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Nathaniel Pinney

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  • Name Nathaniel Pinney 
    Born Dec 1641  Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Christened 2/02 Jan 1641/2  Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 7 Aug 1676  Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I2074  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Family Sarah Griswold,   c. 10 Jan 1635, Kenilworth, Warwick, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 6 Nov 1715, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 80 years) 
    Married 21 Jul 1670  Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F1245  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. Henry R. Stiles, "The History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut," 1892, v. 2, pp. 608-611: "Pinney (Pynney, Pinne). (Compiled for the first edition by the late Henry Bright, Esq., of Northampton, Mass. Additions to present edition from various sources. The extracts from the ancient Pinney will are furnished by Mrs. C.H. Pinney of Derby, Conn., who expresses an earnest desire that the many American descendants of Humphrey Pinney shall place some memorial {window, altar, or tablet} in the little church at Broadway, where their forefathers sleep, and where yet annual payment is duly made on the Pinney tomb in the graveyard of the annuities devised in 1631 for the poor of the name of Pinney or of Standerwicke.)
      Humphrey (son of John) came to America in the 'Mary and John' with Rev. Mr. Warham's company 1630, sett. at Dorchester, where he m. Mary Hull, who had been a fellow passenger.
      His immediate ancestors appear to have res. in Broadway, Somersetshire, Eng. Broadway is in Chard Union, in the deanery of Crewkerne, archdeaconry of Taunton, diocese of Bath and Wells, Hundred of Abdick and Bulstone, West Somerset. From the will of Edmund (uncle to Humphrey) Pynney of Broadway, dated 1631, recorded 2 Feb 1632 (Vol. Adelsy, fol. 16) Humphrey P. being administrator, we learn that said Edmund was buried in the sourth aisle of Broadway Church, in a tomb called 'The Pinney Tomb.' From his will (on file at Doctor's Commons, London, where a copy was procured by Dr. Charles H. Pinney, in 1886), we give the following extracts.
      'Imprimis, I give to the maintenance of the Church at Broadwaie, aforesaid, three shillings and fourpence.
      'Item" I give unto the poor people of the same parish of Broadwaie being none of the almpspeople of the Alms-house there, 20 shillings to be distributed amongst them according to the direction of mine executor and good friends hereafter in this mine will named to be mine overseer.
      Item. I give to the poor people being alms people dwelling in the said Alms-house there 20 shillings to be divided unto them presently after my death.
      Item: I do give the same grounds called East Mullyns - Butchers' Close, and Long Kite Meade, and every part and parcel thereof to the said John Pynney after the determis of the said Richard Pynney upon the condiiton that he from thenceforth pay 26 shillings and 8 pence yearly to two poor people, men or women, for their relief during the residence of my said term of 4,000 years, by quarterly payments, viz. of three shillings and fourpence quarterly to either of the said poor poeple, and if the said 'Richard Pynney shall refuse and do not pay the same according to this my will and desire aforesaid then and so often as the same shall not be paid it shall and may be lawful to and for any or every person or persons called or known by the name of Pynney or Standerwick inhabiting or dwelling in Broadwaie aforesaid into the said grounds, so as aforesaid charged with the yearly payment of the said 26 shillings and 8 pence to enter and distress (this last word not clearly decipherable) and the distress or distresses there from time to time taken to lead, drive, chase, carry away, or impound and the same impounded to detain and keep until the said yearly payments as aforesaid limited and bequeathed to the said two poor people shall be fully satisfied and paid.' (A copy of this will was in keeping of R. Drake Palmer, Vicar of St. Aldheim's Church, Broadway, in 1886.)
      In 1859, this annuity of Edmund Pinney's from land situated in Abbots Ile (or Ile Abbots) was still paid regulary by the present owner of the property, and its recipients were two poor people of the name of Standerwick - a family which seems to have been intimately related to the testator, appearing in his will as legatees and executors of certain legacies. The will also contains legacies ordered to tbe paid by Humphrey Pinney, viz.: ₤4 yearly to Nicholas Pinney, and 20s yearly to William Watts, during their lives, payable quuarterly... in the churchyard of Broadway, upon the tomb, or monument called Pinney's Tomb, and with certain penalties imposed for default or delinquencies of regular payments.
