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Rev. Dr. Trumbull, in his " History of Connecticut," i. 227, note, says :
" Some of the [Wolcott] family have been Members of the Assembly,
Judges of the Superior Court, or Magistrates, from the first settlement of
the colony to this time—A. D. 1797—during the term of more than a
century and a half." According to Mr. J. Hammond Trumbull, LL.D.,
Governor William Pitkin " belonged to a family in which the honors of
office seemed to have become hereditary. A Pitkin sat at the Council-
board for three-quarters of a century, six or seven years only excepted."
A similar remark might be applied to the public life of the Griswolds and
Trumbulls.
Among the connections of Mrs. Griswold, not mentioned, have been
many men eminent in the learned professions, judges of other courts, mem-
bers of both Houses of Congress, eminent merchants, militar)^ officers of
high rank, etc.
PROFESSOR JOHN STRONG NEWBERRY, of the School
of Mines in Columbia College, is a great grandson of her sister Elizabeth
Wolcott, who married Capt. Roger Newberry of Windsor, Conn.
PROFESSOR SIMON GREENLEAF, the distinguished Profes-
sor of law in Harvard University, was her grandnephew through her hus-
band. Mr. GEORGE GRIFFIN, the eminent lawyer of New York,
and the famous REV. DR. EDWARD DORR GRIFFIN, were of the
same Wolcott and Griswold lineage as herself and her husband.
CHRISTOPHER PARSONS WOLCOTT of Ohio, who was
Attorney-General of Ohio, afterwards Judge-Advocate-General, and died
when Assistant Secretary of War, was her great grandnephew.
Governor Roger Wolcott, Mrs. Griswold's father (I. i), was Major-
General second in command of the Connecticut troops in the expedition
to Cape Breton, and in the siege and capture of Louisburg, in 1745.
Judge Erastus Wolcott (II. 3), and Governor Oliver Wolcott (I. 2) her
brother, were Brigadier-Generals in the Revolution. ROGER NEW-
BERRY, son of Captain Roger and Elizabeth (Wolcott) Newberry,
General in the Revolution, and long a Member of the Governor's Council,
was her nephew. Judge Parsons (II. 12) was Major-General in the
Revolution, and was a member of the Court Martial selected by Wash-
ington for the trial of Major AndrcJ.
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