Grant Family: Fraudulent Lineage?

My Grant ancestor, Hannah Grant, wife of Edward Hazen, seems to have a connection to a fraudulent lineage.

In 1914, the Grant Family Association published a lineage in their reunion pamphlet stating that Mathew Grant [born in 1601] was the son of John Grant and Alice Turberville. Mathew is notable in that he was an ancestor of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant.

The Genealogy Magazine Vol III, December 1915 [p. 63-64] brought that lineage into question. The John Grant who married Alice Turberville had earlier married Jane Watson in 1593 at Cottingham, Yorkshire. Presumably, Jane died before 1600 and John traveled 300 miles south to Woodbridge and married Alice. Mathew was the result of this union.

The odds of someone traveling 300 miles to marry in 1600 were slim. The Genealogy Magazine article cited the Visitation of Yorkshire with mention of John as the son of George and Julian [Clargenet] Grant, but has no further information on John. Furthermore, no record of Alice had been located.

Other family trees have traced Gen. Grant's ancestry back to Mathew. Mathew become a dead end. Mathew is identified as the immigrant ancestor of the family.

Returning to John and his "1st wife" Jane, they had a son Thomas, who married Jane Haburne. That couple did sail for New England in 1639. Thomas and Jane were Hannah Grant Hazen's parents.

Apparently, the Grant Family Association located John Grant, who married Alice, and decided he fit in as John, son of George and Julian.

More to come as I flesh out early Grants, minus Mathew.