Tenth Generation

512. Joseph GRIGGS Sr. (*) (!) was born on 5 April 1624 in Boxted, Babergh District, Suffolk County, England. (The FamilySearch Person Tools website lists his birth date as 5 April 1624, but the Cemetery records list the year as 1625.) He was baptized on 18 December 1625. He emigrated in 1639 from Boxted, Babergh District, Suffolk County, England. to Roxbury, MA, less than 20 years after the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock.

According to the "Genealogy of The Griggs Family," he emigrated in the Spring of 1639 with his parents and his brother, John. He became a "Freeman" in 1653. In 1680 Joseph was a representative in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. He was instrumental in the founding of New Roxbury (Woodstock), Connecticut. He was a Selectman of the Town, a Storekeeper and a Protestant Minister. He signed a will on 5 February 1715 in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. He died on 10 February 1715 at the age of 90 in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. Joseph was buried in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. (His exact burial location is unknown, but his two wives are in the Kings Chapel (or Eliot) Burying Ground in Roxbury.)
He has Ancestral File Number L6Y3-MSW. Hannah DAVIS (*) and Joseph GRIGGS Sr. (*) (!) were married on 8 November 1654 in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.

513. Hannah DAVIS (*) was born in 1635 in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. She died on 9 January 1684 at the age of 49 in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. She was buried in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. in the Kings Chapel (or Eliot) Burying Ground.

Children were:

	i.	Samuel GRIGGS was born on 5 August 1656 in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. He died in December 1656 at the age of 0 in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.
	ii.	Mary GRIGGS (1st) was born on 27 September 1657 in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. (Her birth date may have been 22 November 1657.)
	iii.	Hannah GRIGGS was born on 25 March 1659 in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. She died on 1 March 1718 at the age of 58. She has reference number 2294-LR.
	iv.	Joseph GRIGGS Jr. was born on 13 October 1661 in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. (MyHeritiage.com lists his birth date as 6 March 1661.) He died on 5 February 1714 at the age of 52 in Suffolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.
256	v.	*Benjamin GRIGGS Sr. ().**
	vi.	Johanna GRIGGS was born on 10 January 1673 in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. She died on 5 February 1715 at the age of 42 in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.
	vii.	Ichabod GRIGGS I (!) was born on 27 September 1675 in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. He was christened on 10 October 1675. About 1695 he was a surveyor of highways in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. Ichabod died on 21 April 1718 at the age of 42 in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. He was buried in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. in the King's Chapel Burying Ground. King’s Chapel Burying Ground was Boston Proper’s first burying ground. It boasts a multitude of illustrious residents, including John Winthrop, Massachusetts’ first Governor, and Mary Chilton, the first woman to step off the Mayflower. According to custom, the first interment in King’s Chapel Burying Ground was that of the land’s original owner, Isaac Johnson. King's Chapel was established in 1686 as the first Anglican Church in New England. The church houses the oldest American pulpit still in continuous use. The existing stone structure, designed by Rhode Island architect Peter Harrison, was completed in 1754 and built around the original wooden structure in order to continue holding worship during construction. The magnificent interior is considered the finest example of Georgian architecture in North America. The bell, forged in England in 1772, cracked in 1814. It was recast by Paul Revere in 1816 and still rings to this day to summon people to worship.
	viii.	Mary GRIGGS (2nd) was born on 27 March 1682 in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. She died in Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.