Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. CAPTAIN NOAH GRANT OF THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR CAPTAIN NOAH GRANT OF THE REVOLUTION. Noah Grant the Second of this name was born in Tolland July 12, 1718. His father died when he was nine years of age and his mother having married Lieut. Buell, the family removed to Coventry. It appears from the Tolland records that he returned to Tolland to reside and when he was twenty-eight years of age, married Susannah, daughter of Jonathan Delano, a worthy citizen of Tolland, who was descended from a pioneer, Philip De La Noye, who came to this country in 1621. Noah Grant removed again to Coventry about 1750. He was thirty-six years of age, when the French and Indian war was commenced, and a call was made for colonial troops. New England surpassed the other colonies in the alacrity with which she entered into this contest. Five thousand men were to be raised in New England, Connecticut furnishing one- fifth of them, for an attack upon Crown Point. Israel Putnam was appointed, in 1755, a captainin Genl. Lyman's Regiment, of one of the Connecticut companies from Windham county which borders upon Tolland. Capt. Ebenezer Grant, the uncle of the second Noah, commanded in the same war, at a later period, a company from Windsor. He was then about forty years of age. Noah Grant the second, and Solomon his brother took the field, early, though in different companies. See the Hon. Mr. Trumbull's contsibution sn reference to he Delano family, in Part II. of this work. " The troops," says Hildreth, " destined for the Crown Point expedition, some six thousand men, drawn from New England, New Jersey and New York, advancing under Gen. Lyman of Connecticut to the head of boat navigation on the Hudson, built there Fort Lyman, called afterwards Fort Edward. Johnson (who was af...