William Grant

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1768, , Rowan, North Carolina, USA
• Residence: 1790, , Fayette, Kentucky, USA

Notes:

William Grant was a son of William Grant I, of Scotland, who married Margery Varnon, of Ireland, a widow with one son. Her father was a rich man with an elegant household and many servants and she, being badly treated at home, ran away to America, where she met the young Scotchman,William Grant, and married him. Young Grant's name was in reality Douglas. In the land of the thistle he had had bestowed upon him a grant of land for a deed of bravery and was thenceforth called the "Grant" Douglas, to distinguish hira from others of the same name, and when he came to America he assumed the name of Grant. William Grant II was born in Pennsylvania, in February, 1726, and died in Fayette county, Kentucky, in 1804.

William married Elizabeth Boone on 10 Jan 1750 in Yadkin Valley, Rowan, North Carolina, USA. Elizabeth (daughter of Squire Boone and Sarah Morgan) was born on 5 Feb 1733 in , Berks, Pennsylvania, USA; died on 25 Feb 1814 in Bryans Station, Fayette, Kentucky, USA; was buried in , Fayette, Kentucky, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. John Grant
2. Emily Charlotte Grant
3. Margaret Grant was born on 22 Sep 1752 in Yadkin Valley, Rowan, North Carolina, USA; died on 18 Aug 1803 in , Montgomery, Virginia, USA.
4. Mary Grant was born on 22 Sep 1753 in Yadkin Valley, Rowan, North Carolina, USA; died on 18 Aug 1803 in , Barren, Kentucky, USA.
5. John Grant was born in 1754 in , , North Carolina, USA; died in 1826 in , Campbell, Kentucky, USA.
6. John W Grant was born on 30 Jan 1754 in Yadkin Valley, Rowan, North Carolina, USA; died on 11 Nov 1826 in Pond Creek Farm, Campbell, Kentucky, USA; was buried in , Fayette, Kentucky, USA.
7. Elizabeth Grant Moseby was born on 28 Aug 1755 in Yadkin Valley, Rowan, North Carolina, USA; died on 11 Oct 1853 in , Boone, Kentucky, USA.
8. Israel Boone Grant was born on 14 Dec 1756 in Yadkin Valley, Rowan, North Carolina, USA; died in Oct 1796 in , Scott, Kentucky, USA.
9. Sarah Grant was born on 25 Jan 1759 in Shallow Ford, Rowan, North Carolina, USA; died on 28 Mar 1816 in Paris, Bourbon, Kentucky, USA.
10. Sarah Elizabeth Hogan was born on 1 Jun 1760 in , , North Carolina, USA; died on 16 Oct 1816 in , Madison, Alabama, USA.
11. William Grant was born on 10 Jun 1761 in Yadkin Valley, Rowan, North Carolina, USA; died on 20 Feb 1814 in Grant Homestead, Elkhorn River, Fayette, Kentucky, USA; was buried in , Fayette, Kentucky, USA.
12. Samuel Boone Grant was born on 26 Nov 1762 in Yadkin Valley, Rowan, North Carolina, USA; died on 13 Aug 1789 in Grants Lick Creek, Paoli, Orange, Indiana, USA.
13. General Squire Boone Grant was born on 19 Sep 1764 in Yadkin Valley, Rowan, North Carolina, USA; died on 10 Jun 1833 in Errondale, Kenton, Kentucky, USA; was buried in Grant, Kenton, Kentucky, USA.
14. Elizabeth Grant was born on 28 Aug 1765 in Yadkin Valley, Rowan, North Carolina, USA; died on 18 Jul 1804 in Georgetown, Scott, Kentucky, USA.
15. Moses Verner Grant was born on 3 Oct 1768 in Yadkin Valley, Rowan, North Carolina, USA; died on 13 Aug 1789 in Grants Lick Creek, Pike, Kentucky, USA; was buried in , Fayette, Kentucky, USA.
16. Hannah Grant was born on 30 Mar 1771 in Yadkin Valley, Rowan, North Carolina, USA; died on 30 May 1817 in Yadkin Valley, Rowan, North Carolina, USA.
17. Thomas Grant was born on 11 Mar 1774.
18. Rebecca Boone Grant was born on 4 Jun 1775 in Yadkin Valley, Rowan, North Carolina, USA; died on 7 Nov 1858 in Morganfield, Union, Kentucky, USA; was buried in Morganfield, Union, Kentucky, USA.
19. John Andrew Grant was born in 1776 in Yadkin Valley, Rowan, North Carolina, USA; died in Sep 1821 in , Laurens, Georgia, USA.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: , Rowan, North Carolina, USA
• Arrival: 1716, , , Maryland, USA
• Residence: 1768, , Rowan, North Carolina, USA
• Residence: 1780, , Rowan, North Carolina, USA

