Seventh Generation

64. Captain Stephen GRIGGS (*) was born on 21 June 1742 in Pomfret Township, Windham County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. He was in 1768 in Pomfret Township, Windham County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. "As a specimen of church discipline of that day--held to be orthodox and necessary to preserve church polity pure, until (it was said) their pastor found himself, by some backsliding, in the same category, and then and afterwards the doings of the church on that point were no longer spread out on its records--one may read on the old church records: 'April 24, 1768. Stephen Griggs and Sarah his wife made ye peace with ye church, confessing ye sine of fornication. A. Putnam, Pastor.'"

"And on the same day it is recorded they ..owned the covenant." He served in the military about 1776 in New York Colony, British Colonial America. He was "a captain of a militia company, the First Company, Eleventh Regiment, under Captain Caleb Clark, in the Revolutionary War. He was on the march to West Chester, N.Y., in the war of the Revolution." Before 1786 Stephen was in Woodstock Township, Windham County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. "He was a farmer, on the line of Woodstock, half a mile west of the Norwich and Worcester turnpike, where his sons Benjamin and Nathan afterwards lived." He died on 15 October 1786 at the age of 44 in Pomfret Township, Windham County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. He was buried on 19 October 1786 in Pomfret Township, Windham County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. in the Sabin Cemetery (also known as the South Cemetery and the Wappaquoian Burial Ground).

Gravestone Inscription: "Here lies the Dust of Captain Stephen Griggs Who departed this Life Oct 15th 1786 in the 45th year of his Age.

O Sons of men a warning to be
An inch of time brings all to dust
Rouse up from Sin from sloth awake
& See in what you fix your trust.

Life is a lily fair today
Tomorrow in ye oven thrown
Health soon will cease strength decay..."
(The last line is beneath the surface of the grass and illegible.)
Stephen has Ancestral File Number P1ST-RN. He has Ancestral File Number 27HQ-4V8. Sarah CHANDLER (*) and Captain Stephen GRIGGS (*) were married on 4 September 1766 in Pomfret Township, Windham County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America.

65. Sarah CHANDLER (*) was born on 26 April 1740 in Pomfret Township, Windham County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. She appeared in the census in 1790 in Pomfret Township, Windham County, CT. Sarah was a widow at the time of the census. Her household consisted of 1 male, age >16 (Benjamin, 23); 2 males, age <16 (Nathan, 14, and Stephen Chandler, 6); and 5 females (Sarah, 50, Lucinda, 13, and three unknowns). She appeared in the census in 1800 in Pomfret Township, Windham County, CT. Her household consisted of 1 male, age 0-10; 1 male, age 26-44; 1 female, age 16-25; and 1 female, age 45 and over (Sarah, 60). Aside from Sarah, the rest of the family may have been her daughter Lucinda; Lucinda's husband, John Bennett; and their son. Sarah appeared in the census in 1810 in Pomfret Township, Windham County, CT. Her household consisted of Sarah (then a widow), age 70; a female, age 16-25; a male, age 26-44; and a male, under 10 years of age. The others may have been her daughter Lucinda; Lucinda's husband, John Bennett; and their son. Sarah's husband, Stephen, had died in 1786 and her other children were deceased or married and living on their own. She died on 31 March 1814 at the age of 73 in Pomfret Township, Windham County, CT. She was buried in April 1814 in Pomfret Township, Windham County, CT. in the South Cemetery (also known as the Sabin Cemetery and the Wappaquoian Burial Ground).

Gravestone Inscription: "In memory of Sarah Griggs, widow of Stephen Griggs, who died March 31 1814 In her 75th year." Sarah has Ancestral File Number P1ST-ST.

Children were:

	i.	Benjamin GRIGGS was born on 5 April 1767 in Pomfret Township, Windham County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. (This is a map of Pomfret Township, CT.) He appeared in the census in 1790 in Pomfret Township, Windham County, CT. (The 1800 Census for Pomfret, Windham County, CT, contained the household of a Benjamin Griggs, with the following residents: 1 male, age 16-25; 1 male, age 26-44; 2 females, age under 10; 1 female, age 16-25; 1 female, age 26-44; and 1 female age 45 and over. That could have been his household.) He appeared in the census in 1810 in Pomfret Township, Windham County, CT. His household consisted of 2 males, age under 10 (Solomon and Noah); 1 male, age 26-44 (Benjamin); 1 female, age 16-25 (Polly); and 1 female, age 45 and over (his second wife, Lurene). Benjamin died on 15 October 1831 at the age of 64 in Pomfret Township, Windham County, CT. He was buried in Woodstock Township, Windham County, CT. in the Quasset Cemetery.
	ii.	Chloe GRIGGS was born on 21 March 1769 in Pomfret Township, Windham County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. She died on 8 February 1859 at the age of 89 in Steuben, Oneida County, NY. She was buried in Steuben, Oneida County, NY. in the Whitney Cemetery.
	iii.	Chester GRIGGS (1st) was born on 2 April 1771 in Pomfret Township, Windham County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. He died on 10 March 1773 at the age of 1 in Pomfret Township, Windham County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. He was buried in Pomfret Township, Windham County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. in the South Cemetery.
	iv.	Nathan GRIGGS (1st) was born on 5 April 1773 in Pomfret Township, Windham County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. (According to the "Genealogy of The Griggs Family," there was only one son named Nathan who died as a young child; he was born 5 April 1773 and died 20 August 1776. That information is believed to have been wrong because the Pomfret Vital Records list two sons named Nathan.) He died before June 1774 at the age of 1 in Pomfret Township, Windham County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. He was buried in Pomfret Township, Windham County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. in the South Cemetery.
	v.	Nathan GRIGGS (2nd) was born on 12 June 1774 in Pomfret Township, Windham County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. He died on 20 August 1776 at the age of 2 in Pomfret Township, Windham County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. He was buried in Pomfret Township, Windham County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. in the Pomfret Sabin Cemetery.
	vi.	Chester GRIGGS (2nd) was born on 20 May 1775 in Pomfret Township, Windham County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. He died on 25 April 1824 at the age of 48. From "North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000" page 205: "He was in his last days insane and wandered about his neighborhood harmless. He made his brother's house his home."
	vii.	Lucinda GRIGGS was born on 12 May 1777 in Pomfret Township, Windham County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. She appeared in the census in 1790 in Pomfret Township, Windham County, CT. She died on 11 January 1808 at the age of 30 in Windham County, CT.
	viii.	Nathan GRIGGS (3rd) was born on 12 June 1779 in Pomfret Township, Windham County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. He appeared in the census in 1790 in Pomfret Township, Windham County, CT. He died on 24 December 1831 at the age of 52 in Pomfret Township, Windham County, CT. Nathan was buried in South Woodstock Township, Windham County, CT. in the Quassset Cemetery.
32	ix.	Stephen Chandler GRIGGS (*).