N Jonathan, of Philip and E ther [ ew bury] e la oye

1 6 8 e ff s was D . born about 4 , promin nt in town a air in artmouth

He r . 26 1 6 8 N . ma ried Feb , 7 , Mercy Warren, dau . of athaniel D D e c. 2 1 20 ied, 3 (or 7 .

3 * s s on D Jonathan, elde t of the preceding, came from art T 8 1 22 . C . He w as s mouth to olland, onn , May , 7 a electman

T l s h is of ol and for eleven year . and town clerk ( father had

th e s ffi D t t s 1 2 filled ame o ce at ar mouth) , for welve year , 7 4

His s h is 1 736. urname and that of de s cendants h as been ’ D . He l s H ist written elano had thirteen children . (Wa do . o Tolla nd His S s e f , fifth daughter u annah , born Jun N G N 2 1 2 ov . 1 6. 3, 7 4, married oah rant, 5 , 74 Th e name of De la N one was not uncommon in Pari s in h t e 1 6 1 s . a th and 7th centurie It came probably from Britt ny,

ne where it belonged to an ancient and honorable family . O

s s s s s of the mo t di tingui hed member of thi family, born in

1 1 Fr an ois N as I r on-ar med B r as de 53 , g de la oue, known the (

er deser ved s G f ) , to be , if he were not, an ance tor of the ene ” H as s s M or e r i nu and a i a in . e w r c t e ral , ay , not only g p ,

s l ff s s s as but with talent for pub ic a air , and di tingui hed much

hi s as h is l s was by prudence by va or, in whatever ituation he ” l He s s i i p aced . profe ed the reformed rel g on in Brittany,

h n a oun A t F onte na s w e . y g man the taking of y, he lo t an

ir on s arm , and after he replaced it by an one, which erved

D his A m D Jonathan elano and wife y, came from art in C s h is m s s mouth the ounty of Bri tol , in aje tie province of s s s s s T 8t h Ma achu ett Bay, and ettled in olland on ye day of — r He 2 1 2 a Tolla nd R eeo ds . May, died March 5 , 75 , ged A n s z D D 72 years . intere ting letter from Jabe elano of art his D T l is mouth , to brother Jonathan elano , at ol and, pub lish e d th e H ist . a nd Gen . R e . . . 1 6. in g , vol VII p 3

’ ant Genealogy of Gen. Gr .

h pany who sailed from Plymout , England, in the M ar and ohn d N y y , and lan ing at antasket, May D 0 1 6 0 t . 3 , 3 , set led at orchester, Massachusetts

D 1 6 1 . He was made a freeman at orchester, in 3

He removed to W indsor, Connecticut, with the 1 6 very earliest, in October, 35 , and was the sec ond town clerk there ; also the first, and for many — h — years more t an fort y the principal surveyor. T 2 1 60 1 He was born uesday, October 7, , 62 his . 1 6 1 and married Nov , 5 , first wife Pris 2 1 6 2 cilla, who died April 7, 44, aged 43 years s d S m . onth He married, secon ly, usannah , wid of m k 2 1 6 ow W illia Roc well, May 9, 45 , in

W . indsor She was born Monday, April 5 ,

6 . 1 602 . 1 1 66 , and died Nov 4, Her children by “ 1 . Mr. Rockwell are given on page 00 Mat ”

w Dec. 1 6 1 68 1 hav the Grant, Recorder, died , , ing for four years preceding resided with his son ff John . His will and the inventory of his e ects — are given on pages 1 53 4. Th e h children of Matt ew Grant, by his first wife Priscilla, were

2 2 s S . 1 1 62 6 In. O ct . 1 1 6 , Pri cilla , b . ept 4, ; 4, 47, Mi H m chael u phrey s. 2 SA M u L E . in ss. N ov. 1 2 1 6 1 3 , b Ma , 3 ;

m t 2 1 6 8. arried Mary Por er, May 7, 5

* s s C R i Extract from the Wind or hurch ecord, wr tten by G Matthew rant . “ John Porter came fr om Ingland and s ettled in Winds or 0 In 1 639 . His was 6 1 1 . daughter Mary Borne July 7, 53 Genealo o Gen a . r nt 1 6 gy f G . 5

’ T . s ss. . 1 6 . 4, ahan, b in Dorche ter, Ma , Feb 3 , 33, d May 1 6 2 2 1 662 H 2 d H 93 ; m . Jan . , , annah Palmer ; m . , annah

ss in 1 6 0 Bi el , probably 9 ’ h . s A 0 1 6 2 . Au . 5 , Jo n , b in Wind or, pril 3 , 4 ; m g

1 666 H . , Mary ull

D R — M U SECON GENE ATION 3 . SA EL 2 RANT D G was born in orchester, Massachusetts ,

2 6 1 . N o v. 1 1 , 3 He came with his father, w 1 6 Matthe Grant, to W indsor, in 35 . He was f ‘ ” made 1 8 free at the General Court, May , 6 w 1 . 54 Matthe Grant gave his lands, without bourids W 1 6 the east of indsor, in February 74, ’ 75 to his sons Samuel and J ohn . Samuel Grant

settled, about this time, on these lands which are situated on the little eminence in the rear of the

East W indsor Theological Institute . This is the old homestead of th e Grants and is still in

the possession of the family, being the residence W S m 2 of Major Frederic illiam Grant. a uel 4 P ort e r W 2 married Mary f of indsor, May 7,

1 65 8 .

l‘ ' i t

S G w as r n N 1 2 1 6 1 D or amuel rant Bo e , ovember ye , 3 , in He was m s . 2 1 6 8 . che ter arried to Mary Porter, May 7, 5 His s n S G a was A r e ll 20 on amuell r nt Borne , p , i t as at it s are as ar e as

S G was A fille D e s e mbe r 6 amuel rant married to nna y, , ’Q i H s A was S 2 1 68 . daughter nna born eptembre , 4 l Con r ibuted b H on H Tr umbu l. t y . 17. . D th e i wh o w as aughter of above ment oned John Porter , He i a prominent man of ancient Wind s or ( Stile s) . d ed in 1 648 h is name doe s not appear therefore in the li s t of free

M D . C 1 0 . s s . men given on page 5 John Bli Porter, , of oven G alo o ene Gen. r a gy f G nt .

