The Kinnears and their kin; a memorial volume of history, biography, and genealogy, with revolutionary and civil and Spanish war records; including manuscript of RevDavid Kinnear (1840) . ,.?*».-»--. Early home of General Grants mother, in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. The woodt-n part of this housf. w ith a farm of ont- hundrod and sixty four acres, was purchased by JohnSimpson, General Grants great-grandfather, in 1763. It was then a bare structure of logs, the clapboard coating not being added until later. The stone part was built by John Simpson about 1765. In 1804, at JohnSimpsons deat
The Kinnears and their kin; a memorial volume of history, biography, and genealogy, with revolutionary and civil and Spanish war records; including manuscript of RevDavid Kinnear (1840) . ,.?*».-»--. Early home of General Grants mother, in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. The woodt-n part of this housf. w ith a farm of ont- hundrod and sixty four acres, was purchased by JohnSimpson, General Grants great-grandfather, in 1763. It was then a bare structure of logs, the clapboard coating not being added until later. The stone part was built by John Simpson about 1765. In 1804, at JohnSimpsons death, his son, John Simpson, General Cirants grandfather, bought the property. (General Grantsmother, Hannah Simpson, was at this time five or six years old. ha\ ing been born Xo\ ember 2.^, 1798, atWhite Marsh, Pennsylvania. The picture shows the house as it stands today. It is from a photographowned by Helen M. Burke, of La Crosse, Wisconsin, a granddaughter of the second John Simpson and acousin of Cieneral Grant.—[From Garlands History of U. S. Grant.] AND THEIR KIN 313 JOHN SIMPSON OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY. (1031) JOHN Simpson\ JohnS SamueF, Thomas^John^; b. about 1760 in Tate Twp., Montgomer
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