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- E mail (19th April 2003) from Margaret Cameron, Box 621, Long Sault,Ontario KOC 1PO
"Margaret MacMillan b 1813, who was married to Duncan Grant, was thesister to my gtgt grandmother, Mary MacMillan, b. 1794, who was marriedto Duncan Ban MacMillan (Glennevis/Glenpean), born 1783, Glennevis, died1861, Lot 23 south half, Concession 3, Finch Township Margaret andDuncan Grant lived on a farm very close to her sister, Mary my gtgt)..
Duncan Grant was a witness to the Will of my gtgt, Duncan Ban MacMillan,who died in 1861. There are tombstones in the MacMillan graveyard(Laughing John's), Lot 19, Concession 1, Finch Township, in the uppernortheast side of cemetery, for Margaret Grant and Duncan Grant. Theywere the parents of Christy Grant who married William McElheran.(ChristyGrant was his second wife).
There were many different branches of the Grants which settled inStormont/Glengarry. The Grant family which settled in Moose Creek,Stormont County, were of UEL origin.
From what I know, the Grant family that settled in Finch Township(Duncan)migrated in the Glenpean migration c 1802, landing at Montreal. Thefollowing is a list of a few of the Grant families which mig. 1802:
Alex. Grant(Achnaconern), wife, John, four children
Donald Grant(Dalcattaig) and wife
Mary Grant (Duldregan)( Flory, Isabella: John and Anne Grant(Livisie) onechild.
Glenmorriston was the location from which many of the Grantfamilies(SDand G) migrated.
I am sorry that I am unable to be of much help to you in regard to DuncanGrant, but the Abstract for Duncan Grant's property is filed in a ledgerat the Registry Office, Sydney Street, Cornwall, Ontario, and, usually, aWill(if existant) will be recorded on the property record(Abstract) IfDuncan Grant belonged to the Moose Creek line, then he might have beenUEL.
There was also a Grant family that lived on the fourth concession ofRoxborough (south of Moose Creek) but I do not know if there was arelationship of this particular line to Duncan's family. I asked adescendant of the Rox. line(4th) but she was not sure of theinterrelationships (if any) of the different lines of Grants. Mygrandmother, Catharine Sutherland Cameron (1854-1949) was teacher to Mr.Donald Grant (in the 4th school c 1870s) who had lived on the farm on thefourth concession of Roxborough, south of Moose Creek, and when I wasquite young I asked him about the interrelationships (if any) of theGrant lines, but was unable to sort the lines out. Donald Grant was thegrandfather to my friend (who also descends from my Cameron line throughher mother). These families were very intermixed.
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