      Broadway Church is a small, ancient, but beautiful structure, situated in a picturesque churchyard, adorned with yews, located upon a little knoll in an extensive valley, about two miles from the rise of the hill which terminates in the Blackdon Range, - this hill itself being in the adjoining parish of Buckland and St. Mary's, and commanding one of the finest views in Somerset county. Broadway, a long, straggling village of some 400 agricultural inhabitants, an almshouse, etc., is said to have taken its name from a Roman road which led to Nevocke Forest, and whose breadth made an impression upon the Saxons. The forest long since disappeared, but there are traces of a Roman encampment on Blackdon Hill. The church is quite by itself at the end of the village. Pinney's Ground, from which the aforesaid annuities are payable, is in Ile Abbots, an adjoining village, boasting of a still more beautiful little church.
      Edmund Pynney's will informs us that he had a bro. John the elder, and a bro. John the younger; a sister Alice, who m. a Way; a sister Johanna, who m. Giles Godwin.
      John the elder m. Johanna ___, and had children (1) Elizabeth, (2) Edmund, (3) Richard, (4) Roger, (5) Nicholas, (6) William, (7) Humphrey (the emigrant to Dorchester and Windsor), (8) John of Exeter, (9) Agnes (prob. m. John House), (10) Mary (prob. m. Thos Pearce), (11) Sarah (poss. m. John Turberfield), (12) Alice (poss. m. Wm. Standerwick.
      In the possession of the late Lucretia Stiles of Windsor were several ancient papers, mostly letters addressed to Humphrey Pinney of Windsor (by his nephew, John House of Montague, Eng., and from Geo Beatty of Combe, St. Nicholas Co., Somerset, Eng., relative to certain business which he had entrusted to Mr. Pinney; also concerning Mr. P.'s property in England) and Mr. P.'s will, dated 3 June, 1682. In one of these letters Mr. House (date of 1 Mar 1668), says: 'My Uncle William Pinney, hath buried his wife; she d. about a quuarter of a yr. since.' Among these papers was a lease, executed 20 Feb 1658, 'betw. Humphrey Pinney, now dwelling in Montague, of the one part, and Roger Dunster of Broadway, in the Co. of Somerset of the other pt'e,' relating to 'four acres of pasture and meadows, lying and being in the manor of Iilton.'
      'Mr.' Pinney was an orig. memb. of Dorchester Church, rem. to and sett. at Windsor 1635; and his res. was on the E. side of the main street, abt. a mile and a quarter N. of the present Cong. Ch. on a lot N. and adjoining Gov. Haynes's lot, which lay bet. Dea. Wm.Gaylord's lot and 'Mr,' Pinney's lot. He contr. 2s. to Conn. Relief Fund for Poor of other Cols., 1676. He d. 20 Aug 1683; his wid. d. 18 Aug 1684. A Mrs. P. was adm. to W. Ch. 9 Feb 1639. - O.C.R. Children (all but eldest b. in Windsor; O.C.R.):
      A. Samuel, b. Dorchester. - O.C.R.
      B. Nathaniel, b. Dec 1641 in Windsor (O.C.R.); bp. 2 Jan, 1641/2.
      C. Mary, b. in June and bp. 16 of same mo., 1644; m. Abraham (s. of Geo. the emigrant) Phelps, 6 Jul 1663.
      D. Sarah, b. 19 Nov., bp. 3 Dec 1648 (O.C.R.), m. William (the emigrant) Phelps, 20 Dec 1676; was his 2d wife, and rec'd one-third of his ppy. as a settlement before her marriage. She contrib. 1s. 3d. to Conn. Relief Fund for Poor of the other Colonies, 1676; no issue.
      E. John, b. in Oct. and bp. 19 same mo., 1651; d. at W.; no issue.
      F. Abigail, b. 26 Nov 1654; m. John Addams, 6 Dec 1667 [1677?]; rem. to Simsbury.
      G. Isaac, b. 24, bp. 28 Feb 1663.
      (O.C.R. credits Humphrey Pinney with six ch., b. here in W.)"

