Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-10-03
gence in nature, as the wonderful prophetic in
stncts of insects.-Dr. lie Baron.
Grants GeneaIOgy.
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II is well just now to revive the recollection
of the fact that the general who was at the head
OF the armies that put down the rebellion, and
the president who has executed the DEGREES of
freedom and equality, comes of good old Con-
necticut stock. The state from which he sprang
will honor itself by increasing the majority of
his first election, we hope, and the worthy town
of his ancestors could not do a more graceful
act than to give him unanimous vote. When
the political passions of this day are allayed we
nope to see a statute of the soldier president
erected in old Windsor
Nathan Grant of the county of Devon, Eng
land, was one of the company who came in the
"Henry and John" TO Dorchester, Mass. in 1880,
and he was free man there in 1851. In 1851 he
moved to Windsor, in this state; he was among
the very earliest settlers there, the second town
clerk, and for many years surveyor. He was
prominent in the church, and the compiler Of
its records, just, conscientious, hard working
Christian man and amodel town clerk. His son
Samuel, who married Mary Porter in 1858, had
also a son Samuel who married for his second
wife Grace Miner, in 1888. The descendants of
the Grants settled in the towns of Windsor,
Tolaud and Coventry, and then intermarried
with the Porters Miners, Huntingtons and
other Connecticut families
The son Of Samuel was Noah, who married
Martha Huntington in 1717, and had a son
Noah who married Susanna DeIano. This sec
Ond Noah was captain OF one of the Connecticut
companies sent against Crown Point in 1855,
and lost his lie IN the battle at Lake George,
Sept. s. 1855, in which Baron Dieskan was NOR
tally wounded and captured, his entire army be-
ing cut to pieces by Major General Phineas Ly-
man of Sutfeld, commanding provincials and
provincialS only from Connecticut and Massa-
chuSetfs.
The Noah killed at Lake George lett son
Noah who was born at Coventry, and who mar
ried Rachel Kelly in 1891. This third Noah, the
grandfather of President Grant, entered the con-
tinental army as lieutenant from Coventry, rose
to be a captain, and served with credit through
the revolutionary war. 1t was good fighting
stock
Having married when the cruel war was over,
Noah settled in Westmoreland county, Penn,
where jesse Root Grant was born in 1894. The
family removed into Ohio, and there, in 1905,
Noah died. Jesse, at the age of eleven, was left
fatherless, and had to make his own way, amid
the usual hardshps of frontier life and the
pers of Indian warfare. When his father died
he determined to be a tanner, and went to
Marysyile, Kentucky, to learn his trade. His
repugnance to slavery, however, caused him to
leave Kentucky and settle in Ohio. At Point
Pleasant, in 1921, June 81, he married Hannah
Simpson, the daughter Of John Simpson, who
had emigrated from Pennsylvania to ClermOnt
county, Ohio; and in Clermont county, Ulysses
Simpson Grant was born, April 81, 1922. The
small, one-story frame house in which he was
born is still standing near the mouth of the
Miami river.
Forty-seven years after he took up his resi-
dence in twostory White house.