Person:Mercy Griswold (3)

Watchers
m. 11 Mar 1707/08
  1. Mercy Griswold1708 - 1782
  2. Samuel Griswold1709 -
m. 27 Nov 1729
  1. Eli Crane1742 - 1781
Facts and Events
Name[1] Mercy Griswold
Married Name Mercy Crane
Gender Female
Birth[1][2] 27 Jul 1708 Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Christening[3] 22 Aug 1708 Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Alt Christening[1] 27 Aug 1708 Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Marriage 27 Nov 1729 to Sergeant Silas Crane
Will[7] 17 Aug 1782
Death[4][7] 29 Aug 1782 Durham, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States
Probate[7] 8 Oct 1782 Will exhibited.
Alt Death[1][5][6] 29 Oct 1782
Burial[5] Old Durham Cemetery, Durham, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 16 Samuel3 Griswold, 74 Mercy4 Griswold, in Griswold, Glenn E. The Griswold family, England-America. (Middleboro, MA: Griswold Family Association of America, 1935)
    181, 213.

    "78 Mercy (Griswold), b. July 27, bapt. Aug. 27, 1708."
    "78 Mercy4 (Griswold), b. Guilford, Conn., July 4, 1708 {Samuel3, Thomas2, Michael1); m. in Durham, Conn., Nov. 27, 1729, Silas Crane, s. of Henry and Abigail (Flood) Crane, b. Jan. 25, 1705. … She died (March on tombstone) Oct. 29, 1782, age 76. Their tombstones are in the old Durham cemetery on the hill, of red sandstone, almost destroyed by the elements."

  2. Wethersfield Vital Records [NEHGS], in Connecticut, United States. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records
    139.

    "Griswold, … Mercy, d. Samuell & Mary, b. July 27, 1708 [1:9]"

  3. Volume 126 Wethersfield, in Connecticut, United States. Church Record Abstracts, 1630-1920. (Ancestry.com (database on-line), 2013)
    122.

    "Griswold, … Mercy, illegitimate child of Sam(ue)ll Griswold, bp. Aug. 22, 1708 [SM:35]"

  4. Durham Vital Records [NEHGS], in Connecticut, United States. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records
    25.

    "Crane, … Mercy, wid. of Silas, d. Aug. 29, 1782 [400]"

  5. 5.0 5.1 Marcy Griswold Crane, in Find A Grave.
  6. Connecticut Headstone Inscriptions Vol 12 704-1 Old Cemetery, Durham, in Hale, Charles R. Hale Collection of Connecticut Cemetery Inscriptions. (Connecticut, United States: Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, 1934)
    14.

    "Crane, Marcy. wife of Silas, died Oct. 29. 1782. age 76."

  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 118. Sergt. Silas Crane3, in Crane, Ellery B. (Ellery Bicknell). Genealogy of the Crane Family. (Worchester, Mass.: Press of Charles Hamilton, 1895, 1900)
    1:72.

    "… widow made her will Aug. 17, 1782, naming the eight surviving children and appointing her son Frederick the executor of the will. She died Aug. 29, 1782. The will was
    exhibited in court October 8, following."