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Commissioner.^ In 1678 he was on a committee for establishing a Latin
School in New London.'^' He was the first Deacon of the church of
Killingworth.
He was twice married : first, in England, to Margaret , who
died August 23, 1670;^ and secondly, in 1672 or 1673, to the widow of
James Bemis of New London. " Before coming to Windsor he had
5-8 Fi-ancis,^ George,'^ John ^ and Sarah,^ probably all born in England ;
and
he had at Windsor " three sons and three daughters—all, as appears by
their days of birth or baptism recorded at Windsor, by his first marriage.^
His son Francis (5) is found to have been at Saybrook in 1655-56,^
but was one of the first proprietors of Norwich, settled in 1660, taking
"an active part in the affairs of the plantation ;"^ and from 1661 inclusive
to 1671 was a Deputy to the General Court.^ He died in 1671,^ leaving
several children, of whom a daughter, Margaret'^ (b. 1668), married
Thomas Buckingham, son of Rev. Thomas of Saybrook, in 1691.^
George (6), son of Edward, Griswold, was a freeman of Windsor in
1669,^ and seems to have lived there permanently. He died in 1704,"
'» The Public Records of the Col. of Conn. .
. . 1678-1689. ... By J. Hammond Trum-
bull. . . . Hartford, 1859, pp. i, 3, 5, 26, 48, 49, 75, 76, 97, 121, 139, 140, 169, 195, 230, 237, 251.
'^'^
1866, p. 92.
History of Norwich. ... By Frances Manwaring Caulkins. Published by the Author,
'^ " Her gravestone stands in the Clinton Congregational Burying-Ground, with the letters M. G.,
and is called the oldest monument."—W. H. B.
'' Savage's Geneal. Diet., ut supra, ii. 316 ; and
Stiles's Anc. Windsor, ut supra, p. 640. The
existing records of Kenilworth give baptisms of children of Edward Griswold, as follows :
George, 1633 ; Sarah, 1635 ; Liddia, 1637.
^ Caulkins's Hist, of Norwich, ut supra, p. 53.
" Id., p. 177-
"" Id., p. 84.
" Id., p. 132.
'* Stiles's Anc. Windsor, ut supra, p. 640 ; and
Sarah,
1631 ;
Geneal. Diet. ... By James Savage. Boston,
i860, i. 285.
" The Public Records of the Col. of Conn., 1665-1677, ut supra, p. 519.
"* Stiles's Anc. Windsor, ut supra, p. 641.