      2. Ancestry.com's "Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-33":
      "HUMPHREY PINNEY:
      Origin: Broadway, Somersetshire Migration: 1633 First Residence: Dorchester Removes: Windsor 1636 Church Membership: Admission to Dorchester church prior to 14 May 1634 implied by freemanship. He was seventh in the list of those who came to Windsor with Mr. Warham [Grant 10]. Freeman: 14 May 1634 [MBCR1:369]. In 13 May 1669 list of Windsor freemen [CCCR 2:519]. Education: His signature indicates an educated man who learned one of the older hands. He made his mark to his will, and his wife signed hers. The inventory of Humphrey Pinney included "books" valued at £1 10s., and his widow's inventory included "books" valued at £1 15s. Offices: Grand jury, 7 March 1649/50, 15 May 1650 [RPCC 77, 82]. Jury, 5 June 1645, 1 October 1646, 1 June 1648 (as "Mr. Pynny"), 28 December 1648, 16 May 1649, 5 December 1650, 19 May 1652, 7 June 1660, 5 December 1661 [RPCC 34, 43, 51, 57, 64, 90, 109, 214, 241, 242; CCCR 1:126, 143]. Coroner's jury, December 1651 [RPCC 106]. Estate: Granted four acres at Dorchester, 5 August 1633 [DTR 2]; granted twenty acre Great Lot, 4 January 1635/6 [DTR 14]; "Mr. Piney" granted Lot #42, ten acres, in the meadow beyond Naponset [DTR 321]. On 16 November 1640 "Humphry Pinny hath granted from the plantation an homelot on Sandy Banke thirteen acres and half in breadth, seventeen rods"; "in meadow sixteen acres and half"; "over the Great River in breadth next the same twenty-seven rods running to the east three miles"; and "near pinemeade fifteen acres in breadth fifteen rods, in length an hundred and sixty" [WiLR 1:8]. He purchased of "Josyas Hull his homelot, nine acres and half more or less, ... as also his dwelling house thereon with the outhouses, gardens & fences" [WiLR 1:8]. "Also, whereas his lot toward Pine Mead was entered but fifteen rod in breadth is now to be counted thirty rods in breadth according to his first grant from the town for thirty acres" [WiLR 1:8]. In his will, dated 3 June 1682 and proved 10 December 1683, "Humfryw Pinie of Winsor" appointed "my wife Mary Pinney" executrix; "to "my wife Mary Pineye my housing & land during her natural life and after her decease my son Samuel shall have one third part of my lot on the east side of the Great River"; "that two acres that he hath now in possession is to help make up the third part of the lot that he the said Samuel is to have & is to have it on the south side of the lot next to Samuel Gailard"; to "my son John Pineye the other two thirds of my lot on the east side of the Great River"; "my sons Samuel Pinny & John Pinny shall pay to my grandchild Sarah Pinny, the daughter of Nathaniel Pinny, £5"; "my housing and all the rest of my lands I give to my son Isack" he to pay to "my grandchild Nathaniel Pinny, son of Nathaniel Pinny deceased, £10"; to "my three daughters, Marye, Sarah & Abigaile, 5s. apiece"; "what estate I have in old England, my wife shall have one half of it and my son Isack the other half of it"; residue to "my well beloved wife"; "my son John & my son Isack shall not sell, alienate or mortgage all nor any of the abovesaid lands until they are of the age of fifty years, except it be to their own brothers" [Hartford PD Case #4268; Manwaring 1:349]. "An inventory of the estate of Mr. Humphrey Pinny who deceased Aug[us]t 20:1683" totalled £790 7s. (of which £200 was debts due in England), including £340 in real estate: "his dwelling house, barn, orchard, gardens, pasture, about 3 acre ½ land"; "11 acres land east [of] the way"; "16 acres ½ in Great Meadow"; and "upland & mead east the river" [Hartford PD Case #4268]. In her will, dated 12 September 1683 and exhibited 4 September 1681 [sic - probably 1684], Mary Pinney of Windsor "in reference to that estate which my husband hath left me" bequeathed to "my son Samuel £5"; to "his daughter Mary, 40s."; to "my daughter Mary Phelps £5"; to "my son Isaack £5"; to "my daughter Sarah Phelps £20"; £3 apiece to "three children of my daughter Abigail, ... Mary, Abigail and John"; residue "both in New England and Old England I do give and bequeath unto my son