This memorial is principally for continuation of the initial discussion in his mother's memorial regarding an entailed estate held by the Grant family at Coventry, Conn.
Until after the American Revolution, the thirteen English colonies of North America were subject to common English law. In English common law, a fee tail or entail (aka, an entailed estate) is a form of trust established by deed or settlement that restricts the sale or inheritance of an estate in real property and prevents the property from being sold, devised by will, or otherwise alienated by the tenant-in-possession, and instead causes it to pass automatically by operation of law to an heir pre-determined by the settlement deed. The heir's right to entailed property is as a life estate, with the heir's interest terminating at their death.
The entailed estate held by the descendants of the Noah Grant family was created in the 1755 will of Lieut. Solomon Grant, the younger brother of Noah Grant, Jr., sons of Sgt. Noah Grant, Sr. and Martha Huntington:
• Town of Coventry, Connecticut, Windham Probate District, 1757, Packet 1651: Estate of Solomon Grant of Coventry. (In 1757 the Town of Coventry was within Windham County. Tolland County, the modern location of Coventry, was not incorporated until 1785 from part of Windham County.)
• In the name of God Amen the 8th day of Sept. AD 1755 I Solomon Grant of Coventry in ye County of Windham and Colony of Connecticut in New England being about going in ye expedition against Crown Point...
• Imprimis. I give and devise unto my well Beloved Brother Noah Grant all and Every Part of my Real Estate During his natural Life and at his Decease I give ye Whole of sd. Estate to my sd. Brothers eldest Son then surviving and at his Decease to ye Next eldest male heir and so to be an Estate Entail successively from one generation to ye Latest posterity.
• The three page Inventory dated Mar. 17, 1757 totals £787.9.3 of which "The Real Estate including ye Building" was valued at £610.0.0.
Capt. Noah Grant, Jr., brother of Lieut. Solomon, was also a soldier and died intestate on or about Sept. 20, 1756 at or near English-held Fort William Henry, at the south end of Lake George in present-day Warren County, NY. As a consequence, following the 1757 probate of Lieut. Solomon's will the entailed estate automatically passed to Noah Grant, 3rd, eldest son of the deceased Noah Grant, Jr. In 1757 Noah Grant, 3rd was only 9 years old.
In Edward Chauncey Marshall's 1869 The Ancestry of General Grant and Their Contemporaries, regarding Capt. Noah Grant, 3rd and 1st wife Anna Richardson's presumptive eldest son Solomon, based on material provided by Jesse Root Grant, Solomon's half-brother, Marshall wrote:
• Solomon, b. about 1779; remained in Coventry, with his grandfather Buell [i.e., his step-grandfather Capt. Peter Buell]; was well educated, and at twenty years of age went to the island of Demerara, as overseer on a sugar plantation [*1]; not heard from, after 1798, and is supposed to have fallen victim to the climate.
[*1] Demerara (Dutch: Demerary), a historical region in the Guianas on the north coast of South America, now part of the country of Guyana. It was a Dutch colony until 1815. It was located about the lower courses of the Demerara River, and its main town was Georgetown.
In Arthur Hastings Grant's 1898 The Grant Family: A Genealogical History of the Descendants of Matthew Grant of Windsor, Connecticut, the author fancifully added:
• Remained with his grandfather Buell when his father went to Pa.; he started about 1798 to go to the West Indies as overseer of a sugar plantation, but was never heard from and was supposed to have perished; but it seems probable that he survived shipwreck, was cast on an island, and left a family, as some years ago the descendants of a Mr. King Grant in the West Indies claimed descent from him.
In a separate portion of his 1869 work Marshall footnoted that while living Noah Grant, 3rd sold his interest to the entailed Coventry estate. However, Noah was legally prevented from selling the entailed property. It is more likely that in circa 1790 when Noah left Connecticut for southwest Pennsylvania and took younger son Peter with him, and left older son Solomon behind at Coventry (who in 1790 was only 11 years old), the property was left in trust with some family member for support of Solomon, who upon the death of father Noah would have become Solomon's by right of predetermined succession. However, when by 1798 the whereabouts of Solomon became unknown and believed dead with no known male heir, Solomon's younger brother Peter became the surviving heir to the entailed property.
