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GRANT, Alexander of Grant, Brigadier General
(About 1679-1719) |
GRANT, Alexander of Grant, Brigadier General 1 3
User ID: C244. General Notes: After the establishment of the Regality of Grant the Lairds of Grant were invested as Lords of Regality with full jurisdiction to hold courts, appoint officers, and sits in judgment all criminal and civil matters except lese-majeste and treason: Alexander married Elizabeth STEWART, daughter of James STEWART Lord Doune and Catharine (secunda) TOLLEMACHE, on 3 December 1698.1 (Elizabeth STEWART was born about 1680 and died on 22 April 1708 1.) Marriage Notes: "Elizabeth, married, 3 December 1698 (post-nuptial contract dated 30 September and 29 December 1699), to Alexander Grant of Grant, with a tocher of 5000 sterling, bequeathed to her by the Duchess of Lauderdale, her grandmother. She died 22 April 1708, without surviving issue." Alexander next married Anne SMITH by 7 April 1709(contract).2 (Anne SMITH was born about 1685.) Marriage Notes: "Colonel Grant, however, either did not accompany his regiment abroad, or received leave of absence, as on 7th April 1709 he signed at London a contract of marriage between himself and his second wife, Anne Smith, daughter of John Smith, Esquire, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, and formerly Speaker of the House of Commons. The exact date of the marriage ceremony does not appear, but it was celebrated previous to 31st May 1709 ; for in a letter to his brother-in-law, Hugh Rose of Kilravock, bearing that date, and written from London, the Colonel speaks of his having altered his condition by marriage. From this letter the fact is gleaned that his father had declined to subscribe his marriage contract, apparently until he received an account of how certain 'particular sums' of money had been applied. This proved no small disappointment to Colonel Grant, who protests with some warmth of feeling his ability to satisfy his father when he had his papers before him, and his willingness to pay what he could not account for. He adds with reference to his marriage, 'Now I thank God it is done, for I am very hapily married, and the longer I try it I find it the better, both as to my wife and her relations, for I can swear my own father and mother, were they both alive, could not be fonder of me nor kinder to me than they are. " |
1 e-books, The Scots Peerage ed. Sir James Balfour Paul vol. 6 (1909).
2 e-books, The Chiefs of Grant by William Fraser (1883).
3 e-books, The History of the Province of Moray by Lachlan Shaw (1882).
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