John" sole executor; "if my daughter Sarah Phelps" should die leaving no issue, the legacy given to her "shall be returned to my executor" [Hartford PD Case #4279; Manwaring 1:349-50]. "An inventory of the estate of Mrs. Mary Pinny who deceased Aug[u]st 18:1684" totalled £249 18s. 6d. (of which £100 was debts due in England), with no real estate included [Hartford PD Case #4279]. Birth: Baptized Hardington-Mandeville, Somerset, 20 November 1605, son of John and Joanna (____) Pinney [M&JCH 17:118 (this baptismal date was published without full documentation; as the register for this parish apparently does not exist prior to 1687, this date may come from Bishops' Transcripts; confirmation of this would be welcome)]. Death: Windsor 20 August 1683 [CTVR 55]. Marriage: Dorchester by 1636 Mary Hull ("Houmfery Pinne married in Dorchester Mary Hull" [Grant 58]), daughter of George HULL. She was admitted to Windsor church on 9 February 1639[/40] [Grant 10] and died at Windsor on 18 August 1684 [CTVR 56]. Children:
      i. Samuel, b. Dorchester say 1636; m. Windsor 17 November 1665 Joyce Bissell [CTVR 11; Grant 58].
      ii. Nathaniel, b. Windsor in December 1641 [Grant 58]; m. Windsor 21 July 1670 Sarah (Griswold) Phelps [CTVR 12; Grant 58], daughter of Edward Griswold and widow of Samuel Phelps [TAG 65:163-64].
      iii. Mary, bp. Windsor 16 June 1644 [Grant 58]; m. Windsor 6 July 1663 Abraham Phelps [CTVR 10], son of George Phelps.
      iv. Sarah, b. Windsor 19 November 1648 [Grant 15]; m. Windsor 20 December 1676 William Phelps [CTVR 14], son of William Phelps [TAG 65:163].
      v. John, bp. Windsor 19 October 1651 [Grant 58]; d. unmarried between 19 June 1697 (date of will) and 25 October 1697 (date of inventory) [Manwaring 1:577].
      vi. Abigail, b. Windsor 26 November 1654 [CTVR 40; Grant 58]; m. Windsor 6 December 1677 John Adams [CTVR 15; see also TAG 55:209].
      vii. Isaac, b. Windsor 24 February 1663[/4?] [CTVR 17; Grant 58]; m. by 1686 Sarah Clark (eldest child b. Windsor 17 January 1686 [Loomis Rec 1:31]), daughter of Daniel Clark [Windsor Hist 2:153].
      Associations: On 4 March 1632/3 Henry Paynter wrote from Exeter, Devonshire, to John Winthrop Jr., asking him to "take notice of Mr. Cogan and Mr. Hill and Mr. Pinny our pious and loving neighbors and good friends that now come unto you" [WP 3:109]. These three immigrants of 1633 were JohnCOGGAN, William Hill and HUMPHREY PINNEY, who were very likely passengers on the unnamed ship which sailed from Weymouth in that year [GMN 3:9-10, 16]. (The claim that Humphrey Pinney was a passenger on the Mary & John in 1630, returned to England to handle his uncle's estate, and then came again to New England has no foundation. Humphrey Pinney was certainly in England in 1632 [Dawes-Gates 2:659], and the record of 4 March 1632/3 sounds very much as if all three men are making their first appearance in New England.) Sarah (Pinney) Poole, wife of Edward Poole of Weymouth, was a niece of Humphrey Pinney [NEHGR 59:328]. In 1656 "Humphrey Pinny" sued John Brome in the Chancery Courts in England over the estate of John Pinney of Exeter; the court noted that the "complainant has been in New England 20 years since" [NEHGR 100:220, citing Chancery Depositions before 1714, 687/30]. Comments: On 2 June 1635 Humphrey Pinney was one of five Dorchester men who agreed to arbitration "of all differences & accounts betwixt the said parties concerning the ship Thunder" [MBCR 1:151; RCA 2:54]. Matthew Grant says that "Mr. Pinne" had six children born in Windsor from the time of their "beginning hither" [Grant 88]. On this basis the birth of Samuel, their first Child, is placed in Dorchester, even though this makes him nearly thirty at marriage, and leaves a gap of about five years before the birth of the second child. Note that there is also a large gap between the births of the sixth and seventh Children. This last child must have been born at the very end of the mother's Child-bearing period. Bibliographic Note: A good treatment of Humphrey Pinney, with a line of descent through his son Nathaniel, was published in 1931 by Mary Walton Ferris [Dawes-Gates 2:658-65].