A better explanation than Marshall's is in Pres. Grant's own 1885 Personal Memoirs, in which Grant explained how in 1833 his father, Jesse Root Grant, convinced the latter's nephew Lawson Bean Grant (the eldest son of Jesse's deceased older half-brother Peter Grant), to allow Jesse himself to perfect the ownership of the Coventry property, which Jesse accomplished on behalf of his nephew.
In summary, by 1833 Lawson Bean Grant (1810-1887) was the eldest son of his deceased father Peter Grant (1781-1829), Peter having obviously become the eldest surviving son of his father Noah Grant, 3rd (1748-1819), who was the eldest son of his father Noah Grant, Jr. (1718-1756), the brother of Lieut. Solomon Grant (1723-1856) and first named life-estate holder to Solomon's entailed Coventry property.
Revised 1/29/2016
Until after the American Revolution, the thirteen English colonies of North America were subject to common English law. In English common law, a fee tail or entail (aka, an entailed estate) is a form of trust established by deed or settlement that restricts the sale or inheritance of an estate in real property and prevents the property from being sold, devised by will, or otherwise alienated by the tenant-in-possession, and instead causes it to pass automatically by operation of law to an heir pre-determined by the settlement deed. The heir's right to entailed property is as a life estate, with the heir's interest terminating at their death.
The entailed estate held by the descendants of the Noah Grant family was created in the 1755 will of Lieut. Solomon Grant, the younger brother of Noah Grant, Jr., sons of Sgt. Noah Grant, Sr. and Martha Huntington:
• Town of Coventry, Connecticut, Windham Probate District, 1757, Packet 1651: Estate of Solomon Grant of Coventry. (In 1757 the Town of Coventry was within Windham County. Tolland County, the modern location of Coventry, was not incorporated until 1785 from part of Windham County.)
• In the name of God Amen the 8th day of Sept. AD 1755 I Solomon Grant of Coventry in ye County of Windham and Colony of Connecticut in New England being about going in ye expedition against Crown Point...
• Imprimis. I give and devise unto my well Beloved Brother Noah Grant all and Every Part of my Real Estate During his natural Life and at his Decease I give ye Whole of sd. Estate to my sd. Brothers eldest Son then surviving and at his Decease to ye Next eldest male heir and so to be an Estate Entail successively from one generation to ye Latest posterity.
• The three page Inventory dated Mar. 17, 1757 totals £787.9.3 of which "The Real Estate including ye Building" was valued at £610.0.0.
Capt. Noah Grant, Jr., brother of Lieut. Solomon, was also a soldier and died intestate on or about Sept. 20, 1756 at or near English-held Fort William Henry, at the south end of Lake George in present-day Warren County, NY. As a consequence, following the 1757 probate of Lieut. Solomon's will the entailed estate automatically passed to Noah Grant, 3rd, eldest son of the deceased Noah Grant, Jr. In 1757 Noah Grant, 3rd was only 9 years old.
In Edward Chauncey Marshall's 1869 The Ancestry of General Grant and Their Contemporaries, regarding Capt. Noah Grant, 3rd and 1st wife Anna Richardson's presumptive eldest son Solomon, based on material provided by Jesse Root Grant, Solomon's half-brother, Marshall wrote:
• Solomon, b. about 1779; remained in Coventry, with his grandfather Buell [i.e., his step-grandfather Capt. Peter Buell]; was well educated, and at twenty years of age went to the island of Demerara, as overseer on a sugar plantation [*1]; not heard from, after 1798, and is supposed to have fallen victim to the climate.
[*1] Demerara (Dutch: Demerary), a historical region in the Guianas on the north coast of South America, now part of the country of Guyana. It was a Dutch colony until 1815. It was located about the lower courses of the Demerara River, and its main town was Georgetown.
