Samuel Grant Family from Walpole As It Was and As It Is (1880)

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Surname: GRANT
Source: Walpole As It Was and As It Is by George Aldrich, 
        The Claremont Manufacturing Co., Claremont, N.H., 1880, pages 262-263

GRANT, SAMUEL, known familiarly as Major Grant, was born in Watertown, Mass., in 1770, and 
came to this town about the time of his majority. He was lame and learned the trade of saddle and 
harness-maker, and carried on the business several years after he came to Walpole. He married Phebe 
Strong, the daughter of General Benjamin Bellows, Nov. 13, 1791, and, built the house now occupied 
by John Jennison, where he kept for some time a public house. Gen. Bellows dying in 1802 a he came 
in possession of the patrimony of his wife, which consisted in part of a large farm in the southeast corner 
of the town, known as the "Seven Barns" Here, during a quarter of a century, he was engaged in sheep 
husbandry, keeping as many as a thousand at a time on the farm, and employing considerable help to 
care for them. With his help he was honorable, but very exacting, carrying his points of nicety to the 
extreme, it is said; not allowing, for instance, his men to step upon his grass while curing. He was a 
model farmer for orderly arrangement, but the income from his farm was not commensurate with the 
nicety of its appearance. In his day and generation, he was one of the leading men in town, which he 
represented in the general Court in 1797, ‘99, 1817, and in 1838; besides holding many offices of trust. 
Ch.
I. Phebe Strong, b. Sep. 25, 1792; m. Leonard Stone of Watertown, Mass.
II. II. Samuel Salisbury, b. Feb. 16, 1794, of whom but little is known.
III. Benj. Bellows, b. Apr. 23, 1796; m. Mary, the dau. of Josiah Bellows. He, early in life, went to 
Boston, and, for many years was engaged in mercantile business, in the importing trade, under 
the firm of Grant, Seaver & Co. During the financial depression of 1837 to 1840, this firm 
suffered with the whole country, and was forced to succumb after paying $30,000 extra interest 
to save themselves from sinking. Through shrewd management, and the help of friends, he 
managed to save a competency from the wreck, and returned to Walpole about 1842, where 
he spent his declining years. He possessed many of the traits of character, for industry and 
nicety, peculiar to his father, and was one of those men who hated to see any one idle. He d. 
Jan. 17, 1870. Ch. 1st, Edward Bellows, b. Jan. 3d, 1822; m. Maria L. W. Mead, of 
Watertown, Mass. 2d, Benjamin Bellows, b. Oct. 8, 1824; m. Emily Goodall, of New York 
city, where he now resides and is occupied as a bank clerk.
IV. Geo. Gordon, b. June 19, 1800, and died the same year.
V. Sarah Watson, b. Oct. 2, 1802; m. Dr. Hiram Hosmer, of this town. (See Hosmer.)
VI. Charles Christopher, b. Nov.; 7, 1805; m. Lucy, dau. of Daniel Brooks, and went to the state 
of Maine.
VII. Mary Bellows, b. Aug. 20, 1808 and was drowned when a child, in 1810.
VIII. George W., b. Apr. 16, 1812; m. Sarah Isabella, dau. of Maj. Thomas Bellows. He is 
a fur dealer in New York, and spends his summers in his native town. His wife died Dec. 30, 
1866.
Samuel Grant died Apr. 12, 1844, aged 79. His wife died Aug. 27, 1847, aged 77.