Peter was born in Greenhill sometime between 1835 and 1840, the oldest son of Alpin Escourt Grant and Eleanor Brydon. Peter grew up on the family farm in Greenhill which he inherited with all it's responsibilities, on the death of his father in 1858.
On the 31 Dec 1872, Peter married Precilla Glenn in Bridgetown, Nova Scotia. Precilla was born on on 29 Sep 1848 in Cheverie, Nova Scotia, the fifth of the seven children of Thomas Glenn and Elizabeth Galbraith
According to daughter Sadie, Peter and Precilla lived in the manse in Kempt with his brother Edward who was the Presbyterian pastor there. To date no information has been found on why they left the farm in Greenhill for Kempt, which was over 250 km away.
Peter and Precilla had two children, Sarah Eleanor and Edward Dickinson before Peter's untimely death of consumption on 27 Feb 1877 in Kempt.
When Precilla was six her Uncle Edward introduced her mother to Gilbert Gourley. On 28 Dec 1882, Edward married Gilbert and Priscilla in the Presbyterian church. Gilbert, a widower, was a farmer in Upper Steweckie.
Precilla and Gilbert had a son Harold in 1884. By 1891 when Gilbert, Precilla and Harold are found in the census in Upper Stewiacke West, her children with Peter had left. Sadie, 15, had moved to Elizabeth, New Jersey to live with an Aunt. The whereabouts of Edward is not currently known. We know that he eventually ended up in California where he married the widow of his cousin Robert who died in 1911. Edward and Bertha Lynch had no children together, but Edward helped raise Bertha and Roberts three Children: Lena, Alpin and Edward.
Precilla died on 29 Feb 1893 and is buried next to her mother
