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             Husband: Peleg GRIFFIN (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8)
                Born: l 1769 in Oxford, New Haven, CT
             Married:
                Died: 21 JUL 1844 in Newtown, Fairfield, CT (9 10)
              Father: Elisha GRIFFIN
              Mother: Mary
             Spouses: Sally MITCHELL
                Wife: Margaret BOTSFORD (11)
          Christened: 28 APR 1776 in First Congregational Church Of Derby (12 13)
                Died: 22 MAY 1841 (14)
              Father: Nehemiah BOTSFORD
              Mother: Mercy JOHNSON
             Spouses:
Children
01               (F): Sophia GRIFFIN (15)
                Born: in Oxford, New Haven, CT
                Died:
             Spouses: 
02               (M): Charles GRIFFIN (16)
                Born: in Oxford, New Haven, CT
                Died:
             Spouses: 
03               (M): James Harvey GRIFFIN (17 18 19)
                Born: l 1812 (20)
                Died: 1878 in Derby, New Haven, CT (21)
             Spouses: Nancy Maria BRISTOL
04               (M): William J. GRIFFIN (22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29)
                Born: 07 FEB 1814 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (30 31)
                Died: 1908 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (32)
             Spouses: Laura M. SPERRY
05               (M): Isaac GRIFFIN (33)
                Born: in Oxford, New Haven, CT
                Died:
             Spouses: 
06               (F): Caroline GRIFFIN
                Born:
                Died:
             Spouses: Sherman LEWIS

Footnotes

  1. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 183.
    ... lived on Hull's Hill.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/183.html.]
  2. Ibid., 149.
    [Taxpayers of Oxford in 1802
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/149.html.]
  3. J. L. Rockey, History of New Haven County, Connecticut, 534.
    The registered freemen in the town at the time of its incorporation in 1798 and the next ten years following were: ...
  4. 1800 Oxford Census.
  5. 1810 Oxford Census.
  6. 1820 Oxford Census.
  7. 1840 Oxford Census.
  8. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 402.
  9. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 184.
    ..died at Newtown, at the house of his daughter, Sophia, and was buried in Newtown.
  10. Complied by Greater Omaha Genealogical Society, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol. 31, Newtown 1711- 1852 (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 95.
  11. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 183.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/183.html.]
  12. Copied and compared with the original by Nancy O. Phillips, Sarah Riggs Humphrey Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, Derby, Connecticut Town Records, 1655-1710 (New Haven, CT, The Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Company, 1901), 481.
    Church Records.
    [http://www.derbyhistorical.org/Records1655-1710/481.html.]
  13. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 402.
  14. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 184.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/184.html.]
  15. Ibid., 183.
  16. Ibid., 183.
    ..a sailor, d. unmarried.
  17. 1850 Derby Census.
    James H. | Augur Maker.
  18. 1860 Derby Census.
    Harvey | Blk Sth.
  19. 1870 Derby Census.
    Joseph | Augur ___.
  20. 1850 Derby Census.
  21. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 183.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/183.html.]
  22. Ibid., 83.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/083.html.]
  23. Ibid., 184.
    ... l ived in the stone house on Five Mile Hill ... built by Silas Sperry.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/184.html.]
  24. 1850 Oxford Census.
  25. 1860 Oxford Census.
    Farmer.
  26. 1870 Oxford Census.
    Carpenter & Farmer.
  27. 1880 Oxford Census.
    Farmer.
  28. 1900 Oxford Census.
    Farmer.
  29. Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850. (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 45, 72.
  30. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 183.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/183.html.]
  31. Charles Elwell, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Hillside Cemetery, 40.
    [stone gives birth as 1813
    http://oxfordpast.net/hscemscan40.html.]
  32. Ibid., 40.
    Chatfield, Sarah, wife of Billy, died July 14, 1843, age 62 yrs.
    Chatfield, Elizabeth, wife of Gideon, died Mar. 2, 1827, age 65 yrs.
    Chatfield, Gideon, died Apr. 23, 1817, age 61 yrs.
    Chatfield, Bennet, son of Gideon & Elizabeth, died Sept. 27, 1801, age 3 yrs. 7 mos.
    Sperry, Infant daughter of L. & S.
    Sperry, Lucinda, wife of Silas, died Sept. 1, 1849, age 60 yrs.
    Kimberly, Eunice, wife of Julius, died Dec. 19, 1826, age 36 yrs.
    Sperry, Silas, died July 26, 1850, age 73 yrs.
    Griffin, William J., born 1813, died 1908
    Griffin, Laura M., wife of William J., born 1818, died 1905
    Griffin Betsey Maria, daughter of William & Laura M., died June 25, 1860, age 16 yrs. 10 mos. 15 das.
    Sperry, Charlie, J., son of G. C. & Elizabeth O., died Sept. 7, 1859, age 4 yrs.
    Chatfield, Lyman, son of Mary & John, died Sept. 29, 1805 age 11 yrs.
    Chatfield, Sheldon, died July 12, 1808, age 22 yrs.
    Chatfield John, died June 28, 1837, age 85 yrs.
    Chatfield, Mary, wife of John, died Jan. 21, 1827, age 69 yrs.
    Chatfield, David K., died Sept. 15, 1853, age 70 yrs.
    Chatfield, Mary, wife of David K., died Feb. 21, 1869, age 67 yrs.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/hscemscan40.html.]
  33. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 183.
    Isaac, m. in New York state.

Revised: 17-Dec-08
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