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CAPT. CHARLES GRANT.
was quartered at Sackett's Harbor, helping to guard that place while Gen. Brown's army was in Canada. For services rendered in that war he was allowed a pension of $8 per month from October 28, 1872, until his decease. He was promoted to the rank of captain. After returning to his home he taught successfully seven terms of school. By trade he was a carpenter. He was married in 1817. Concluding to try his fortune in the western wilds he came to Michigan in
the fall of 1836, stopping for a time in Ann Arbor. From there he went to Mason, Ingham county, which place boasted of two inhabitants, and helped to erect the first saw mill in that place, for Gen. Wadsworth, and also one at Aurelius, six miles west of Mason.
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