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Seymour, Mary
b. 19 JAN 1620 Sawbridgeworth, Herts, England
Parents:

Father: Seymour, Robert

Family:

Marriage:29 SEP 1644 Hartford, CT
Spouse: Gridley, Thomas [aka: II]
b. 10 APR 1612 Ashen, Braintree, Essex, England
d. 12 JUN 1655 Hartford, CT
Parents:

Father: Gridley, Thomas

Family History:

Thomas, blacksmith, immigrated aboard the "Griffin" in 1630 and landed in Boston. He moved to Hartford, CT in 1632 with Rev. Thomas Hooker and became identified with both the settlement there and at Windsor. Thomas Gridley was sent from Windsor in 1637 as one of thirty men to the "Pequot Fight" under Capt. Mason. On Sept 05, 1639, while in Windsor, he was fined and convicted in General Court in Hartford for "strong suspicion of drunkeness and for refusing to watch, and for striking one of Mr. Stiles' servant men." He was one of 127 Proprietors at Hartford in 1639 "by courtesie of the town." His home lot, designated on the Map of Hartford 1640, was just north of and adjacent to the Ox Pasture. Just east of his was the lot of John Moody which abutted the road to Wethersfield. Just across that road eastward was the estate of George Wyllys, Esquire. Gridley lived on the south side of Buckingham Street, next lot west to the South Church. "Thomas Gridla was maryed unto Mary Simmor upon Septm the twenty Nine one thousand six hundreth forty & fower." [Farmington Church Records, p. 21]. They sold their home to Thomas Bunch and established a new home on the "south side of the road from George Stubbs to the South Meadow." Mr. and Mrs. Gridley were members of the First Church in Hartford. He is known to have been in conflict with John Clark, his son Thomas' future Father-in-law, presumably because Mr. Clark had suceeded in securing the most desirable pew of the church which both men attended. This led to an altercation with the law when Thomas had passed John Clark's servant on the street and took his wrath out on the servant by publicly whipping him. For this offense Gridley was arrested, tried and convicted. He was to pay a fine and suffer a term of imprisonment. However, the court record reads: "Fine cancelled and sentence commuted." In 1648 he served as Highway Surveyor Windsor, CT. On 3 October 1653 he was present at a Proprietor's meeting in Springfield, MA, indicating that he had an interest in property in Northampton. On June 12, 1655 an inventory of his estate was recorded in Probate Court. On December 12, 1655, the Inventory valued his estate at £282 12s. 5d. The Inventory listed: one feather bed with a canvas bed under it, one rug, 2 baskets and a mat, one bedstead, house feather pillows, one trundle bed and bedding for it, one table, two chests, and two boxes, one warming pan and basket, one cubbard with clock and 3 towels, 4 pairs of sheets and 1 sheet, 3 small remnants of stuff, other remnants, a fine lock piece, a shoud waist and handerchief, "His wearing apparrell and mony in his purse.", a piece of new cloth linen, a candle with some other small things. Hogsheads with some other tubbs, a kneading trough, corn measures, a fan with other things, flax and yarn and one blankett, augers and other small things, a supply of corn in the house, pewter and brass and iron pots, vessels of beans and vessels of meat, wheels, corn growing, cart hweels with plow and harrow, yoaks, chaines and irons, a beetle and wedge, axes, with other small implements. "The house and barn and land to it" were valued at £100, swine at £2, cattle at £7. Debts from the estate totaled £7. To the record was added on December 20, 1655: "The children are as followeth: ye beginning of next month Samuell Gridly eight years old: Thomas Gridly was 5 years old about ye latter end of July last. Mary Gridly was 3 years old about last miheltide. "The distribution of ye estate on ye other side is as ffoloweth. "To ye relict eighty pounds. "To Sam: Gridly ye house Barns etc and Land to it prized at £100 when hee attaines ye Age of twenty one yeares. "To Thomas Gridly sixty pounds when hee attaines of Age of 21 yeares. To Mary Gridly thirty five pounds when shee attaines ye Age of 18 years. John Lanchton is Addmitted Administrator to ye whole estate, and is to pay all Debts; well educate ye children, learning ye sonnes to read and write and ye daughter to read and sow well and to maintaine ye buildings and fences in good repaire till it falls into ye hands of Sam Gridly or his next heires: The sd. John Lanchton being allso to putt in good security to ye court in March next for ye payment of ye portions of Sam and Mary Gridly and for ye fair full performance of ye whole Administrations when they shall attaine their respective Ages. If ye mother of ye aforesd children shall so long live on to ye court if her death shall swift happen. It being ye minde of this courte that if any of ye children shall depart this life before they shall attaine ye aforesd respective ages: theire portions shall equally bee devided betwixt ye surviving children and if ye Relict departs his life before any or all ye children doe attaine their aforesd respective ages, or before their several portions bee paid them, their aforesd severall portions shall att ye death of their mother imediately returne into ye hands of ye courte to bee improved for theire respective Advantage and benefitt of education and otherwise." [Connecticut Colonial Probate Records Vol. 2] After the widow's marriage to Deacon John Langdon the family moved to Farmington. On 12 October 1671 Thomas' heirs received a grant of 120 acres of land for his services during the Pequot War. As of 8 January 1673 the estates of Thomas' sons Samuel and Thomas Gridley were valued at 44 pounds respectively. [Connecticut State Library, Farmington Ratable List]

Children:

Gridley, Samuel
b. 25 NOV 1647 Hartford, CT
Gridley, Thomas

Gridley, Mary
b. 29 SEP 1652 Farmington, CT

Family:

Marriage:AFT. 1655 Farmington, CT
Spouse: Langdon, John [aka: , Deacon]

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