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their " dear old England " had been left behind, forever, by so many of
the very men who forgot to tolerate it, themselves, in their new western
homes. Of course, like all persecuted, especially religious, parties, the
Rogerenes courted, gloried in, and profited by, distresses. John Rogers
always claimed that the Court had taken his wife away from him without
reason. Both of his children eventually sympathized with their father,
and lived with him.
33 2. MATTHEWS (see below).
34 3. John'^\ who died young, s. p.**
35 4. Sara/i^ \
than 1655 ;
who
born,
according to corrected order of names, not earlier
married, probably before 1675, Thomas Colton (not
George, as commonly said)"' of Springfield, Mass., by whom she had a
36 daughter Sarah,^ born September 25, 1678,'* a "third daughter" Eliza-
37 beth,'^ whose birth-day is unknown, and probably three other children.®
38 5. Aiina;'^ born, according to the family-order of names, not earlier,
and probably, from the date of her marriage, not later, than 1656'° who
married, September 2, 1674, Lieut. Abraham Brownson (as he himself
spelt his name) of Lyme. With this marriage is connected the memory
of an unhappy lawsuit, in which Abraham Brownson and his mother-in-
law united against her only surviving son, the second Matthew Griswold.
This suit has left its traces in various pubhc records, but need not be
recapitulated here. We notice it only for the reference made in an
^^ Anna Griswold and John Griswold appear as witnesses to a deed of sale, among Lyme records,
dated April 25, 1681. The association of names and the date identify this John as the son of Anna
Griswold—showing that, if not born later than 1654, he lived as long as to his twenty-seventh year.
*' Savage's Geneal. Diet., ut supra, i. 438.
«8 Id., ibid.
" Rev. Mr. Buckingham of Saybrook testified, September 7, 1699, "that Mr. Griswold gave Eliza-
beth, third daughter of his daughter Sarah Colton deceased, her one fifth of moveable estate. . .
See Col. Records, Private Controversies, v. doc. 156. MS.
" Her gravestone, in the Meetinghouse Hill Burying-Ground at Lyme, gives the date of her death
(April 13, 1721) without telling her age; but that of her husband, alongside of it, shows that he was
seventy-two years old in 1719, when he died. This suits well enough with the supposition that she was
born in 1656.
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