Ninth Generation


150. John GRIGGS Sr. was born on 28 July 1714 in Woodstock Township, Windham County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America.17,184 He died on 26 November 1754 at the age of 40 in Ashford, Windham County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America.17 He was buried in Eastford Township, Windham County, Connecticut, British Colonial America.183 in the Old Cemetery.

John GRIGGS Sr. and Dorothy PERRY were married on 26 December 1738 in Woodstock Township, Windham County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America.17,183 (The research by Bill Griggs indicates that they married in Ashford, Windham County, CT.) Dorothy PERRY137, daughter of John PERRY and Sarah INGOLDSBY, was born on 22 December 1711 in Ashford, Windham County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America.17,178,184 (She may have been a relative of Joseph Smith, the Prophet of the LDS Church. The IGI records list her son Joseph's children as Smith's relatives, but they do not list her husband or his parents as such. So the connection may have been through her family or through her son Joseph's wife's family.) She died on 24 November 1754 at the age of 42 in Ashford, Windham County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America.17,183 She was buried in Eastford Township, Windham County, Connecticut, British Colonial America.178,183 in the Old Cemetery. (She has no gravestone marker, but is believed to be buried in the open space to the left of her husband.)

John GRIGGS Sr. and Dorothy PERRY had the following children:

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Elisha GRIGGS was born on 3 September 1739.

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ii.

Hannah GRIGGS was born on 28 June 1741. She died on 26 August 1751 at the age of 10 in Pomfret Township, Windham County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America.183,213

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John GRIGGS Jr. was born on 16 March 1743.

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Mary GRIGGS was born on 12 February 1744/5.215

270

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Patience GRIGGS was born on 23 December 1746. She died on 7 May 1752 at the age of 5.183

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Corporal Joseph GRIGGS Sr..

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Irene GRIGGS was born on 29 May 1753 in Ashford Township, Windham County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America.184