aka Elizabeth Taite or Tait, she was probably born in Virginia, as the daughter of William and Sarah Tate . . . according to her father's April 1751 will [where she is listed as Elizabeth Tait], she had at least eleven siblings, i.e., James, John Owen [actually a son-in-law], Mary, Sarah, Thomas, Nathaniel, Lucy, Nathan, William, Samuel, and Jesse . . . it is written that she married Daniel Grant ca. 1751 . . . multiple sources indicate that Elizabeth Grant died the 13th of October, 1763, and is buried in the church yard of Old Ground Squirrel Meeting House, Hanover County, Virginia [near where her husband was born and raised] . . . there are six children mentioned in Daniel Grant's 1793 will, i.e., Thomas, John, Amelia, Fanny, Isabel, and Anna, plus an unamed infant son mentioned in her father-in-law's 1773 will, i.e. . . . "Two acres of land in the County of Hanover and Province of Virginia Whereon the Meeting House now stands known by the Name of Ground Squirrel Meeting house Including the Spring to the use of the Presberterian Congregation upon the conditional promise that the said Congregation do keep a good and genteel pailing or Rails round the Graves of my Daughter In Law [Elizabeth Grant nee Tate] and Grandson that is Buried in the said Ground and also Continue the Publick Work of God in the Said house in the Presbyterian way . . . "
aka Elizabeth Taite or Tait, she was probably born in Virginia, as the daughter of William and Sarah Tate . . . according to her father's April 1751 will [where she is listed as Elizabeth Tait], she had at least eleven siblings, i.e., James, John Owen [actually a son-in-law], Mary, Sarah, Thomas, Nathaniel, Lucy, Nathan, William, Samuel, and Jesse . . . it is written that she married Daniel Grant ca. 1751 . . . multiple sources indicate that Elizabeth Grant died the 13th of October, 1763, and is buried in the church yard of Old Ground Squirrel Meeting House, Hanover County, Virginia [near where her husband was born and raised] . . . there are six children mentioned in Daniel Grant's 1793 will, i.e., Thomas, John, Amelia, Fanny, Isabel, and Anna, plus an unamed infant son mentioned in her father-in-law's 1773 will, i.e. . . . "Two acres of land in the County of Hanover and Province of Virginia Whereon the Meeting House now stands known by the Name of Ground Squirrel Meeting house Including the Spring to the use of the Presberterian Congregation upon the conditional promise that the said Congregation do keep a good and genteel pailing or Rails round the Graves of my Daughter In Law [Elizabeth Grant nee Tate] and Grandson that is Buried in the said Ground and also Continue the Publick Work of God in the Said house in the Presbyterian way . . . "
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