Patience Grant of Wayne Co, NC

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I (Marty Grant) am not related to the Patience Grant family as far as I know. I am very interested in her though.

Patience Grant was born ca 1823/24, presumably in Wayne Co, NC. She was apparently a single mother. In 1850 she was listed next door to Stephen and Mary Grant. Stephen was just a little older than her, and could easily be her brother. They were both just a few houses from Richard D. Grant who was older than them both. He could also be a brother.

Patience did not appear on the 1840 census, but she would have only been about 16 then. Richard Grant, who was her neighbor in 1850, had a girl her age with him in 1840. That could be her, if she was his sister, or even his daughter. There were other households in 1840 that had a girl her age, so we can't be sure this is her with Richard, but the fact that she is near him in 1850 makes it more reasonable.

On the 1850 census, Patience Grant and her son Henry are listed in the district North of the Neuse River living in the W.M. Musgrove household, along with quite a few other people (must be a boarding house). This house was next door to the Stephen Grant family and just 6 houses from Richard D. Grant.

(Note: The dates at the end of each line are not part of the original census, but are approximate birth years based on age)

1850 WAYNE CO, NC Page 175   House/Family #  432/ 432  - NORTH OF NEUSE R. Twp

MUSGROVE W M          24 M W ENGINEER              2400 NC                   1825/1826
MUSGROVE MARY E       35 F W                            NC                   1814/1815
MUSGROVE WILLIAM       6 M W                            NC                   1843/1844
MUSGROVE THOMAS        3 M W                            NC                   1846/1847
TILLERY RICHARD       13 M W                            NC                   1836/1837
TILLERY ALEXANDER     15 M W                            NC                   1834/1835
SASSER WILLIE         17 M W APPRENTICE                 NC                   1832/1833
PRICE JAMES           22 M W CARPENTER                  NC                   1827/1828
BUTLER MARIAH         30 F M                            NC                   1819/1820
GRANT PATIENCE        26 F W                            NC                   1823/1824
GRANT HENRY            3 M W                            NC                   1846/1847

Patience was still in Wayne Co, NC in 1860 (unlike Richard and Stephen Grant who were both gone by then). She was listed in the Town of Goldsboro. Her son "Henry" (age 3 in 1850) was listed as "William" age 13, and she had another child named John, age 6 in 1860. There were no other Grants in close proximity to her in 1860. This seems to be the same area she was living in on the 1850 census.

(Note: The dates at the end of each line are not part of the original census, but are approximate birth years based on age)

1860 WAYNE CO, NC Page 907   House/Family #  714/ 714 -- TOWN OF GOLDSBORO GOLDSBORO P.O.

GRANT PATIENCE        35 F W                          100 NC                   1824/1825
GRANT WILLIAM         13 M W                              NC                   1846/1847
GRANT JOHN             6 M W                              NC                   1853/1854

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1. Patience1 GRANT [6480], born 1823/24 in Wayne Co, NC.

Children of Patience GRANT and ? (---) were as follows:

 

 


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