Grants and Their RelativesFort Orange Press, 1926 - 121 pagina's |
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Albany Alexander Cumming ALEXANDER GRANT Alexander Haswell Grant America in 1777 Ann Grant ANNA CAROLINE CATHARINE CUMMING Catskill CHARLES CHARLOTTE Children of Alexander Children of Duncan Children of James Children of John Children of Margaret Children of Mary Children of Peter Children of William DANIEL daughter DAVIS DECKER DEUSEN Donald Grant DUELL Edward Eliza Elizabeth Cumming ELIZABETH GRANT ELLEN GRANT FANNIE FORD FRANCIS FRED FREDERICK George Grant married Hannah HAYES Helen Grant HENDERER Henry Hobart HUME II Children Inverness Isabella Cumming James Grant Jane John Grant Joseph Joseph McWilliams July July 17 June June 19 June 25 KILPATRICK Kortright LAIDLEY LAWRENCE Lydia Margery Cumming MARION MARY GRANT MAYNARD MCDONALD MCLEAN McWILLIAMS Miller MITCHELL N. Y. I Children NICHOLS NOONAN NORTHROUP OSCAR PARSONS Peter Grant POGUE Richard Robert McNaught RUTTER Scotland Sept SHAFER SHAW SLADE Stamford STEAD TAYLOR unmarried VAUGHN WORMER
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Pagina 18 - Rymer, vii. 275. English champion of undoubted courage and great strength of body in the beginning of the reign of Robert III.'1 This makes it possible that Grant was victorious on the morrow of MarPeerage evidence. tmmas, and his victory may have been one of the services for which a few years later he was in receipt of a pension from the royal exchequer.2 It is, however, equally probable that he did not slay his adversary...
Pagina 18 - Liegne, m 1359. There is preserved a safe conduct from Edward III of England, for him to travel in that Kingdom, with ten servants, in 1363, and another to come to Court in 1366. His son, Sir Robert Grant, is described as a man of remarkable fortitude and resolution. It is sail...
Pagina 18 - Grant, the fifth chief, is described as a man of extraordinary parts and singular merits, often employed in negotiations of State, and always acquitted himself with fidelity and honor. He with Sir Robert Erskine and Norman Lisle were appointed ambassadors extraordinary to the Court of France to renew the ancient Liegue in 1359.
Pagina 19 - In 1690 he raised a regiment of 600 of his own clan and joined Colonel Livingston, which gave such a check to the Highlanders at Cromdale, that they soon after laid down their arms. He was for a long time a member of the Scots Parliament and always steady in the interest of his country.
Pagina 19 - James Augustus Grant, born at Nairn, near Forres, in 1827, for honorable service in India was nominated as a companion of the Star.
Pagina 18 - Liegue in 1359. There is preserved a safe conduct from Edward III of England for him to travel in that Kingdom with ten servants in 1363 and another to come to the Court in 1366.
Pagina 18 - October 25, 1557, that he came early into the Reformation and was one of the members of the Convention, when Popery was abolished, and the Protestant religion established...
Pagina 19 - Shire, and united the barony of Cromdale. He is said to have been offered a patent of honor by King James in 1610, but modestly declined it; his son Grant XV is said to have been possessed of an immense estate, not only inheriting his father's...
Pagina 19 - Stewart family by marriage with Lady Margaret Stewart, daughter of the Earl of Moray, in 1640, and the eighteenth Grant...
Pagina 17 - Bardland, and St. Ninians, united in the Barony of Glen Morrison, Corumany, Mulben and Mickle Balnarth.