Mathew Griswold

  Noted events in his life were:

• Biography: From Payne-Joyce Genealogy. Matthew Griswold. Born in Kennilworth, Warwickshire. Matthew died on 27 Sep 1698 in Lyme, CT. Buried in Saybrook, CT.

Matthew came to Windsor, CT, 1739. He removed 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 was largely instrumental in the movements which led up to the settlement of Lyme, on the 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. His landed possessions soon assumed baronial proportions, especially upon the shores of Long Island Sound, where, near the mouth of the Connecticut River, he established ‘Blackball,’ since the family seat of the Griswolds of Lyme.”

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• Family History: From The Griswold Family of Connecticut, Edward Elbridge Salisbury, 1884, Page 135. THE GRISWOLD FAMILY OF CONNECTICUT

Matthew Griswold died in his house at Lyme [September 27, 1698], was buried at Saybrook; his gravestone is not to be found." Mrs. Griswold survived him, and was living September 17, 1700, when she and her sonin-law Abraham Brownson were both cited to appear before the New London County Court, as administrators of her husband's estate; but she had, probably, died before May 22, 1701, when Brownson was summoned alone as administrator, by the same Court. Her age in 1699 was seventynine years.

Matthew and Anna (Wolcott) Griswold had five children, named in the following order in a family-record: Sarah, Matthew, John, Elizabeth, Anna. But neither the fairiily-papers nor the existing public records of Windsor, Saybrook, or Lyme (all of which have been consulted) give us their birth-days, excepting that of Matthew, who was born in 1653. This date being given, it is immediately evident that the order of names, at one point at least, should be changed; for, if Elizabeth was the second child born after Matthew, her birth could not have occurred before 1655, whereas she was first married in 1670—which is quite improbable. Accordingly, I shall assume an order which seems likely to be nearer the truth, as follows:

Elizabeth
Mathew
John
Sarah
Anna

Mathew married Anna Wolcott. (Anna Wolcott was born in 1624 and died on 29 Nov 1704 in New London, Connecticut.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Marriage: From Payne-Joyce Genealogy page, 16 Oct 1646, Windsor, Connecticut. 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), in Windsor, CT.109 Born ca 1624. Anna died on 29 Nov 1704 in New London, CT.

Their children include:
i. Elizabeth Griswold (ca 1652-27 Jul 1727)
ii. Matthew Griswold (1653-13 Jan 1716)
iii. John Griswold (Died young)
iv. Anna Griswold (ca 1656-13 Apr 1721)
v. Sarah Griswold (25 Sep 1657-12 Sep 1690)

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