Henry (aka Hary or Harry) Grant was educated in Law. Hary Grant arrived at Charleston, South Carolina, shortly after the end of the Revolutionary War. He was a business partner of James Simons in the mid-1780s and became Spain's agent in South Carolina in 1794. In March 1790, Harry Grant owned 403 acres of land near Georgetown, SC at the intersection of Sampit Creek (aka Georgetown River) and Port Creek. In 1792 he was a merchant in Charleston, and his brother Charles Grant lived there as well (Charles died there in 1789). Hary Grant was part of the new British merchant class in South Carolina. He ran the firm of Grant & Simons which had a branch office in Beaufort, SC. In 1793 Hary was a Charleston warden (city council member). Pierce Butler (a founding father) sometimes used Hary Grant as one of his Factors and in 1799 recommended Hary Grant to James Monroe, the U.S. minister to France as a reliable person for French merchants to use as a consignee for their shipments to Charleston. Grant was also the South Carolina agent for Lloyds of London. He was active in South Carolina from July 1783 to the Spring of 1796, when he left the state. In 1796, Harry Grant's Georgetown, SC estate was located on the north side of the Black river in Georgetown. His plantation there was called Mony Musk (which meant "many Smells") and was 14 miles from Georgetown. In 1798, Hary Grant owned a plantation called Belmont located about 5 miles from Savannah, GA (White Bluff district, Chatham county). Was appointed by U.S. President John Adams as the first American Consul to the American Consulate in Leith, Scotland on July 14th, 1798. King George III was quoted in the London Gazette as saying "he has been pleased to approve of Harry Grant, Esq; to be Consul from the United States of America at the port of Leith, in Scotland." It was Harry's job to protect shipping interests for America. Although appointed U.S. consul at Leith, Scotland, in 1798, he reportedly spent most of his time in London and Paris. He owned several ships, one was the Pringle 1791, the Brig ReUnion (1804, of Charleston), another was called the Poll Cary (1801). Hary Grant was known by or friends with two founding fathers, Pierce Butler, and Charles Pinckney. He corresponded with John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. Hary also owned property in South Leith, Scotland, a great Granary and buildings, and a house. He married Elizabeth Pillan prior to 1789, and had three children, Emilia (or Amelia) who died 10/6/1803 in Baltimore, MD, Elizabeth, and Harry (Jr.).