2 Th e Children of Samuel Grant and Mary f his wi e, were 6 8 SA M EL . A 2 0 1 6 d. 8 1 1 0 . I st , U b pril , 59 ; May , 7 ; m

De c. 6 1 68 A 1 8 1 686 In. Hannah Filley , , 3 who died pril , ;

2 d M . , Grace inor ” h . 2 1 66 . l In A 1 6 . 7, Jo n , b pril 4, 4 ; d Ju y 95 ; June 5 , “ - 1 6 0 z S i . 1 6 0 1 . 9 , Eli abeth k nner, and had John , b March 3, 9

S . 2 2 1 666 . H C 8 . , Matthew, b ep t , , m annah hapman ,

6 0 . O ct . 1 1 , 9 " s of s of f in 9 , Jo iah , the progenitor mo t the Grant amily

C . 1 1 668 w as . . Eastern onnecticut ; b March 9, at E W in

S 1 6 2 8 1 693 ; removed to tonington 95 or 6 ; d . March ,

' S 6 6 o 1 2 m . 8 1 . f 73 arried at July , 9 , Rebecca , dau Ephrai m “ H A s and annah ( very) Minor, and had Jo iah , ’ h - and S e . . 1 1 6 . Minor ; d Jan 5 , 74 7, aged 75 ’ 1 0 N . A 1 1 6 2 In. 1 6 1 68 , athaniel , b pril 4, 7 ; May , 9,

Bethiah Warner . s 1 . . 2 1 6 . 1 , Mary , b Jan 3, 75 " 1 2 S . . 1 1 6 8 . , arah , b Jan 9, 7 “ In. A 1 0 S 1 A . . . 3, bigail , pril 7 4, Dr Mather

D T MUEL THIR GENERA I ON . 6. SA 3 R N T G A , was born at the home of the Pioneer

20 1 6 . i n Windsor, April , 5 9 H e died M ay The his 8 1 1 0 . , 7 inscription on tombstone,

i t r C . S U . S A . e t o t s y, onn late urgeon , an abl contr butor hi is s T s s work , a great grand on of homa Porter, the fir t of the C was s on S Had name in oventry, who the of amuel Porter, of H S a l s R s ley and annah t n ey, de cended from John Porter and o e , ,

i s . G l was s h s wife , of Wind or eneral Peter Bue l Porter al o probably a de s cendant from John Porter . ‘ - oab . . 1 1 0 6 111 . R h ad in N , b Jan 3, 7 5 ; achel and , N orth Stonington

N b . Oct . 1 0 s o t is was a favor ite one oah , 9, 73 , that h name

H n H . s o . . T. in both branche of the family . 7

lo o enea Gen Gr ant . G gy f .

“ 2 0 . Au 1 1 0 1 , Grace , b g. 7, 7 . ‘ 2 1 . . 1 0 1 0 111 . . 2 1 1 2 Eli , David , b Dec , 7 3 ; Dec , 7 7, z abeth Chapman . “ O t 6 2 2 C z . c . 1 0 s s , aptain Ebene er , b 7 ; re ided at Ea t

s N ov 1 0 1 A s . Fe b. 1 Wind or ; m . . , 7 37 , nne Ell worth who d ,

6 1h s of . 1 0 in C . 79 , 9 year ; cho en aptain E W military com ’ “ ‘ ’ s 1 2 A z panic 75 , children , nna ; Eunice , Ebene er , Rebekah , * 5 6 C s . 1 . . 1 1 8 fa aptain Ro well , b March 9, 74 , d Dec 3 , 34, ’ of o . H ther f Major Frederic William Grant , E W . ill ; 5 s Anne Eunice .

R — 1 O H FOU RTH GENE AT I ON 7 . N A " R NT G A , was born at the homestead in East J W e c 1 6 1 6 2 . D . 1 2 indsor, , 9 He married une ,

1 1 D ec . 1 6 6 7 7, Martha Huntington , born 9, 9 , daughter of J ohn and Abigail ( Lathrop) Hunt in ton h f g , of Norwic , Connecticut, a amily which has had several distinguished In ’ os S s R w as s s (J . pencer egiment) , and in ervice , near Bo ton

D e c 1 1 s s . C Hon until . 7 , 775 , 7 month 5 day ontributed by .

