John Gant was born in about 1713 in Virginia. His father was John Gent. He married in about 1732 and had five sons. He died in about 1783. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived in Virginia, North Carolina, Texas, Tennessee, South Carolina, Kentucky, Indiana, Alabama, Mississippi and elsewhere.

Family history and genealogical information about the descendants of John Gant who was born ca. 1713. He was likely the son of J. Gant of Isle of Wight Co., Virginia. John settled in Edgecombe Co., North Carolina and likely married twice. He was the father of eight known children. Descendants lived primarily in North Carolina and Tennseess.

Colonial Chesapeake Families: British Origins and Descendants Harrison Dwight Cavanagh The first edition was awarded the Sumner A. Parker Prize by the Maryland Historical Society in 2014. The second edition of this work features all descendants of Thomas Gantt I (b. Bullwick, N. Hants; to Md. 1654; d. Calvert County, 1692) and Ann Fielder (b. ca. 1662 Hants; d. Prince Georges County, 1726) in the first six to ten generations. Ann Fielder is an important new addition to American colonial Gateway ancestors. Her parents, Capt. William Fielder (ca. 16201679) of Burrough Court Manor and Marjorie Cole (16281699) of Lyss Abbey, Hants, have proven multiple royal and Magna Carta ancestral lines; sixty extensive British pedigrees are documented in these volumes. The name Fielder has been inherited in multiple generations of the Beall, Belt, Berry, Bowie, Calvert, Clagett, Denwood, Dorsett, Gantt, Jones (Somerset County), Parker (Calvert County), Smallwood, Smith (Calvert County), and Wight (White) Maryland families. In addition, this second edition contains important new research findings on the British origins of the Hatton-Domville and Brooke-Darnall families, as well as revealing the two lost Ann Bradfords of Prince Georges County. Colonial Chesapeake Families details the pedigrees of eighty-eight families, historical illustrations, portraits, documents, and coats of arms (where proven) are included. The publication of these volumes has been subsidized to make them more widely available to the thousands of descendants listed in their pages. And thanks to print on demand, Colonial Chesapeake Families will never go out of print.

"Alexander, Bland, Beall, Berry, Blake, Bocock, Bond, Bonderant, Boone, Bowie, Bradford, Brooke, Broome, Boyd, Butler, Cabell-Horsley, Cadwalader, Carroll, Cavanagh, Chapman-Pearson, Clagett, Claiborne, Cole, Compton, Cullen, Denwood-Covington, Dering, Dorsey, Dunscomb, DuVal, Eltonhead, Elzey, Eversfield, Ewell, Fauntleroy, Fielder, Gantt, Gittings, Glover, Graves, Greenfield, Hall, Hay, Heighe, Hilleary, Holdsworth, Keene, King, Lee-Fearn, Lewis, Mackall, Moore-Weems, Nelson, Parker, Parrott, Perkins, Reynolds, Roberts, Semmes, Skinner, Smith (Highlands), Sprigg, Stoddert, Stoughton-Stoss, Tasker, Tryon, Waring, Weems, Wheeler, Wight (White), Williams, Winder, Wortham Worthington, Wood, Wright, Young-Smith (Halls-Creek), with 57 ancestral British pedigrees."

The Grants of the Northern Neck of Virginia are more than a simple lineage. Their participation in outward bound migrations that shaped America and three wars-Revolutionary, 1812, and Civil-requires historical understanding. As a science, history changed in the 1950s from a focus to please the reader to one of critical thinking and criticisms of institutions, policies and economic divide previously held sacrosanct. This book follows a similar path. It provides a fresh perspective on Grant family history and lineage in an environment of intolerant individuals, institutions and policies; and is truly a remarkable story of spirit and endurance.