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Grant family Bay of Chaleur

Posted: 15 Sep 2010 11:55AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: GRANT
Looking for a John Grant who was in the 1st New Jersey Volunteers. They were mustered at Fort Howe Sept 1783 - 1784 and then at Fort Knox 1784.

John and his family (wife and 4 children) left NJ and settled in New Brunswick in the summer of 1784. His wife's name may have been Sarah and he had at least three sons; John, George and Samuel. Samuel was born in New Brunswick and eventually settled in Cape Breton. John had at least two daughters; one of whom married a man named Stuart/Stewart.

Jennifer

Re: Grant family Bay of Chaleur

Posted: 30 Jan 2015 9:14PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 1 Feb 2015 11:37PM GMT
Surnames: Grant, Stewart, Wood
I'm also trying trace a Grant family in the Bay of Chaleur, and wonder if there is a link to the Grants mentioned by Jennifer. Annabella Grant was the daughter of George Grant and Sarah Wood. Birth 3 August 1810 in Restigouche, Quebec. Death March 21, 1855 in Escuminac, Bonaventure County, Canada. Her baptismal record is on Ancestry, and shows her birth name was Annabella Stewart Grant. She married Peter Stewart, and they had many children born in Escuminac:
Elizabeth 1827-1897
Peter Jr. 1829-1910
Barbara 1834-1888
Annabella 1836-
Catherine 1838-
Christina 1843-
Donald 1844-
George Grant 1847
John 1850-
William 1852-
Flora 1855
Annabella Stewart Grant Stewart died in childbirth. In 1861, her husband Peter Stewart was still living in Bonaventure County with 8 of the children (shown on census). By about 1868, Peter Stewart and many of the children moved to Lafayette, Chippewa, Wisconsin.

I have little info on these Grants, but family lore says Annabella Grant was supposed to be related to President U.S. Grant, and her "folks" included many ministers.

Do you know when your George Grant was born?

Re: Grant family Bay of Chaleur

Posted: 1 Feb 2015 5:59PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 1 Feb 2015 11:36PM GMT
Surnames: GRANT
Hi - unfortunately no - I have no idea when George was born. His brother Samuel (my ancestor in that family) was born sometime around 1795. Samuel named his first two sons George (firstborn died - second born got the same name) - wondering if perhaps his father's name was John George Grant. Samuel and his brothers John and George received a land grant in 1812 in Restigouche county. Family lore here also indicates that our Grants were related to President Grant. I am at a real dead end with these folks unfortunately.

Re: Grant -Bay of Chaleur

Posted: 2 Feb 2015 2:23AM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 16 Apr 2015 7:28PM GMT
Surnames: Anderson, Brown, Grant, McLaggan, McPherson, Nadeau, Smith, Stewart, Wall, Wood
Hi Folks, I have a few miscellaneous bits.
Geo. Grant recd with Samuel Grant land grant #613 -190 acres possibly at Dalhousie 15 June 1812. George Grant m. Sarah Wood, issued several children, including:
i. John Grant. married Marguerite Nadeau nee 1798 rg Carleton 20 April 1825.
ii. Sarah Adelia Grant. * Dalhousie NB 1 May 1802 - died Maine c1889 m locally c1818 Charles Alexander McPherson (d. Maine 1868).
iii. Guillaume Grant * 11 May 1806 B. rg Restigouche.
iv. Annabelle Stewart Grant. * 3 August 1810.
v. Christina Grant. married John Wall, native of Ireland, rg Carleton 1 Oct. 1839.
vi. Anne Grant. * 28 Dec 1818 rg Carleton.
---Other possible descendants or close relatives include:

-Mary Ann Grant married Peter Stewart, both of Addington Parish, married by James Steven, Presbyterian Minister 3 Sept. 1832.

---James Grant born c1819 married Margaret McLaggan both of Dalhousie, at Eel River 26 Nov. 1846, the couple appear in the 1851 census at Colborne Parish James 32, Margaret 25, had at least one child, a son, John Grant, age 1.

--Malcolm Grant born c 1825 married Mary Anderson, Restigouche County, 30 August 1858. 1871 census Malcolm Grant is a widower, residing with Ann Anderson, age 34, born Quebec.

--David Grant married Mary Smith, Restigouche County, 4 August 1873.


Unknown possible connections from census returns:

-- Thomas Grant, native of Nova Scotia born c1808, res Addington, 1871.

-Donald Grant, born NB, c1819 res Dalhousie, 1851.

-Donald Grant, born NS, c1828, res Dalhousie, 1891

There is also a newspaper notice 12 Sept. 1895 of a death of George Grant, at "Dalhousie, NS" [sic] who died 9 August 1895 age 71, left one sister.

I seem to recall a marriage of a Miss Grant with Mr Brown of Miguasha.
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