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Michael Griswold was a landowner in Wethersfield at an early date, possibly in 1640, or soon after. He paid a fence tax in 1647, and in 1659 was the only free- man of the name of Griswold in the town.
A mason by trade, Michael Griswold was elected to many administrative offices in the community, at different times having been constable, assessor and appraiser of lands. He died September 26, 1684, leav- ing estate to the value of six hundred and twenty-eight pounds, one shilling, indi- cating thereby an industrious, thrifty and prudent habit of life. He married Ann , some records giving her patro- nymic as Adams.
(The oldest house now standing in the town of Wethersfield, is that of Michael Griswold, Jr., situated in Back Lane; it is asserted that the house was erected in 1730, or somewhat before that time. The house is in a good state of preservation, and most of the interior woodwork is that which was originally built in, and the stone steps and stone walk leading from the gate to the main hall door are those laid when the building was first erected. The property has remained in unbroken possession of the descendants of the Michael Griswold who, in 1730, or before, caused its erection).
Jacob Griswold, son of Michael and Ann (Adams?) Griswold, was born April 15, 1660, and died July 22, 1737. On De- cember 10, 1685, he married Mary, born October II, 1656, daughter of Robert Francis, freeman of Wethersfield since 1645. She died April 25, 1735, in her seventy-first year. Jacob Griswold was probably the pioneer settler of the locality now designated Griswoldville. Record states that he inherited land there from his father, but presumably his father had not developed that portion of his landed interests. Jacob Griswold also acquired land by purchase. He was a member of the First Congregational Church of Wethersfield.
Major Josiah Griswold, son of Jacob and Mary (Francis) Griswold, was born January 4, 1700-01. He attained "consid-
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erable prominence." His military title arose from his service during the French and Indian wars, when as major, he was staff officer of the First Connecticut Regi- ment, and is said to have taken "a con- spicuous part in the struggle." In peace times he applied himself to agriculture, being possessed of extensive land hold- ings. He died May 9, 1769. His wife, whom he married on August 17, 1727, was Mabel Belden, born February 9, 1707-08, died December 13, 1789.
Their son, Ozias Griswold, was born January 16, 1735, in Griswoldville. The farming of his estate became the main occupation of Ozias Griswold, as it had been that of his father and grandfather. He died December 4, 1815, leaving issue, of which this record is interested in that by his first wife, Anna (on records and gravestone, "Anner"), daughter of Thomas and Mary (Francis) Stanley, of New Britain. She was born February 5, 1722; married December II, 1760; died July 26, 1825.
James Griswold, son of Ozias and Anna (Stanley) Griswold, was born August 21, 1783, and married, January 22, 1812, Lucy, daughter of Wait Robbins. She was born January 13, 1783, and died June 19, 1855. James Griswold, be- sides carrying on a farm, engaged with his brother, Thomas, in the business of dressing cloth.
Albert Clinton Griswold, son of James and Lucy (Robbins) Griswold, was born in Wethersfield, September 4, 1827. He received a superior education, mainly at the Suffield Literary Institute, and entered the teaching profession, engag- ing also to some extent in farming, at the old homestead. During the Civil War, Albert Clinton Griswold conducted a private academy, located in the Marble Block, Central Row, Hartford, and he inaugurated military training as one of
the main essentials of the school cur- riculum. On January 13, 1853, he mar- ried Caroline Louisa, daughter of Wil- liam Goodrich, of Stepney Parish, Weth- ersfield. To them were born six children : I. William Goodrich, born May 4, 1854. 2. Frederick Albert, of whom further. 3. Alma Louisa, who married Dr. Julius E. Griswold. 4. Mary Robbins, who mar- ried Charles E. Buckland, of Hartford. 5. Samuel B., now assistant passenger agent of the Rochester & Pittsburgh Railroad, at Rochester, New York. 6. Ellen Means, who married the Rev. Her- bert Macy, of Newington. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Clinton Griswold were members of the Congregational church at Rocky Hill, the former holding church office as deacon.
