Sarah (Griswold) Colton (1657 - 1690)

Born 25 Sep 1657 in Saybrook, Connecticut Colony

Ancestors

Wife of Thomas Colton — married 11 Sep 1677 (to 1690) in Longmeadow, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 12 Sep 1690 at age 32 in Springfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

Sarah Griswold was born about 1655. Sarah married Thomas Colton about 1677.^[1] Sarah passed away about 1690.

Sarah was the mother of seven children. ^[2]

Birth

1645 Guilford, New Haven, CT

25 SEP 1657 Lyme, New London, Connecticut

To Matthew and Anna (Wolcott) Griswold were born the following children: ... (4) Sarah, born in 1655, who married Thomas Cotton [sic]. ^[3]

Note: Lyme did not become a recognized town (split off from Old Saybrook) until 1667, which was after the birth of Sarah. Some sources might list Lyme as the POB.

Death

1691 Lyme, New London, CT

12 September 1690. ^[4], ^[5], ^[2], ^[6]

Burial

~13 September 1690.
Springfield Cemetery
Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts, USA.
Find A Grave Memorial #113331587. ^[7] Note: Wikitree Cemetery category page lists start date of 1841, and Data Doctor reports flag an error on this category ("Suggestion 886") when this category placed on profile.

Sources

1. ↑ Springfield, Births, Marriages, and Death in Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data:Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook). https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/15085775:2495?tid=&pid=&queryId=559489616beca7064356558d778c766c&_phsrc=uWG875&_phstart=successSource
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Allen: Vol. 33, Page 220.
3. ↑ Beers: Page 91.
4. ↑ "Massachusetts, Springfield Vital Records, 1638-1887," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XPJ4-6NG : 12 December 2014), Sarah Colton, 12 Sep 1690; citing v 1 p 54, Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, Springfield City Hall; FHL microfilm 185,414.
5. ↑ "Massachusetts, Springfield Vital Records, 1638-1887," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XPJ5-2JS : 12 December 2014), Sarah Colton, 12 Sep 1690; citing p 188, Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, Springfield City Hall; FHL microfilm 185,414.
6. ↑ Townsend: Page 122.
7. ↑ "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVGQ-3KQZ : 11 July 2016), Sarah Griswold Colton, 1690; Burial, Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States of America, Springfield Cemetery; citing .

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• Genealogical and Biographical Record of New London County, Connecticut (J.H. Beers & Co., 1905) Page 91
• Townsend, Charles Delmar. The Griswold Family, England-America (Tuttle Publishing Company ; Griswold Family Association of America, 1970).
  
• Colton, George Woolworth. A Genealogical Record of the Descendents of Quartermaster George Colton (Wickersham Print. Co., Lancaster, Pa., 1912) Page 3
• Bryant, Blanche Brown. The Progenitors and Descendants of Thomas Page Brown and Sarah (Sally) Parker (Springfield, Vermont, 1938) Page 38.