Grant, Lewis 2
- Born: 1771, Carron, Parish Of Aberlour, Scotland 3
- Marriage (1): Guernsey, Anna on 16 Mar 1805 in Edwardsburgh Twp, Ontario, Canada 1
- Died: 3 Jun 1855, Grants Mills, Ontario, Canada at age 84 3
- Buried: South Gower Cemetery, South Gower Twp., Grenville, Ontario, Canada 3
 General Notes:
Lewis Grant, Esq., P.L.S. of Aberdeen; went with friend, Lord Simcoe, to
Canada. Acted as Lt-Gove in his absence.
He "was sent out from Scotland as a land surveyor by General Simcoe and
arrived at New York as there was no landing place at Montreal in those
days. He crossed over to Canada at what was then known as Little York,
now Toronto, in the winter of 1791-92 and surveyed and laid out some of
the streets, calling one Simcoe after the General and another Grant after
himself. He served the Government in this capacity until the year 1800"
"he came east down the Nation River, cleared the spot as it was all woods
then."
"In connection with his mill he built an oak kiln for drying the oats and
he ground flour, oatmeal and feed for cattle with millstones. This mill
was known as Grant's Mills." 4
Noted events in his life were:
• Immigration, 1791, Canada. 5 with the help of his uncle James Grant, who was a friend of Gov Gen
Simcoe's, he arranged to come to Canada.
• Occupation: "built the first gristmill in the district, hauling the machinery 100, 1805. 6
miles from Montreal by oxen, as there were then no railroads. [..] Early
mills: ... Grant's mill, on the Nation river, in Edwardsburg, was built
by Louis Grant, a land surveyor."
• Education: medicine, but quit before completion, Bef 1791, Aberdeen, Scotland. 5
• Event-Misc, 1801, Lot 11, Water Street, Johnstown, Ontario, Canada. 7 granted town and park lots
• Census, 1851, Edwardsburgh Twp, Ontario, Canada. 8 (born in Scotland; 80)
• Will, 21 Apr 1853, Edwardsburgh Twp, Ontario, Canada. 9
• Occupation: one of fourteen deputy surveyors in the province, 25 Apr 1805, Ontario, Canada. 10
• Event-Misc, Jul 1793, Ontario, Canada. 11 Mrs. Simcoe, from Lewis Grant's boat, identified and named the
Scarborough Bluffs
• Event-Misc, 1794. 12 South Gower "was first blocked as a township in 1794, by Lewis Grant, a
Government Surveyor. In 1798, Mr. Grant, assisted by William Froster, P.
L. S., surveyed the first five concessions into lots."
Lewis married Anna Guernsey, daughter of Daniel Guernsey and Rachel Jones, on 16 Mar 1805 in Edwardsburgh Twp, Ontario, Canada.1 (Anna Guernsey was born on 10 Mar 1783 in Amenia, Dutchess, NY,13 died on 28 May 1865 in Grants Mills, Ontario, Canada 14 and was buried in South Gower Cemetery, South Gower Twp., Grenville, Ontario, Canada 15.)
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Brockville, ON
campbellh@sensato.com
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14
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