In Arthur Hastings Grant's 1898 The Grant Family: A Genealogical History of the Descendants of Matthew Grant of Windsor, Connecticut, the author fancifully added:
• Remained with his grandfather Buell when his father went to Pa.; he started about 1798 to go to the West Indies as overseer of a sugar plantation, but was never heard from and was supposed to have perished; but it seems probable that he survived shipwreck, was cast on an island, and left a family, as some years ago the descendants of a Mr. King Grant in the West Indies claimed descent from him.
In a separate portion of his 1869 work Marshall footnoted that while living Noah Grant, 3rd sold his interest to the entailed Coventry estate. However, Noah was legally prevented from selling the entailed property. It is more likely that in circa 1790 when Noah left Connecticut for southwest Pennsylvania and took younger son Peter with him, and left older son Solomon behind at Coventry (who in 1790 was only 11 years old), the property was left in trust with some family member for support of Solomon, who upon the death of father Noah would have become Solomon's by right of predetermined succession. However, when by 1798 the whereabouts of Solomon became unknown and believed dead with no known male heir, Solomon's younger brother Peter became the surviving heir to the entailed property.
A better explanation than Marshall's is in Pres. Grant's own 1885 Personal Memoirs, in which Grant explained how in 1833 his father, Jesse Root Grant, convinced the latter's nephew Lawson Bean Grant (the eldest son of Jesse's deceased older half-brother Peter Grant), to allow Jesse himself to perfect the ownership of the Coventry property, which Jesse accomplished on behalf of his nephew.
In summary, by 1833 Lawson Bean Grant (1810-1887) was the eldest son of his deceased father Peter Grant (1781-1829), Peter having obviously become the eldest surviving son of his father Noah Grant, 3rd (1748-1819), who was the eldest son of his father Noah Grant, Jr. (1718-1756), the brother of Lieut. Solomon Grant (1723-1856) and first named life-estate holder to Solomon's entailed Coventry property.
Revised 1/29/2016
This memorial is principally for continuation of the initial discussion in his mother's memorial regarding an entailed estate held by the Grant family at Coventry, Conn.
Until after the American Revolution, the thirteen English colonies of North America were subject to common English law. In English common law, a fee tail or entail (aka, an entailed estate) is a form of trust established by deed or settlement that restricts the sale or inheritance of an estate in real property and prevents the property from being sold, devised by will, or otherwise alienated by the tenant-in-possession, and instead causes it to pass automatically by operation of law to an heir pre-determined by the settlement deed. The heir's right to entailed property is as a life estate, with the heir's interest terminating at their death.
The entailed estate held by the descendants of the Noah Grant family was created in the 1755 will of Lieut. Solomon Grant, the younger brother of Noah Grant, Jr., sons of Sgt. Noah Grant, Sr. and Martha Huntington:
• Town of Coventry, Connecticut, Windham Probate District, 1757, Packet 1651: Estate of Solomon Grant of Coventry. (In 1757 the Town of Coventry was within Windham County. Tolland County, the modern location of Coventry, was not incorporated until 1785 from part of Windham County.)
• In the name of God Amen the 8th day of Sept. AD 1755 I Solomon Grant of Coventry in ye County of Windham and Colony of Connecticut in New England being about going in ye expedition against Crown Point...
• Imprimis. I give and devise unto my well Beloved Brother Noah Grant all and Every Part of my Real Estate During his natural Life and at his Decease I give ye Whole of sd. Estate to my sd. Brothers eldest Son then surviving and at his Decease to ye Next eldest male heir and so to be an Estate Entail successively from one generation to ye Latest posterity.
• The three page Inventory dated Mar. 17, 1757 totals £787.9.3 of which "The Real Estate including ye Building" was valued at £610.0.0.
