Daniel Griswold

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• Reference Number: 3584

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• Reference Number: 3620

Daniel married Mindwell Bissell on 3 Feb 1680. Mindwell (daughter of Nathaniel Bissell and Mindwell Moore) was born on 23 Oct 1663 in Connecticut, USA; died on 31 Dec 1728. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 3636

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• Reference Number: 3452

George married Mary Holcomb on 3 Oct 1665. Mary (daughter of Thomas Holcombe and Elizabeth Unknown) was born in 1635 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA; died on 4 Apr 1708. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Birth: Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA
• Reference Number: 3455

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• Reference Number: 3380

Nathaniel married Mindwell Moore on 25 Sep 1662. Mindwell (daughter of Deacon John Moore) was born on 10 Apr 1643 in Connecticut, USA; died on 24 Nov 1682. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 3681

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• Reference Number: 3198
• Birth: 1607, England
• Other: 1640, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; Among first settlers of Windsor

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The following was copied from werelate.org:
Origins

The origin of Edward Griswold was discovered and documented by Genevieve Tylee Kiepura in the 1963 TAG article Griswold Ancestry in England, and presented again in the Griswold Family Association of America's 1999 publication, The Griswold Family: 12 Generations in England. The research found that Edward was the son of George Griswold by his first wife Dousabel (probably Leigh). See the Griswold Family publication for an explanation of Edward's relatedness to other colonial New England Griswolds.

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Life in New England

Came with Rev. Mr. HUIT from England; was in Windsor 1639; removed to Killingworth, Connecticut, called then "Kenilworth," presumably in honor of his native place. Windsor granted him twenty-nine acres, bound south and east by the brook, east by river and Indian Reservation (Indian Neck). He removed with the first settlers to Hamonoscett; George and Joseph had the homestead. In 1674, he was granted two hundred acres of land at the north end of Lyme.

Very active in the early community, serving as:
first deacon of the church
first delegate to the General Court
Justice of the Peace in Windsor
Deputy from Windsor 1658-1662
enrolled as Deputy in 1667
Deputy for Killingworth in 1678
nominated for assistant and as commissioner
representative of Killingworth in every court 1678-1689 (during which he was repeatedly made Commissioner)
committee of the County Court to see what could be done toward a Latin school at New London for the County New London (1678)

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Additional Sources
1. "Public Records of Connecticut," 1678-1689, p 293
2. 1640 Town Records at Windsor: recorded in the list of “First Settlers of Windsor, five years after their removal from Dorchester.” (NEHGR 5:365) [The list includes people who arrived after 1635, such as those who came with Huit in 1639]

References
1. Nash, Elizabeth Todd. Fifty Puritan ancestors, 1628-1660: genealogical notes, 1560-1900, by their lineal descendant. (New Haven, Connecticut: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1902), 103.

born 1607

2. MacKenzie, George N. Colonial families of the United States of America: in which is given the history, genealogy and armorial bearings of colonial families who settled in the American colonies from the time of the settlement of Jamestown, 13th May, 1607, to the battle of Lexington, 19th April, 1775. (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1912; 1966; 1995), Volume 5.
3. Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862).

EDWARD, Windsor, b. at Kenilworth, in Warwicksh. 1607, as tradit. says, came, it is always said, with Rev. Ephraim Huit, tho. it is certain. wrong, for his s. George testif. that he was b. 1638, and in his youthful yrs. "with his f. and uncle Matthew at Kenilworth, Eng. Bef. com. to W. he had Francis, George, John, and Sarah, prob. all b. in Eng. and he had at Windsor, Ann, bapt. 19 June 1642, in wh. yr. John d. there; Mary, b. 5, bapt. 13 Oct. 1644; Deborah, bapt. 28 June 1646; Joseph, b. 12 Mar. 1648; Samuel, bapt. 18 Nov. 1649; John, again, 1 Aug. 1652; and prob. Edward; all by w. Margaret, wh. d. 23 Aug. 1670; rem. a. 1664 to Killingworth, so named acc. the com. pronunciat. of his native place. He m. 1673, Sarah, wid. of James Bemis of New London; was rep. 1658-61 for W. and often for K. His s. Francis, and br. Matthew, as well as hims. were reps. in one Court. His s. Samuel d. 1673, and he d. 1691. Sarah m. 10 Nov. 1650, Samuel Phelps; and next, 21 July 1670, Nathaniel Pinney; Mary m. 19 May 1661, Timothy Phelps; and Deborah m. 13 Nov. 1662, Samuel Buell.