H . T . J . rumbull C R s l G s s was aptain o wel rant of Ea t Wind or, one of the s s s th e commi arie of brigade of continental army, appointed C is O 1 80 s by the onnecticut Leg lature in ctober, 7 , and erved - s . He was s s A two year al o Pay Ma ter and Judge dvocate . H e s s s r s received a pen ion for uch e vice from the government . He h is C G and father, aptain Ebenezer rant, were graduate s Y C l s s of ale o lege and were prominent men in Ea t Wind or . F d G w as D 1 2 1 Major re eric William rant born ecember , 797, He h as and is the younge s t of eight Children . only one

r . . G s s Con brothe alive , Mr P Winthrop rant, who re ide in ne aut O is s -fi ve s a e , hio, and eventy year of g Samue l H s fin s f was T untington , a de cendant of amily, one of the firs t Supreme Court Judge s and S econd G overnor of “ H s O . G hio overnor untington u ed to call on my father, - ” s s C be s s . esse ixty four year ago , and they laimed to cou in f7

s H s s G E s . N e Y R . Gr ant E . S w C , q eth a ting rant, q , of ork ity, ‘ is s s G s is de cended from Jo iah rant , who e family mentioned s H G s s . S . . s is in the Hi tory of Wind or . Mr rant de cent in s se 6 A s 8 the line , (4) Jo iah , (5) Increa , ( ) William , (7) ahel , ( ) ” Stil s W ndsor e i . . 61 5 . S e th Ha s tin s . n alo e e o G n r ant . G gy f e . G 1 69

1 1 April , 7 3, lots were set out, by the committee W d and of the town of in sor to Noah Grant, others in Tolland . He had gone to Tolland to 1 1 8 reside as early as the beginning of 7 , per haps half a year earlier. He was one of th e se ’ ’ 1 22 2 2 leetmen of the new town in 7 , 4 and 5 . 1 6 He died Oct. , “ Th e and children of Noah Grant , Mary his wife were " 2 PT O H 1 2 1 1 8 6 C . N . N ov 1 3 , A A , b July , 7 ; m . . 5 , 74 , Sus o annah Delan . ’

2 A . . 2 1 2 1 . 4, doniram , b Feb 7 , 7 s 2 S 2 1 2 t he C 5 , Lieut. olomon , b . Jan . 9 , 7 3, joined rown

w as s Point Expedition , killed on a couting party, near Wil 6 liamstown ss 2 1 see 1 8 . , Ma , about June 5 , 7 5 , page 5 " 6 - m 1 26 2 . . , Ma ba , b June 9 . 7

T G N T N — A P FI F H E ERA I O 23 . C 5 ’ T I N N O H R N T A A G A was born at Grant s H ill ,

T 1 2 1 1 8 . in olland , Connecticu t, July , 7 H e

N o 1 6 S v . married 5 , 74 , usannah , daughter of D * T Jonathan elano , of olland, a descendant D e N from Philip La oye , who came to Ply in 1 62 1 L e de ns ' mouth , from y l H e removed 1 about 7 5 0 to the adj oining town of Coventry . H e and his brother Solomon j oined the e x p e dition against Crown Point in 1 7 5 5 . H e was u S the comrade of P tnam , tark, and Rodgers ,

* The Hon C s D H s . olumbu elano , late member of the ou e of R s s In C ss O is s d s epre entative ongre , from hio , a de cen ant of thi

. esse R. Gr a nt Es family 7 , q. Se e 1 61 f page . 9 lo o 1 0 enea Gen r ant . 7 G gy f . G

at Lake George . He served with great dis tinction , and was promoted to a captaincy . H e was killed while out with a scouting party 6 . 20 1 . from Fort William H enry, Sep t , 75 5 T he children of Captain N o ah Grant and Susannah were

2 . PTA IN O H . 2 1 8 . C N 0 I st M r . 7 A A b June , 74 ; m , s

An ds she d m 2nd na Richar on ; die , and then he . , Rachel

Kelly . 2 8 . Peter .

XT N T N —2 CA P SI H GE E RA I O . 7 . 6 T I N N O H R N T o T a A A G A was b rn in oll nd, e 20 1 8 Connecticut, Jun , 74 he died at Mays

. 1 1 8 1 . ville, Kentucky, Feb 4 , 9 H e married, * first, Mrs . Anna ( Buell ) Richardson, and after her decease , which was about the year 1 8 1 8 8 W 7 7 or 7 , he married, in estmoreland 1 2 R County, Pennsylvania, M arch 4 , 7 9 , achel D e e r fi e ld 1 0 Kelly . She died in , Ohio , April ,

I 80 5 . Captain Grant enlisted at the first call for t troops for Lexington , and served through mos 1 0 of the revolution . H e removed about 7 9 W to estmoreland county, Pennsylvania ; after d war to Liverpool , Columbiana county, and D e e r fie ld again to , Portage County, in the

O f State Ohio .

Probably descended from the pioneer William Buell at

s his son s e S s r se e 1 06 . Wind or Peter ettl d in im bu y, page

G Gr ant . 1 7 2 Genealogy of en. and has three children by his first wife ; favored the rebel lion ; still living. ’

S . 1 0 1 80 111 . m T 37 . Rachel B . b . ept , 3 ; Willia omp

s 0 s and s s kin about 4 year ago , ettled in We t Virginia , at

s . T s d Charle ton , on the Kanawha River ; Mr ompkin ied

rs his w f d t he 1 2 yea ago , leaving i e wealthy , with eight chil ren , youngest of age ; all favored secession ; she lost by the war ; she is still living.