      SOURCES:
      A. CTVR: Births Marriages and Deaths Returned from Hartford, Windsor and Fairfield and Entered in the Early Land Records of the Colony of Connecticut..., Edwin Stanley Welles, ed. (Hartford 1898).
      B. MBCR: Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, 1628-1686, Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, ed., 5 volumes in 6 (Boston 1853-1854).
      C. DTR: Fourth Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston. 1880. Dorchester Town Records (Boston 1883).
      D. Dawes-Gates: Mary Walton Ferris, Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines, 2 vols. (n.p., 1943, 1931).
      E. CCCR: The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut, 1636-1776, 15 volumes (Hartford 1850-1890).
      F. WiLR: Windsor, Connecticut, Deeds (microfilm of original at Connecticut State Library, Hartford, Connecticut).
      G. Hartford PD: Hartford Probate District, original files, Connecticut State Archives (and on microfilm).
      H. Manwaring: A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records, Volume One, Hartford Probate District, 1635-1700, Charles William Manwaring, comp. (Hartford 1904).
      I. RPCC: Records of the Particular Court of Connecticut, 1639-1663, Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society, Volume 22 (Hartford 1928; rpt. Bowie, Maryland, 1987)
      J. Grant: "Matthew Grant Record, 1639-1681" in Some Early Records and Documents of and Relating to the Town of Windsor, Connecticut, 1639-1703 (Hartford 1930).
      K. NEHGR: New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 1 through present (1847+).
      L. TAG: The American Genealogist, Volume 9 to present (1932+).
      M. M&JCH: Search for the Passengers of the Mary & John 1630, Volume 1 through present (Toledo, Ohio, 1985+)."
      N. GMN: Great Migration Newsletter, Volume 1 through present (1990+)."

      3. The book "Histories and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut," Henry R. Stiles, 1892, p. 611: "Nathaniel (son of Humphrey) Pinney, m. Sarah (wid. Samuel) Phelps, and dau. of Edward Griswold, the emigrant, 21 Jul 1670. - Old Church Records. Nathaniel d. 1676. Children (O.C.R.):
      A. Nathaniel, b. 11 May 1671, m. Martha (dau. of Timothy and gd.-dau. William the emigrant) Thrall, 21 Sep 1693. He is prob. the 'Lt. Nath. P. of W., who dyed 1 Jan 1764, age about 90 (Sims Rec.); res. at Poquonoc., Windsor.
      B. Sarah, b. 11 Oct 1673."

      4. FHL book 929.273 L995m "Ancestors and Descendants of Thomas Rice Lyon and his Wife Harriet Wade Rice...," by Patty Barthell Myers (2003), pp. 357-60:
      "EDWARD1 GRISWOLD, son of George Griswold and his first wife Dousubel (___) and half-brother of Matthew Griswold...
      [Children...]
      iv SARAH GRISWOLD (again), b. Kenilworth 1635; d. 6 Nov 1715; m/1 when she was 15 years old, Windsor, Conn., 10 Nov 1650 SAMUEL PHELPS, b. Eng., bpt. Crewkerne, co. Somerset, Eng., 5 Aug 1621; d. Windsor 15 May 1669, s/o William Phelps and his first wife of Windsor; m/2 Windsor 21 Jul 1670 NATHANIEL PINNEY, b. Windsor Dec 1640; d. 7 Aug 1676, s/o Humphrey Pinney and Mary Hull. Children (PHELPS): Samuel m. Abigail Williams; Sarah m. Andrew Moore; Timothy m/1 Sarah Gaylord, d/o Walter Gaylord & Sarah Rockwell, m/2 Sarah Pratt, d/o Daniel; Mary m. Daniel Adams; William m. Hannah Hayden; John d. young; Ephraim m. Mary Jaggers; Abigail m. David Marshall; Josiah m. Sarah Winchell. Children (PINNEY): Nathaniel m. Martha Thrall; Sarah m. Thomas Grant...
