Family of John + GRANT and Alice +

Husband: John + GRANT (1573-1640)
Wife: Alice + (1577-1640)
Children: Matthew + GRANT (1601-1681)

Husband: John + GRANT

Name: John + GRANT
Sex: Male
Father: -
Mother: -
Birth 6 May 1573 Roxby, Yorkshire, England
Death 31 May 1640 (age 67) Roxby, Yorkshire, England

Wife: Alice +

Name: Alice +
Sex: Female
Father: -
Mother: -
Birth 1577 Woolbridge, Dorset, England
Death 29 May 1640 (age 62-63) Woodbridge, Dorset, England1

Child 1: Matthew + GRANT

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Matthew + GRANT

Name: Matthew + GRANT
Sex: Male
Spouse 1: Priscilla + (1601-1644)
Spouse 2: Susanna CAPEN (1602-1664)
Birth 27 Oct 1601 Woodbridge, Dorset, England
Immigration 1629 (age 27-28) to MA, US2,3
probably the "Mary and John"
Census 1631 (age 29-30) Massachusetts Bay Colony, MA, US4
Will
Manwaring's abstract of Matthew's will (Hartford Probate District, Vol. I, Page 312-3, Probate Vol. IV, Page 88), is:

• Matthew Grant, Windsor. Invt. £118-18-06. Taken Jan. 10, 1681/2, by Thomas Dible sen. and John Loomis. Will dated Dec. 9, 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:...MATTHEW GRANT. Ls.
Witness: John Loomys senr, Thomas X Dibble.
Court Record, Page 51-Mar. 2, 1681-2: Will proven.
Death 16 Dec 1681 (age 80) Windsor, Hartford, CT, US
Burial Palisado Cemetary5
Windsor, Hartford, Ct, US

Sources

1"London England - Baptisms Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812".
2"US and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500-1900".
3Charles Henry Pope, "Pioneers of Massachusetts, 1620-1650" (Genealogical Publishing Co, 1998).
4"MA Census, 1790-1890".
5"Find a Grave".