GRANT AND KNIGHT FAMILIES.
December 1st, 1817, the families of John Grant, Sr., and
wife, Sarah Boltwood Grant; their sons, Samuel Grant, wife
and children; John Knight and wife, nee' Agnes Grant, landed
at Silver run, Salisbury township, having had a long and
tedious journey from Maine, which was made, first in wagons
as far as Wellsburg on the upper Ohio, where a flatboat was
constructed in which they floated down the river to Silver run,
their destination. With them came a lad, John Pierce, whose
home had been with the senior Grant for several years.
Landress Grant, a bachelor brother, came also.
John Grant, Sr., died in June, 1820, and Mrs. Sarah Grant
died in March, 1824. They are buried in the "Miles Ceme-
tery," side by side.
Samuel Grant married in Maine, Hannah Davis, and they
landed with a family of eight children, viz.:
Oliver Grant, married Mary Jones, daughter of Philip Jones,
of Middleport, and moved to Iowa.
There was an invalid son of Samuel Grant, who lived to
mature years, but died many years ago.
Royal C. Grant, the inventor and machinist of Middleport,
O., married Lovina Fuller, who died many years ago.
William Grant married Esther Hobart and settled in Middle-
port, O. He was associated with his brothers, John and Samuel
Grant, Jr., in the steam flouring mill, one of the finest mills
ever built in Meigs county.
Ebenezer Tuttle Grant married Sarah Jones, daughter of
Philip Jones, of Middleport. They moved to Minnesota.
Lydia Grant was married to Phineas Robinson of Chester,
died many years ago, leaving two children, a son William
Fenn Robinson and the daughter Elizabeth was married to
George Grow, grandson of Judge Grow.
John Grant married Mary Roup, both died many years ago.
