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of Dr. Alexander Wolcott, son of Gov. Roger Wolcott.*^ Dr. Elihu
Griswold removed to Flerkimer county, N. Y., about the year 1800.
MATTHEW (2) Griswold, having come to Windsor, married,
October 16, 1646, Anna daughter of the first Henry Wolcott of Windsor
(see 3|itftCW=212^0lC(ltt)^ an emigrant from Tolland, co. Somerset, by
Elizabeth daughter of Thomas Saunders, of the adjacent parish of Lydiard
St. Lawrence.'" Either before or after the date of his marriage he removed
to Saybrook, in the capacity of Agent to Governor Fenwick. The exact
year of his removal to the river's mouth cannot now be fixed, but he is
said to have been the earliest actual occupant of land within the bounds of
Lyme (set off as separate from Saybrook in 1665-66), implying that he
had settled there long before this separation. Indeed, his original grant is
believed to have emanated from Fenwick,'^ which would carry us back to
1645, ^t least, when Fenwick's rights under the Warwick Patent were
extinguished by agreement with the Colony of Connecticut.* Another
indication of his having very early become a resident of Saybrook is given
by his testimony of 1684, quoted above; for in that he speaks of having
thought to leave Saybrook and purchase land in Windsor (" beeing not
accomodated to my mind where I then lined at Saybrook "), at a time
when land up the river had depreciated in value, the prevalence of Parlia-
mentarian rule in England having evidently lessened the inducements to
emigration, before the progress of events in the old country had again
tempted the more conservative Englishmen to expatriate themselves.
From these facts it would appear that he was a resident of Saybrook as
early as within the fifth decade of the seventeenth century, though after
the middle of October, 1646, because he was already married when he
contemplated returning to Windsor.
By the colonial records we first find him at Saybrook on the 20*"" of
'^ Memorial of Henry Wolcott. . . . New
^ Id., p. II.
'' History of New London. .
'* The History of Connecticut. . . . By
York, 1881, pp. 77 and 140-42,
. . By Frances Manwaring Caulkins. . . . New
G. H. Hollister. New Haven, 1855, i. 135.
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London, 1852, p. 72.