      (Edward Elbridge Salisbury & Evelyn McCurdy Salisbury, Gen. & Biog. Monographs on the Fam. of Griswold, Wolcott, Pitkin, Ogden, et.al.; pp: 10-13; Nash, Fifty Puritan Ancestors, pp. 102-5; Ruth Lee Griswold, Griswold Family, pp. 188-9; Richard A. Wheeler, History of Stonington, Conn., p. 537; Alvan Talcott, Families of Early Guilford, Conn., pp. 530-1; Esther Griswold French and Robert Lewis French, The Griswold Family, The First Five Generations in America, p. 13 et seq.; Savage sv Edward, George, Francis, Joseph Griswold; Torrey sv Edward, George, John, Joseph, Francis Griswold; James Bemis.)"

      5. The book "The Ancestry of Allen Grinnell Cleaver and Martha Irene Jessup," by William Jessup Cleaver (Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, Inc., 1989), pp. 486-90, 494-95:
      "1. EDWARD GRISWOLD, son of George and Dousabell--, was baptized 26 July 1607 in Wooten Wawen, a chapelry of Henley in Warwickshire, England. He married in England Margaret-- and they emigrated to New England in 1639 with perhaps six children and his younger brother Matthew. Margaret died in Killingsworth, Connecticut 23 August 1670. Her gravestone marked "M. G. 1670" is the oldest in the cemetery. Edward married, second, in 1672/3 Sarah (--) Bemis, widow of James Bemis of New London. Edward may be buried in the empty space beside Margaret's stone in Clinton. He died in 1691 in his 84th year...
      Children of Edward Griswold and Margaret...
      i. FRANCIS, b. about 1629 in England.
      ii. Sarah, bapt. at Kenilworth, England 1631, died young.
      iii. George, bapt. at Kenilworth, England 1633; d. at Windsor, Conn. 3 Sept. 1674; m. 3 Oct. 1655 Mary Holcomb, daughter of Thomas.
      iv. Sarah, bapt. at Kenilworth, England 1635, d. at Windsor 6 Nov. 1715, m. (1st) at Windsor 10 Nov. 1650 Samuel Phelps, son of William, who d. 15 May 1669. They settled at Windsor, had nine children. She m. (2nd) at Windsor 21 July 1670 Nathan Pinney.
      v. Lydia, bapt. 1637. Kenilworth, England.
      vi. John, d. at Windsor, 1642.
      vii. Ann, bapt. at Windsor, 19 June 1642; known as Hannah; d. at Simsbury, 3 May 1714; m. at Windsor 19 Nov. 1663 Jonas Westover of Killingsworth and Simsbury.
      viii. Mary, bapt. at Windsor, 13 Oct. 1644; m. at Windsor 19 Mar. 1661 Timothy Phelps, son of William.
      ix. Deborah, bapt. at Windsor 28 June 1646; d. at Killingsworth 7 Feb. 1717; m. at Windsor 13 Nov. 1662, Samuel Buell, son of William.
      x. Joseph, bapt. at Windsor 12 Mar. 1647/8; d. at Windsor 14 Nov. 1716; m. 10 or 14 June or July 1670, Mary Gaylord.
      xi. Samuel, bapt. at Windsor 18 Nov. 1649; d. 6 July 1672. Inventory taken 26 Feb. 1672/3. Administered by George Griswold.
      xii. JOHN, bapt. at Windsor 1 Aug 1652. (4)(6)(8)"

      6. The publication "Search for the Passengers of the "Mary & John" 1630," by Burton W. Spear (Toledo, OH; The Mary & John Clearing House, 1989-2004), 2:97-98, "ADDITIONAL INFORMATION, FOUND ON THE FAMILIES, SINCE VOLUME 1 WAS PRINTED":
      "The first volume of "Search For The Passengers Of The Mary & John-1630" was rushed into print in early 1985 in preparation for a tour of the home towns of the passengers, by eighty descendants. This group spent 15 days, from May 17 to May 30, visiting the birthplaces and churches of the passengers in England, Dorchester, Mass. & Windsor, Conn. New information was not only gathered from the ministers, archivists and speakers on the tour, but also from the tour members, themselves, who had been collecting information on their ancestors, for many years.