Capt. Noah Grant, Jr., brother of Lieut. Solomon, was also a soldier and died intestate on or about Sept. 20, 1756 at or near English-held Fort William Henry, at the south end of Lake George in present-day Warren County, NY. As a consequence, following the 1757 probate of Lieut. Solomon's will the entailed estate automatically passed to Noah Grant, 3rd, eldest son of the deceased Noah Grant, Jr. In 1757 Noah Grant, 3rd was only 9 years old.
In Edward Chauncey Marshall's 1869 The Ancestry of General Grant and Their Contemporaries, regarding Capt. Noah Grant, 3rd and 1st wife Anna Richardson's presumptive eldest son Solomon, based on material provided by Jesse Root Grant, Solomon's half-brother, Marshall wrote:
• Solomon, b. about 1779; remained in Coventry, with his grandfather Buell [i.e., his step-grandfather Capt. Peter Buell]; was well educated, and at twenty years of age went to the island of Demerara, as overseer on a sugar plantation [*1]; not heard from, after 1798, and is supposed to have fallen victim to the climate.
[*1] Demerara (Dutch: Demerary), a historical region in the Guianas on the north coast of South America, now part of the country of Guyana. It was a Dutch colony until 1815. It was located about the lower courses of the Demerara River, and its main town was Georgetown.
In Arthur Hastings Grant's 1898 The Grant Family: A Genealogical History of the Descendants of Matthew Grant of Windsor, Connecticut, the author fancifully added:
• Remained with his grandfather Buell when his father went to Pa.; he started about 1798 to go to the West Indies as overseer of a sugar plantation, but was never heard from and was supposed to have perished; but it seems probable that he survived shipwreck, was cast on an island, and left a family, as some years ago the descendants of a Mr. King Grant in the West Indies claimed descent from him.
In a separate portion of his 1869 work Marshall footnoted that while living Noah Grant, 3rd sold his interest to the entailed Coventry estate. However, Noah was legally prevented from selling the entailed property. It is more likely that in circa 1790 when Noah left Connecticut for southwest Pennsylvania and took younger son Peter with him, and left older son Solomon behind at Coventry (who in 1790 was only 11 years old), the property was left in trust with some family member for support of Solomon, who upon the death of father Noah would have become Solomon's by right of predetermined succession. However, when by 1798 the whereabouts of Solomon became unknown and believed dead with no known male heir, Solomon's younger brother Peter became the surviving heir to the entailed property.
A better explanation than Marshall's is in Pres. Grant's own 1885 Personal Memoirs, in which Grant explained how in 1833 his father, Jesse Root Grant, convinced the latter's nephew Lawson Bean Grant (the eldest son of Jesse's deceased older half-brother Peter Grant), to allow Jesse himself to perfect the ownership of the Coventry property, which Jesse accomplished on behalf of his nephew.
In summary, by 1833 Lawson Bean Grant (1810-1887) was the eldest son of his deceased father Peter Grant (1781-1829), Peter having obviously become the eldest surviving son of his father Noah Grant, 3rd (1748-1819), who was the eldest son of his father Noah Grant, Jr. (1718-1756), the brother of Lieut. Solomon Grant (1723-1856) and first named life-estate holder to Solomon's entailed Coventry property.
Revised 1/29/2016
Until after the American Revolution, the thirteen English colonies of North America were subject to common English law. In English common law, a fee tail or entail (aka, an entailed estate) is a form of trust established by deed or settlement that restricts the sale or inheritance of an estate in real property and prevents the property from being sold, devised by will, or otherwise alienated by the tenant-in-possession, and instead causes it to pass automatically by operation of law to an heir pre-determined by the settlement deed. The heir's right to entailed property is as a life estate, with the heir's interest terminating at their death.
The entailed estate held by the descendants of the Noah Grant family was created in the 1755 will of Lieut. Solomon Grant, the younger brother of Noah Grant, Jr., sons of Sgt. Noah Grant, Sr. and Martha Huntington:
• Town of Coventry, Connecticut, Windham Probate District, 1757, Packet 1651: Estate of Solomon Grant of Coventry. (In 1757 the Town of Coventry was within Windham County. Tolland County, the modern location of Coventry, was not incorporated until 1785 from part of Windham County.)