4. #110, in French, Robert L.; Esther G. French; and Coralee (editor) Griswold. The Greswold Family: 12 generations in England. (Wethersfield, CT: Griswold Family Association of America, 1999), page 54.

'Edward GRISWOLD ... was christened 26 Jul 1607 in Wooton Wawen. Warwickshire, England.'

5. Kiepura, Genevieve Tylee. Griswold Ancestry in England. The American Genealogist. (1963), 39:177.

'WOOTEN WAWEN: "We also examined the parish register of Wooten Wawen (a chapelry of Henley) which has the baptism of EDWARD, SON OF GEORGE GRISWOLD, 26 JULY 1607. ..." '

6. 6.0 6.1 #110, in French, Robert L.; Esther G. French; and Coralee (editor) Griswold. The Greswold Family: 12 generations in England. (Wethersfield, CT: Griswold Family Association of America, 1999), page 54.

'... but Edward did not die until 30 Aug 1691, In Killingworth, Middlesex, Connecticut, at the age of 84, and was buried in the Indian River Cemetery in Killingworth, Middlesex, Connecticut.'


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baptism date

Edward married Margaret Unknown. Margaret was born in 1610 in Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England; died on 23 Aug 1670 in Clinton, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 1988

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Margaret - d. Aug. 23, 1670, Killingworth (now Clinton), Middlesex Co., CT. Her gravestone in the Congregational Church Cemetery is engraved 'M. G. 1670'. Surname not known. Genevieve Tylee Kiepura writes in "Griswold Ancestry in England" (The American Genealogist 39:176-180) that "Edward GRISWOLD m. Margaret BLENCOW of Marston St. Lawrence, co. Northampton, dau of John BLENCOW and his wife Mary WALLISON." However, in "Note on the Ancestry of the Griswolds of Connecticut" (The American Genealogist 40:43-44), John G. Hunt conclusively shows that the Edward GRISWOLD who married Margaret BLENCOW is not the immigrant to CT, and Genevieve Tylee Kiepura concurs. The Griswold Family Association identifies the husband of Margaret BLENCOW as Edward GRESWOLD (1594-1633) son of Thomas GRESWOLD and Elizabeth SHUCKBURGH - this Edward being father of the American immigrant Michael GRISWOLD of Wethersfield, CT.

Margaret Winslow married Robert Hicks <p82.htm>, son of James Hicks <p128.htm> and Phebe Allyne <p128.htm>, by 1603; Plymouth TGMB says little basis for Winslow surname, no records for Elizabeth Morgan marr.Trans says second wife...m. btw 1620-1630 assumed from ages..1,2,3 Margaret Winslow was born at England.3 Margaret Winslow was also known as Margaret (?). She was born in 1589 at Kempsey, Droitwich, Worcester, England.4 She was the daughter of Edward Winslow <p128.htm> and Eleanor Pelham <p129.htm>.5,4 Margaret Winslow was in these bibliography texts; TAG 54:31-4 says no proof WINSLOW; "Winslow Genealogy v1 has pedigree chart.6,3 She died before 6 March 1665 at Plymouth Colony; Probate of will.1 She left a will on 8 July 1665.7 She died after 8 July 1665 at Plymouth Colony; Date of Will.1 Her estate was probated on 6 March 1666 at Plymouth, Plymouth Colony.7 She died in 1666 at Plymouth, Plymouth Colony.2

