Elizabeth Griswold

  Noted events in her life were:

• Family History: From The Griswold Family of Connecticut, Edward Elbridge Salisbury, 1884, Page 135. I . Elizabeth; born, according to corrected order of names, not later than 1652, and, very likely, from the date of her marriage (early marriages being then usual), in that year; who married: 1st, October 17, 1670, John Rogers of New London, Connecticut; 2d, August 5, 1679, Peter Pratt; and 3d, soon after 1688, Matthew Beckwith. She had two children by her first husband : I . Elizabeth, horn November 8, 1671 ; 2. John, born March 20, 1674; by her second husband she had a son Peter; and by her third marriage, a daughter, Griswold Beckwith.f In 1674 John Rogers, her first husband, departed from the established orthodoxy of the New England churches by embracing the doctrines of the Seventh Day Baptists; and, having adopted, later, "certain peculiar notions of his own," though still essentially orthodox as respects the fundamental faith of his time, became the founder of a new sect, called after him Rogerenes, Rogerene Quakers, or Rogerene Baptists. Maintaining "obedience to the civil government except in matters of conscience and religion," he denounced, "as unscriptural, all interference of the civil power in the worship of God." It seemed proper to give here these particulars with regard to Rogers's views, because they were made the ground of a petition by his wife for a divorce, in May 1675, which was granted by the General Court in October of the next year, and was followed in 1677 by another, also granted, for the custody of her children, her late husband " being so hettridox in his opinion and practice." The whole affair reminds us of other instances, more conspicuous in history, of the narrowness manifested by fathers of New England towards any deviations from established belief; and of their distrust of individual conscience as a sufficient rule of religious life, without the interference of civil authority. There is no reason to believe that the heterodoxy "i n practice," referred to in the wife's last petition to the Court, was aught else than a non-conformity akin to that for the sake of which the shores of their " dear old England " had been left behind, forever, by so many of the very men who forgot to tolerate it, themselves, in their new western homes. Of course, like all persecuted, especially religious, parties, the Rogerenes courted, gloried in, and profited by, distresses. John Rogers always claimed that the Court had taken his wife away from him without reason ; both of his children eventually sympathized with their father, and lived with him.

• Gravestone: From Find a Grave, Jul 1727, Old Lyme, New London, Connecticut. Elizabeth Griswold Beckwith
Birth: 1648 New London County, Connecticut, USA
Death: Jul 1727 (aged 78–79) Old Lyme, New London County, Connecticut, USA
Burial: Duck River Cemetery, Old Lyme, New London County, Connecticut, USA
Memorial #: 192299334
Bio: Note: No burial record has been found for Elizabeth, and she does not have an extant gravestone here. However, of her three husbands, she was married to her third husband by far the longest, and died the same year he died. She is almost certainly buried in this cemetery with him, and he has an extant gravestone here.Elizabeth was the daughter of the immigrant Matthew Griswold and Anna Wolcott of Saybrook and Lyme, Connecticut. She married three times: (1) Lyme 17 Oct 1670 John Rogers of New London; they were divorced 12 Oct 1676; she m. (2) 5 Aug 1679 Peter PRATT, d. 24 March 1688; and she m. (3) c. 1690 Matthew BECKWITH, b. CT 1644, d. Lyme 4 June 1727, in his 84th year. Elizabeth had children with all three husbands.
Family Members
Parents
Matthew Griswold 1620-1698
Anna Wolcott Griswold 1620-1704
Spouse
Matthew Beckwith 1644-1727
Siblings
Annah Griswold Brownson Unknown-1721
Anna or Hannah Griswold Bronson 1647-1721
Hannah (Anna) Griswold Brunson 1655-1721
Sarah Griswold Colton 1657-1690
Created by: Stan Arnold (48121400)
Added: 16 Aug 2018
URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/192299334/elizabeth-beckwith
Citation: Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 29 September 2018), memorial page for Elizabeth Griswold Beckwith (1648–Jul 1727), Find A Grave Memorial no. 192299334, citing Duck River Cemetery, Old Lyme, New London County, Connecticut, USA ; Maintained by Stan Arnold (contributor 48121400) .

Elizabeth married John Rogers on 17 Oct 1670.

Elizabeth next married Peter Pratt on 5 Aug 1679. (Peter Pratt died on 24 Mar 1685.)

Elizabeth next married Mathew Beckwith Jr, son of Mathew Beckwith and Mary, in 1689. (Mathew Beckwith Jr was born about 1645 in Hartford, Connecticut and died on 4 Jun 1727 in New London, Connecticut.)