Robert Grant

1762 - 1843  (81 years)

• Name	Robert Grant
  Birth	15 Jul 1762	Leith, Scotland
  Gender	Male
  Death	17 Sep 1843	St. Simons Island, Glynn, Georgia
  Person ID	I90	Georgia Revolutionary War Graves
  Last Modified	15 May 2010

  
  

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  Grant, Robert GPS: 31° 13.150' N, 81° 23.233' W

  
  

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  Robert Grant received his medical training in Scotland, and in 1781, emigrated to Charleston, South Carolina. There he joined the South Carolina Militia and served as a surgeon on the staff of Francis Marion, the “Swamp Fox.” In 1799 he married Sarah Foxworth at Waterfield Plantation, South Carolina. Robert Grant came to Georgia about 1808 and purchased land on the northern part of St. Simons Island, which he called “Oatlands.” He accumulated almost two thousand acres at Elizafield on the south bank of the Altamaha River in Glynn County. The plantation’s products were rice and sugar cane. Robert Grant and William Page became the first Wardens of Christ Church, Frederica when it was incorporated in 1808.