Richard GRINNELL

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• Birth: 1675

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Patience was the great granddaughter of Anthony Emory who came to America from Romsey Hants England, in 1635 and settled in Kittery, Maine. His daughter Rebecca Emory married first Robert Weymouth, second Thomas Sadler and third Daniel Eaton of Little Compton. A son of rebecca by the second marriage, Joseph Sadler, assumed his mother's maiden name when he ran away to sea. He married Elizabeth Washburne, daughter of Philip and Elizabeth (Irish) Washburne of Bridgewater, Mass.

In the year 1701 Richard Grinnell bought William Palmer for 100 pounds the 14th great lot in Little Compton containing 100 acres. Richard Grinnell's will, executed 9 Dec. 1723 and proved 20 July 1725: "To wife Patience one third of the movables and a third of the income of real estate for life. To son George 100 acres of land in Little Compton, two cows, 40 sheep and the old mare, he paying daughter Rebecca 50 pounds at age.' To son William the house and land that formerly belonged to my grandfather-in-law, Daniel Eaton. To son Richard house and land where I now dwell and 40 sheep, he paying daughters Patience, Ruth and Sarah 50 pounds each at age. To son Daniel the house and land he bought of Daniel Irish and other land and 40 sheep....He also owned two Negro slaves, Toby and Phillis.

Richard married Patience EMERY on 25 May 1704 in Little Compton, Rhode Island. Patience (daughter of Joseph EMERY and Elizabeth WASHBURNE) was born in 1681; died on 10 Mar 1749 in Little Compton, Newport County, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. George GRINNELL was born on 23-25 Jan 1705 in Little Compton, Newport County, Rhode Island; died in 1768 in Little Compton, Newport County, Rhode Island.
2. Daniel GRINNELL was born on 20 Apr 1721 in Little Compton, Rhode Island.

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He was a maister. In 1656 he bought 30 acres of farm property in Portsmouth and on 8 June 1657 was received as an inhabitant of Portsmouth. In 1687 he left the island and took up his residence in Little Compton. In 1688 he deeded to his son Daniel Jr. the south half of the 13th lot in the grand division of Little Compton, and in 1694 to his son richard the other half of this lot. It was one of the one hundred acre great lots of the first purchase. In 1702 Richard sold this to his father with 100 acres more, but on 6 July 1703 Daniel re-conveyed to the son, and appears no more of record.

Daniel married Mary WODELL. Mary was born in Nov 1640. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Daughter of William and Mary Wordell

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He was the son of Jean Grenelle, Lord of Pimont, keper of the government salt stores and counsellor to the King. Jean inherited from his parents the estate of Pimont and a residence at Tounurs, and was also general heir at law of Claude Grennelle, his brother.

Mathew embraced the Protestant religion and from this fact was obliged to emigrate. He settled in Rhode Island.

He was admitted 20 May 1638 as an inhabitant of Newport. Five years later, 10 Nov 1643, his widow Rose made ante-nuptial agreement with Anthony Paine, then of Portsmouth, whose wife she became. She deeded to her three sons Mathew, Thomas and Daniel, two....goats apiece and to her son Mathew a cow; also it was agreed that upon the death of either the property of the one deceased should go to the children of that person.

The first of the American Grinnells, Matthew, who is found at Newport, Rhode Island, as early as 1638, was a French Huguenot of noble birth, as shown by the history of the family of Pierre Grenelle, born about 1480, which has been published in Paris. This work, compiled by M. De la Ramee, director of the Heraldic and Biographic Institute of France, and a number of different learned societies, forms a part of the "Authentic Collection of Genealogical Histories of Noble and Title Families of France." The book contains copies of numerous birth and marriage certificates, extracts from wills, deeds, etc., to prove all facts, step by step. According to this work, the family of Grenelle originated in the Duchy of Bourgogne, where its members have occupied positions of importance, and where they were Lords of Pimont and La Grange-Gourmond.

Matthew was the only one to came to America. the others remained Catholics, and their descendants, it is said, are still to be found in the Province of Bourgogne.

Matthew married Rose ?. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]