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187 (5.) John^ born August 14, 1783 ; an affluent Shipping Merchant of
New York, head of the famous old line of London packet-ships which
bore his name. He was a tall, finely formed man with a very noble hand-
some face. He married: first, May 16, 1814, Elizabeth Mary daughter of
General Zachariah Huntington of Norwich, Conn.; and, secondly, in 1826,
Louisa Wilson of Newark, N. J., an English lady, who survived him ;
died August 4, 1856, j. /.
and
In memory of Mrs. Elizabeth Mary (Huntington) Griswold the
following lines were written by Mrs. Sigourney
" She was as a rose
Gathered in loveliness 'mid perfumed flowers,
And warbling birds of love, yet drooping still
For the pure breath of that celestial clime
Where summer hath no cloud. She with firm hand
Grasped the strong hope of everlasting life,
And then, in trembling yet confiding trust.
Did dare the waves of Death's tempestuous flood."'"
(6.) Mary Ann^ born February 25, 1786; who married, November
6, 1809, Levi H. Clark of Middletown, Conn., a lawyer; and died January
189 31, 1812. Mrs. Elisabeth Brainerd^ (Clark) White, widow of Bushnell
White Esq., a lawyer of Cleveland, Ohio ("a very brilliant man and a
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magnetic speaker"), and mother oi John Griswold"^ White, is her daughter.
191 (7.) Charles Chandler^ born November 9, 1787; who married, July
10, 1822, his third cousin Elizabeth daughter of Thomas Griswold of the
Giant's Neck branch (see above) ; by whom he had, with other children,
Elizabeth Diodate (69), who married Judge William Griswold Lane, and
Sarah Johnson (70), who married Lorillard Spencer; and died January 27,
1869, leaving a widow who died, in Lyme, December 19, 1888.
In early life Charles Chandler Griswold was in business in Savannah ;
but he returned to his family-property at Blackball, where he removed his
father's house, and built a large modern mansion, retaining near it, for his
"* Hyde Genealogy, ut supra, ii. 88.V
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