Person:Francis Griswold (1)

LIEUT. FRANCIS GRISWOLD, b. in England, 1629; d. October, 1671. William BACKUS and Lieut. Francis GRISWOLD were among the patentees of the town of Norwich. He is called “a man of capacity and enterprise.” Settled in Saybrook, 1655-1656, was “one of the first proprietors of Norwich, 1660, taking an active part in the affairs of the Plantation, and from 1661 inclusive to 1671, was a Deputy to the General Court. “Of the twenty-five founders of the Colony made in 1669, William BACKUS and Francis GRISWOLD were included. The first proprietors list of Norwich, November, 1659, included William BACKUS, William BACKUS, Jr., Francis GRISWOLD.” In 1682, Francis GRISWOLD with two others formed a Court of Commission; m. Mary TRACY, dau. of Thomas TRACY. (Col. Fam of America, Vol. 5., p. 293)

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Nash, Elizabeth Todd. Fifty Puritan ancestors, 1628-1660: genealogical notes, 1560-1900. (New Haven: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1902)
   104.
2. ↑ Norwich, New London, Connecticut, United States. Vital Records of Norwich, 1659-1848. (Hartford, Conn.: Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Connecticut, 1913)
   1:18.

   'Leiftenant ffrancis Griswold deceased in Octo An 1671'

3. ↑ Jacobus, Donald Lines. Further Griswold Notes. The American Genealogist. (1964)
   40:44.

   'The Salisburys [Family-Histories and Genealogies, by Edward Elbridge Salisbury and Evelyn McCurdy Salisbury, 1892] correctly list Francis as older than George, and I suggest that he may have been born about 1629, two years before the first recorded child.'