| Note* | | Capt. Josiah Grant, who settled in the town in 1798, came from Vermont. He was a captain in the Continental army during the Revolutionary war, serving under Col. Ethan Allen, whose cousin he was, in his brigade of "Green Mountain boys." His family consisted of the following children: Cyprian, Rhoda, Ruth, and one who died young, by his first marriage, and Josiah and Chauncey, by his second wife. Cyprian settled first near his father, but afterwards moved to Wysox, where he died from injuries received from the kick of a horse. Rhoda married Chester Gridley; Ruth married a Mr. Sprague, and removed from the town; Josiah married a daughter of Capt. Ralph Martin, of Wysox, and lived on the farm on which Josiah Newell now lives and Chauncey went west in 1838, where be still resides. Capt. Grant lived about 100 rods west of the present site of the Presbyterian Church in Orwell.1 |