Tenth Generation

231. Captain Stephen GRIGGS (*)^56,216 was born on 21 June 1742 in Pomfret Township, Windham County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America.^{16,132,168,188,189,217,218} He was in 1768 in Pomfret Township, Windham County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America.²¹⁸ "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.^132,170,188 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.²¹⁸ "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.^{132,171,188,189,218} He was buried on 19 October 1786 in Pomfret Township, Windham County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America.^{135,158,166,187,218} 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.

Captain Stephen GRIGGS (*) and Sarah CHANDLER (*) were married on 4 September 1766 in Pomfret Township, Windham County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America.^{132,168,188,189,190,197,207} Sarah CHANDLER (*)^56,216, daughter of David CHANDLER and Mary ALLEN, was born on 26 April 1740 in Pomfret Township, Windham County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America.^{162,188,219,220} She appeared in the census in 1790 in Pomfret Township, Windham County, CT.¹⁸⁵ 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.^64,202 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.²²¹ 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.^{162,171,188,218,219} She was buried in April 1814 in Pomfret Township, Windham County, CT.^{158,162,166,171} 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.

Captain Stephen GRIGGS (*) and Sarah CHANDLER (*) had the following children: