John GRISWOLD

John married Hannah LEE on 23 Jun 1714. Hannah (daughter of Thomas LEE and Mary DE WOLF) was born on 25 Feb 1695; died on 11 May 1773. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Phebe GRISWOLD was born about 1716; died on 26 Dec 1770.
2. Hannah GRISWOLD was born on 10 Jan 1724 in Lyme, New London Co., Connecticut; died on 16 Aug 1772 in Norwich, New London, Connecticut, USA.

Matthew married Phebe HYDE on 21 May 1683. Phebe (daughter of Samuel HYDE and Jane LEE) was born in Jan 1663 in Norwich, New London, Connecticut, USA; died on 29 Nov 1704 in Lyme, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Matthew Griswold was born in Kenilworth, Warwickshire, the home of his father, George Giswold, in 1620, and immigrated to America with his elder brother, Edward, in 1639. Both settled Windsor. Another brother, Thomas, remained in the old English homestead. Matthew was then only nineteen years of age. In 1646, October 16th, he married Anna, daughter of Henry Wolcott of Windsor, also born in 1620, and soon after removed to Saybrook as agent for Governor Fenwick. He took up the first lands in Lyme, among which was the large tract on Long Island Sound, east of the Connecticut River, know as "Black Hall." Later on he became one of the largest landholders and wealthiest men in that town. He was deputy to the General Court in 1654, and again in 1697-8. the Griswold family of Lyme is believed to be descended from the ancient heraldic family of Greswolds, in Warwickshire, and entitled to use the same arms. Matthew died in 1698 and was buried at Saybrook. His wife did about 1701.

Matthew married Anna WOLCOTT on 16 Oct 1646. Anna (daughter of Henry WOLCOTT, Sr. and Elizabeth SAUNDERS) was born in 1620; died in Jan 1700. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Daughter of Henry Wolcott of Windsor, Conn.

Samuel married Jane LEE in Jun 1659. Jane was christened on 12 Sep 1640 in Rusper, Sussex. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Daughter of Thomas Lee and ? Brown

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"Families of Early Guilford Connecticut": Five brothers, born in Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England, four came to America. They are Thomas, of Kenilworth, England - Esquire; Edward, born 1607 of Windsor and Killingworth, Conn; Francis, Cambridge, Mass.; Michael of Wethersfield, Conn.; and Matthew of Windsor and Lyme,. Conn.

George married ? UNKNOWN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Son of John Wolcott of Tolland near Taunton, Somersetshire, England

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By the decease of his elder brother, Christopher, in 1639, he inherited the family estate including the manor house Galdon Hall, but this occurred after his removal to America. The earlier part of his life was spent in the ordinary pursuits of a country gentleman, but becoming converted to Puritanism, he, like hundreds of others, sought refuge in America. Although past 52 years of age at the time and with a family of young children, he joined the part of Maverick and Warham, which emigrated in 1630. it is said he had visited New England two years earlier and returned for his family. He took with him his wife and three sons, leaving behind two daughters and the youngest son, aged 5. On October 19th of this same year, his name appears in a list of those desiring to be made Freemen of Boston and he was sworn May 14, 1634. May 14, 1634, the General Court of Massachusetts granted him and two others liberty "to looke out fiermes for themselves," etc. He first settled at Dorchester, but in 1636 left that place with Warham's party to found Windsor. In February, 1637-8 he was appointed collector of the Rates for Windsor and April 11, 1639, he was one of the so-called Committee of the General Court. At the court of Election held april 13, 1643, he became a magistrate or Assistant, to which office he was annually chosen until his death. After the pastor, he was the most important citizen of Windsor. he is one of the twelve whom Trumbull calls the civil and religious Fathers of Connecticut. It has been said that he inherited a considerable estate in England, but these accounts have doubtless been exaggerated. At his death, his property was inventoried at L764-8-10. In the ancient "Family Chronologie," it is recorded of him and his wife, "these both dyed in hops and Ly buried under one tomb in Windsor." (N.E. reg., 9 p. 338; Ibid., 5, pp. 463-4; Stiles' Ancient Windsor, 2, p. 799; N.E. Reg., I, p. 251; Address by the Rev. Peter Clark Wolcott, Aug. 1911, before the Society of the Descendants of Henry Wolcott.)

Henry married Elizabeth SAUNDERS on 19 Jan 1606. Elizabeth was christened on 20 Dec 1584; died on 7 Jul 1655. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Dau. of Thomas Saunders of Lydiard, St. Lawrence Somersetshire, England

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• Residence: 1659, Removed to Saybrook, Conn.
• Residence: Abt 1660, Removed to Norwich, Conn.

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Excerpt from New England Families: William was among the founders of Hartford, Connecticut, and his name is on the monument to the first settlers there. He was a man of considerable importance and wealth for his day, and was frequently selectman and held other places of trust.

"Hyde Genealogy": The name of William Hyde, first appears at hartford, Conn., in 1636. And his name is on the monument in the old cemetery at that place as one of the original settlers; and he had lands assigned to him there.

Many families of the name of Hyde had been settled in different parts of England for five or six hundred years prior to the settlement of New England. One of the names, Sir Nicholas Hyde, was chief justice of the court of King's Bench in 1626; another, Sir Robert Hyde, was chief justice of the court of common pleas in 1660. And a third, Sir Edward Hyde, afterwards the Earl of Clarendon, was lord chancellor at the restoration, 1660; and was the grandfather of Queen Mary the 2d, and Queen Ann, and of Edward hyde, Lord Cornbury, who was one of the provincial governors of New York.

William Hyde the first of Norwich, was a contemporary of Sir Robert Hyde and of the Earl of Clarendon; but was undoubtedly of humbler origin. I have not been able to ascertain from what part of England he came; to what family he belonged; or where he first landed in this country, or the precise time when he arrived here. He probably, however, came over in 1633, with the Rev. Thomas Hooker, the first minister of hartford; sojourned a short time at Newton, Mass., and removed with him to Hartford, in 1636. The time of his removal to Saybrook, is not ascertained, but he owned lands in Hartford as late as 1639. He probably went to Saybrook soon after that, and his dau. was m. there early in 1652. No information has been obtained as to the name of his wife, or when or where she died. ....

William married ? UNKNOWN about 1630 in London, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]