Early South Windsor History with Author Thomas Edward Grant

This program with local Connecticut author Thomas Edward Grant, will focus on the early history of South Windsor,  including familiar occupations, and careers of the Grant family. Thom will discuss his research into the Grant family genealogy, and his excitement about discovering the existence of many relatives for the first time. Relatives such as Mathew Grant, Surveyor, and Town Recorder for more than 30 years, and Sarah Grant, grandmother of Chief Justice Oliver Ellsworth. (As a Representative, Ellsworth brilliantly contributed to writing the Constitution at the Convention in Philadelphia, in 1789.)

Program fees: Friends and Society members pay $5; non-members pay $7 at the door.  No pre-registration is necessary.

Over the last 50 years, Thom has researched many of his relatives that have had positive characteristics so completely personified by the family prodigy, Ulysess S. Grant. Thom has meticulously traced the Grant family from its early beginnings in the Colony of Connecticut. Ulysses was certainly a family prodigy and representative of the seventh generation in America. Thomas Edward Grant is of the 12th generation– from the same family’s beginning with the immigration to America of Mathew and Priscilla Grant, in 1630. Thom’s research culminated his book Ulysses S. Grant: Primogenitor of American Civil Propriety, (which will be available for purchase) and how he used the resources of the archives–and those of the programs co-sponsor, the South Windsor Historical Society, for learning all about early Connecticut history. More than just a biographical account of  President Grant’s life, Thom’s book is a profile of Grant’s ancestors and the lasting impact of a pilgrim community.

Snow date of March 16, 2023 at 7pm