Frederick Albert Griswold, son of Albert Clinton and Caroline Louisa (Goodrich) Griswold, was educated in the public schools of his native town. When fourteen years of age he went to Roches- ter, New York, where he was engaged as a clerk in the mercantile establishment of his uncle Frederick Goodrich. He had barely reached his majority when, upon the death of his uncle, he formed a part- nership with the junior member of the firm under the name of Witherspoon & Griswold. In 1885, he sold his inter- est in the business, and returned to Con- necticut, becoming district agent at Hartford, in 1889, for the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, of Mil- waukee. In 1903 he became general agent for northern and eastern Connecti- cut, and in 1906 was given the general agency for the entire State.
On June 18, 1878, Mr. Griswold mar- ried Mary Fosdick, daughter of Henry Allyn and Catherine Skinner (Bacon) Stillman, of Wethersfield. To them, in the many years of their married life, have been born ten children: I. Katharine
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Louisa, born October 24, 1879, at Roches- ter, New York, died October 19, 1907 ; she married Albert H. Wallace, of Mont- clair, New Jersey. 2. Margaret Bacon, born at Rochester, New York, October 29, 1881; she married Webster Kimball Clark, M. D., of Greenfield, Massachu- setts. 3. Albert Clinton, of Wethersfield, who was born at Rochester, New York, February 10, 1884; married Eva Eliza- beth Sauer, of Unionville, Connecticut. 4. Mary Fosdick, who was born at Weth- ersfield, July 30, 1886, and married Bur- ton Mather Mason, of Hartford. 5. Henry Stillman, born at Wethersfield, September 25, 1887; he married Ruth E. Chapman, of Hartford. 6. Charles Dar- row, born at Wethersfield, April 19, 1889; died October 6, 1908. 7. Myron Adams, born at Wethersfield, December 11, 1890; married Gladys Rider, of Danbury, Con- necticut. 8. Frederick Goodrich, born at Wethersfield, February 23, 1892, died July 30, 1892. 9. Alice Webster, born at Wethersfield, May 8, 1893; died March 12, 1917. 10. Elizabeth Darrow, born at Wethersfield, January 25, 1900.
Mr. Griswold is keenly interested in public affairs, and has given active and appreciated allegiance to the Republican party. He has held local, judicial and administrative office; was justice of the peace, and for over twenty years has been a member of the town school com- mittee in Wethersfield, of which body he is now chairman. His personality, as well as his capability in public office, was in recent years made evident by his elec- tion to and activities at the State Legis- lature in 1913. He was a member of the committee on insurance, and was chair- man of the new towns and probate dis- tricts committee. Socially, Mr. Griswold is a member of the Hartford Club, of the Wethersfield Country Club, of which or- ganization he is president; also member of the Hartford Chamber of Commerce.
(The Stanley Line).
Thomas Stanley, born in Farmington, November 27, 1720, married (first), May 22, 1740, Mary, daughter of James and Elizabeth (Howard) Francis. James Francis was born in Wethersfield, Octo- ber 13, 1685; married (first) November 3, 1713, Elizabeth Howard, who died April 13, 1728; resided at Berlin, Con- necticut, where he farmed. His father, John Francis, was born in Wethersfield, September 4, 1658; married (first) Feb- ruary 10, 1680, Sarah Dix, who was born in 1658, and died April 3, 1682; served as sergeant in Colonial army, but main occupation that of farming. He died De- cember 28, 17II. His father, Robert Francis, was born in 1629, probably in England; married, about 1650, Joan , who died January 29, 1705, aged seventy-six years. The records of the town of Wethersfield authenticate the admission of Robert Francis to rank of freeman of the settlement in 1645. Rec- ord also is extant of purchase by him of a tract of land on March 29, 1652, which land he farmed. He was a prominent member of the Congregational church. He attained the age of eighty-three, his demise occurring on January 2, 1712.
Thomas Stanley, who married Mary Francis, was the son of Thomas Stanley. The latter was born in Farmington, Octo- ber 31, 1696; married, January 2, 1718, Esther, daughter of Samuel Cowles, of Kensington. He lived in Stanley Quarter, New Britain, and was reputed wealthy. He died October 13, 1755, aged sixty- nine, his wife surviving him for more than twenty years, her death occurring on July 22, 1776.
