1. LUDOVIC4 GRANT (JOHN3, LUDOVIC2, JAMES1) was born 1696 in Scotland, and died Aft. 1758 in Tallico, TN. He married ELIZABETH TASSEL Abt. 1726 in Cherokee Nation East, TN, daughter of KAHYUN TECHEA. She was born Abt. 1706 in Cherokee Nation East, TN, and died Abt. 1734.
Notes for LUDOVIC GRANT:
Source: Dr. Emmet Starr: On Page 466, Starr states that Ludovic Grant married a woman of the Long Hair Clan.
He was the Clan Chief of the Grant holdings in Scotland and they lost the war in the Jacobite Rebellion. They were captured by the British at Preston and banished to the New World. Ludovic arrived in North Carolina, on the Susannah on 07 May, 1716, and moved in with the Cherokee, his cousins all went to Boston and the Caribbian area.
Sir Alexander Cuming, in his brief Journal which appeared in the Historical Register of London for 1731, described his adventures in the Cherokee Nation in 1730 when, with the aid of Ludovic, he convinced seven young Cherokees (including future chief, Attakullakulla, the "Little Carpenter") to visit England and King George II.
In a statement recorded on page 301 of the Charlestown, South Carolina probate court in the book of "1754-1758" in a sworn statement of January 12, 1756, says, "It is about thirty years since I went into the Cherokee Country where I have resided ever since" "I speak their language".
Ludovic is of Scottish blood. Christened on 12 Apr, 1702 in Irvine, Scotland.
"Indian countryman" of Ccheoah.
More About LUDOVIC GRANT:
Emigration: Primary Individual: Grant, Ludovick
Fact 1: Source Code: 1639
Fact 2: Source Name: DOBSON, DAVID. Directory of Scots Banished to the American Plantations, 1650-1775. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1984. 239p.
Fact 3: Source Page #: 66
Fact 4: 1716, South Carolina
Occupation: Fur Trader
Notes for ELIZABETH TASSEL:
Full blood Cherokee of the Long Hair Tribe; Cherokee name
'Eughioote'
More About LUDOVIC GRANT and ELIZABETH TASSEL:
Marriage: Abt. 1726, Cherokee Nation East, TN
Child of LUDOVIC GRANT and ELIZABETH TASSEL is:
