Mary GRISWOLD

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Mary married Jeremiah BIRGE on 1 Jan 1718 in Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut. Jeremiah (son of John BIRGE and Hannah WATSON) was born in 1686; died on 15 Sep 1776. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Daniel married Mindwell BISSELL on 3 Feb 1680 in Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut. Mindwell (daughter of Nathaniel BISSELL and Mindwell MOORE) was born in 1663; died in 1728. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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BIOGRAPHY: History:In 1649 he moved to Poquonic where he had purchased land from the Indians. Being six miles from Windsor, there was no protection from danger. From the records, we find this family was never molested. Probably because he dealt honestly and fairly with the Indians, they respected him. George was made a freeman in 1669, was a large landowner and a man greatly respected. He was a sturdy active citizen but did not aspire to political office. Records show that in 1676 he contributed to the poor of other colonies; in 1679 he had a warehouse on the north side of the River near the ferry; and in 1685 he was mentioned in Windsor patent. He engaged in trade with England and the West Indies. BIOGRAPHY: Estate: His estate is given in Hartford Probate VII:108; IX:10,11; Manwaring II:70. Inventory was taken October 2, 1704. An agreement made by the widow and children for the settlement of the estate is recorded. This agreement also mentions his granddaughter Abigail Griswold and daughters Mary Cooley and Deborah Moore.

George married Mary HOLCOMBE on 3 Oct 1655 in Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut. Mary (daughter of Thomas HOLCOMBE and Elizabeth FERGUSON) was born on 4 Apr 1635 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts; died on 4 Apr 1708 in Poquonock, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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CONFLICT: Source lists her birth place as Dorchester (now Windsor,Hartford,CT.)

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Nathaniel married Mindwell MOORE on 25 Sep 1662 in Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut. Mindwell (daughter of John MOORE and Abigail PINNEY) was born on 10 Jul 1643 in Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut; died on 24 Nov 1682 in Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Occupation: Killingworth, New London, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America; Attorney, Deputy to the General Court, Magistrate, Captain
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• Arrival: Abt 17 Aug 1639, Windsor, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America
• Residence: 1649, Poquonock, Windsor, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America; Granted Land
• Founded Killingworth: 1666, Killingworth, New London, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America
• Freeman: 1669, Killingworth, New London, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America

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Related to Charles Gates Dawes (1865-1951) U.S. Vice President (1925-1929), Ambassador to Great Britain (1929-1931), Nobel Peace Prize recipient 1925, banker, Comptroller of the Currency, attorney, and author.

Lt. Col. Rufus R. DAWES (d. 1899) and Mary Beman GATES (1842-1921)
Beman GATES (1818-1894) and Betsy Sybil SHIPMAN (1816-1895) [see below]
Aaron GATES (1780-1850) and Ruth BEMAN (1784-1858)
Daniel BEMAN and Abigail ACKLEY (1761-1805)
Thomas BEMAN and Lydia ROBERTS (1735-1809)
Samuel BEMAN (1704-1753) and Sarah PINNEY (1707-1783)
Nathaniel PINNEY (1671-1764) and Martha THRALL (1673-p1710)
Nathaniel PINNEY (1640-1676) and Sarah GRISWOLD (1635-1715)
Edward GRISWOLD (1607-1691) and Margaret (d. 1670) <../ancestries/phelps.htm>

Edward married Margaret BLENCOW (HICKS) in 1629 in Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England. Margaret was born in 1609-1611 in Marston, St. Lawrence, Northamptonshire, England; died on 23 Aug 1670 in Clinton, Middlesex, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Genevieve Tylee Kiepura writes in "Griswold Ancestry in England" (The American Genealogist 39:176-180) that "Edward GRISWOLD m. Margaret BLENCOW of Marston St. Lawrence, co. Northampton, dau of John BLENCOW and his wife Mary WALLISON." However, in "Note on the Ancestry of the Griswolds of Connecticut" (The American Genealogist 40:43-44), John G. Hunt conclusively shows that the Edward GRISWOLD who married Margaret BLENCOW is not the immigrant to CT, and Genevieve Tylee Kiepura concurs. The Griswold Family Association identifies the husband of Margaret BLENCOW as Edward GRESWOLD (1594-1633) son of Thomas GRESWOLD and Elizabeth SHUCKBURGH - this Edward being father of the American immigrant Michael GRISWOLD of Wethersfield, CT.

