Person:David Griswold (2)

In the spring of 1787 David Griswold with his family, consisting of his wife Sally and his children, Mary, Thomas, and David, came up the river from Orange County, N. Y., and located between Elmira and Wellsburg or, what is now known as the river road. He built a sawmill and gristmill in the closing year of the last century. The gristmill was moved away in 1855 and thenceforth used as a barn. It originally stood on the present farm of Clayton Griswold. The barn stands Oil laud of the John Beckwith estate. Jonas Griswold, another son of David, born in Southport nearly a quarter of a century after the family's first settlement there, died July 12, 1891, aged eighty-one years. He was an elder in the Presbyterian Church of Southport for more than fifty years. His son, Alpha D. Griswold, who is now living, has been an cider in the same church for nearly twenty-five years.