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117. John GRIGGS
Sr. was born on 28 Jul 1714 in Woodstock Township, Windham County, CT.6,68
He died on 26 Nov 1754 in Ashford, Windham County, CT.6 John GRIGGS Sr. and Dorothy WRIGHT-SCARBOUGH were married
on 26 Dec 1738 in Woodstock Township, Windham County, CT.6 Dorothy WRIGHT-SCARBOUGH
was born about 1717 in Woodstock Township, Windham County, CT.68 (She may have been a relative of Joseph Smith, the
Prophet of the LDS Church. The IGI records list her son Joseph's children as
Smith's relatives, but they do not list her husband or his parents as such.
So the connection may have been through her family or through her son Joseph's
wife's family.) She died in Ashford, Windham County, CT. John GRIGGS
Sr. and Dorothy WRIGHT-SCARBOUGH had the following children:
199 | i. | Elisha GRIGGS was born on 3 Sep 1739. | 200 | ii. | Hannah GRIGGS
was born on 28 Jun 1741. She died on 26 Aug 1751 in Pomfret Township,
Windham County, CT.82 | 201 | iii. | John GRIGGS Jr.
was born on 16 Mar 1743. | 202 | iv. | Mary GRIGGS was born on 12 Feb 1744/45.84 | 203 | v. | Patience GRIGGS was born on 23 Dec 1746. | +204 | vi. | Joseph GRIGGS Sr.. | 205 | vii. | Irene GRIGGS was born on 29 May 1753
in Ashford Township, Windham County, CT.68 |
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