Family tree Cromer/Russell/Buck/Pratt » Matthew Griswold (1620-1698)

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1. Geni World Family Tree, via https://www.myheritage.com/research/reco..., January 19, 2019

   Matthew GriswoldGender: MaleBirth: Circa 1620 - of, Kenilworth, Warwickshire, EnglandOccupation: Stonecutter ; DeputyMarriage: Spouse: Anna Griswold (born Wolcott) - Oct 16 1646 - Windsor, Hartford, CTDeath: Sep 21 1698 - his home, Lyme, New London County, ConnecticutBurial: Sep 1698 - Old Saybrook, Middlesex County, Connecticut, United StatesFather: George GriswoldMother: Honora Griswold (born Pawley)Wife: Anna Griswold (born Wolcott)Children: Elizabeth Beckwith (born Griswold), Matthew Griswold, Jr.;, John Griswold, Anna Griswold, Sarah Colton (born Griswold), Elizabeth (born Griswold), Sarah GriswoldSibling: Thomas Griswold

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   Lt Matthew Griswold<br>Birth names: Matthew Griswold Lt.Mathew GriswoldMatthew GriswoldLt. Matthew GriswoldLt Matthew Griswold<br>Gender: Male<br>Birth: Between 1619 and 1621 - Kenilworth, Warwickshire,England<br>Marriage: Oct 16 1646 - Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States<br>Marriage: Spouse: Anna Wolcott - Oct 16 1646 - Windsor, Hartford, CT<br>Marriage: Oct 16 1646<br>Immigration: 1639 - With brother to Windsor<br>Residence: 1645 - To Saybrook<br>Death: Sep 23 1698 - Lyme, New London Connecticut United States<br>Burial: Sep 27 1698 - Old Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut<br>Wife: Anna Griswold (born Wolcott)Elizabeth Griswold, Anna Hannah Bronson (born Griswold), Matthew Griswold, John Griswold<br>  Additional information: LifeSketch:Matthew is the son of George and Honora Griswold who married in 1617 after the death of George's first wife Dousabell. George and Honora, and had a son Matthew, and a son Thomas. Matthew is a half-brother of Edward Griswold, the Colonist.he latter of whom was the ancestor of the two Govs. Griswold, resided in Kenilworth, England, where they had a third brother, Thomas. These two brothers came to new England in 1639, in a vessel sent out by Mr. William Whitney. Edward settled in Poquonock, Windsor, CT. iswold married in 1617, and had son Matthew, and son Thomas.dsor and Saybrook, CT 1639-40. Married on Oct. 16, 1646 to Anna WOLCOTT (b. 1620; d. 1679), daughter of Henry WOLCOTT (1578-1655) and Elizabeth SAUNDERS (1584-1655). Children of Matthew and Anna GRISWOLD: Elizabeth married John ROGERS; Anna married Abraham BRONSON; Matthew married Phoebe HYDE; Sarah married Thomas COLTON (son of George COLTON and Deborah GARDNER); and John. (from the Files of Stephen Lawson and The Griswold Family of Wooten Wawen) was born in Kennilworth, Warwickshire, England, and died 27 Sep 1698 in Lyme, CT. He married Anna Wolcott, daughter of Henry Wolcott and Elizabeth Saunders.ed to Saybrook as agent for Col Fenwick about 1650. "He speedily assumed a prominence at that place; was Deputy to the General Court in 1654, and, in the same year, was directed by the Court to go with Capt. Mason to Pequitt and join with Gov. Winthrop to draw the lines between that towne and Uncas, etc.he other side of the Great River, and became the leading and wealthiest man in that town, which was set off from Saybrook in 1665/6 He was frequently a Deputy and Commissioner, Justice of the Peace, Lieutenant of the Trainband, etc.ed 'Blackball,' since the family seat of the Griswolds of Lyme."On 16 Oct 1646 Matthew married Anna Wolcott, daughter of Henry Wolcott (ca Dec 1579-30 May 1655) & Elizabeth Saunders (ca 1582-5 Jul 1655), at Windsor, CT.95 Born ca 1624. Anna died at New London, CT, on 29 Nov 1704.Burial: Old Saybrook, CT.53, d. 1716.[other]. of Edward, and perhaps of first Francis, came from Warwicksh[ire]. Kenilworth being his native place, and possib[ly]. with Rev. Ephraim Huit, m[arried]. Ann, d[aughter]. of first Henry Wolcott, had two s[ons]. and three d[aughter]s. but the dates of b[irth]. are unkn[own]. except that Matthew, perhaps not the eldest, was b[orn]. 1653; was rep[resentative]. of S[aybrook]. often, and of Lyme after the div[ision]. of the old town; call[ed]. hims[elf]. 66 yrs. old in 1684, and d[ied]. Jan. 1699; his wid[ow]. then 79. His s[on]. John d[ied]. young; the d[aughter]s. all m[arried]. Elizabeth 17 Oct. 1670 to John Rogers of New London, the found[er]. of the sect of Rogerenes; and being 12 Oct. 1676 divorc[ed]. from him m[arried]. 5 Aug. 1679, Peter Pratt, wh[o]. d[ied]. 1688, and she had in 1694, third h[usband]. Matthew Beckwith, and bore ch[ildren]. to ea[ch], and d[ied]. July 1727; Ann m[arried]. 2 Sept. 1674, Abraham Brunson of Farmington; and Sarah m[arried]. capt[ain]. Thomas Colton of Springfield. ter the other three brothers followed them. Matthew settled in Saybrook, Connecticut having become an agent of Lord Fenwick. There he received a grant of land in 1645 which became the foundation of a large fortune. There he met and married Anna (or Annah or Hannah) WOLCOTT in 1646. Matthew was a lawyer by profession, though by trade a stone-cutter. He made a stone table over the grave of his father-in-law, and a note in the State Library states that Matthew Griswold thus commemorated the graves of many of the early settlers, but unfortunately there is no monument over his own last resting place in the cemetery at SaybrookDeath:died at home

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