Elizabeth Griswold

  General Notes:

~ James Rogers of New London, Ct., And His Descendants, Published in Boston by the author, James Swift Rogers, 1902, p. 42.⁵³⁹

  Noted events in her life were:

• Children.
Elizabeth Rogers born: 8 Nov 1671 in New London, New London, Connecticut
John Rogers born: 20 Mar 1674 in New London, New London, Connecticut

• Dates & Events. ⁴¹⁷
Griswold and Bekwith Lines

Matthew Griswold came from Kenilworth, England, to Windsor, Connecticut, and removed to Saybrook, Connecticut in about 1639. He was one of the first magistrates. He had charge of governor Fenwick's affairs when the latter left the Colony. He had a grant of a large tract of land on which he settled, in Blackhall, a pleasant part of Old Lyme, Connecticut. To the church in Saybrook (of which Lyme was then a part) he presented a silver cup, still in existence, and which the church has sold to an individual, bearing thisinscription: S. C. Don. Domini Matthew Griswold. The title imply indicates his social standing, as does the English title Mr. which is applied to him in the New London records.

He died at the age of ninety-six, and his grave is unknown, the more noticeable, as the monument still standing in Windsor over the grave of his father-in-law, Henry Wolcott,as ascribed to his agency. (The Wolcott Memorial, footnote, pgs. 11, 12).

Matthew Griswold married Anna (also given Anne) Wolcott, daughter of Henry. She came to America with her parents, Henry and Elizabeth (Saunders) Wolcott of the parish of Lidiard St. Lawrence, near Tolland, Somersetshire, England, and Windsor, Connecticut. Their daughter was Elizabeth Griswold who married first, John Rogers, from whom she was divorced, second Peter
Pratt, who died 24 Mar 1688; and third, Matthew Beckwith II.

Matthew Beckwith II, son of Matthew I who died 1680, Lyme, Connecticut, was born in 1637, Saybrook Point, Connecticut and died 4 Jun 1727. He married Elizabeth (Griswold-Rogers-Pratt), and their daughter, Griswold Beckwith, married Eliakim Cooley II.
~The Cooley Genealogy: The Descendants of Ensign Bejamin Cooley, pp. 390-391

• Background Information. ⁵⁸⁹
Elizabeth was most likely born no later than 1652. She first married on 1 Oct 1679, John Rogers of New London, Connecticut. Second she married on 5 Aug 1679, Peter Pratt. Peter Pratt died 24 Mar 1688. She soon contracted a third marriage with Matthew Beckwell, the second.

From her second marriage with Peter Pratt, she had a son, also named Peter. Peter Jr. had been studying for the profession of the law in New London, and renewed his close friendship with his half brother, John Rogers, Jr., of Mamacock.

Peter became a disciple of the elder John Rogers, and embraced his teaching. He even was baptized by the elder John Rogers. Later he relinquished the Rogernene belief, and said he had labored under a delusion.
~History of New London, Connecticut : from the first survey of the coast in 1612 to 1852

Elizabeth married John Rogers, son of James Rogers and Elizabeth Rowland, on 17 Oct 1670 in Blackhall, Lyme, New London, Connecticut, British American Colonies.⁵³⁹ (John Rogers was born on 1 Dec 1648 in Milford, New Haven, Connecticut,^539,548 died on 17 Oct 1721 in New London, New London, Connecticut ⁵⁴⁸ and was buried in Mamacoke Farm, New London, New London, Connecticut.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

  Marriage Notes:

~James Rogers of New London, Ct. and his Descendants, James Swift Rogers, pg. 41
~History of New London, Connecticut : from the first survey of the coast in 1612 to 1852, p. 203

Elizabeth next married Matthew Beckwith, son of Matthew Beckwith and Unknown. (Matthew Beckwith was born in 1637 in Saybrook Point, Conneticut ⁴¹⁷ and died in 1680 in Lyme, New London, Conneticut, British American Colonies ^{417 ,547}.)