Born in Felsted, Essex, England
Ancestors 
Daughter of John Porter
and Anna (White) Porter
Sister of
Anna (Porter) Gaylord, John Porter Jr, Sarah (Porter) Judson, James Porter, Rebecca (Porter) Spencer, Rose Porter, Samuel Porter, Nathaniel Porter and Hannah (Porter) Coleman
Wife of
Samuel Grant
— married
27 May 1658 in East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut
Descendants 
Mother of
Samuel Grant, John Grant, Mathew Grant, Josiah Grant, Nathaniel Grant and Mary (Grant) Skinner
Died
at age 44
in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut
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| Created 13 Sep 2010
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Biography
Mary (Porter) Grant immigrated to New England as a child during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640).
Mary Porter was baptized 1 Oct 1637 at Felsted, Essex, England, the daughter of John Porter & Anna White.[1]
- Marriage 27 MAR 1658 Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut
- Husband: Samuel Grant
- Wife: Mary Porter
They had 9 children during the ensuing timeframe through January 1679, all born at (East) Windsor, Connecticut:
- Samuel Grant, b. 20 Apr 1659
- Unknown Grant; died young
- John Grant, b. 24 Apr 1664
- Mathew Grant, b. 22 Sep 1666
- Josiah Grant, b. 19 Mar 1668
- Unknown Grant; died young
- Nathaniel Grant, b. 14 Apr 1672
- Mary Grant, b. 23 Jan 1675/76
- Sarah Grant, b. 19 Jan 1678/79; d. 1680
Mary (Porter) Grant passed away in 1681.
- Burial 16 Dec 1681 Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut
Sources
- ↑ Holman, Winifred Lovering, "John Porter of Windsor" in The American Genealogist. New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus. New England Historic Genealogical Society. Vol. 16, 1939, pp. 49-52. AmericanAncestors.org($) (see Notes, p. 122)
- Genealogical and Historical Record of the Vorce Family in the US, 1901
- Grant, Arthur. The Grant Family, A Genealogical History of the Descendants of Matthew Grant of Windsor, Conn. (A.V. Haight, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., 1898); p. 2
- Marshall, Edward Chauncey The Ancestry of General Grant, and their contemporaries (New York, 1869)
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