      HUMPHREY PINNEY- New searches in Somerset, along with information from Stiles' History of Ancient Windsor, has permitted the compilation of a short, provisional ancestry of Humphrey Pinney. Humphrey's uncle, Edmund Pinney of Broadway, Somerset, died in 1631 and Humphrey was made executor of his estate. He returned to England to settle the matter. The little church in Broadway has many reminders of the Pinney family. Edmund's tomb is in the south transcept of the church, under a brass placed there in 1891, by American descendants of Humphrey Pinney. On the back wall is the Pinney coat-of-arms, beside a framed scroll that describes Humphrey's journey to America on the "Mary & John" in 1630. Edmund Pinney left bequeaths to the poor of Broadway that were to be paid for 4,000 years. These bequeaths were still being paid, as directed, in 1859, from land rents. Today they are being handled by the National Westminister Bank in Ilminster. The Pinney account has 24 shares (value: 40 pounds), in the Charities Official Investment Fund, and it pays bequeaths of about 1.06 pounds, quarterly."

      7. The book "Emerson-Benson Saga …," by Edmund K. Swigart (Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc., 1994), pp. 248-49:
      "EDWARD GRISWOLD (GEORGEA, HENRYB) was born circa 1607 in Kenilworth, county Warwick, England, and died in 1691 in Killingworth, CT. He was the oldest of three (five?) sons of GEORGEA GRISWOLD of Kenilworth and the grandson of HENRYB and DOROTHYA (JAMES) GRISWOLD of Greet, County Warwick. His family dates back to the late 13th century, when JOHN GRISWOLD of Kenilworth married (___) HUGGERFORD, circa 1290. EDWARD1 GRISWOLD marred as his first wife by 1629-20, probably in Kenilworth, MARGARET HICKS?. MARGARET1 was born circa 1610 in England and died in August of 1670 in Kenilworth, CT. "Her gravestone marked as ‘M.G. 1670' is known as the oldest monument in the Congregational graveyard at Clinton, CT (formerly part of Killingworth)" (ref. 1). EDWARD1 married circa 1672 as his second wife, probably in New London, CT, Sarah? (___) Bemus, widow of James, who died in New London in 1665. Sarah? had two daughters by her first marriage, Rebecca2 and Mary2. Mary2 married John2, EDWARD1's son, creating the interesting situation of John2 having a mother-in-law who was also his step-mother. EDWARD1's second wife Sarah? probably died in Killingworth.
      In 1639 EDWARD immigrated from Kenilworth, England, to Windsor, CT, perhaps by boat from Dorchester, MA, with Rev. Ephraim Huit (as part of his congregation), or directly from England with George Fenwick on his second visit to the Colonies. Accompanying him, whenever he came, was his wife MARGARET1. MARGARET1, "mother of eleven children, was a real pioneer pilgrim. After nine years of married life in England, with five baby children, she braved the wilderness of the New World at Windsor. Here she lived a full quarter of a century, and then lived for seven years in the new virgin town of Kenilworth," [later Killingworth] "Conn., which was named for her home town in England" (ref. 1).
      In the new world EDWARD1 was always addressed as "Mr.", a title rarely granted and indicating he had a strong financial and social background in England -- and that he had earned great respect among his peers in the New World. Between 1640 and 1642 EDWARD1 was granted 150 acres of land by the town of Windsor and was one of the first settlers of Poquonock, four miles west of Windsor. By 1649 the danger of Indian raids was still so real that 'The Gen'l Court, in view of the ‘many dangers the familyes of Edward Griswold, Thomas Holcombe," [etc.] "are in, by reason of remote living from neighbors and nearness to the Indians', frees one of them from training on each training day, provided he stand about as a sentinel" (ref. 1). EDWARD1 was a deputy to the General Court for Windsor from 1658 to 1661. In 1662 he was the foreman of a jury of 12 men who condemned Nathaniel Greensmith as "worthy of death for witchcraft. They found Rebecca, his wife, also guilty and she confessed same in open court. ...The witchcraft delusion was very light in America compared to Europe" (ref. 1).
