Matthew Grant and Susannah Chapin

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Husband Matthew Grant ^{1 2}

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           Born: 27 Oct 1601 - England 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 16 Dec 1681 - Windsor, Hartford Co, CT 3
         Buried: 

       Marriage: 29 May 1645 3

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   Other Spouse: Priscilla [Unk] (      -1644) 3 - 16 Nov 1625 3

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Wife Susannah Chapin ⁴

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            AKA: Susanna Capen,3 Susanna Chapin 3
           Born: 5 Apr 1602 - Dorchester, England 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 14 Nov 1666 - Windsor, Hartford Co, CT 3
         Buried: 

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         Father: Bernard Chapin (      -      ) 5
         Mother: 

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   Other Spouse: Deacon William Rockwell (1593-1640) 1 2 5 - 14 Apr 1624 - England 1 4 5

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Children

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General Notes: Husband - Matthew Grant

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On March 20, 1630, there sailed from Plymouth, England, in the ship "Mary and John," one Matthew Grant, who became the founder in America of this old and honored New England family. He and his family disembarked in Boston Harbor on May 30, 1630. Settlement was first made at Dorchester, Massachusetts, where he was made a freeman, May 18, 1631. In 1636 he went overland to the Connecticut river with that party which prepared for the settlement of Windsor, although his family probably did not move over until the following April. He was a carpenter by trade and was the first and for many years the principal surveyor in his section. He held the office of deacon of the First Church for a number of years; was town clerk from 1652 until 1677; was selectman for several years and in addition thereto held other important local offices. In 1654 he compiled a "Book of Records of Town Ways in Windsor." He was also the compiler of the "Old Church Records," which has furnished the basis of the history of most of the families of ancient Windsor. He was a type of the best settlers at Windsor and left to his descendants an untarnished name and the example of an unswerving fidelity to the public trusts committed to him.

He was an ancestor of General and President Ulysses S. Grant.

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General Notes: Wife - Susannah Chapin

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She may have been the daughter of Bernard Capen (Chapin).

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Notes: Marriage

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They were married May 24. [GPHAV, 748]

1 Editor, Memoirs of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Vol. I (Madison, WI: Northwestern Historical Assosciation, 1904), Pg 369.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 748, 946.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 946.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 748.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1268.