His father, Thomas Stanley, was born in Farmington, November 1, 1649. He was one of the petitioners to the General Court for liberty to settle Waterbury, but he did not remove there. On May I, 1690, he married Anna, daughter of Rev.
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Jeremiah and Joanna (Kitchell) Peck, of Waterbury, and both he and his wife joined the Farmington church, April 17, 1692. He died April 14, 1713, and his wife five years later, May 23, 1718. Rev. Jeremiah Peck was the son of Deacon William Peck, of New Haven, a gradu- ate of Harvard, who married, November 12, 1656, Joanna, daughter of Robert Kitchell, of Guilford. Mr. Peck taught school in Guilford, 1656-60. Then for a year or more he had charge of the Hop- kins Grammar School at New Haven, subsequently being appointed minister of Saybrook. In 1665, he removed to New- ark, New Jersey. In 1672 he, with others, purchased land from the Indians in the district now known as Greenwich, Connecticut. He ministered there until 1689-90, when he was called to Water- bury, where he remained as minister until his death, June 7, 1699, he being then aged seventy-seven years.
Thomas Stanley's father was John Stanley, born in England, in 1624. After the death of his father he was placed by the Court under the guardianship of his uncle, Thomas Stanley, until he should reach the age of twenty-one years. The uncle, Thomas Stanley, and his ward of same name, came to Hartford in 1636, in which year the nephew, although at that time only thirteen years of age, joined the expedition against the Pequots. On De- cember 5, 1645, he married Sarah, daugh- ter of Thomas and Anna Scott, of Hart- ford, and settled in Farmington. John Stanley and wife joined the church, Janu- ary 30, 1652-53, and later, when the fami- lies were graded according to dignity, they ranked fourth in a list of forty fami- lies. He was one of the most distin- guished of the colonists, being appointed by his fellow-citizens to nearly every office of trust and honor. He was deputy to the General Court almost continuously
from 1659 to 1696, his in this connection having been one of the longest terms of service in the history of the State. He was generally called Captain Stanley, having gained the title in King Philip's War. He was constable in Farmington in 1654; was sergeant in 1669; ensign, 1674; captain, 1676. For his services to the State, he received a grant of one hun- dred and twenty acres of land from the General Court in 1674, which grant was followed by another in 1687. Captain Stanley was, in 1689, appointed member of the commission on Indian troubles. His first wife died June 6, 1661, but he lived until December 19, 1706. His estate was appraised at three hundred and sixty pounds, seven shillings and six pence, a goodly sum in those days.
His father, John Stanley, embarked for New England in 1634-35, but died on the voyage. The research of the family gene- alogist establishes, with strong probabil- ity, the English origin of the Stanley fam- ily, connecting it with a family of like patronymic resident at that time in the County of Kent, its noble antecedents having entitled it to a coat-of-arms, which it bore.
(The Robbins Line).
Captain Wait Robbins was born in 1744, and died May 15, 1826. He married (first) Hannah, daughter of Captain Jona- than Robbins, who, with two children, was killed by the terrible tornado of August 15, 1787. Captain Wait Robbins was highly esteemed by his fellow-towns- men.
His father, John Robbins, esquire and captain, was born in 1716. Stiles says he was "the historic personage of the Rob- bins line. Tall and well-proportioned in body, possessed of great strength and untiring energy, he was remarkable among his contemporaries for his indus- try, impulsiveness of action and alert-
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ness of mind, qualities which, backed as they were by great wealth for those days, gave him a dominating influence in the community in which he lived, as well as in the other portions of the State. Brought up in the rigid school of Puritan doctrines and manner of life, his iron will governed his domestic affairs with a sternness which permitted of no infrac- tions either of economy, or relaxation of industry." He represented Wethersfield in the General Assembly in May and Oc- tober, 1780, May, 1872, October, 1783, and May, 1789. He was a man of quick wit and possessed a keen sense of humor. He had the courage of his convictions and was a forceful orator, recognized as one of the leaders of the Legislature. He, like most men of prominence in those days, extended hospitality to passing travellers, which probably explains the statement that "he kept a tavern." He owned negro slaves, and "was one of the wealthiest men in the State." Captain Robbins married (first) Martha, the daughter of Captain Jacob Williams, Sr. She died June 10, 1770, in her fifty-fifth year. Captain Robbins, whose military title was gained by meritorious service during the Revolutionary War, died May 31, 1798.
