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with them English traditions and habits of social life : differences of social
grade between the families were accepted from the first, and have been
maintained ever since. This is another strong proof that Balthasar was
not of any other nationality than their own :
with their strong insular
prejudices it is difficult to conceive that these families should have so
soon received as one with themselves a foreigner and his family.
Lieut. Thomas Lee, who by or before 1680 married Mary daughter of
Balthasar De Wolf, was next to the first Matthew Grisvvold the largest
landholder and most leading man in Lyme. As we have already said,
she, when left a widow, became the second wife of the second Matthew
Griswold, a man of good family and large estate, the principal man of the
town. His son, afterwards Judge John Griswold, married her daughter
Hannah Lee, who became the mother of Governor Matthew Griswold,
and ancestress of all the Blackball line of Griswolds. The family-names
of the wives of Edward and Stephen De Wolf and those of their sons
are not recorded, except in one case, in which it is stated that Edward's
son Benjamin^ married Susannah Douglass of New London, daughter of
one of the most respectable early settlers.
Fuller records of the names in Simon's family are given than of the
other two brothers ; which may be accounted for by the fact that his mar-
riage to Sarah Lay daughter of the second John Lay, one of the great
landholders of the town, established his branch in easier circumstances
than those of the other brothers. His daughter Phoebe ^ married Joseph
Mather, son of Richard Mather of Lyme, great grandson of the dis-
tinguished scholar and gentleman Rev. Richard Mather of England, who
settled in Dorchester, Mass. Simon* son of his son Josiah^ married Lucy
Calkins daughter of Deacon Hugh Calkins, a Deputy to the General
Court and an influential man in New London.
Simon's son Josiah married Anna daughter of Serg. Thomas Water-
man, one of the original proprietors of Norwich, Conn., a man of sub-
stance, whose wife Miriam Tracy, daughter- of Thomas Tracy, a wealthy
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