Grant Time Line

18 Dec 1808, Jefferson Co., GA        Thomas Grant married Susannah Barber

1820 Federal Census for Georgia
          Daniel Grant, Greene Co. - this is the son of Thomas, Sr.
          Thomas Grant, Jasper Co. - this is Thomas, Sr.
          William Grant, Wilkes Co. - this is the son of Thomas, Sr.
         Thomas Grant, Putnam Co. - I don't know who this is.
         Thomas M. Grant, Jones Co. - I don't know who this is.

       I don’t know where Thomas, Jr., might have been.

25 Mar 1821, Jasper Co., GA                   Thomas Grant married Hannah Coulson.  I don't know if this Thomas was the son of Thomas Grant, Sr., of Jasper Co.

9 Dec 1822 Crawford Co., GA was created from part of Houston Co., GA.

23 Feb 1825, Wilkes Co., GA  
     William Grant (son of Thomas Grant & Frances Owen) writes his will and names his wife, Keturah, and brothers, Daniel and Thomas, executors.  William Grant left 4 children:  
          Thomas W. Grant (1805-1832),
          Augustin L. Grant (1814-1871), 
          Ann Richardson Grant (1815-1887), 
          Eliza Jane Grant (1821-1835).

4 Jan 1826, Greene Co., GA Thomas Grant married Mary P. Baird.  I think this is Thomas Grant, Jr. (son of Thomas, Sr., of Jasper Co., GA.)

1827, GA Land Lottery, Greene Co., GA
          Thomas Grant, soldier, of Greene Co., won Lot 122, Dist. 8, Coweta Co., GA.  At this point I’m guessing this is Thomas Grant, Jr., simply because of the Greene Co., GA, connection.

1827 GA Land Lottery, Crawford Co., GA
          The exact wording from a transcript of the winners is:  "Thomas, Elizabeth, William, Nancy & J. Grant, orphans."  These "orphans" drew from Crawford Co., GA, and won Lot 170, Dist. 19, Muscogee Co., GA.

24 Nov 1828, Jasper Co., GA Thomas Grant Sr. wrote his will naming sons Daniel and Thomas Jr., daughter Elizabeth C__ (difficult to read and later discovered to be Cone), “Nancy (now Ragan), Augustine, Thomas and Eliza Jane, children of my son William Grant decd.," “my wife Martha (W? U? H?) Grant and my daughter Lucy Grant." Executors:  sons Daniel and Thomas, and Peter Grinnell.

1828 Thomas Grant, Sr., created a trust for the benefit of his widow, Martha H. (nee Waddy) Grant.  This is important because of a lawsuit filed over this trust in 1854.  Thomas Grant (Jr.) was the first trustee of the Martha Grant Trust.  I’m guessing the trust was created in 1828 because that was the year in which Thomas wrote his will.

1830 Federal Census for Georgia
          Thomas Grant, Greene Co., age 20-29 (If this age is correct - and ages recorded in any census are all over the place - I think this Thomas is too young to be Thomas, Jr. (son of Thomas).
          Thomas Grant, Putnam Co., age 30-39.  I don't know who this is.
          Thomas J. Grant, Habersham Co., age 15-19
          Martha Grant, Jasper Co., age 30-39.  I think this is Martha (nee Waddy), widow of Thomas Grant, Sr.
          Daniel Grant, Clarke Co. - this is the son of Thomas, Sr.
          Wiley B. Ector, Meriwether Co. - Wiley Ector married Keturah (nee Mills), widow of Thomas, Sr.’s son, William.

          I searched the census index at Ancestry.com for Grant in Crawford Co., and couldn’t find anyone named Grant living there in 1830.

1831, Crawford Co., GA Sheriff's Sale: Crawford Co. Lot 249, 2nd District., Lot 9, 3rd District., property of John W. ELLIS, fi fas. (The Grants sold part of this land in 1845.) http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ga/topic/news/macontelegraph/macongaatele.htm

1832, Greene Co., GA Thomas Grant (Jr. - son of Thomas Grant, Sr., of Jasper Co.) was the administrator of the estate of his nephew, Thomas W. Grant (son of William Grant).

1832 GA Cherokee Land Lottery, Crawford Co., GA Susannah Grant, widow, was a resident of Crawford Co., GA, when she won land in the Cherokee lottery.

1 Aug 1833, Greene Co., GA Thomas Grant files for letters of dismission from the estate of Thomas W. Grant.

30 Jan 1839, Troup Co., GA Alexander Speer married Mary P. Grant.  I think this Mary was the widow of Thomas Grant, Jr., because Alexander Speer was the defendant in the lawsuit over the Martha Grant trust.

1840 Federal Census, Georgia
          A. L. Grant, Muscogee Co. - this is Augustin (Augustine), grandson of Thomas, Sr.
          Daniel Grant, Clarke Co. - this is the son of Thomas, Sr.
          John T. Grant, Clarke Co. - this is the son of Daniel of Clarke Co., and grandson of Thomas, Sr.
          Thomas Grant, Putnam Co. - I don't know who this is.
          Thomas Grant, Savannah (Chatham Co.) - I don't know who this is.
          Alexander Speer (who appears to have married the widow of Thomas Grant, Jr.), Monroe Co.  (Alexander Speer was in Muscogee Co., GA, for the 1850 census.

          In Crawford Co.:
               Susannah Grant
               Thomas J. Grant

18 Mar 1845, Crawford Co., GA Susannah, Nancy, & Wm S Grant, & Matthew Slaughter sold part of the southwest half Lot 249, 2nd Dist., to James Cloud.

1846 Mary P. Speer (who  appears to be the widow of Thomas Grant, Jr.) died in Monroe Co., GA.

1850 Federal Census, Crawford Co., GA S. A. Grant, 62, female, and Nancy Grant, 30, are in the same household in the 1850 census.

1854 Lawsuit - William V. Burney vs. Alexander “Spear” was filed in Muscogee Co., GA.

William V. Burney married Lucy Grant, daughter of Thomas Grant, Sr., and his second wife, Martha H. (nee Waddy).
Alexander Speer apparently married Mary P. (nee Baird) Grant, widow of Thomas Grant., Jr.

1855 The Burney vs. Spear lawsuit went, on appeal, to the Georgia Supreme Court.
The genealogical facts contained the appeal are these:
• Thomas Grant Jr., was trustee of the Martha H. (nee Waddy) Grant trust.
• Thomas Grant Jr. died intestate (no date nor location is given) and his administrator was a "Col. Foster."  (Col. Foster may be Thomas Flournoy Foster who died in Muscogee Co., GA, in 1848).
• After Thomas Grant Jr., died, his brother, Daniel Grant, became trustee of the Martha H. (Waddy) Grant trust.
At some point, Daniel Grant was removed and William V. Burney became trustee.

I have the judgement of this appeal in my Ancestry.com tree - http://ancstry.me/UrZDwb