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• Immigration: 1633, Dorchester, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America; Migration 1633-Arrived a Dorchester, Massachusetts-Anderson's Great Migration.
• Residence: 1634, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America; Freeman 14 May 1634
• Religion: 14 May 1634, First Parish Church of Dorchester, Massachusettes Bay Colony, Massachusetts; Membership
• Land Paquannick: 25 Dec 1640

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BIOGRAPHY: Although Thomas Holcomb and most of his descendants usually spell the name "Holcomb", it bears an "e" on Dorchester and Boston records. BIOGRAPHY: History:The sources on Thomas Holcombe differ considerably on Thomas' ancestry. Thomas was born in England, most probably in one of the southwestern counties, Pembrokeshire, Wiles, or Devonshire. We do not know the date of his birth but his wife seems to have been born about 1617 and their first child born about 1634: McCracken believes this would place his birth somewhere about 1610; Seaver says 1601. Seaver and other early researchers think that Thomas was born to Gilbert and Ann Courtney Holcomb. George McCracken Writing in the "American Genealogist" Vol 26:109, found that Gilbert Holcomb's oral will stated d.s.p. which meant died without issue and that Gilbert left his estate to his brother-in-law, Richard Bonithon. McCracken's research is based on J.L. Vivian's "The visitations of the County Devon", on pages 474 and 533. Jesse Seaver thought that English records indicated that Thomas Holcomb was born in Pembrokeshire, Wales or Devonshire, England to Ann and Gilbert Holcomb. BIOGRAPHY: Thomas is thought to have come on the 1630 voyage of the "Mary and John", (Our Heritage Vol.III) but there is no proof of it. In March, 1630, he was in a company which assembled at Plymouth, Devonshire, where a large ship of 400 tons, chartered by Captain Squeb, for the voyage to America. It is thought that ship was the "Mary and John". On whatever ship they crossed, Thomas was in Massachusetts Bay by 4 May 1634 on which dat he became a freeman, and he is recorded as a resident of Dorchester. Refer to Internet printout for additional information. dl In the Spring of 1636, Reverend John Warham left Dorchester and came to Windsor,Connecticut, bringing his flock, including Thomas Holcomb, with him. Before leaving Dorchester Thomas sold his estate to Richad Jones (12 Aug 1635). Later, 1639, he moved to Poquonock, Hartford, CT., four miles west of Windsor, where he engaged in Farming. He was a Representative from Windsor and Hartford in the Convention that framed the now famous Constitution of the Connecticut C olony. Thomas died at Windsor. His grave is located in an old cemetary near the old homestead at Poquonock. His grave was marded by a brown stone about 2X4 feet in size. The stone, having crumbled with age, was removed. It was replaced with a new marker that was inscribed with family information, much of which is wrong. There is a story of the tombstone reported by a Mrs. Carrie Marshall Kendrick who lived on Poquonock Ave in Windsor that there was formerly a small cemetery by her house in which Thomas Holcombe was buried in Oct 1657. Members of the Holcomb family "later"removed to what is now Granby and took with them Thomas Holcomb's tombstone, if not his remains also and inserted the 1657 stone into an obelisk-type monument in the Granby Street Cemetery in Granby. Mrs. Kendrick further stated, that after C.G. Flanders reported on all the stones of that graveyard in 1934, that family members had demolished the obelisk-type monument and replaced it with a modern granite monument, and the original slab was then thrown into a dump. The inscription on the new stone is as follows: THOMAS HOLCOMB, BORN IN ENGLAND, DIED OCT. 1657 THOMAS, HIS SON, DIED 1736 ELIZABETH PETTEBONE, HIS