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Personal data Matthew Griswold 

• He was born in the year 1653 in East Saybrook, CT.Source 1
• He died on January 13, 1716 in Connecticut, USA, he was 63 years old.Source 1
• A child of Matthew Griswold and Anna Wolcott
• This information was last updated on January 3, 2013.

Household of Matthew Griswold

He is married to Phebe Hyde.

They got married on May 21, 1683 at Connecticut, USA, he was 30 years old.Source 1

Child(ren):

1. Phebe Griswold  1684-1702
2. Elizabeth Griswold  1685-1704
3. Sarah Griswold  1687-1760
4. Matthew Griswold  1688-1712
5. John Griswold  1690-????
6. George Griswold  1692-????
7. Mary Griswold  1694-????
8. Deborah Griswold  1696-1731 
9. Patience Griswold  1698-????
10. Samuel Griswold  1701-1727
11. Thomas Griswold  1703-1719

Notes about Matthew Griswold

Hyde Genealogy
Reuben Hyde Walworth
pg 10-11

III. Phebe Hyde (10), born at Norwich, Conn., in January, 1663, the second daughter of Samuel Hyde (2) and Jane Lee, was a granddaughter of William Hyde the first of Norwich. She m. 21 May, 1683, Matthew Griswold, born in 1653 at East Saybrook, the eldest son of Matthew Griswold and Anna Wolcott of Lyme.

[This Matthew Griswold the first of Lyme, and his four brothers, Thomas, Edward, Francis and George, were born in England, and were the sons of Edward Griswold of Kenilworth in Warwickshire. All these five sons, except Thomas, came to America; and Edward, George and Francis lived at Windsor in Sept., 1649. Edward settled at Killingworth, Conn.; Francis settled at Saybrook, and removed from there to Norwich in 1660, and had two sons and six daughters; George settled in Simsbury; and Matthew, born about 1597, in England, came with his brothers to Windsor, where he married, about 1636, Anne Wolcott (eldest daughter of Henry Wolcott, Esq., and Elizabeth Sanders of Windsor), and settled at Saybrook at the first establishment of that town, about 1639. He was one of its first commissioners of the peace or magistrates. He had the charge of Gov. Fenwick's affairs, when the latter left the colony. He had a large tract of land in East Saybrook (now old Lyme), at a place now called Black Hall; most of which is still in the hands of his descendants. Upon those lands he afterwards settled. He died there, at the age of 96, and was buried at Saybrook, on the opposite side of the Connecticut river.]

Matthew Griswold and his wife, Phebe Hyde, settled at Lyme. He was a man of distinction, and one of the assistants of the colony. She d. at Lyme 29 Nov., 1704.
Their children were:
72. Matthew, b. 15 Sept., 1688, at Lyme, who d. in 1712 unm.
73. John, b. 22 Dec, 1690, at Lyme, m. Hannah Lee.
74. George, b. 13 Aug., 1692, at Lyme, m. 1 Hannah Lynde, 2 Elizabeth Lee.
75. Samuel, b. in 1701, at Lyme, and d. 9 June, 1727, unm.
76. Thomas, b. in 1703, at Lyme, and d. in July, 1719.
77. Phebe, b. 15 Aug., 1684, at Lyme, and d. in 1702, unm.
78. Elizabeth, b. 19 Nov., 1685, at Lyme, and d. in 1704, unm.
79. Sarah, b. 19 March, 1687, at Lyme, and d. 4 Jan., 1760, unm.
80. Mary, b. 22 April, 1694, at Lyme, m. Edmund Dorr.
81. Deborah, b. in 1696, at Lyme, m. Robert Denison.
82. Patience, b. in 1698, at Lyme, m. John Denison.

After the death of his first wife he married, 30 May, 1705, the widow Mary Lee. He d. 13 Jan., 1716, aged 63. She d. 27 Oct., 1724, aged 68. And they were buried in the cemetery at old Lyme, below the hill. She was the widow of Thomas Lee the first of Lyme, and her maiden name was Mary De Wolf; probably daughter of Balthazar DeWolf.

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