N TH N T 2. SEV E GE E RA I O N . 3 ’ ESSE O OT R NT 2 1 J R G A was born January 3 , 794, n in Westmoreland county, Pe nsylvania, near

Greensburg, and twenty miles above Pittsburg, d o n the Monongahela Ri ver . H e was name i for the H on . Jesse Root Chief Just ce of the

Superior Co u rt of Connecticut . H e married 2 1 8 2 1 H annah Simpson June 4, , at Point H e Pleasant, Clermont county, Ohio . man n aged a tan ery at Point Pleasant, Georgetown ,

and other places in Ohio , and, finally, was inter

e st e d in a leather store at Galena, I llinois .

s 60 H e retired from busine s at years of age , A l and resides now at Covington, Kentucky . in 6t h though he is his 7 year, he is still

healthy and active, and has been , for more

- Co than three years , the post master of y u n l gto , having the charge of a first class post-oth ee i n a city numbering about thirty

thousand inhabitants . nealo o Gen. r ant Ge gy f G . 1 73

7 The children of Jesse Root Grant , and

H annah, his wife, are 8 8 . S ON A 2 N A U SS S S . 3 GE ER L LY E IMP , b pril 7, f 8 8 ulia B . r o C 8 2 2 111. A u . 2 2 I d 1 ; g , 4 , J , daughte olonel Fre

of St . s ss . erick Dent, Loui , Mi ouri

S s . S . 2 1 2 l . S 8 39 amuel imp on, b ept 3 , 5 ; an excel ent

s s as m man , well known in the ea tern citie the model erchant

S . 1 1 861 of . s Galena d in Minne ota ept 3, . “ 8 2 8 . 6 1 86 0. C . . . 1 1 1 . 4 lara B b Dec , ; d March , 5

1 . . . 20 1 8 2 . Ma 1 4 Virginia Paine, b Feb , 3 , m y 3,

1 86 Hon. A n C o f N e w Cit . 9, bel Rathbo e orbin , York y 8

2. O nch . 1 1 8 m . d 4 rville Ly b May 5 , 35 , Mary M e ary ,

A 1 8 and s C pril, 5 7 ; a leather addlery merchant at hicago , 9 ’ s has f H S s ss Illinoi our children , arry , imp on , Je e Root and Virginia

. s y 0 1 8 . Nov. 1 86 43 Mary France ; b Jul 3 , 39 , m 3,

C is ns s the Rev . M . J . reamer ; he the co ul at Leip ic , Ger m has C a i ni . any he one young child , lar V rgi a

T N T N - G EN E I GH H GE E RA I O . 3 8 . 8 ER A L U LY SSES S I M PSO N G R A N T was born 2 1 8 2 2 April 7 , , at Point Pleasant, Clermont

. 2 2 1 8 8 County, Ohio He married Aug. , 4 , D Julia B . daughter of Colonel Frederick ent, ' of t he ancie nt family of that name fr om White T h e haven , M aryland . family had an old home in Maryland, which was granted to his D ancestors by K ing Charles . Colonel ent, - now eighty ohe years of age, is living with S n U . General Grant at Washi gton . lysses Grant was entered a cadet at the M ilitary A c

m t h I nf. ade 1 8 t . . y, in 39, . Sec Lieut 4 July Gen. r a t 1 74 Genealogy of G n .

6 ’ 1 1 8 . 1 8 8 t . , 43 In M exican War, 4 , 4 ,

S . 8 1 8 First Lieut . , for Molino del Rey, ept , 47 ,

t . . S . 1 1 8 Capt for Chapultepec, ept 3 , 47 ,

1 8 . 2 I s t resigned as Captain 54 Colonel Ills . , V U . 1 1 861 . . . . 1 June 7, , Brig Gen S ols May 7 , V D U . S. . 1 861 . . , Maj Gen ols for Fort onelson , U S J 1 6 1 862 . . . . Feb . , , Maj Gen Army, uly 4,

1 86 V . . U . S. . 3 , for icksburg, Lieut Gen A March

2 1 86 . S , 4, Battle of Chattanooga urrender of

. . 1 86 Lee at Appomattox C H April 9, 5 .

* N A L UN T STAT S A M 2 1 866. GE ER I ED E R Y, July 5 , P R E S I D E N T O F T H E

U N T D T T S I E S A E .

CII 1 86 . MAR 4, 9

The children of General U lysses Simpson 8 Grant and Julia his wife, are 9 d . 0 1 8 0 Vl est 44, Fre erick Dent b May 3 , 5 ; a cadet at

Point . ” S m s o m U ss s f s . 45 , ly e i p on , an amiable youth uch promi e “ 6 s . 4 , Ellen , an intere ting daughter ““ ss s s of 47 , Je e Root, decidedly the mo t promi ing the ” - f his f s s. amily, grand ather ay

* G eorge Wa shington w as the only citizen of the United State s

s s G G s has d . be ide eneral rant, upon whom thi title been conferre - Se e G ~ Scott received no higher title than Lieutenant G eneral . ard ’ m c iona r o Ar Di t . F r s s G e n se e s . G ner y y the ervice of rant, ’ ‘ M i lit Aca de h on. R A 5 Re r T e . Cullum g r Qf a y my . H ichard S t C rs Wheeler, of toning on , onnecticut, prepared the fi t entire genealogy of the family of G eneral G rant which w as revis ed b

D Es . of s s In G e ne ay John Ward ean, q Bo ton, and publi hed the

’ 1 G 6 Gen. r ant s I nau ur al 7 g .

s A s s year , which preceding dmini tration have never had to deal

. s is s s a r e with In meeting the e, it de irable that they hould be pp ciat e d s calmly, without prejudice, hate, or ectional pride, remem bering that the greatest good to the greatest number is the object

. T s s s ur s to be attained hi require ec ity of per on and property, and for religiou s and political opinion in every part of our com

A ll s mon country without regard to local prejudice . law to s s s ff s ecure thi end will receive my be t e ort for their enforcement .