His father, Richard Robbins, was born in 1687, and died February 7, 1738-39. He married, January 11, 1710-II, Mar- tha, the daughter of Sergeant John and Elizabeth (Wright) Curtis. She died on August 21, 1753, in her sixty-third year.
His father, Sergeant John Robbins, was born in 1649, died July 10, 1689; married, April 24, 1675, Mary, who was born February 4, 1644, and died May 19, 1721, daughter of Samuel and Mary (Belts) Boardman. John Robbins was deputy to the General Court in May, 1687.
His father, "John Robins, gentleman,"
appears on the records of the Wethersfield settlement as early as 1638, though it was quite possible that he was a resident of the town prior to that. He is recorded as a townsman in 1652; was member of the General Court in 1653, 1656, 1657 and 1659; died June 27, 1660. He was a man of means and high social position, and tradition has it that his wife Mary was the daughter of Governor Thomas and Elizabeth Welles, but it would seem more probable that she was a sister of Governor Welles.
(The Goodrich Line).
Caroline Louisa (Goodrich) Griswold, wife of Albert Griswold, was born on No- vember 1, 1831. Her father, William Good- rich, was born July 4, 1791 ; married Sally Whitmore in 1813; died April 28, 1864.
His father, William Goodrich, was born October 23, 1760; died July 4, 1837. He married, January 1, 1790, Mehitable Wilkeson, and resided in Rocky Hill.
His father, Ephraim Goodrich, was born September 29, 1722, and died March 13, 1771. He married, November 17, 1748, Rebecca Goodrich, taking up resi- dence in Wethersfield. She died April 23, 1805, in her seventy-seventh year. Ephraim Goodrich lived to exceed the century, his death not coming until April 25, 1826.
His father, Ephraim Goodrich, was born December 21, 1693, and died August 12, 1771. Resided in Glastonbury, and married, on July 10, 1715, Hannah, born March 18, 1697, daughter of James and Hannah (Welles) Steele.
His father, Captain Ephraim Goodrich, was born June 12, 1663. His first wife, whom he married on May 20, 1684, and who died on January 26, 1712, in her for- tieth year, was Sarah, daughter of Major Richard and Sarah (Coleman) Treat.
His father, Ensign William Goodrich,
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was born in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk county, England, a brother of John Good- rich, first recorded November 10, 1643, in Hartford. Probably they came to America together. William's name ap- pears first in connection with his mar- riage on April 4, 1648, to Sarah, daughter of Matthew Marvin. William Goodrich was appointed a constable in Wethers- field, March 7, 1649; was admitted free- man, May 15, 1656; was deputy to the General Court for five sessions, May, 1662, to October, 1666; grand juror, May, 1662; was commissioned ensign of Weth- ersfield train-band, May 11, 1663; and is so styled in all records until his death in 1676, just after the close of King Philip's War. His widow married Cap- tain William Curtis, of Stratford, and died in 1702. An inventory of the estate of William Goodrich placed its value as nine hundred and fifteen pounds, three shillings and six pence, which established the deceased as having been wealthy.
The name of Goodrich is of Saxon and ancient origin. Authentic record makes reference to Goodrich Castle as early as 1204, and in all probability antecedes that. The Domesday Book indicates that the Goodrich family was of standing at the time of the Norman Conquest (1066). A Father Godric was elected Abbott of the Abbey of Croyland in the year 870. The derivation of the word is evidently from the Saxon root god, and the suffix ric, rick, or rich, meaning rich. The early forms of the name were Godric, Goodrich, Guthrich and Goodridge, and its significance is "rich in God, or in good- ness."
(The Stillman Line).
Mrs. Mary Fosdick (Stillman) Griswold was born in Somerset, Ohio, May 4, 1856, the daughter of Henry Allyn and Cath- erine Skinner (Bacon) Stillman.