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Children of Margaret Winslow and Robert Hicks <p82.htm>:
Thomas Hicks <p89.htm> (1604)
John Hicks <p89.htm> (1605)
Sarah Hicks <p115.htm> (25 Oct 1607)
Richard Hicks <p89.htm> (1609)
Samuel Hicks <p86.htm> (1611 - 1677)
Lydia Hicks <p82.htm>+ (06 Sep 1612 - ca 1632 -4)
Phobe Hicks <p115.htm>+ (06 Sep 1615 - 22 May 1663)
Mary Hicks <p89.htm> (11 May 1617)
Ephriam Hicks <p89.htm> (c 1625 - 12 Dec 1649)
[S205] <s1.htm> Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration Begins, 2:927;.
[S389] <s1.htm> 9/15/97 recombined Torrey1, New England Marriages Prior to 1700, 368.
[S86] <s1.htm> Boston Transcript, 2May06,8502.
[S504] <s1.htm> Unknown subject unknown record type, by unknown photographer, Quoted in Ancestral File CD1 Roberts, Amanda; Ancestral File.
[S504] <s1.htm> Unknown subject unknown record type, by unknown photographer, Quoted in Ancestral File CD1 BRUNS, Albert.
[S205] <s1.htm> Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration Begins, 86.
[S205] <s1.htm> Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration Begins, 927.

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• Reference Number: 6215
• Death: Oct 1657
• Probate: Oct 1657

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Notes from "The Great Migrations Begins Vol 1-3 page 966:
Several sources claim that Thomas Holcombe married at Dorchester on 14 May 1634 Elizabeth Ferguson. Such a marriage is not on record, and the date is that on which Holcombe was admitted to freemanship. In 1964 Jacobus noted that "her maiden name has been stated as Ferguson, without proof or probability"(McArthur-Barnes 169)

George McCracken has written an article on the fraudulent claim of ancestry for Thomas Holcombe (TAG 26: 109-110). And also an article on the inaccurate tombstone erected in his memory (TAG 44: 58-60).

Thomas's parentage and birthplace in England is unknown.

George McCracken has also written "Thomas Holcombe's Earlier Posterity" a genealogy of the earlier generations (TAG 57 p.65-76, 16-169, 225-229)

Thomas married Elizabeth Unknown. Elizabeth was born before 1609. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 6260

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It is claimed that Thomas married Elizabeth Ferguson on 14 May 1634 in Dorchester.

Anderson in: the Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to N.E. 1620-1633, Vols. I-III, NEHGS Boston, 1995p. 966, just lists her as Elizabeth ___, born about 1617; she married second, James Eno as his third wife.

TAG: Vol 57: 1981: p. 66: the common statement that his wife Elizabeth's name was Ferguson, is highly improbably and completely undocumented.

The above is also stated in TAG. Vol. 58: 1982 p. 125 and again in TAG: Vol. 60:1984 : p. 185, the last stating Torrey erroneously included her name as Ferguson in New England Marriages.

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based on spouse's birth date

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• Reference Number: 3779

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From: findagrave.com:

Birth: Oct. 30, 1591, England
Death: Oct. 3, 1677
Windsor
Hartford County
Connecticut, USA

John Bissell, purportedly b. or bapt. on Oct. 30, 1591 in England. His gravestone indirectly says he was b. on or after Oct. the 4th 1591. He d. at Windsor, Conn. Oct. 3, 1677, Æ 86. He was twice married, but the name of each wife remains unknown.

Stile's first version of his "History of Ancient Windsor" (1859) contains a poor outline of the structure of the Bissell family of Windsor, Conn. He gave John Bissell only one wife in this version. Savage, Hinman, Cutter and others also misrepresent the initial Bissell family structure.

Stiles' more familiar second version of his "Ancient Windsor," in two volumes (1891 and 1893), does not correct the errors made forty years earlier in 1859. He continued to give the immigrant only one wife in Vol. II (1893 Genealogies). However, in Vol. I (1891 History) he added an obscure reference apparently contained in the 1662 deed to son Nathaniel of his housing at present-day East Windsor that proves the immigrant had two wives.

John Bissell, the immigrant, had six known children, all by his first wife who d. of record at Windsor, Conn. May 21, 1641. According to the Matthew Grant Records, Grant was aware only one child born to the immigrant at Windsor, and as only John's youngest son is recorded at Windsor prior to the death of his first wife, there were no children by his unnamed second wife.

