Deacon Edward Griswold

Bef 1607 - 1691  (> 83 years)

• Name	Deacon Edward Griswold  [1]
  Birth	Bef 26 Jul 1607	Wooten Wawen, Warwickshire, England   [2, 3, 4]
  Baptism	26 Jul 1607	Wooten Wawen, Warwickshire, England   [2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	1691	Killingworth, Middlesex, Connecticut   [5]
  Person ID	I1678	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of BJS, Ancestor of TNH, Ancestor of TWK
  Last Modified	23 Jun 2022

  
  

  Father	George Griswold,   b. Bef 6 Nov 1574, Wooten Wawen, Warwickshire, England d. Aft 1620 (Age > 47 years)
  Mother	Dousabel Leigh   d. Bef 28 Aug 1615, Wooten Wawen, Warwickshire, England
  Family ID	F3971	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Margaret,   b. Abt 1609   d. 23 Aug 1670, Killingworth, Middlesex, Connecticut (Age ~ 61 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1630	England   [6]
  Children	+ 1. George Griswold,   b. 19 May 1633, Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England d. 3 Sep 1704, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut (Age 71 years) + 2. Deborah Griswold,   c. 28 Jun 1646, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut d. 7 Feb 1718, Killingworth, Middlesex, Connecticut (Age ~ 71 years) + 3. Deacon John Griswold,   b. Jul 1652, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut d. 7 Aug 1717, Killingworth, Middlesex, Connecticut (Age ~ 65 years)
  Family ID	F738	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	25 Feb 2019

  
  

  Family 2	Sarah
  Marriage	1672
  Family ID	F698	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	8 Nov 2023

  
  

• Notes

  Emigrated to New England in about 1638 or 1639, as shown by various of his later depositions. He appears to have been associated with the Rev. Ephraim Huet, of Wroxhall, near Kenilworth in Warwickshire, who was persecuted for nonconformity in 1638 by Archbishop Laud and who was driven to emigrate in or about 1639, probably in company with Edward Griswold and quite possibly also in company with Joseph Loomis. "On August 17, 1639, the Reverend Huet, with a party that doubless included these two ancestors of ours, arrived at Windsor, Connecticut, where he became the first teacher in the church and colleague with its pastor." [Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines, citation details below.] "A founder of Windsor, Conn.; later settled at Killingsworth, Conn.; was deputy Gen. court, justice, deacon; built 'Old Fort' at Springfield,Mass." [Ancestors and Descendants of Andrew Lee and Clarinda Knapp Allen] "According to [Mormon Pioneer Genealogy Library] projections, the largest family in America today is the posterity of Robert White (b. ca. 1560) & Bridget Allgar, with a Mormon posterity of 430,000 and an American posterity of 29 million. The next five families are Edward Griswold and Margaret, Joseph Loomis and Mary White (daughter of Robert and Bridget above), Gerard Spencer and Alice Whitbread, Thomas Ford and Elizabeth Charde, and Thomas Bliss and Margaret Hulins, each with a Mormon posterity of 270,000 and an American posterity of 18 million." (Michel L. Call and Gary Boyd Roberts, "Mormon Pioneer Genealogy Library Acquired by NEHGS," 1985.

  
  

• Sources

  [S6335] George E. McCracken, "William Buell and Early Descendants." The American Genealogist 54:65, Apr 1978; 54:150, Jul 1978. [S212] The Slovak Yankee, by Martin Hollick. [S673] John G. Hunt, "Further Griswold Notes." The American Genealogist 41:100, 1965., year and place only. [S647] Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines by Mary Walton Ferris. Volume 1, 1943; volume 2, 1931., year only. [S647] Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines by Mary Walton Ferris. Volume 1, 1943; volume 2, 1931. [S658] The Griswold Family: England-America by Glenn E. Griswold. Middleboro, Massachusetts: Griswold Family Association of America, 1935.