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Note: Ruth Winona Grant in her book The Historic Present, published 2001, says Elizabeth's maiden name was Lockwood but offers no supporting evidence.
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Note: The LDS Ancestral File incorrectly shows the parents of this family as Major James (of the King's American Regiment) and Penuel Grant. This error has been perpetuated by many sites on the internet. According to Ruth Grant in her book, "The Grant Connexion", there were at least three Grant widows with the Loyalists. Two of them, Penuel Grant and Sarah Grant, were the widows of officers. According to her obituary, Penuel Grant was repatriated with her family to England where she died on 21 Feb 1824, aged 80. Sarah Grant was shipwrecked while crossing the Bay of Fundy in Mar 1787. She died leaving a son Robert, 18, and four younger daughters.
On a petition dated at St. Ann's, 15 Sep 1784, there are more than one hundred names attached, listed as "noncommissioned officers and Privates of the late disbanded British American Corps". Among those names we find both the Widow Grant and Hendrick Cronk. Henry Cronk(hite) married the Widow Grant in Oct 1784 and they and her five small children moved to a lot above Shogomoc.
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Note: In the spring of 1785 Elizabeth and Henry Cronkhite moved up the river with the regiment and settled with the five Grant children on lots just above Shogomoc. The following is from the Public Archives of New Brunswick, Reel L75:
February 5, 1787 Gentlemen Trustees, The Memorial of Henry Cronkhite, late of the King's American Regiment
Humbly Sheweth, That your Memorialist married the widow of the aforesaid Regiment who came to this country in October 83 with five small and fatherless children, and the inclemency of the weather at that period made it absolutely necessary to prepare a shelter for the approaching winter which could not be procured at that place without the expense of making it. She, therefore, by the advice of Captain Clements whose Company she belonged to and whose wishes may be asked on these occasions, built a house in the township of Fredericktown and made some considerable improvements which she has led to hope would be some advantage to her children. But it has, since I married and moved her, been taken possession of by Captain McKay, late of the Queen's Rangers, without either purchasing or making any restitution. The circumstances induces your Memorialist to hope that the Gentlemen Trustees will see the propriety and justice of this claim and humbly beg leave to solicit the goodness of the Gentlemen to take this case into consideration and grant that the children may hold the lands in consequence of the house.
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