Person:Samuel Griffin (18)
Samuel Griffin
b.Est 1675 Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
 
Parents and Siblings
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m. Betw late 1673 and ear 1674
  1. Samuel GriffinEst 1675 -
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m. 15 Dec 1703
  1. Samuel Griffin1705 - Bef 1794
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Facts and Events
Name Samuel Griffin
Gender Male
Birth? Est 1675 Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United StatesEst based on marriage of parents
Marriage 15 Dec 1703 to Elizabeth York
References
  1.   Massachusetts, Probate Court (Essex County). The Probate Records of Essex County, Massachusetts. (Salem, Massachusetts: The Essex Institute, 1916, 1917, 1920)
    313:590.

    Appointment of "his [Samuel Younglove's] grandson Sam[uel]ll Griffen of Gloster" as admin of the estate of Lydia (Younglove)(Griffen) Witham shows Samuel Griffen's mother was Lydia Younglove. See discussion in The Great Migration.

  2.   Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (Boston, Massachusetts: NEHGS, 1999-2011)
    discussion pages 561-2.

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  3.   Griffin, in Davis, Walter Goodwin. The ancestry of Annis Spear, 1775-1858, of Litchfield, Maine. (Portland, Maine: Southworth-Anthoensen Press, 1945)
    147.

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  4.   Samuel York, in Noyes, Sybil; Charles Thornton Libby; and Walter Goodwin Davis. Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire. (Portland, Maine: Southworth Press, 1928-1939).

    Samuel and Hannah York has Elizabeth York who married Samuel Griffin. They quit claimed to son Samuel Griffin Jr in 1754 citing York Deeds 30:258

  5.   Babson, John J. Notes and Additions to the History of Gloucester: Part First. Early Settlers. (Gloucester, Mass.: M.V.B. Perley, 1876)
    239.

    "Our first Samuel had in 1707 two acres of land where he had set his house near Benj. York's land; and four acres on the east side of the way leading from Lobster Cove to Sandy Bay" He had sons Samuel, Adoniram and Daniel. Samuel Griffin, jun., for many years a member of the church at Annisquam, and a useful citizen, died Jan. 15, 1781;" "Samuel Griffin first appears in Gloucester on his marriage to Eliz. York Dec.15, 1703.There was a family of this name early settled in Ipswich. Humphrey may have been ancestor of Samuel and a Samuel who is said to have moved from Newbury in 1736.

  6.   Pringle, James Robert. History of the town and city of Gloucester, Cape Ann, Massachusetts. (Gloucester, Mass.: Procter Brothers, 1860)
    63.

    "Samuel Griffin appears in town on the occasion of his marriage to Elizabeth York, Dec. 15, 1703. He probably came from Ipswich, where Humphrey Griffin settled in 1641. Samuel had a grant of land on the road leading from Lobster Cove to Sandy Bay. His numerous descendants are among the active and energetic businessmen of the town."

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