Some writers give the first wife the name of Mary and still others claim she was Mary Drake. But, neither variation has any proof and it is quite likely Mary Drake has been confused with the married name of John Bissell's daughter Mary (Bissell) Drake. On this point, in 1969 the eminent genealogist, Donald Lines Jacobus, wrote:

• May I try to set the record straight once again? [The immigrant] John1 Bissell [Sr.] did indeed die in 1677; there is no authority that I know of for calling his wife Mary Drake. A nameless wife, perhaps the mother of his children, died in 1641; he thereafter had another nameless wife, whose death, as wife of John "Sr.", was recorded in 1665...(NEHGS Register, 123:278-279.)

John Bissell's second wife d. of record at Windsor Mar. 29, 1665 ["the wife of John Biffell senor dyed"]. Per Stiles in 1891, in 1662 when John Bissell was in excess of 70 years old he gave to youngest son Nathaniel his housing at present-day East Windsor:

• "in part of his portion of his marriage," a part of his land and house "at Scantuck," on the E. side of the Conn. River with provision for the remainder at his father's death...Nathaniel doubtless resided on the river bank, below the Scantic, from the time of his marriage. This home was garrisoned at the time of King Philip's War. John Bissell, Senr, evidently died here, having made provision for his second wife, stipulating that Nathaniel should give "his now present mother-in-law [i.e., stepmother], if she is willing and choose to have the use the parlor for her abode," it should be granted. (History of Ancient Windsor, 1891, Vol. I, p. 152.)

The aforementioned death of the immigrant's second wife has been consistently confused as the date that the wife of John Bissell, Jr., died. This caused Stiles to give John junior an unnamed second wife as the mother of his youngest children. John Bissell junior's wife, Israel Mason, outlived her husband. This error is more fully outlined in the Israel (Mason) Bissell memorial page.

The earliest in which the immigrant John Bissell appears at Windsor is in the record of youngest son Nathaniel's birth at Windsor, on Sept. 24, 1640. The earliest in which he appears in the Conn. Public Records is as a juryman in Sept. 1641. He was a juryman for numerous sessions of the Particular Court during the mid-1640s until he was elected a deputy to the Conn. Court from Windsor in Sept. 1648. He served as a deputy from Windsor almost continuously until 1656.

While some claim John held the title of Capt., he was relieved of the requirement for military training by the Conn. Court in April 1645, when he was about 53 years old. Unless one wishes to attach the title of Capt. to a public ferryman, there is no record of any military rank for the immigrant in the Windsor or Conn. records. Also, none of his sons reached the rank of Capt. during their lifetime.

On Jan. 5, 1641/2 Windsor was provided the right to operate a ferry across the Conn. River. However, not until Jan. 1648/9 was John Bissell, Sr. granted exclusive right to operate the Windsor ferry for the ensuing seven years (Conn. PR, Vol. I, p. 174-5). This right was extended annually beginning in May 1656 until eldest son John Bissell, Jr. was granted exclusive rights to operate the ferry in Mar. 1657/8 for the ensuing 10 years. This was followed in May 1677 by the immigrant's youngest son Nathaniel granted the right of operation for the ensuing 7 years.

Manwaring's abstract of John Bissell's estate, citing Hartford Probate District vol. III, p. 194:

• John Bissell of Windsor. Inventory of £520-16-03 taken Oct. 22, 1677 by Daniel Clarke, Benjamin Newbery and Return Strong. Will dated Sept. 25, 1673:
• I John Bissell of Windsor doe make this my last Will & Testament:
• I give to my daughter Mary, the wife of Jacob Drake, £10;
• to my daughter Joyce, wife of Samuel Pinney, £30.
• I give to my son John £50.
• The remainder of my estate after my just debts and funeral charges are paid, with 20 shillings a peice to each of my grand children naturally descending from my foure sons and two daughters, I bequeath to my four sons John, Thomas, Samuel, and Nathaniel.
• The remaynder of my estate to be equally divided.
• I appoint my sons John and Thomas Bissell to be executors.
• I desire Deacon John Moore and Daniel Clark to be supervisors......JOHN X BISSELL LS.
Witness:
John Moore sen.,
Daniel Clarke.
• Court Record, Page 165--6 December, 1677: Will approved.

