Ninth Generation

183. Captain Stephen GRIGGS (*)^22,100 was born on 21 Jun 1742 in Pomfret Township, Windham County, CT.^{7,57,71,83,84,101} He served in the military about 1762.^57,72,83 He was "a captain of a militia company," the First Company, Eleventh Regiment, under Captain Caleb Clark, in the Revolutionary War. He died on 15 Oct 1786 in Pomfret Township, Windham County, CT.^57,83,84 He was buried in Pomfret Township, Windham County, CT.^66,69,82 in the Sabin Cemetery (also known as the Wappaquoian Burial Ground).

Gravestone Inscription: "Here lies the Dust of Captain Stephen Griggs Who departed this Life Oct 15th 1786 in the 45th year of his Age.

O Sons of men a warning to be
An inch of time brings all to dust
Rouse up from Sin from sloth awake
& See in what you fix your trust.

Life is a lily fair today
Tomorrow in ye oven thrown
Health soon will cease strength decay..."
(The last line is beneath the surface of the grass and unreadable).

. He has Ancestral File Number P1ST-RN.

Captain Stephen GRIGGS (*) and Sarah CHANDLER (*) were married on 4 Sep 1766 in Pomfret Township, Windham County, CT.^{57,71,83,84,90,97} Sarah CHANDLER (*)^22,100 (daughter of David CHANDLER Sr. (*) and Mary ALLEN (*)) was born on 26 Apr 1740 in Pomfret Township, Windham County, CT.^71,83,102 She appeared in the census in 1790 in Pomfret Township, Windham County, CT.⁸⁰ Sarah was a widow at the time of the census. Her household consisted of 1 male, age >16 (Benjamin, 23); 2 males, age <16 (Nathan, 14, and Stephen Chandler, 6); and 5 females (Sarah, 50, Lucinda, 13, and three unknowns).

. She appeared in the census in 1800 in Pomfret Township, Windham County, CT.^27,92 Her household consisted of 1 male, age 0-10; 1 male, age 26-44; 1 female, age 16-25; and 1 female, age 45 and over (Sarah, 60). This may have been her daughter Lucinda; Lucinda's husband, John Bennett; and their son.

, She appeared in the census in 1810 in Pomfret Township, Windham County, CT.¹⁰³ Her household consisted of Sarah (then a widow), age 70; a female, age 16-25; a male, age 26-44; and a male, under 10 years of age. This may have been her daughter Lucinda, Lucinda's husband John Bennett, and their son. Sarah's husband, Stephen, had died in 1786 and her other children were deceased or married and living on their own.

. She died on 31 Mar 1814 in Pomfret Township, Windham County, CT.^83,102 She was buried in Apr 1814 in Pomfret Township, Windham County, CT.^66,69 in the Sabin Cemetery (also known as the Wappaquoian Burial Ground).

Gravestone Inscription: "In memory of Sarah Griggs, widow of Stephen Griggs, who died March 31 1814 In her 75th year."

. She has Ancestral File Number P1ST-ST. Captain Stephen GRIGGS (*) and Sarah CHANDLER (*) had the following children:

+290	i.	Benjamin GRIGGS.
+291	ii.	Chloe GRIGGS.
292	iii.	Chester GRIGGS (1st) was born on 2 Apr 1771 in Pomfret Township, Windham County, CT.18,71,83,86 He died on 12 Mar 1773 in Pomfret Township, Windham County, CT.18,86,101
293	iv.	Nathan GRIGGS (1st) was born on 3 Apr 1773 in Pomfret Township, Windham County, CT.18,71,83,88 (According to the "Genealogy of The Griggs Family," there was only one son named Nathan who died as a young child; he was born 5 April 1773 and died 20 August 1776. That information is believed to have been wrong because the Pomfret Vital Records list two sons named Nathan.) He died before Jun 1774.18
294	v.	Nathan GRIGGS (2nd) was born on 12 Jun 1774 in Pomfret Township, Windham County, CT.71,88 He died on 20 Aug 1776 in Pomfret Township, Windham County, CT.88,101
295	vi.	Chester GRIGGS (2nd) was born on 20 May 1775 in Pomfret Township, Windham County, CT.18,71,83,86 He died on 25 Apr 1824.18,83,101 (He may have died in 1825.)
+296	vii.	Lucinda GRIGGS.
+297	viii.	Nathan GRIGGS (3rd).
+298	ix.	Stephen Chandler GRIGGS (*).