Ninth Generation

140. John GRIGGS Sr. was born on 28 July 1714 in Woodstock Township, Windham County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America.^16,168 He died on 26 November 1754 at the age of 40 in Ashford, Windham County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America.¹⁶ He was buried in Eastford, Windham County, Connecticut, British Colonial America.¹⁶⁷ in the Old Cemetery.

John GRIGGS Sr. and Dorothy PARRY were married on 26 December 1738 in Woodstock Township, Windham County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America.^16,167 (The research by Bill Griggs indicates that they married in Ashford, Windham County, CT.) Dorothy PARRY¹²⁹, daughter of John PARRY and Sarah INGOLDSBY, was born on 22 December 1711 in Ashford, Windham County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America.^16,162,168 (She may have been a relative of Joseph Smith, the Prophet of the LDS Church. The IGI records list her son Joseph's children as Smith's relatives, but they do not list her husband or his parents as such. So the connection may have been through her family or through her son Joseph's wife's family.) She died on 24 November 1754 at the age of 42 in Ashford, Windham County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America.^16,167 She was buried in Eastford, Windham County, Connecticut, British Colonial America.^162,167 in the Old Cemetery. (She has no gravestone marker, but is believed to be buried in the open space to the left of her husband.)

John GRIGGS Sr. and Dorothy PARRY had the following children: