Hugh Griffin

- 1656

• Name	Hugh Griffin  [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	21 Jun 1656	Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [1]
  Alternate death	27 Jun 1656	Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [3]
  Person ID	I26362	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of LDN
  Last Modified	5 Sep 2019

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth   d. 8 Nov 1688
  Marriage	Bef Mar 1640  [1, 4]
  Children	+ 1. Jonathan Griffin,   b. 22 Jun 1647, Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 2 Feb 1685, Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age 37 years)
  Family ID	F15770	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2025

  
  

• Notes

  One of the first settlers of Sudbury, where he was the first town clerk. Mary Walton Ferris (citation details below) describes him as "a kindly man."

  
  

• Sources

  [S647] Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines by Mary Walton Ferris. Volume 1, 1943; volume 2, 1931. [S2318] The Ancestry of Samuel Blanchard Ordway by Dean Crawford Smith; edited by Melinde Lutz Sanborn. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1990. [S526] The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts, With Some Related Families of Adjoining Towns and of York County, Maine, by David W. Hoyt. Providence, Rhode Island, 1897-1916. [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011., year only.