Lucretia (Griswold) Latimer (1731 - 1820)

Born 26 Mar 1731 in Lyme, New London, Connecticut Colony

Ancestors

Wife of Jonathan Latimer Jr — married 28 Jan 1748 in New London, New London, Connecticut Colony

Descendants

Died 14 Jul 1820 at age 89 in Sumner, Tennessee, United States

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Biography

Lucretia was born on March 26, 1731, in Lyme, New London, Connecticut Colony, the daughter of George Griswold and Hannah (Lynde) Griswold.

Excerpts from "Anecdotes out of the Midwest" This portion written by Arthur B. Wells, Great-Great Grandson of Jonathan Latimer and Lucretia Griswold Latimer. dbs ^[1]:

"Jonathan Latimer was born May 27, 1724. This son, like his Father grew tall and strong, graduated from Yale and married January 28, 1746, Lucretia Griswold, the daughter of Reverend George Griswold, pastor of the church of the East Society of Lyme, grandson of Mathew Griswold, Jr. of the trial by combat fame."

"Lucretia was a descendant of Lord Latimer of England, the Van de Lindens of Holland and the great English Roman Catholic family of Digby."

"Rev. George Griswold graduated from Yale in 1717, being 2nd in his class. His salutatory oration, written in Latin, is now preserved among the files of Yale University, one of the oldest Yale documents of this sort known to exist. Yale College was then at Saybrook, Connecticut. It was moved to New Haven, Connecticut later that year. Rev. George Griswold married June 22, 1725, Hanna Lynde, daughter of Nathaniel Lynde, who had been one of the Chief Patrons and at he first Treasurer of Yale College."

"By this marriage, some of the beauty, the soft and regular features and fine complexions hereditary with the Digby-Lynde families were blended with the tall, large boned and powerful Griswold characteristic features."

"When Jonathan Latimer married Lucretia Griswold, he married into a distinguished family. Lucretia’s first cousin, Mathew Griswold was Deputy Governor of Connecticut as a Colony, and Lieutenant Governor after the Revolution, and later Chief Justice of Connecticut, and her nephews George Griswold and Nathaniel Lynde, were princely merchants of New York."

Sources

1. ↑ Excerpts from "Anecdotes out of the Midwest" This portion written by Arthur B. Wells, Great-Great Grandson of Jonathan Latimer and Lucretia Griswold Latimer. dbs

• The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records (NEHGS, Boston, 2011) Vol. New London, Page 130: Marriage record.
• "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F77V-5ZG : 3 December 2014), Lucretia Griswold, 26 Mar 1730; citing ; FHL microfilm unknown.
• Burial Site of Lucretia (Griswold) Latimer, Find A Grave: Memorial #100116186, in Hendersonville, Sumner, Tennessee, United States of America, Beech Cemetery