General Notes

 Residence: prior to 1659 Nantasket,Ma 1
Residence: 1659 Kittery,York,Maine

from google books, p 166, of "Biographical sketches of representative citizens of the state of Maine":

"WILLIAM S. GRANT, who after a long and strenuous career of useful activity, connected in part with some of the most stirring events in our national history, is now spending his declining years in Farmingdale, was born in Hallowell, Me., February 18, 1825, son of Samuel Clinton and Elizabeth (Vaughan) Grant. He comes of hardy stock that has furnished to America many men of ability and force, foremost among them being President Ulysses S. Grant, who was a lineal descendant of Matthew Grant, one of the early settlers of Dorchester, Mass., and afterward of Windsor, Conn.

The Grant family appears to have been flourishing and influential on British soil at least two hundred and fifty years before Columbus discovered America.

Keltie's "History of the Highland Clans" states that "the first of the name on record in Scotland is Gregory de Grant, who in the reign of Alexander II. (1214 to 1249) was sheriff of the shire of Inverness. The slogan, or gatheringcry of the clan Grant, was 'Stand fast, Craigellachie!' the projecting rock of that name being their hill of rendezvous." On the Grant coat of arms, represented in the same book, the motto is "Stand sure."

Mr. William S. Grant, of Hallowell, is a representative of that branch of the family founded in New England by Peter Grant, who was one of the twenty-seven original members of the Scots Charitable Society, which was organized in Boston, Mass., January 6, 1657 (the list also including James and Alexander Grant).

The line of descent is: Peter,1 Captain James,2 Lieutenant Peter,3 Captain Samuel,4 Major Peter,5 Samuel Clinton,6 William Sullivan.7

Peter1 Grant in 1659 bought land in Kittery, Me., and there became a resident. He married about the year 1664 Joane, or Joanna, widow of his brother James, of York, Me. She was a daughter of Lieutenant George Ingersoll and grand-daughter of Richard1 Ingersoll, who came from Bedfordshire, England, in 1629, and settled in Salem, Mass. Lieutenant George Ingersoll was living in Falmouth, now Portland, Me., as early as 1657. His house was burned by the Indians in 1675, and he removed to Salem. Peter1 Grant's will was dated October 19, 1709, and proved October 30, 1718.

James,2 son of Peter and his wife Joanna, married in October, 1693, Mary, daughter of Jonathan Nason. He served as Representative in the General Court in 1725-28 and 1732.

Peter,3 born in 1696, resided in Berwick, Me., and died in 1756. He was a Lieutenant in the Louisburg expedition of 1745. He married first, in 1717, Lydia Frost. His second wife was Mary, daughter of Captain Samuel Lord, of Kittery, and widow of Joseph Stuart."