He was born in Wethersfield, March
2, 1815; married, June 26, 1845, Cath- erine Skinner, daughter of George and Nancy (Skinner) Bacon. George Bacon was born October 22, 1791; married Nancy, daughter of Elisha Skinner, who, vide, the "National Cyclopædia of Amer- ican Biography," served in the commis- sary department during the Revolution, and was “ a descendant of John, one of the original settlers of Hartford, through John, John, and Daniel." John Skinner, who was one of the Hooker party and an original landed proprietor of Hart- ford, probably came from Braintree, Essex county, England. He married Mary, daughter of Joseph Loomis, of Windsor, Connecticut. John Skinner died in 1650.
George Bacon became a member of the firm of Dubois & Bacon, piano man- ufacturers, in 1836, a business still in operation, being embraced in that of the Bacon Piano Company, which is stated to be the oldest piano manufacturers in the country, through its continuance of the businesses of pioneer manufacturers. It may therefore be asserted that the Bacon Company was founded in 1789, by John Jacob Astor, who was succeeded in 1802 by John and Michael Paff; they in turn were succeeded in 1815 by William Dubois, whose partner, George Bacon, became in 1836, under the firm name of Dubois & Bacon. William Dubois began manufacturing pianos in 1820; in 1855 his partner, George Bacon, died.
Richard Bacon, father of George Bacon, was born in 1757. He married Anna Fosdick, who was born in Wethers- field in 1761, and died in 1821 at Dayton, Ohio. She was the daughter of Eze- kiel Fosdick, and granddaughter of Cap- tain Samuel Fosdick, who married at New London, Connecticut, on November I, 1682, Mercy Pickett, who was born on January 16, 1660-61, and died at New
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London, Connecticut, on November 28, 1725, and was the daughter of John and Ruth (Brewster) Pickett. Captain Sam- uel Fosdick was born at Charlestown, Massachusetts, December 15, 1655, and died at New London, Connecticut, Au- gust 27, 1702. He served in the Narra- gansett War; was lieutenant of Foot Company at New London in 1690, and captain in 1697; was deputy to General Court in 1694-98, and again in 1700. "He was one of the owners of Plum Island, and had thereon a farm under cultiva- tion, well stocked and productive." His residence, in what is now called New London, was then known as Fosdick's Neck. His widow married John Arnold. Captain Samuel Fosdick was the son of Sergeant John and Anna (Shapley) Fos- dick, of Charlestown, Massachusetts. Savage says that John Fosdick was in Charlestown in 1677, "son of Stephen, born probably in England, was, I sup- pose, after of Malden, and perhaps that freeman called Serg. Fosdick in 1690; married, 1648, Ann Shapleigh, perhaps daughter of Nicholas."
John Pickett, who married Ruth Brews- ter on March 14. 1651, died at sea while returning from Barbadoes, August 16, 1667. His estate was inventoried at eleven hundred and forty pounds, which ranked him as one of the wealthy mer- chants of New London. His widow mar- ried George Hill.
Ruth Brewster was born October 3, 1631, and died May I, 1677, daughter of Jonathan Brewster. He came in the ship "Fortune" in 1621; married Lucretia Oldham, of Derby, April 10, 1624. He died August 7, 1659, in Preston, Connec- ticut, and is buried in the Brewster ceme- tery there. She died on March 4, 1678-79. In Leyden, Jonathan Brewster was a ribbon-maker. About 1630, he became a resident of Duxbury, Massachusetts, and
represented that town in the General Court in 1639, and also in the four ses- sions, 1641-44. He was one of the prin- cipal men in the settlement of the town and in the establishment of its church. He occasionally practiced before the Court as an attorney, and is also styled "gentleman." He also engaged in the coasting trade, and was master, and probably owner, of a small vessel ply- ing from Plymouth along the coast of Virginia. Thus, he became acquainted with Pequot Harbor, where he traded with the Indians. He was "Clarke of the Towne of Pequitt." In September, 1649, and in that same month the town granted him land which is still known as Brews- ter's Neck. In 1637, he was a military commander in the Pequot War, and in 1642 was a member of the Duxbury Com- mittee, to raise forces against the Nar- ragansetts. He became a member of Captain Myles Standish's Company in 1643, and on February 25, 1649-50, was admitted an inhabitant of New London, Connecticut, settling in that part which later became Norwich. For the sessions of 1650, '55, '56, '57 and '58, he out as deputy in the General Court.