A gr eat debt h as been contracted in securing to u s and our

s U Th e s s po terity the nion . payment of thi principal and intere t, as well as the return to a specie basis as soon as it can be ac

m s ss co pli hed , without material detriment to the debtor cla or to

s the country at large, mu t be provided for .

To ~ protect the national honor, every dollar of the Govern

ss s ss s ment indebtedne hould be paid in gold, unle otherwi e

ss s s h expre ly tipulated in the contract . Let it be under tood t at no

e pudiat or of one farthing of our public debt will be trusted in

s s public place , and it will go far toward trengthening a credit

s i which ought to be the be t in the world, and will ult mately enable u s to replace the debt with bonds bearing less interest than

To s s f we now pay . thi hall be added a faith ul collection of the revenue ; a strict accounta b ility to the T reasury for every dollar

s r ex endi collected , and the greate t practicable ret enchment in p tures in every department of Government .

When we compare the paying capacity of the country now,

S s s ff s with ten tate till in poverty from the e ect of the war, but s s s oon to emerge, I tru t, into greater pro perity than ever before,

it s t -fi ve s with paying capacity twen y year ago, and calculate what

t -five s it probably will be twen y year hence, who can doubt the feasibility of paymg every dollar then with more case than we

s ss s P s as now pay for u ele luxurie Why, it look though Provi

s u s s s s dence had be towed upon a trong box, the preciou metal

s s s locked up in the terile mountain of the far We t, which we ’ G n a I nau al e . r nt s u G g r . 1 77

are now forging the key to unlock, to meet the very contingency that is now upon us .

Ultimately it may be necessary to increase the facilities to

s s ss s reach the e riche , and it may be nece ary al o that the G eneral

G s it s s s ss overnment hould give aid to ecure thi acce . But that should only be when a dollar of obligation to pay secures pre

i l s s se c se u . y the ame ort of dollar in now, and not before

s S s is While the que tion of pecie payment in abeyance, the pru dent business man is careful about contracting debts payable in

s S s A s the di tant future ; the nation hould follow the ame rule . pro

is s s trate commerce to be rebuilt, and all indu trie encouraged . — T he young men of the country those who form this age and

- — must be rulers twenty five years hence have a peculiar interest

’ i A s in maintaining the nat onal honor . moment reflection upon what will be our commanding influence among the nation s of

s s s the earth in their day, if they are only true to them elve , hould A s . ll s s in pire them with national pride divi ion , geographical ,

s s . political , and religiou , can join in the common entiment

How is s s the public debt to be paid, or pecie payment re umed , is not so important as that a plan should be adopted and acqui e sce d A is in . united determination to do worth more than

s s s divided coun el upon the method of doing . Legi lation on

s s ss s thi ubject may not be nece ary now, nor even advi able, but it will be when the civil law is more fully restored in all parts of

u s s it s s the co ntry, and trade re ume wonted channel . It will be

s my endeavor to execute all law in good faith , to collect all

s ss ss s s . revenue a e ed, and to have them properly di bur ed I will,

s f s to the be t of my ability, appoint to o fice only tho e who will carry out this design .

s as In regard to foreign policy, I would deal with nation

i s s equitable law requ re individual to deal with each other, and I

- would protect the law abiding citizen, whether of native or of

t h e hi of foreign bir h , w erev r s rights are jeopardized or the flag 8 * ’ ant s nau ur al Gen. Gr I g .

s s s all s our country float . I would re pect the right of nation , demanding equal respect for our own . If others depart from

s us f thi s rule in their dealing with , we may be compelled to ollow their precedent .

h s T e proper treatment of the original occupant of the land ,

s is s s . the Indian , one de erving of careful con ideration I will

s s favor any cour e toward them which tend to their civilization,

Christianization and ultimate citizenship .

T he question of Suffrage is one which is likely to agitate th e public so long as a port ion of the citizens of the nation are ex

s cluded from it s privileges in any State . It eem s to me very

s s s s s de irable that thi que tion hould be ettled now, and I enter tain the h Ope and express the desire that it may be by the rat ifi

f A C s cation of the Fi teenth mendment to the on titution .

conclusion I ask f In , patient orbearance one toward another,

ff t h throughout the land , and a determined e ort on e part of every

C his s a i itizen to do hare tow rd cement ng a happy union , and I ask the prayers of the nation to A lmighty G od in behalf of this happy consummation .

1 80 I ndex .

C 6 1 . s Re v. T m rown Point, 3 , 4 Edward , i othy, l d I . 1 1 . Dar ing Jede iah , 5 5 4 N i 1 . s 1 0 . Dart athan el, 5 5 Eggle ton Begat, 5

C 2 . s C f s 1 0 Davenport, aptain , 3 Ell worth , hie Ju tice , 7, s d 1 1 2 8. Davi Richar , 5 5 .

s 8 . h s s 1 0 1 0 . Day Lewi , 5 Ell wort Jo iah, 5 , 7

Dee rfi eld 8 6 . s m T s 1 . , 5 , 4 Ell worth ho a , 5 5

1 62 . m 1 0 . Delano Jonathan , 35 , El ore Edward , 5 S s A s R . 2 1 1 I . Delano u annah, 35 , 44, Eno mo , , 37

1 6 . s 1 0 1 0 9 Eno , Jame , 5 , 9 .