      EDWARD1 deeded his Windsor property to sons George2 and Joseph2 shortly before he became one of the 21 subscribers in 1663, along with ancestor JOSIAH2 HULL (see JOSIAH2 HULL for details) to help found Kenilworth, CT. Most of his children were married and settled in Windsor at this point, but apparently he wanted to move once more. Thus, at the age of 56, he went with his wife and two children, plus newly married daughter DEBORAH2 and son-in-law SAMUEL2 BUELL, to help settle Kenilworth. EDWARD1 served as the first deputy from that town to the General Court in 1667 and the General Court appointed he and JOSIAH2 HULL as commissioners for Kenilworth. This post he held for 14 years. In 1672 he drew up a Conditional Inheritance Deed, which served as his will when he died. In it he made son John2 his principal beneficiary, but named his other children and their children as well. In 1678 EDWARD1 served on a committee to help set up a Latin School in New London.
      EDWARD1 and MARGARET (HICKS?) GRISWOLD had the following children, the oldest five? (six?) born at Kenilworth, county Warwick, England, and the rest in Windsor, CT:
      I Sarah2, b. 1631: d. soon, prob. at Kenilworth, Eng.
      II Sarah2, b. 1632; d. 1715: m. 1/hs 10 Nov 1650, prob. at Windsor, CT. Samuel Phelps who d. in 1669, prob. at Windsor, m. 2/hs 21 Jul 1670, prob. at Windsor, Nathaniel Pinney.
      III Lieut. Francis2, b. 1633; d. Oct 1671 at Norwich, CT; m. by 1653, Mary?/Sarah? Post?.
      IV George2, b. 1635; d. 3 Sep 1704, prob. at Windsor, CT: m. 3 Oct 1655, Mary2 Holcomb (Thomas1)
      V Liddia2, b. 1637.
      VI Ann2, bapt. 19 Jun 1642 at Windsor, CT.
      VII Mary2, b. 5 Oct, bapt. 13 Oct 1644; m. 19 Mar 1661, prob. at Windsor, CT, Capt. Timothy Phelps, prob. bro. of Samuel.
      VIII DEBORAH2, b. and bapt. 28 Jun 1646: d. 1717-8 at Killingworth, CT; m. 13 Nov 1662 at Windsor, CT, SAMUEL2 BUELL (see BUELL).
      IX Joseph2, bapt. 12 Mar 1647-8; d. 14 Nov 1714: m. ca. 14 Jul 1670, prob. at Windsor, CT, Mary2 Gaylord (John1).
      X Samuel2, b. and bapt. 18 Nov 1649; d. 6 Jul 1672, perh. at Killingworth, CT; unm.
      XI John2, bapt. 1 Aug 1652; d. 1717, prob. at Killingworth, CT; m. as 1/wf 28 Nov 1672. perh. at Killingworth, Mary Bemis, his step-sis., who d. 27 Oct 1679, prob. at Killingworth, m. 2/wf aft. Oct 1679. bef. 4 May 1681, Bathsheba Smith?/North?.
      REFERENCES
      1) Bassette, B. B., op. cit., 158-69, 357-67.
      2) Colket, M. B., op. cit., 137.
      3) Ferris, M. W., op. cit., Dawes-Gates, II:461-2.
      3) McCracken, George E., "William Buell & Early Descendants". TAG, 54(1978):71.
      4) Pierce, R. Andrew, personal communication, research and material on the Buell and Griswold lines, 25 January 1993, LET and MAT, Swigart, E. K., Washington, CT.
      5) Savage, J., op. cit., I:288; II:316.
      6) Torrey, C. A., op. cit., 114, 329, 576, 587."