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1. Robert Charles Andeson, "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1632" (New England History Genealogical Society, 200):
"MATTHEW GRANT
ORIGIN: Unknown
MIGRATION: 1630
FIRST RESIDENCE: Dorchester
REMOVES: Windsor 1635
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Matthew Grant included himself in his list of those who had been members of the church at Dorchester and remained members of the church after the remove to Windsor.
FREEMAN: 18 May 1631 [MBCR 1:366]. Connecticut freeman at Windsor, 11 October 1669 [CCCR 2:519].
EDUCATION: His inventory included "books and other small things" valued at £1 1s. He kept the Windsor land records from 11 January 1659[/60] (or earlier), and left behind a number of manuscripts recording Windsor events.
OFFICES: Fenceviewer for West Field in Dorchester, 24 May 1634; committee to lay out Great Lots, 17 April 1635; committee to lay out lot to Israel Stoughton, 2 November 1635.
Connecticut grand jury, 7 December 1654. Juryman, 5 March 1644[/5], 2 March 1647[/8], December 1651, 7 September 1652, 2 June 1653, May 1656. Petit jury, 7 March 1649/50. Coroner's jury, 7 June 1655. Committee to view a sow's ear, 4 March 1657[/8].
ESTATE: Ordered to build 40 rods of fence in Dorchester, for two cows, 3 April 1633. In a 1643 exchange of land between Christopher Gibson and Nicholas Upsall, one of the parcels transferred to Upsall was "that great lot that was granted Mathew Grant".
At Windsor, upon being given the responsibility of keeping the town land records, he discovered that the page containing his grants had been "rent out and lost by the former register" and on 11 January 1659[/60?] he set about relisting his holdings "adding some more expressions then is to be seen in the country book, yet not to vary from the true quality and quantity": a home lot of six acres "but in time of danger by the Pequet War neighbors desired to join nearer together so as to be capable to make some fortification then he resigned up his home lot for to be divided into small parcels to build upon only reserved a parcel for himself where he had begun building," leaving him one acre. He also was granted three acres swamp or meadow adjoining to the homelot; five acres in the Great Meadow; on the east side of the Great River twenty-three rods in breadth by three miles in length; twenty-three acres for a woodlot in the Norwest Field; and fifty acres of land.
On 15 May 1673 Connecticut court granted "unto Mathew Grant, of Windsor, one hundred acres of land, with the same limitations as land is granted to other persons".
In his will, dated 9 December 1681 and proved 2 March 1681/2, Mathew Grant of Windsor "being aged and under present weakness" indicated that "my son Sammuell my eldest son is already satisfied with the portion I made over to him in land already recorded"; to "my son Tehan" to be paid by "my son John" £5 and any debts "owing to me" that he collects; to "my son John with whom I have lived some time ... all my meadow land in the great meadow, also ... my pasture land lying below the hill against Thomas Dible's home lot and my own, also ... my home lot and orchard with the old housing which I built before he came to dwell on it ... also my wood lot ... in the quarter lots ... also all the rest of my estate, excepting my wearing cloths, my son John shall pay to my son Tehan £5 as is already expressed in my will"; to "my daughter Humferryes as a legacy £5 ... also I give her all my wearing clothes"; "my son John" sole executor [Hartford PD Case #2357].
The inventory of the estate of Mathew Grant, taken 10 January 1681/2, totalled £118 18s. 6d., of which £96 was real estate: "an old house and homestead with a small orchard," £25; "5 acres of meadow and 3 acres of pasture at £6 per acre," £48; and "23 acres of woodland in the norwest field," £23 [Hartford PD Case #2357].
BIRTH: 27 October 1601.
DEATH: Windsor 16 December 1681.
MARRIAGE: (1) 16 November 1625 Priscilla _____; she died at Windsor 27 April 1644, aged 43 years 2 months.
(2) Windsor 29 May 1645 Susanna (Capen) Rockwell, daughter of BERNARD CAPEN and widow of WILLIAM ROCKWELL. She was born 5 April 1602 and died at Windsor 13 November 1666.
