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• Birth	of Kenilworth, England, U.K.   [1]
  Gender	Male
  _UPD	16 AUG 2009 23:31:10 GMT-5
  Died	27 Sep 1698	Lyme, New London, Connecticut, USA   [1]
  Buried	Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA   [1]
  Person ID	I1102	Alan Donald Vibber
  Last Modified	08 Dec 2009
  Father	Griswold George
  Family ID	F501	Group Sheet
  Family	Wolcott Anna
  Married	16 Oct 1646  [2]
  Children	1. Griswold Elizabeth,   d. 1727
  Family ID	F499	Group Sheet

• Notes

  Matthew Griswold, came from Kenilworth, England, to Windsor, Conn., in 1639 and removed to Saybrook about 1645-6. Matthew Griswold, son of George Griswold, of the Warwickshire family of this name, was one of the first magistrates at Windsor and had charge of Gov. Fenwick's affairs when he left the Colony. He hada large tract of land on which he settled at Blackhall, a pleasant part of old Lyme, Conn., which has been the seat of the Griswold family for two and a half centuries. To the church in Saybrook of which Lyme was then a part, he presented a silver communion cup, bearing the following inscription attesting his gift: S. C. C. DONO DOMINI MATTHEW GRISWOLD. He was the first actual occupant in Lyme (set off from Saybrook 1665-6), where the title to his land was said to have been a fief or feudal grant, held upon the tenure of keeping the monument of LadyFenwiek in repair. He died in Lyme, Conn., 27 September 1698, was buried in Saybrook, but his grave is unknown — the more noticeable as the monument still standing in Windsor over the grave of his father-in-law, Henry Wolcott, is ascribed to his agency. The supposition that this and other monuments of that day were his workmanship is probably an error as there is absolutely no evidence that he, the most influential and probably wealthiest man in Lyme, possessor of a large estate, called Blackhall, was a stone cutter. He was Commissioner, Lieutenant of train band, Justice of the Peace, and frequently a Deputy to the General Court. His wife survived him and was living in September 1700, aged about 80 years. Their daughter, Elizabeth, was born about 1652, and died July 1727. Mathew Griswold married, 16 October 1646, Anna, daughter of Henry Wolcott of Windsor, Conn., who emigrated from England, and was the ancestor of the prominent Wolcott family of Connecticut which has included so many distinguished members. Henry Wolcott was of Dorchester in 1630. He was the son of John Wolcott of Tolland, in Somersetshire, England, and was baptized in the adjoining parish of Lydiard St. Lawrence, 6 Dec. 1578. He married, 19 Jan. 1606, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Saunders of Lydiard St. Lawrence.

• Sources

  [S65] Some of the Ancestors and Descendants of Samuel Converse, Jr, Charles Allen Converse, 736 (Reliability: 3). [S65] Some of the Ancestors and Descendants of Samuel Converse, Jr, Charles Allen Converse, 737 (Reliability: 3).