Benjamin Grant

  Noted events in his life were:

• History: From History of New London, Francis M. Caulkins, 1895. CHAPTER XIX.
OBITUARIES OF THE EARLY SETTLERS

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Matthew Beckwith died December 13th, 1681.

He left wife Elizabeth, and children, Matthew, John, Joseph, Benjamin, and two daughters, widows, the relicts of Robert Gerard (Frequently written Jarret) and Benjamin Grant, both of whom were mariners, and had probably perished at sea. Benjamin Grant died in1670. He was a son of Christopher Grant, of Watertown or Cambridge, and left a son Benjamin, who in 1693, was of Cambridge.

Benjamin married Mary Beckwith, daughter of Mathew Beckwith and Mary. (Mary Beckwith was born about 1643 in Hartford, Connecticut.)