"Mrs. Lucretia Brewster, the wife of Jonathan, was evidently a woman of note and respectability among her compeers. She has always the prefix of honor (Mrs. or Mistress) and is usually presented to view in some useful capacity-an attend- ant upon the sick and dying, as a nurse, doctress or midwife-or a witness to wills and other important transactions."
Elder William Brewster, father of Jon- athan Brewster, was born sometime be- tween the middle of the year 1566 and the middle of 1567; was educated at ,Peter- house, Cambridge; was the assistant of William Davison, Secretary of State to Queen Elizabeth until 1657; returned then to Scrooby, his birthplace, in York-
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shire, where he succeeded to the posi- tion of "Post," in charge of the Court mails, made vacant by the death of his father, William Brewster, in 1590. A conscientious Christian, he was an ardent and courageous supporter of the Inde- pendent (Puritan) church, which sought to remove certain Romanizing practices from the established State church, and the little band of seceders held their meetings, and church services, in Scrooby Manor, the home of William Brewster, who for these activities was, with others of his church, imprisoned. Released eventually, William Brewster went to Holland, where he was made an elder. He was in virtual leadership of the famous "Mayflower" pilgrims, and was regarded as such during their subsequent colonization in this country. Elder Wil- liam Brewster's career will be found recorded elsewhere in this work.
Richard Bacon's ancestry is traced back through Zaccheus Bacon, Nathaniel (second) Bacon. Nathaniel was born in 1659, and his name later was changed to Thomas. He was the son of Nathaniel Bacon, progenitor, who settled in Hart- ford, removing thence to Middletown, where his name appears in the records of 1653. Born in England, the son of William Bacon, of Parish Stretton, Rut- landshire. England, Nathaniel Bacon was one of the pioneer settlers of Middletown. and served as magistrate in New Haven in 1661. His daughter became the wife of Thomas Miller.
Deacon Ebenezer Stillman, father of Henry Allyn Stillman, was born in 1776. His first wife, whom he married on May 16. 1797, was Rhoda, born October 31, 1778, and died April 27, 1833, daughter of Captain John Francis, who was born in Wethersfield, Connecticut, June 20, 1744 (after the death of his eldest brother, John). On September 20, 1764, he mar-
ried Rhoda, daughter of Elias Wright. Rhoda Wright, who died on March 27, 1816, was in the direct line of descent from Thomas Wright, Esquire, who was born in England on November 19, 1610, and came, probably, to Massachusetts, whence he removed to Wethersfield about 1639, and there received a house-lot of three acres on February 1I, 1640. His main estate, however, was an island in the Connecticut river, called by the Indians, Mannahannock, i. e., Great Laughing Place. He was deputy to the General Court in 1643; selectman, 1658; and served in other positions of trust and responsibility. He was made freeman on May II, 1654. He took prominent part in the church dissension which led to the set- tlement of Hadley. Captain John Francis, husband of Rhoda Wright, died May 30, 1824. During his life, he saw much mil- itary service. On July 8, 1776, he enlisted in Captain Aldin's company, Third Regi- ment of Connecticut State Troops, under Colonel Samuel Wyllys, of Hartford. In 1777, he was made a sergeant in the Fourth Company, under Captain Heze- kiah Wells and Colonel Erastus Wolcott ; was commissioned second lieutenant on July 29, 1778, in Captain Elijah Wright's company, Colonel Roger Eno's regiment. In 1780, he was first lieutenant in Captain Samuel Granger's company, attached to Colonel Levi Well's regiment. The fol- lowing year he was made captain of the Wethersfield company of the Provisional Regiment. He saw service along the Hudson river. Long Island sound, and elsewhere. Holding the confidence and esteem of all who knew him, he was sub- sequently elected to many civil offices ; was in 1800 elected a deputy to the Gen- eral Court.
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