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III.
various ardent pens have attempted to embellish Grant's boyhood.
He has even been given illustrious descent.
It is enough to know for certain that, Scotch in blood and American since 1630, he was of the eighth generation, and counted a grandfather in the Revolution, besides other soldier ancestors.
The first Grant, Matthew, probably landed at Nantucket, Massachusetts, May 30, 1630.
In 1636 he helped establish the town of Windsor, Connecticut.
He was its first surveyor and a trusted citizen, Samuel, Solomon, Noah, Adoniram, that is what the Grants in colonial Connecticut were called.
And with such names as these they did what all the other colonial Noahs and Adonirams were doing.
None of them rose to uncommon dimensions; but they, and such as they, were then, as they are now, the salt and leaven of our country.
After the Revolution, as our frontier widened and the salt and leaven began to be sprinkled westward, Captain Noah Grant went gradually to the Ohio River, leav
Windsor, Conn. (Connecticut, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
III.
various ardent pens have attempted to embellish Grant's boyhood.
He has even been given illustrious descent.
It is enough to know for certain that, Scotch in blood and American since 1630, he was of the eighth generation, and counted a grandfather in the Revolution, besides other soldier ancestors.
The first Grant, Matthew, probably landed at Nantucket, Massachusetts, May 30, 1630.
In 1636 he helped establish the town of Windsor, Connecticut.
He was its first surveyor and a trusted citizen, Samuel, Solomon, Noah, Adoniram, that is what the Grants in colonial Connecticut were called.
And with such names as these they did what all the other colonial Noahs and Adonirams were doing.
None of them rose to uncommon dimensions; but they, and such as they, were then, as they are now, the salt and leaven of our country.
After the Revolution, as our frontier widened and the salt and leaven began to be sprinkled westward, Captain Noah Grant went gradually to the Ohio River, leav
Jefferson Barracks (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
West Point (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
Ohio (United States) (search for this): chapter 3
Point Pleasant (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
Connecticut (Connecticut, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
Ohio (Ohio, United States) (search for this): chapter 3