Individual Details
Sarah [wife of Francis Griswold and William Bradford] [UNKNOWN]
(1633 - Aft 1671)
she was NOT the daughter of Thomas Tracy
citing
French, Griswold [note 15], 15; Jacobus, Waterman [note 15], 1:667.
Events
Families
Spouse | Lt Francis GRISWOLD (1629 - 1671) |
Child | Sarah GRISWOLD (1653 - 1692) |
Child | Joseph GRISWOLD (1655 - 1655) |
Child | Mary GRISWOLD (1656 - 1711) |
Child | Hannah GRISWOLD (1658 - 1687) |
Child | Deborah GRISWOLD (1661 - ) |
Child | Lidyah GRISWOLD (1663 - 1664) |
Child | Samuell GRISWOLD (1665 - ) |
Child | Margret GRISWOLD (1668 - ) |
Child | Lidia GRISWOLD (1671 - 1752) |
Spouse | Maj William BRADFORD (1624 - 1703) |
Child | Joseph BRADFORD (1675 - 1747) |
Notes
Birth
http://homepages.rpi.edu/~holmes/Hobbies/Genealogy2/ps02/ps02_281.htmMarriage
Claims TRACY name, but this been disproven. See: The Waterman Family: Descendants of Robert Waterman of Marshfield, Massachusetts through Seven Generations, Donald Lines Jacobus, compiler, Volume 1, (New Haven: E. F. Waterman, 1939), p. 667; digital page images, Hathi Trust (https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005774594 : viewed 15 July 2018). Jacobus doesn't know her first name either.Alt name
Discounted alternatives for the 2nd wife of Maj. William Bradford, quoted from Webber...Over the years various writers have tried to "nail down" the identity of this
"widow Wiswall." John A. Goodwin identified her as the widow of "Parson
Wiswall" of Duxbury, Massachusetts.[2] This is impossible, since the Rev.
Ichabod2 Wiswall, pastor of the church at Duxbury, lived until 23 July 1700, and
his second wife, Priscilla (Pabodie) Wiswall, survived as his widow until her
death on 3 June 1724.[3] William T. Davis suggested that she was "perhaps
d[aughter], of Thomas Fitch of Norwalk, Conn."[4] This also is impossible, since
Thomas' Fitch's three daughters are already maritally accounted for, and none of
them was married to a Wiswall or a Bradford.[5] Ruth Gardiner Hall went so far as
to specify, without qualification, that the "widow Wiswall" was Mary Fitch, born
in 1643.[6] But Thomas Fitch's daughter Mary, born in 1643, was married to
Matthew Sherwood, and she died as his widow on 25 December 1730.[7] I suspect
that this Fitch family mix-up can be attributed in part to a careless misapplication
of data that really pertain to the next generation, since Major Bradford's son
Joseph did marry into the Fitch family — twice. His first wife was Anne2 Fitch,
the daughter of the Rev. James1 Fitch of Saybrook, Norwich, and Lebanon,
Connecticut, and the niece of Thomas1 Fitch of Norwalk, Connecticut. His second
wife was Mary (Sherwood) Fitch, the daughter of Matthew and Mary (Fitch)
Sherwood (!) and the widow of Daniel2 Fitch. (Daniel was the son of the Rev.
James Fitch and the brother of Joseph Bradford's first wife.)[8]
The chief reason why a satisfactory identification of the "widow Wiswall" has
eluded Bradford family researchers is that there simply was no widow Wiswall
who could have married Major William Bradford about 1673. The Wiswall or
Wiswell family of Massachusetts was fairly small, and an examination of the
genealogical data on the early generations of this family rules out such a
possibility.[9] Where, then, did this story originate?
Sources cited by Webber:
2 James Shepherd, Governor William Bradford, and His Son, Major William Bradford (New
Britain, Conn.: by the author, 1900), 79.
3 Esther Littleford Woodworth-Barnes, compiler, Mayflower Families Through Five
Generations, Volume 16, Part 1: Family of John Alden (Plymouth, Mass.: General Society of
Mayflower Descendants, 1999), 66-68.
4 William T. Davis, Ancient Landmarks of Plymouth, Part II: Genealogical Register of
Plymouth Families (Boston: A. Williams and Company, 1883), 38.
5 Roscoe Conkling Fitch, History of the Fitch Family, 2 vols. (Haverhill, Mass.: Fitch Family,
1930), 1:116.
6 Ruth Gardiner Hall, Descendants of Governor William Bradford (New York: Bradford
Family Compact, 1951), 4.
7 Roscoe Conkling Fitch [note 5], 1:116.
8 Wakefield, Bradford [note 1], 17-18; John T. Fitch, Puritan in the Wilderness, 2nd. ed.
(Camden, Me.: Picton Press, 1995), 292, 296.
9 Anson Titus, "The Wiswall Family of America," Register 40 (1886), 58-60.
Burial
http://homepages.rpi.edu/~holmes/Hobbies/Genealogy2/ps02/ps02_281.htmEndnotes
1. "Millennium ," database index, Ancestry.com (http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=7249: accessed 8 February 2016), Francis Griswold married Mary Tracy.
2. "New England Marriages to 1700 [Torrey]," database index with images, New England Historic Genealogical Society, AmericanAncestors (: accessed 30 January 2016), vol 1, p 666, "GRISWOLD, Francis (1632?, ?1629-1671, Norwich) & [Mary/?Sarah POST? not TRACY]; by 1653; Saybrook, CT/Norwich, CT...".
3. "Millennium ," database index, Ancestry.com (http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=7249: accessed 8 February 2016), Francis Griswold's spouse was Mary Tracy.
4. "Millennium ," database index, Ancestry.com (http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=7249: accessed 8 February 2016), Francis Griswold born 1629, Kenilworth, Warwick, England.
5. David Jay Webber, "Major William Bradford's Second Wife: Was she the Widow of Francis Griswold," New England Historical and Genealogical Register||NEHGR 155 (2001); online archives, AmericanAncestors (https://www.americanancestors.org/DB202/r/0 : downloaded 19 May 2018).
7. David Jay Webber, "Major William Bradford's Second Wife: Was she the Widow of Francis Griswold," New England Historical and Genealogical Register||NEHGR 155 (2001); online archives, AmericanAncestors (https://www.americanancestors.org/DB202/r/0 : downloaded 19 May 2018).
8. David Jay Webber, "Major William Bradford's Second Wife: Was she the Widow of Francis Griswold," New England Historical and Genealogical Register||NEHGR 155 (2001); online archives, AmericanAncestors (https://www.americanancestors.org/DB202/r/0 : downloaded 19 May 2018).