Capt. Stephen Griggs

Find a Grave Memorial: He was the son of Solomon and Hannah Allen/ Griggs and husband of Sarah Chandler/ Griggs.

He was an ensign, then captain, in the American Revolution.

Link: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=18758361

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Captain Stephen GRIGGS (*)22,100 was born on 21 Jun 1742 in Pomfret Township, Windham County, CT.7,57,71,83,84,101 He served in the military about 1762.57,72,83 He was "a captain of a militia company," the First Company, Eleventh Regiment, under Captain Caleb Clark, in the Revolutionary War. He died on 15 Oct 1786 in Pomfret Township, Windham County, CT.57,83,84 He was buried in Pomfret Township, Windham County, CT.66,69,82 in the Sabin Cemetery (also known as the Wappaquoian Burial Ground). 

Gravestone Inscription: "Here lies the Dust of Captain Stephen Griggs Who departed this Life Oct 15th 1786 in the 45th year of his Age.

O Sons of men a warning to be

An inch of time brings all to dust

Rouse up from Sin from sloth awake

& See in what you fix your trust.

Life is a lily fair today

Tomorrow in ye oven thrown

Health soon will cease strength decay..." (The last line is beneath the surface of the grass and unreadable).

. He has Ancestral File Number P1ST-RN.

Link:http://www.lutheransonline.com/servlet/lo_ProcServ/dbpage=page&gid=...

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