Tenth Generation

297. Ensign Ichabod GRIGGS III (!) was born on 7 June 1744 in Tolland Township, Tolland County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America.^168,205,235 He served in the military He was a Sergeant and then an Ensign in the Revolutionary War. about 1776 in Tolland, Tolland County, CT.⁷⁹ He died on 30 September 1776 at the age of 32 in New Rochelle, Westchester County, New York Colony, British Colonial America.^{14,86,180,205,235} Ensign Ichabod Griggs (1744-1776) was a sergeant at the Lexington Alarm during the Revolutionary War, and an ensign of the Tolland Militia in the New York campaign.

He died during the Revolutionary War in New Rochelle, NY and "was buried under an oak tree" in New Rochelle, according to the military records. However, there are these two special monument markers at this cemetery for him. The bottom of the reddish stone is a marker for his daughter, Anna (1773-1787).

(His date of death is listed as 30 Dec 1776 on MyHeritage.com.) Ichabod was buried in New Rochelle, Westchester County, New York Colony, British Colonial America.^14,206,236 He was buried by soldiers under an oak tree.

There is also a gravestone marker for him in the South Yard Cemetery, Tolland, Tolland County, CT, but he is not believed to be buried there.

Ensign Ichabod GRIGGS III (!) and Mary "Mercy" HATCH were married on 19 December 1765 in Tolland Township, Tolland County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America.^{79,137,168,180,204,205,213,235,237} (They may also have had a daughter named Sarah, born in Tolland.) Mary "Mercy" HATCH, daughter of Joseph HATCH and Mary CLARK, was born on 28 February 1746 in Tolland Township, Tolland County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America.^{14,137,162,179,213} Given name may have been "Mercy". She died on 4 July 1833 at the age of 87 in Tolland, Tolland County, CT.^{137,162,204,213,238} She was buried in Tolland, Tolland County, CT.¹⁶² in the South Yard Cemetery.

Ensign Ichabod GRIGGS III (!) and Mary "Mercy" HATCH had the following children:

445	i.	Joseph GRIGGS was born on 30 January 1767 in Tolland Township, Tolland County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America.168,205,235 He appeared in the census in 1790 in Tolland Township, Tolland County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America.239 His household consisted of 2 males, 16 and older; 1 male, under 16; and 4 females.
+446	ii.	Samuel GRIGGS.
+447	iii.	Captain Stephen GRIGGS (!).
+448	iv.	Ichabod GRIGGS IV.
449	v.	Anna GRIGGS was born on 14 September 1773 in Tolland Township, Tolland County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America.162,168,235,238 She died on 23 April 1777 at the age of 3 in Tolland Township, Tolland County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America.162,238 She was buried in Tolland Township, Tolland County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America.162 in the South Yard Cemetery.
450	vi.	Sarah GRIGGS was born in 1775 in Tolland Township, Tolland County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America.127,162 She died on 25 December 1851 at the age of 76 in Preble, Cortland County, NY.162 She was buried in Preble, Cortland County, NY.162 in the Elmwood Cemetery.
+451	vii.	Matta "Martha" GRIGGS.