The children of John Bissell, Sr. and his unnamed first wife, the order uncertain, are:

• i. Mary Bissell, b. circa 1631 in England, d. testate Sept. 11, 1689 at Windsor, Conn.; m. Apr. 12, 1649 at Windsor, Sgt. Jacob Drake, s. of John Drake & Elizabeth Rogers, b. circa 1624 in England. He d. testate at Windsor, Conn. Aug. 6, 1689. They had no known children.

• ii. Lieut., also referred to as Cornet, John Bissell, Jr., b. circa 1633 in England, d. intestate before Oct. 15, 1688 at an undefined place in the Province of New York while in the King's service; m. June 17, 1658 at Windsor, Isreal Mason of Saybrook, Conn., dau. of Maj. John Mason and his unnamed first wife, b. circa 1637-38, prob. at Windsor, and d. after Mar. 15, 1693/4. Nine children of the family.

• iii. Quartermaster Thomas Bissell, b. circa 1635 in England, d. testate at Windsor July 31, 1689; m. Oct. 11, 1655 at Windsor, Abigail Moore, dau. of Dea. John and Abigail Moore, b. June 16, 1639 at Windsor. She d. at Windsor purportedly July 31, 1728. Twelve children of the family, three dying in infancy.

• iv. Samuel Bissell, b. circa 1637 in England, d. testate at Windsor Dec. 3, 1700; m. 1) June 11, 1658 at Windsor, Abigail Holcomb, dau. of Thomas and Elizabeth Holcomb, bapt. Jan. 6, 1638/9 at Windsor, Conn. He d. at Windsor Aug. 17, 1688. Nine children of the family. Samuel m. 2) after Aug. 1688, Mary Buell, dau. of William Buell and Mary Post, and widow of Simon Mills, who had d. intestate at Simsbury, Conn. July 6, 1683. There were no children by this marriage, Mary having ten children by her first husband. She d. testate at Windsor, Conn. June 24, 1718.

• v. Joyce Bissell, b. circa 1639 in England, d. after Sept. 8, 1689 when named in her sister Mary's will of that same date; m. Nov. 17, 1665 at Windsor, Samuel Pinney, s. of Humphrey Pinney and Mary Hull, b. Mar. 30, 1635 at Dorchester, Mass. He d. after Dec. 13, 1689 when he was appointed one of four administrators of his sister-in-law Mary (Bissell) Drake's estate. Three children of the family.

• vi. Nathaniel Bissell, b. Sept. 24 (bapt. Sept. 27), 1640 at Windsor, Conn, d. testate at Windsor Mar. 12, 1713/4; m. 1) Mindwell Moore, dau. of Dea. John and Abigail Moore, and sister of his brother Thomas Bissell's wife Abigail, b. July 10, 1643 at Windsor. She d. at Windsor Nov. 24, 1682. Nine children of the family. Nathaniel m. 2) July 4, 1683 at Windsor, Dorothy Fitch, who d. at Windsor June 28, 1691 by whom he had four children. He m. 3) on an unknown date after June 1691, Deliverance Haines, formerly the wife of 1) John Rockwell of Windsor and 2) John Warner of Middletown, Conn. She d. intestate June 12, 1718. There were no children by this marriage. Deliverance had seven children by her first two husbands.

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Children:
Samuel Bissell (____ - 1700)*
John Bissell (____ - 1688)*
Thomas Bissell (1630 - 1689)*
Mary Bissell Drake (1631 - 1689)*
Nathaniel Bissell (1640 - 1714)*

*Calculated relationship

Inscription:
Heare Lyeth
The Body of Iohn
Bissell Deceased-
October the: 3: 1677
in the 86 Yeare of
his Age.

On the day that John died he was 85 years old, and Ætatis (i.e., Æ, "Aged," in the XX year of his Age) 86.

Burial:
Palisado Cemetery
Windsor
Hartford County
Connecticut, USA

Maintained by: Don Blauvelt
Originally Created by: Grant
Record added: Nov 05, 2000
Find A Grave Memorial# 5091692


Buried:
Palisado Cemetery

John married Unknown Unknown. Unknown was born about 1591; died on 21 May 1641. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 3458

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Birth:
based on spouse's birth date

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• Reference Number: 3515
• Death: 18 Sep 1677

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Birth:
based on est marr date

Death:
Age: 74