Margery (Daggett) Griswold (1733 - abt. 1815)

Born 21 Feb 1733 in Lebanon, New London, Connecticut

Ancestors

Wife of Joseph Griswold — married 28 Mar 1753 in Conventry, Connecticut

Descendants

Died about 22 Aug 1815 at about age 82 in Randolph Center, Randolph, Orange, Republic of Vermont

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Biography

Margery Daggett was born on February 21, 1733 in Lebanon, New London, Connecticut. She is the daughter of John Doggett Senior and Margery Eames^[1][2][3]

Margery is listed in the Vermont Historical Gasetteer of 1871 as a native American from a tribe in or near Hartford, Connecticut. This is most likely the remnants of the Pequot tribe. She worked as a healer, learning her medicine skills from her father the tribal healer, called Dogerill by the English. Margery is said to have met her husband after he nearlly drown and she was brought to treat him.^[4]

She married Joseph Griswold on March 28, 1753 in Coventry, Connecticut.^[2][1] They had at least eight children.

1. Eunice Griswold was born about 1753.
2. Benjamin Griswold was born on December 10, 1769 in Somers, Tolland County, Connecticut.
3. Eunice Griswold was born on November 20, 1771 in Somers.
4. Sylvester Griswold was born in 1774.
5. John Griswold.
6. Frederick Griswold
7. Lois Griswold.
8. Joseph Giswold

She, her daughter Eunice and possibly Joseph, were baptized on July 12, 1772 at Somers, Tolland County, Connecticut.^[5]

Margery died at an age of eighty-two on August 22, 1815 in Randolph, Orange County, Vermont. She is buried in the Randolph Center Cemetery.^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} A history of the Doggett-Daggett family by Doggett, Samuel Bradlee. 1894. Page. 367
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Griswold, Glenn E. The Griswold family : England-America. (Middleboro, Mass.: Griswold Family Association of America, 1935). Available at Ancestry.com. Pages Volume II, 49, 50. Vol II, 89, 90. Vol. III Appendix.
3. ↑ "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F7WT-VQ7 : 8 December 2019), Margary Dagget, 1733.
4. ↑ https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=xkEOAAAAIAAJ&pg=GBS.PA1008&q=Margery, page 998 to 999
5. ↑ Eunice Griswold. Father: Joseph Griswold Connecticut, Church Record Abstracts, 1630-1920.
   • Enuice, d. Joseph & w., bp. July 12, 1772.
   • Margery, w. of Joseph, adm. ch. Mar. 26, 1775 from Church of Christ, Andover; dism. & recom. Oct. 6, 1782 to church in Lebanon, N. Hampshire.
6. ↑ Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/102002951/margery-griswold : accessed 08 December 2019), memorial page for Margery Daggett (Doggitt) Griswold (21 Feb 1733–22 Aug 1815), Find A Grave Memorial no. Find A Grave: Memorial #102002951, citing Randolph Center Cemetery, Randolph, Orange County, Vermont, USA ; Maintained by James Bly (contributor 48597187) .

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