Notes:

Name: William Grant
Sex: M
Birth: 1699 in Scotland
Death: 1794 in Yadkin Valley, Rowan County NC

Marjory Verner came to America with her uncle. (Draper MS)
Some sources for information about William Grant and Marjory (Verner) Grant and their families and descendants:

The Draper Manuscripts--In a letter to Mr. Draper, Sarah Grant (Lamond) Winston states that ".....with respect to the name of my Grandfather's mother, it was forgetfulness certainly on the part of my cousins also, you will no doubt think so, when I tell you my cousin's oldest son is named Douglas, after my Grandfather'sgrandmother, whose maiden name was Douglas and their second son is named Verner after my Grandfather's mother whose name was Marjory Verner--I have a sister whose middle name is Verner...." (Sarah Winston was referring to her cousin's Wm. S. and Lydia Ann (Grant) Grant and their sons, Douglas Boone and William Verner Grant)

Grant Family Record--Agnes J. Grant McVean
"List of Taxable Property in the County of Rowan, North Carolina, Anno 1778" Annie Walker Burns
"Carolina Cradle--Settlement of the Northwest Carolina Frontier, 1747-1762" Robert W. Ramsey
"Rowan County, NC, Vacant Land Entries, 1778-1789"
"Abstracts of the Deeds of Rowan County, NC" Mrs. Stahle Linn Jr.
Narritive of Israel Mitchell in "Mitchell Medium"
Letter in Rowan County Public Library
Campbell Co. KY Courthouse
Many researchers on the internet.
Draper Manuscripts (21s p. 116-interview with William S. Grant and Agnes Grant) "William Grant who married Elizabeth Boone (sister, Col. Daniel Boone) had no brothers and only one sister--she married a Fullerton and remained in Pennslyvania."
Draper Manuscripts (Letter from Rebecca B. Lamond) "Benjamin Cooper married a neice of my father, Miss Ann Fullerton."
"Revolutionary Soldier Samuel Brown and Some of his Family" Faye Marie (Brown) Lightburn
" Patriots and Veterans"

The "History of Kentucky and Kentuckians" by E. Polk Johnnson (1912) says "Young Grant's name was in reality Douglas. In the land of the thistle he had had bestowed upon him a grant of land for a deed of bravery and was thenceforth called the Grant" Douglas, to distinguish him from others of the same name, and when he came to America he assumed the name of Grant.

Sent over on the Friendship of Belfast on August 20 1716 to Maryland. This information came from: Richardson, Hester Dorsey. Names of Those Who Were Sent Over as King's Rebels in the Ship Friendship of Belfast, August 20, 1716, to Maryland. In Side-Lights on Maryland History...Baltimore: Williams & Watkins,1913,vol.1,pp214-215. Reprinted(2 vol.in 1) by Tidewater Publishers, Cambridge, MD, 1967; and by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore,1967. Page 214.

William married Margaret Venner in 1724 in , Berks, Pennsylvania, USA. Margaret was born in 1704 in , , , Ireland; died in 1775 in Yadkin Valley, Rowan, North Carolina, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]