WIFE DIED 1740 DANIEL, THEIR SON DIED 1760 ESTHER BUEL, HIS WIFE DIED 1765 DANIEL, THEIR ONLY SON, DIED OCT. 12 1836 AE 85 SARAH, HIS WIFE, DIED SEPT. 5, 1835 AE 54 HEPZIBAH GRISWOLD, HIS WIFE, DIED JULY 11, 1814 AE 33 GAYLORD G., THEIR 2ND SONE, DROWNED, JULY 4 1844 AE 50 On the reverse side under Masonic emblem: ALFRED E. HOLCOMB, AUG. 5, 1867 - SEPT.13, 1956 MABLE METCALF, HIS WIFE, NOV. 26, 1881 - MAY 7, 1956 EDMUND HOLCOMB, DIED DEC. 20, 1874 AE 74 ELIZA M., HIS WIFE, DIED SEPT. 12, 1862 AE 55 EMILY H., HIS WIFE, DIED JULY 21, 1914 AE 82 DANIEL E., ONLY CHILD OF EDMUND AND ELIZA, DIED CAROLINE H. CASE, DIED OCT. 3 1911 AE 47 The data on the north side of the stone contain a number of errors. Thomas Holcomb had no sone named Thomas, and, though C.G. Flanders must have seen a stone for the son, with the date of death, given as 1736, he shows no first name. Thomas did have a son who died in 1736, Benajah. Benajah, however, married Sarah Eno, not Elizabeth Pettebone, and though there were Holcomb-Pettebone marriages, no Elizabeth Pettebone married any Holcomb in the period. Some researchers feel that son Joshua belongs on the stone in place of non-excistant Thomas. BIOGRAPHY: His property was inventoried 1 Oct, 1657, the inventory came to 294/9/8 Pounds. The surviving children are listed with ages as Joshua (17), Benajah (13), Nathaniel (9), Abigail (19), Deborah (5-7), but this overlooks the two eldest daughters Elizabeth and Mary who were already married. See Printout for more information. dl BIOGRAPHY: 10 children of whom 3 died in childhood. There is a record which suggests there may have been an older son named John. Son Nathaniel had a son Nathaniel recorded at Springfield on 11 June 1673, but the same Vital Records attribute the birth of a daughter Sarah on 6 Oct 1673 to a John Holcum. Nothing more is known of this John, either at Springfield or Windsor. It could have been an error by the town clerk at Springfield and the surname Holcum is wrong. Some researchers think John may have gone to Virginia. BIOGRAPHY: James Eno, with his three children, came to live at the Holcomb house, after the death of his first wife, and his marriage to Elizabeth. CONFLICT: http://claim.goldrush.com/~humbert lists Adm.Essex Holcombe and John Holcombe along with children of Thomas as generation 16. Who are they? dl CONFLICT: Beckler lists birth place as England.

Thomas married Elizabeth FERGUSON on 14 May 1634 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Elizabeth (daughter of Thomas FERGUSON and Elizabeth) was born in 1617 in Of Warwick, Warwickshire, England; died on 7 Oct 1679 in Simsbury, Hartford County, Connecticut; was buried on 8 Oct 1679 in Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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BIOGRAPHY: The Bissell family lived in Lincolnshire, England with children Mary, John Jr., and Thomas. They emigrated to America and the Plymouth Colony in 1628 where Samuel was born. Later settled at Windsor,CT. where Joyce and Nathaniel were born. BIOGRAPHY: Ran a ferry called 'Bissells Ferry'. He was a Capt. of the Troops in King Phillips War, 1676 and Horse Troop in 1677 until his death. CONFLICT: Wife in two WFT 9-1500 and 9-608 is noted to have been Mary Drake not Elizabeth Thompson, Also another Wife is Listed as Abigail Moore.

John married Mary DRAKE in 1625 in France. Mary was born in 1598 in Somerset, Somersetshire, England; died on 21 May 1642 in Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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John married Abigail PINNEY on 16 Jun 1637-1639 in Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut. Abigail was born in 1618-1620 in Of Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut; died after 22 Dec 1677 in Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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