N h 1 6 1 s 1 De La oye P ilip , 35 , , Eno Phelp , 37 .

6 . 1 . 1 1 2 . 9 Eno Gen Roger,

s H 1 air chil 0 . d C 1 6 1 Den low enry, 5 F aleb, .

s w N s . 1 Den lo ichola , 99 Farmington River, 33 .

‘ C k 1 1 Dent, olonel Frederic , 73. Filley Daniel , 5 5 .

B. 1 . H 2 8 1 66 1 6 . Dent Julia , 73 Filley annah , , , 7

z 2 S 1 0 6. Dibble Ebene er, 4. Filley amuel , T s 1 0 1 . 1 0 . Dibble homa , 5 , 5 3 Filley William , 5

s . s . Die kau, Baron , 37, 43 Fire Land , 5 4

s 1 0 . Diver Daniel, 59 . Fi h William , 5

A 1 . 2 1 1 . Dodge lexander , 5 5 Fitch John , 4, 3

1 . . s 1 0 1 1 . Dodge John , 5 5 Fitch, Mr Jo eph , 5 , 3 I Ion. . . M Dodge, William E Fitch, Lieut edina, 43, 6 1 . 1 4 . 5 5

s 8 1 2 C 80 Dorche ter, , 9, . Foote, ommodore, .

1 6 1 1 0 T s 1 0 . Drake Jacob, , 9, 5 . Ford homa , 99, 5

1 s 8 . Dunham David, 5 5 . Fro t Green , 5 he 2 1 T 1 . Dutch , 3 Fuller Lot, 5 5 le r I O Dyer George, 99 . Fy Walter, 5 .

s m n 1 68 . Ea t an Jonatha , 5 7. Galena,

2 1 . G aIIO C 2 . Eaton William , 3 , 5 5 p, aptain , 3

l . Edward Fort, 39, Gal op , Mr . 99 1 C 2 4 . Gardner, aptain , 3

s . h . s . s 1 . Edward , Rev Jonat an , D . D Gate , Lieut Jo iah , 5 5

1 1 0 . Gaylord William , 99 , 5 I nd x e . 8 1

6 . 2. Georgetown, 7 Grantown , 9

s s . G e n. U ss s S. Gibb Gile , 99 Grant, ly e , 3,

s 1 0 . 1 Gibb Jacob, 5 7 3, 7 3 .

s . s Gibb Michael, 59 Green burg, 5 3 .

1 0 . 1 1 Gillette Jonathan , 5 Gregory Eliphalet, 4a

0 2. Hon . . S. 1 1 Glenelg, Baron, 4, 9 , 9 Gregory, . , D 4 G le nm ri n 8 ffi o st o . 1 06. , 7 Gri n John ,

Ca 2 . s W A 1 1 . Gorham , ptain , 3 Gri wold lmon . , 4

ss B. 1 1 . s s 1 1 Granni George , 4 Gri wold Bi hop , 4.

. s 1 1 1 1 Grant, Lieut . Benoni, 49 Gri wold Edward , 3, 4.

C s 1 . s s 1 1 . Grant a tle , 9 Gri wold Franci , 3

s C of 8 . s 1 1 0 Grant , lan , 5 Gri wold George , 5 , 5 ,

C . z 1 1 1 . Grant, apt Ebene er , 3 , 4

6 1 68 . s 1 1 1 1 3 , 39 , Gri wold Matthew , 3, 4,

C . 1 . 1 6 . Grant, apt Ephraim , 7 49 W . . . 1 1 68 . s N L. 1 1 . Grant, Maj F , 3 , Gri wold athaniel , 4 ’ H 1 s . s 1 1 Grant ill , 3 Gri wold , Gov . Roger, 4.

. s H 2 . Grant, Gen Jame , 94. adley , 4

ss . H C N 8 Grant Je e , 49 ale , apt. athan , 4 .

ss H S 6 1 2 . 1 . Grant Je e Root , 3, 7 all olomon, 5 5

T he 0 . H T 1 0 Grant John , Bard , 9 all imothy , 5 .

6 1 H H s 8 . Grant Matthew , 3, , 3, arlem eight , 4

2 1 00 1 0 1 06 H 1 . 5 , 99, , 5 , , atch David , 5 5

. H 1 0 1 6 1 1 6. 3 ayden Daniel , 5 ,

H z H . 1 1 N 0 2 1 68 . . Grant oah , 3 , 3 , ayden Jabe , 7

I. d . C . N H 1 1 6. Grant, apt oah , . 35 , ay en Lieut Levi ,

2 1 1 . H N 1 1 6 . 39, 4 , 45 , 5 5 , 9 ayden athaniel , 7 ’

S S. . I . H C . 1 1 8 C N I . Grant, apt oah , , 44, ayden , apt am l ,

6 1 0 . H 1 1 . 45 , 4 , 7 ayden William , 4

s 6 . H s 1 0 . C . 1 Grant, apt Ro well , 9 ayne , 4

S 2 6 2 8 1 6 H 1 0 . Grant amuel , , , 5 , ayward Robert, 5

H . 1 66. 1 06 ill Luke ,

6. H . S H s s 1 68 . Grant . a ting , illyer, Gen , 7

S 6 H 1 . Grant, Lieut . olomon, 3 , inckley Ichabod , 55

61 1 6 1 . H 1 0 . 43, 45 , , 5 , 5 9 olcombe Benajah, 5 H e s 1 06. s Sir 6 8 olcomb Jo hua, John on William , 3 , 3 , H T s 8 . 1 1 1 6. olcombe homa , 5 H . F. . 1 0 olcombe , W , M D , Kelly Rachel , 5 3, 7 .

