Individual Details
(20 Jun 1748 - 14 Feb 1819)
Noah resided at Coventry but removed about 1790 to Greensburg, PA, then in 1799 to Liverpool, Ohio, in 1804 to Deerfield, Ohio, and in 1818 to Maysville, KY. He was a farmer and tanner. Served in the Revolution as lieutenant and captain. The place of his burial in unknown.
(from The Grant Family Magazine Supplementary to the Grant Family History, ed. by Arthur Hastings Grant, Feb. 1900-Dec. 1910, pp. 614, 617) John G. W. Tompkins [son of Rachel Maria Grant and William Tompkins] writes as follows: "I will mention the tradition fondly dwelt upon and oft-times related by his children Susan, Margaret, Roswell, Jesse and Rachel that Noah Grant participated in the original 'tea-party' in Boston harbor in 1773. The watch, a large silver 'bull's-eye' worn by him on that occasion has been an heirloom in our family, passing at my mother's death to my brother Charles. I have often heard my mother relate her narrow escape from drowning when the family was moving to Maysville, Ky., in a 'keel boat'; she fell overboard and was rescued with great difficulty. She had to walk four miles through the woods to school, and sometimes the Indians who were then near Maysville would overtake her and lift her upon their horses, asking if 'papoose wanted a ride.' My father had the distinction of being the first man on this continent, and perhaps in the world, to utilize natural gas in manufacturing. In 1841, while he was running a salt well 1200 feet in depth, suddenly the well gram, a structure 75 feet high, was blown to pieces and caught fire from the sudden ebullition of gas that escaped in vast volume, frightening the workmen, and inspiring them with the belief that they had reached the region where 'the fire is never quenched.' But he, taking a more practical view, succeeded in smothering the fire with wet blankets and earth, and piping the gas to his furnace nearby used it to boil salt water for many years very successfully and at vast reduction in cost. At that place (Burning Springs, W. Va.) Washington when a young surveyor discovered gas on the surface of a spring, and finding that it ignited easily deeded one acre to the State of Virginia as a natural curiosity."
Events
| Birth | 20 Jun 1748 | Tolland, Tolland County, Connecticut | | | |
| Marriage | 1775 | Anna Richardson | | | |
| Marriage | 4 Mar 1792 | Pennsylvania - Rachel Miller Kelly | | | |
| Death | 14 Feb 1819 | Maysville, Mason County, Kentucky | | | |
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