BackGround: Boston Tempel, Boston, Massachusetts.
Seth was born 1747, Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut, the son of Nathaniel GRIFFIN and Elizabeth GRIFFIN, and married 10 September 1772, in Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut, Mary BROWN the daughter of Joseph BROWN. She was born 14 Novenber 1750 in Nova Scotia, Canada, and died 6 April 1833 in Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut. Seth died 26 March 1817 in Granby, Hartford, Connecticut.
The brothers Festus and Horace VIETS has a sawmill and a shingle mill just north of the Granby-Suffield border and northwest of the family home on GRIFFIN Road. This may have been the same mill that Seth and Aristarchus GRIFFIN once operated.
Revolutionary War Record:
26 August-25 September 1776: In 18th Regt. at New York Capt. Hezekiah HOLCOMB's Co. Until March 1780 in 6th Brig., for defense of Seacoast under Col. PHILIPS.
The decisive action that summer (1777) began in the North when General Burgoyne arrived from England to lead the British Army down the Hudson River to a planned rendevous with General HOWE, who was to bring up the Hudson from New York City, thus cutting New England off from the rest of the country. On July 5 BURGOYNE and his army occupied Ticonderoga without a battle, proceeded to Skenesboro (now Whitehall) at the south end of Lake Champlain and then started overland toward the Hudson River. Hoping to replenish his supplies by capturing horses, cattle, and grain, BERGOYNE sent a detachment of troops to raid the American supply depot at Bennington, Vermont. By some calculations, one tenth of General BERGOYN'S army was killed, wounded, or captured in August during the battle of Bennington. Seth GRIFFIN and Captains Hezekiah HOLCOMB, Joseph FORWARD, and Asahel HOLCOMB participated in this American victory.
Seth GRIFFIN, Aristarchus GRIFFIN, and Calvin GILLETT, with their wives, organized the Methodist Espiscopal church at Copper Hill in 1816. This Church usually called the Copper Hill Methodist Church became part of the Granville (Massachusetts) Circuit and shared a minister with other churches in the association. In 1844 it became an Independent station with its own minister.
CHILDREN of Seth GRIFFIN and Mary BROWN:
1. MARY b: 10 Jun 1774; Hopemeadow, Hartford, Connecticut.
2. ANNA b: 29 Dec 1776; Turkey Hills, Hartford, Connecticut.
3. SOPHIRA bap: 11 Feb 1778; Turkey Hills, Hartford, Connecticut.
+ 4. SETH b: Dec 1778; Turkey Hills, Hartford, Connecticut.
md: Abt 1800; , , Connecticut.
Esther Bradley ALDERMAN
md: Abt 1836; , , New York
Jane _______
d: Aft 1830; , Schoharie, New York.
5. LUCRETIA b: Nov 1780; East Granby, Hartford, Connecticut.
6. LUCRETIA b: 8 Jul 1781; East Granby, Hartford, Connecticut.
+ 7. ZOPHER b: 7 Jan 1783; East Granby, Hartford, Connecticut.
md: ; , Hartford, Connecticut.
Margery TRUMBELL
Note On 7 October 1811, Zopher served on a District
Committee for East Granby Schools
8. RHODA b: 3 Feb 1786; East Granby, Hartford, Connecticut.
md: 9 May 1809; , Hartford, Connecticut.
Apollos PHELPS
+ 9. ARISTARCHUS b: 1787; East Granby, Hartford, Connecticut.
md: 8 Nov 1808; Granby, Hartford, Connecticut.
Jael GILLETT
d: 13 Mar 1866; , Hartford, Connecticut.
+ 10. SYLVESTER b: Jan 1788; East Granby, Hartford, Connecticut.
md: 10 Oct 1810; , Hartford, Connecticut.
Mary WARNER.
md: 22 Feb 1812; East Granby, Hartford, Connecticut.
Mary GRIFFIN
d: 1877; , La Porte, Indiana.
bur: 1877; Low's Cemetery, Laporte, Indiana.
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