General Grant . w settle-ment prospered, and in three years it was styled the greatest town in New England. It set theexample in 1633 of that municipal organizationwhich has since prevailed there, and has provedone of the chief sources of its progress. The MinotHouse is still standing in Dorchester which wasbuilt in that year, and is believed to be the oldestwooden habitation in the United States, the frameof which, after the custom of that day, MatthewGrant doubtless assisted in raising. In the autumn of 1635 a number of the inhab-itants of Dorchester decided to remove with theirfamilies to C
General Grant . w settle-ment prospered, and in three years it was styled the greatest town in New England. It set theexample in 1633 of that municipal organizationwhich has since prevailed there, and has provedone of the chief sources of its progress. The MinotHouse is still standing in Dorchester which wasbuilt in that year, and is believed to be the oldestwooden habitation in the United States, the frameof which, after the custom of that day, MatthewGrant doubtless assisted in raising. In the autumn of 1635 a number of the inhab-itants of Dorchester decided to remove with theirfamilies to Connecticut. The new settlement wasalso named Dorchester, but two years later waschanged to Windsor. Matthew Grant was of theConnecticut party, and was immediately chosensurveyor, being annually elected to that ofifice dur-ing a quarter of a century. Mrs. Grant died in 1644,and in the following year the widower married Su-sannah Rockwell, who, with her husband WilliamRockwell, had been fellow-passengers from Eng-. ANCESTRY.—BIRTH.—BOYHOOD. 5 land with the Grants. In 1652 he became townclerk. Few men, says Stiles, filled so large aplace in the early history of Windsor, or filled itso well as honest Matthew Grant. His name figuresin almost every place of trust, and the early recordsshow that the duties were always conscientiouslyperformed. His second son, Samuel, was born inDorchester in 1631, and in 1658 he married MaryPorter, afterward receiving from his father aboutone hundred acres on the east side of the river, anderecting their house on an eminence near the EastWindsor Theological Institute. The ancient churchrecord speaks of it, in 1675, as being the only placein the meadow that was not covered with water inthe great floods of i638-39. Samuels grandson,Captain Noah Grant, served in the French War,and was killed in battle near Fort William Henry,New York, September 30, 1756. The house atEast Windsor where his father of the same namewas born in 1693 is still standing, but
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