1 1 8 . d 2 Kenne y , Lieut . , 4 .

H s 1 0 . i 1 6. olme William , Kilbourn El j ah, 5 H The s . H z 1 . ome tead , Grant, 94 Kilbourn e ekiah , 5 5 H s The H H 1 ome tead , ayden , Kimball annah , 60 .

9 7 . Kirby Ephraim , 5 5 . H s The s . C 8 . ome tead , Loomi , 97 Knowlton , olonel , 4

H 8 1 . A s 1 0 ood , General , Laud rchbi hop , 5 . H 1 0 . ooker, 4 Leighton Dr Edward , H o o suc 1 . 1 0 . , 5 7 5

H sf 1 0 . s . 1 o ord John, 5 Leven , Lieut John , 5 7 .

H s m s A 1 0 . s 1 . o kin nthony, 5 Lewi Benja in , 5 5

H s s s . 1 6. o kin John , 99 . Lewi William J , 5 H owe , General , 47 . Lexington , 45 .

H S . oyt imon , 99 . Liverpool , 54

Hu 1 is H z B. 1 2 1 bbard Benjamin, 5 5 . Loom e ekiah , .

H s 1 s H G . 1 2 2 ubbard Eli ha , 5 5 . Loomi oratio , .

H . s s C . 1 2 2 . ull , 7 Loomi Jame ,

H r s 1 6 1 0 1 2 0 M . . ull , , 99 Loomi John , , 5 , , H s 1 06 1 . umphrey Michael , , 5 3

Col. M . 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 6 . s . , 4 Loomi , John ,

6 1 0 m s . s 1 H s 1 6. unt Jame , 5 Loo i , Mr Jo eph , , 5 ,

H C s 0 . 1 1 . untington hri topher, 3 9

H s s s 2 . untington , Gen . Jedediah , Loomi Mo e , 3

0 . s N 2 1 0 3 Loomi athaniel, 7, 5 .

2 s s 1 2 . Huntington John , 3 . Loomi Phinea , 3

H r 0 1 68 . s 1 6. untington Ma tha, 3 , Luce Jo eph , 5

H 1 . 8 1 0 1 1 . untington Peter, 5 5 Ludlow Roger, 9 , 3, 3

H . S 6. untington , Gov amuel , Lyman Fort, 3

0 60 1 68 . 6 8 . 3 , , Lyman , General , 3 , 3

S C . 1 0 . s C 2 . f. . John on , aptain , 3 Lyman , Pro , 9

6. s i 1 . N 1 John on Dav d , 5 5 Lyon oah , 5

W . l . 6. s S m . M cCle lan John on a uel , 5 5 , Gen , 7

1 I nde 84 x .

R s . . 1 1 . fu Phelps Guy , 35 , 39 Putnam , General Ru , 5 7

' s H F 1 Abraham I o6. Phelp ector, 35 . Randall , I 1 1 s 6 . Phelp . , 3 . Ravenna, 4

s s N . 1 1 s 1 6 Phelp I aac , 4 . Read Jo hua , 5 .

s ff O 1 I I I Phelp Je ery . , 34. Reeve Robert, .

6 s 2 1 0. s . 1 A Phelp John J , 3 . Richard on nna , 5 , 7

6 1 2 . en C . s s 1 0 s . G Phelp Jo eph , , 3 Robin on , Maj . John ,

s . N 1 . 1 2 Phelp , Gen oah , 34 4.

s N A 1 1 06 Phelp oah . , 34. Rockwell John , .

“ s O s 1 Phelp liver , 5 5 . Rockwell Jo eph , 3 .

s 1 . s 1 2 . Phelp Royal , 43 Rockwell Jo iah , 3 , 3

s S 1 8 0 Phelp amuel , . Rockwell Ruth, 3 . i s . 1 S 2 Phelp , Mr Will am , 7, 99, Rockwell amuel , 3 .

S s I 1 0 1 0 . 0 . 5 , 3 Rockwell u annah, 3, 3 l 1 s 1 . Phelp W . Walter, 39 Rockwe l William , 3,

n 2 2 1 00 . Philip Ki g, . 99,

s 1 0 d s C . . Philip George , 5 . Ro ger , apt Robert, 37

s 6. H I o . s 1 Pinney umphrey , 5 Roger Jo eph , 5

Hon. ss 6 1 1 s 1 6. . Pinney Jo iah , 5 Root, Je e, 3 , 7

S 1 06. . Pinney amuel , Root, Rev Marvin, 45 ,

I I I 1 8 . Pitkin William , . 5

s 6 f s 1 6. Point Plea ant, 5 . Root Ru u , 5

N 2 . ss . 1 . Pond athaniel, 4 Ro iter, Dr Bray , 3

0 ss M r . 8 . Eltwood 1 6. Pomeroy , 99, Ro iter, , 9

T s 1 06. P o uonnoc 1 . w q , 33 Ro ley homa ,

1 6. H z 2 . ss Porter e ekiah, 3 Ru Daniel , 5

1 6 S . 2 . Porter John , 5 . avage, Lieut , 3

ss M D I 6 . S 2 Porter John Bli , . . , 5 axton Richard , 4 ’ S s C S . 1 6 1 6 . Porter Mary, 4, 5 cot haritable ociety , 5

B S 1 . Porter, Gen . Peter . , 34, cott, General , 74

1 66 S A 1 6. . covell bner, 5

1 60 S fi of 8 0 Price Martha , . ea eld , Earl , 4, 5 , 9 ,

1 1 1 2 . P rynne William , 5 . 9 , 9

Is S C 2 1 1 . Putnam rael, 35 , 37, 39, eeley, aptain , 3, 5

S 1 1 . 6 8 . 43, 4 , 47, 4 ehat, 7, 33 Ind ex . 1 85

6 Senchon N s 1 0 . S 20 1 06. ichola , trong John , ,

Se uassen I . S O z s 1 6 1 . q , 33 trong ia ,

Se S 1 6. S i s 1 61 y olomon , 5 trong Ph nea , .

