Person:Thomas Griggs (4)

Clarence Bowen's History of Woodstock

… because much of Bowen's account of the Griggs families is erroneous, not much reliance can be placed on any of the statements about the Griggs families.^[2]

1. ↑ Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
   2:315.

   Thomas Griggs, Roxbury, 1639; brought wife, Mary, who died or was buried 29 November of that year; and sons John and Joseph; married, 26 August 1640, Mary Green; and he died, 23 May 1646, after long illness.

2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} H. Minot Pittman, F.A.S.G., "Early Griggs Families of Massachusetts", in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society)
   123 [1969] : 171.
3. ↑ Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Roxbury, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute, 1925-1926)
   II:540.

   Thomas (Griggs), householder, (died) May 23, 1646.

4. ↑ Record Commissioners of Boston. Roxbury Land and Church Records. (Boston, Massachusetts: Rockwell & Churchill, City Printers, 1881)
   173.

   (where he) "lay in a long affliction of sickness and shined like gold in it, greatly magnifying his grace in Christ"