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Louisa, born October 24, 1879, at Roches-
ter, New York, died October 19, 1907
she married Albert H. Wallace, of Montclair,
New Jersey. 2. Margaret Bacon,
born at Rochester, New York, October
29, 1881 ; she married Webster Kimball
Clark, M. D., of Greenfield, Massachu-
setts, 3. Albert Clinton, of Wethersfield,
who was born at Rochester, New York,
February 10, 1884; married Eva Eliza-
beth Sauer, of Unionville, Connecticut.
4. Mary Fosdick, who was born at Wethersfield,
July 30, 1886, and married Bur-
ton Mather Mason, of Hartford. 5.
Henry Stillman, born at Wethersfield,
September 25, 1887; he married Ruth E.
Chapman, of Hartford. 6. Charles Dar-
row, born at Wethersfield, April 19, 1889;
died October 6, 1908. 7. Myron Adams,
born at Wethersfield, December 11, 1890;
married Gladys Rider, of Danbury, Con-
necticut. 8. Frederick Goodrich, born at
Wethersfield, February 23, 1892, died
July 30, 1892. 9. Alice Webster, born at
Wethersfield, May 8, 1893; died March
12, 1917. 10. Elizabeth Darrow, born at
Wethersfield, January 25, 1900.
Mr. Griswold is keenly interested in
public affairs, and has given active and
appreciated allegiance to the Republican
party. He has held local, judicial and
administrative office ; was justice of the
peace, and for over twenty years has
been a member of the town school committee
in Wethersfield. of which body he
is now chairman. His personality, as
well as his capability in public office, was
in recent years made evident by his elec-
tion to and activities at the State Legis-
lature in 1913. He was a member of the
committee on insurance, and was chairman
of the new towns and probate dis-
tricts committee. Socially, Mr. Griswold
is a member of the Hartford Club, of the
Wethersfield Country Club, of which organization
he is president ; also member
of the Hartford Chamber of Commerce.
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(The Stanley Line).
Thomas Stanley, born in Farmington,
November 27, 1720, married (first), May
22, 1740, Mary, daughter of James and
Elizabeth (Howard) Francis. James
Francis was born in Wethersfield, October
13, 1685; married (first) November
3, 1713, Elizabeth Howard, who died
April 13, 1728; resided at Berlin, Con-
necticut, where he farmed. His father,
John Francis, was born in Wethersfield,
September 4, 1658; married (first) February
10, 1680, Sarah Dix, who was born
in 1658, and died April 3, 1682; served
as sergeant in Colonial army, but main
occupation that of farming. He died December
28, 171 1. His father, Robert
Francis, was born in 1629, probably in
England ; married, about 1650, Joan
, who
died January 29, 1705, aged
seventy-six years. The records of the
town of Wethersfield authenticate the
admission of Robert Francis to rank of
freeman of the settlement in 1645. Rec-
ord also is extant of purchase by him of
a tract of land on March 29, 1652, which
land he farmed. He was a prominent
member of the Congregational church.
He attained the age of eighty-three, his
demise occurring on January 2, 1712.
Thomas Stanley, who married Mary
Francis, was the son of Thomas Stanley.
The latter was born in Farmington, Octo-
ber 31, 1696; married, January 2, 1718,
Esther, daughter of Samuel Cowles, of
Kensington. He lived in Stanley Quarter,
New Britain, 'and was reputed wealthy.
He died October 13, 1755, aged sixtynine,
his wife surviving him for more
than twenty years, her death occurring
on July 22, 1776.
His father, Thomas Stanley, was born
in Farmington, November 1, 1649. He
was one of the petitioners to the General
Court for liberty to settle Waterbury,
but he did not remove there. On May 1,
1690, he married Anna, daughter of Rev.