S s 1 2 . S 1 06 heldon Phelp , 4 trong Return , .

S 1 0 . S s Sir 8 herman , 4 tuyve ant, Peter, 9 , 80 2 S . 1 . herman , General , 3

S 1 . S H s 8 . hield John , 5 5 ugar ou e , 4

S s 1 6. S 2 imon Jame , 5 wan , Lieut . , 3 . T m s H 6 1 2 . S C 1 6. i p on annah , 5 , 7 alcott aleb, 5 6 1 06 1 2 T S s 1 t S 1 6. im bury , , , 9 , alcot amuel , 5 T H on. . 1 2 . 8 3 appan , Benj , 5 . T S A . n t on s 1 6. kinner braham , 49 atti- g Jame , 5

66. T S S s 1 1 1 06. kinner Jo eph , aylor tephen , 9,

Slaft e r A 2 . T s . nthony, 3 elemachu , 7 5

T . 1 . M r 8 . S C . lap , apt John , 5 7 erry , 9 T S M r . . 1 06. mith , , 99 erry John ,

6. S 1 T Z 1 6. mith George, 5 hayer ephaniah, 5

S C . T s 8 1 . outhwark hurch , 7 homa , General , W 1 6. T S s s 1 0 6. park Jo eph , 5 hrall illiam ,

i . 1 6. T s S s s 8 . tark , L eut John , 4 , 43, 4 ibbal Mo e , 5

St C T 0 . . lair, General , olland , 3 , 45

S s o d 6 . 1 1 1 . T tedman Jame , Judge , 4

S 1 0 T s 1 . teele, 4. ubb Benjamin, 55

T u s 1 6. S S . teel , Rev . tephen , 33 cker I aac , 5

T O 1 06. S s z . tile , Rev . E ra , LL D . udor wen ,

T he 1 . 1 4 . T is 7 unx , 33

T 2 . S s H 1 06. tile enry , reat, Major , 3

T of 8 . S s H R . M . D 1 . tile enry , 47 rough , Race the , 7 6 T 1 . S s 1 0 6 1 6. tile John , , 4 ryon George, 5 '

'

St okes ame s 1 T n . 2 . J , 4 y g, Lieut , 3

S 1 0 . U . 2 . tone , 4 pham , Lieut , 3

U r uahar t 8 . S M r . toughton , , 99 . q , 7

S T s 1 6 2 1 06. toughton homa , , 7 , Vore Richard , W allabout 8 . 1 06. , 4

S s 86. . A s . trath pey , Ward , Gen rtema , 47 1 86 d x I n e .

r 8 . M . 1 s 1 06 Warham , Rev , , 4, William John, .

1 06 1 26. s A z 1 8 99, , Will ariah, 5 .

s 1 6 s S 1 . Warner I rael , 5 . Will olomon , 5 5 hi W as n t on G ene ral 1 . S s 1 6. g , , 47, 74 Willoughby ylvanu , 5

Z l 1 6. s T s 1 . Waterman ebu on , 5 Wil on homa , 5 7 l N 1 06 s 1 06. . Wat on Robert, Winchel athan ,

s C 2 s 1 0 1 . Watt , aptain , 3 . Wind or, , 3

- C s . 1 Webb , olonel , 49 . Win low , Maj Gen , 4 . - N 1 . s M a . s Webb athan , 5 5 Win low , j Gen Jo iah ,

s im 1 6. 2 Well Ephra , 5 3.

I d 1 Witchfi ld 0 s 6 e 1 6. Well chabo , 5 . John ,

s S 1 6 H. 1 . Well amuel , 5 . Wolcott Frederick , 49

of Wish— - s 2 t H 8 1 0 Wept ton Wi h , 4. Wolcot enry , 9 , 4,

s s 1 1 1 1 06 1 . We tover Jame , . , 47 W s H. 1 . s 68. We t Point , olcott Jo hua , 49

T 1 . O 1 6 . . Wheeler imothy , 5 Wolcott, Gov liver, 49

C 2 . 1 1 1 White, aptain , 3. Wolcott, Gov Roger , ,

s 6 1 2 8 1 8 . White Eye , 5 . , 4

U s 1 1 6. . White Jacob, 5 Wolcott r ula , 49

d O E. 1 0 . 6. White , Rev . John , Woo liver , 9 '

W . i C 8 1 Re v M r . 1 Whit ng, olonel , 3 , 5 7. oodbridge , , 4,

N 1 1 . 1 26. Wilcox Eben . , 4

0 1 1 s C 1 . . B. . . Wilcox, Gen , 4 Woo ter, olonel , 39, 5 7 H 8 C 1 2 m . Willia enry Fort, 3 , Yale ollege, 7

1 2 m 1 6. 4 , 4 . Young Willia , 5