CHILDREN:
With first wife
i. PRISCILLA, b. 14 September 1626; m. Windsor 14 October 1647 Michael Humphrey
ii. SAMUEL, b. Dorchester 12 November 1631; m. Windsor 27 May 1658 Mary Porter.
iii. TAHAN, b. Dorchester 3 February 1633[/4]; m. Windsor 22 January 1662[/3] Anna Palmer.
iv. MATHEW, d. Windsor 10 September 1639.
v. JOHN, b. Windsor 30 April 1642; m. Windsor 2 August 1666 Mary Hull.
COMMENTS: On 29 May 1640 "mother Mathew Grant died" at Windsor. This is all we know for certain of the ancestry of Matthew Grant. One possible origin which has been proposed in the past for both Matthew Grant and his wife Priscilla was seriously questioned by J. Gardner Bartlett, and in 1948 Marie Tylee McHugh thoroughly disproved the ancestry claimed for Priscilla. In 1975 George E. McCracken discussed the matter further, summarizing the efforts of others who had also rejected the Grant ancestry.
BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE: The best treatment of Matthew Grant was prepared by Frank Farnsworth Starr, and includes a transcript of a personal record of vital events, which has been used frequently above. (This personal record was also published by Stiles [Windsor Hist 2:303-04].) Mary Walton Ferris also treated Matthew Grant [Dawes-Gates 2:370-79]."
2. Manwaring's abstract of Matthew's will (Hartford Probate District, Vol. I, Page 312-3, Probate Vol. IV, Page 88), is:
• Matthew Grant, Windsor. Invt. £118-18-06. Taken Jan. 10, 1681/2, by Thomas Dible sen. and John Loomis. Will dated Dec. 9, 1681.
• I Matthew Grant of Windsor, beinge aged and under present weakness, yet of Competency of understandinge, doe by this declare my Last Will concerning the dispose of my Estate as followeth:
• 1st, I doe declare that my son Samuel, my eldest son, is already satisfied with the portion I made over to him in Lands already recorded to him, and that is my will concerning him.
• 2dly, Concerninge my son Tahan, my will is that he shall have as a legassy, payd to hime in Country paye by my son John, the full some of five pounds, and this to bee payd two yeers after my decease. Alsoe I doe appoynt hime to gather upp all the debts oweinge to me in this towne or elsewhere, and my will is hee my son Tahan shall have them for his owne.
• 3dly, my will is that my son John, with whome I have lived some time, I doe give to hime all my meadow land in the great meadow; also I give to hime my pasture land lyeinge belowe the hill agaynst Thomas Dibles home lott and my owne. Alsoe, I doe give hime, the sayd John, my home lott and orchard with the ould houseinge which I built before hee came to dwell in itt. Alsoe I doe give to hime my wood lott lyeing in the quarter lotts. Alsoe I give to my son John all the rest of my estate exceptinge my wearinge cloathes.
• My son John shall paye to my son Tahan five pounds as is already expressed in my will concerninge hime, at the time and manner afforesayd, and alsoe unto my Daughter Humphreys five pounds in Country pay, two yeers after my decease.
• Alsoe my will is and I doe give my Daughter Humphrey as a Legassy five pownds, to bee payde in country paye two yeers after my decease.
• Alsoe I doe make my son John sole Executor of this my last Will & Testament.
As Witness my Hand:...MATTHEW GRANT. Ls.
Witness: John Loomys senr, Thomas X Dibble.
Court Record, Page 51-Mar. 2, 1681-2: Will proven.
3. Excellent source for the Grant family is "The Grant family: a genealogical history of the descendants of Matthew Grant, of Windsor, Conn. 1601-1898," by Arthur Hastings Grant (Poughskeepsie, NY; 1898), available online at https://archive.org/details/grantfamilygenea00gran/page/n23/mode/2up.
4. Probably the most accurate and documented account of this family is by Frank Farnsworth Starr, "Various ancestral lines of James Goodwin and Lucy (Morgan) Goodwin of Hartford, Connecticut," (Hartford, Conn.: unknown, 1915.) The book is available online at https://ia802609.us.archive.org/7/items/variousancestral01star/variousancestral01star.pdf accessed 18 Sep 2021.
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