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Ancestor of President Ulysses S. Grant. See the following link for the family genealogy to President Grant.
http://www.usgrantlibrary.org/about/genealogy.asp

Mathew Grant is listed as a "Probable" passenger of the "Mary and John" by the Mary & John Clearing House, landed Boston 30 May 1630. Along with wife Priscilla [Mathew & Priscilla both age 28) and daughter Priscilla, age 3. Probable origin was Dorset or Somerset.

He was admitted a freeman in Dorchester 18 May 1631. He was one of those to leave and settle Windsor, late 1635, early 1636. He was the 2nd town clerk in Windsor and the first and for many years, the town surveyor. He complied the Old Church Record which gives us some of the earliest records of Windsor - including that of his own family. He is said to have lived the last four years of his life with son John. His Will is dated 9 Dec 1681.

List of the First settlers of Windsor, recorded in the Town Records, 1640, five years after their removal from Dorchester, included Matthew Grant.

At Windsor, upon being given the responsibility of keeping the town land records, he discovered that the page containing his grants had been "rent out and lost by the former register" and on 11 January 1659[/60?] he set about relisting his holdings "adding some more expressions then is to be seen in the country book, yet not to vary from the true quality and quantity": a home lot of six acres "but in time of danger by the Pequet War neighbors desired to join nearer together so as to be capable to make some fortification then he resigned up his home lot for to be divided into small parcels to build upon only reserved a parcel for himself where he had begun building," leaving him one acre. He also was granted three acres swamp or meadow adjoining to the homelot; five acres in the Great Meadow; on the east side of the Great River twenty-three rods in breadth by three miles in length; twenty-three acres for a woodlot in the Norwest Field; and fifty acres of land.[5].
[5] Great Migration, citing Windsor Land Records 1:13

Some Early Records and Documents of and Relating to the Town of Windsor Connecticut, 1639-1703. Hartford, Connecticut Historical Society, 1930
p.116
7 Oct 1669. Acownt taken of all such Parsons as dwell with in the Limets of Windsor, and bin approued of to be freemen, and alowed to take the oath of freedom: Mathew Grant, Samuell Grant, Tahan Grant, John Grant.

Children were:
Priscilla, born 14 Sep 1626
Samuel, born 12 Nov 1631
Tahan born 3 Feb 1633
John, b. 30 Apr 1642
There was also a son Matthew, noted as dying 10 Sep 1639 at Windsor, but not listed with the living children.

Priscilla, married at Windsor, 14 Oct 1647 to Michael Humphrey.
Samuel, married at Windsor, 27 May 1658 to Mary Porter.
Tahan, married at Windsor, 22 Jan 1662/3, Anna Palmer.
John, married at Windsor, 2 Aug 1666, Mary Hull.
CT Vital Records, as listed in the Great Migrations Article.

A DIGEST OF THE EARLY CONNECTICUT PROBATE RECORDS,1677 to 1687 in digital format on Ancestry.com
p.88
Matthew Grant, Windsor
Date of Will: 9 Dec 1681
Invt. £118-18-06. Taken 10 January, 1681-2, by Thomas Dible sen., John Loomis. Will dated 9 December, 1681.
I Matthew Grant of Windsor, beinge aged and under present weakness, yet of Competency of understandinge, doe by this declare my Last Will concerning the dispose of my Estate as followeth: 1st, I doe declare that my son Samuel, my eldest son, is already satisfied with the portion I made over to him in Lands already recorded to him, and that is my will concerning him. 2dly, Concerninge my son Tahan, my will is that he shall have as a legassy, payd to hime in Country paye by my son John, the full some of five pounds, and this to bee payd two yeers after my decease. Alsoe I doe appoynt hime to gather upp all the debts oweinge to me in this towne or elsewhere, and my will is hee my son Tahan shall have them for his owne.
3dly, my will is that my son John, with whome I have lived some time, I doe give to hime all my meadow land in the great meadow; also I give to hime my pasture land lyeinge belowe the hill agaynst Thomas Dibles home lott and my owne. Alsoe, I doe give hime, the sayd John, my home lott and orchard with the ould houseinge which I built before hee came to dwell in itt. Alsoe I doe give to hime my wood lott lyeing in the quarter lotts. Alsoe I give to my son John all the rest of my estate exceptinge my wearinge cloathes. My son John shall paye to my son Tahan five pounds as is already expressed in my will concerninge hime, at the time and manner afforesayd, and alsoe unto my Daughter Humphreys five pounds in Country pay, two yeers after my decease. Alsoe my will is and I doe give my Daughter Humphrey as a Legassy five pownds, to bee payde in country paye two yeers after my decease. Alsoe I doe make my son John sole Executor of this my last Will & Testament. As Witness my Hand:
Witness: John Loomys senr, Thomas X Dibble.
Matthew Grant. Ls.
Court Record, Page 51--2 March, 1681-2: Will proven.

Birth	27 Oct 1601	England
Marriage	16 Nov 1625	England - PRISCILLA [Grant]
Marriage	29 May 1645	Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut - Susanna Capen
Death	16 Dec 1681	Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut

Spouse	PRISCILLA [Grant] (1601 - 1644)
Child	Priscilla Grant (1626 - 1669)
Child	Matthew Grant ( - 1639)
Child	SAMUEL Grant (1631 - 1718)
Child	Tahan Grant (1633 - 1693)
Child	John Grant (1642 - 1684)

Spouse

Susanna Capen (1602 - 1666)

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