• In the name of God Amen the 8th day of Sept. AD 1755 I Solomon Grant of Coventry in ye County of Windham and Colony of Connecticut in New England being about going in ye expedition against Crown Point...
• Imprimis. I give and devise unto my well Beloved Brother Noah Grant all and Every Part of my Real Estate During his natural Life and at his Decease I give ye Whole of sd. Estate to my sd. Brothers eldest Son then surviving and at his Decease to ye Next eldest male heir and so to be an Estate Entail successively from one generation to ye Latest posterity.
• The three page Inventory dated Mar. 17, 1757 totals £787.9.3 of which "The Real Estate including ye Building" was valued at £610.0.0.
Capt. Noah Grant, Jr., brother of Lieut. Solomon, was also a soldier and died intestate on or about Sept. 20, 1756 at or near English-held Fort William Henry, at the south end of Lake George in present-day Warren County, NY. As a consequence, following the 1757 probate of Lieut. Solomon's will the entailed estate automatically passed to Noah Grant, 3rd, eldest son of the deceased Noah Grant, Jr. In 1757 Noah Grant, 3rd was only 9 years old.
In Edward Chauncey Marshall's 1869 The Ancestry of General Grant and Their Contemporaries, regarding Capt. Noah Grant, 3rd and 1st wife Anna Richardson's presumptive eldest son Solomon, based on material provided by Jesse Root Grant, Solomon's half-brother, Marshall wrote:
• Solomon, b. about 1779; remained in Coventry, with his grandfather Buell [i.e., his step-grandfather Capt. Peter Buell]; was well educated, and at twenty years of age went to the island of Demerara, as overseer on a sugar plantation [*1]; not heard from, after 1798, and is supposed to have fallen victim to the climate.
[*1] Demerara (Dutch: Demerary), a historical region in the Guianas on the north coast of South America, now part of the country of Guyana. It was a Dutch colony until 1815. It was located about the lower courses of the Demerara River, and its main town was Georgetown.
In Arthur Hastings Grant's 1898 The Grant Family: A Genealogical History of the Descendants of Matthew Grant of Windsor, Connecticut, the author fancifully added:
• Remained with his grandfather Buell when his father went to Pa.; he started about 1798 to go to the West Indies as overseer of a sugar plantation, but was never heard from and was supposed to have perished; but it seems probable that he survived shipwreck, was cast on an island, and left a family, as some years ago the descendants of a Mr. King Grant in the West Indies claimed descent from him.
In a separate portion of his 1869 work Marshall footnoted that while living Noah Grant, 3rd sold his interest to the entailed Coventry estate. However, Noah was legally prevented from selling the entailed property. It is more likely that in circa 1790 when Noah left Connecticut for southwest Pennsylvania and took younger son Peter with him, and left older son Solomon behind at Coventry (who in 1790 was only 11 years old), the property was left in trust with some family member for support of Solomon, who upon the death of father Noah would have become Solomon's by right of predetermined succession. However, when by 1798 the whereabouts of Solomon became unknown and believed dead with no known male heir, Solomon's younger brother Peter became the surviving heir to the entailed property.
A better explanation than Marshall's is in Pres. Grant's own 1885 Personal Memoirs, in which Grant explained how in 1833 his father, Jesse Root Grant, convinced the latter's nephew Lawson Bean Grant (the eldest son of Jesse's deceased older half-brother Peter Grant), to allow Jesse himself to perfect the ownership of the Coventry property, which Jesse accomplished on behalf of his nephew.
In summary, by 1833 Lawson Bean Grant (1810-1887) was the eldest son of his deceased father Peter Grant (1781-1829), Peter having obviously become the eldest surviving son of his father Noah Grant, 3rd (1748-1819), who was the eldest son of his father Noah Grant, Jr. (1718-1756), the brother of Lieut. Solomon Grant (1723-1856) and first named life-estate holder to Solomon's entailed Coventry property.
Revised 1/29/2016
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