Pedigree

Samuel Fones1

#3841, born about 1615?
Father*Thomas Fones born 1582, died 15 April 1629
Mother*Anna Winthrop born 16 January 1585/86, died 16 May 1618

Life Events

Birth*about 1615? 
Last Edited11 August 2007

Citations

  1. Oliver Hull, Book of the Hulls (40 Fulton St., New York, NY: Peter Eckler, 1863).
Pedigree

Solomon Lockwood

#3842, born about 1752?

Family

Abigail Hull born 7 February 1752

Life Events

Birth*about 1752? 
Marriage*Principal=Abigail Hull 
Last Edited1 April 2002
Pedigree

Thomas Burling

#3843, born about 1755?

Family

Henrietta Hull born 1 August 1755

Life Events

Birth*about 1755? 
Marriage*Principal=Henrietta Hull 
Last Edited1 April 2002
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Thomas Clark

#3844, born about 1758?

Family

Catherine Hull born 19 February 1759

Life Events

Birth*about 1758? 
Marriage*Principal=Catherine Hull 
Last Edited1 April 2002
Pedigree

Edward Avery

#3845, born about 1650?
Father*Unknown Avery born before 1630?

Family

Mary Edgeley born about 1650
Child

Life Events

Birth*about 1650?; Cornwall, England 
Immigration*before 1687 
Marriage*before 1687; Principal=Mary Edgeley 
Death*Eastchester/Yonkers, Westchester, New York 
Last Edited2 March 2020
Pedigree

Mary Edgeley

#3846, born about 1650

Family

Edward Avery born about 1650?
Child

Life Events

Birth*about 1650 
Marriage*before 1687; Principal=Edward Avery 
Last Edited4 July 2018
Pedigree

Unknown Avery

#3847, born before 1630?

Family
Children

Life Events

Birth*before 1630? 
Last Edited4 July 2018
Pedigree

Christopher Avery

#3848, born before 1660?, died 1681
Father*Unknown Avery born before 1630?

Life Events

Birth*before 1660?; Salisbury, England 
Death*1681; Groton, Connecticut 
Last Edited8 May 2001
Pedigree

Richard Griffin

#3849, born about 1655
Relationship8th great-grandfather of Doris J. Muller
Father*Edward Griffin born about 1602
Mother*Mary Unknown born about 1628

Family

Susannah Haight born about 1676, died 27 November 1760
Children

Life Events

Birth*about 1655; Flushing, Queens, New York1 
Marriage*about 1692; Principal=Susannah Haight 
DNA HG*Various websites suggest that the Y-DNA origin of the Griffin name/line is Wales. In other words, the Griffin line may have originated in Wales and migrated to Ireland in the distant past. 
ChartsAncestry of Doris, Marilyn, Diane, and Craig
Ancestry of Isabel Coons
Last Edited17 March 2022

Citations

  1. Web page, https://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~griffingriffenfamily/. Hereinafter cited as Web page.
Pedigree

Susannah Haight

#3850, born about 1676, died 27 November 1760
Relationship8th great-grandmother of Doris J. Muller
Father*Samuel Haight born 1 May 1647, died 12 November 1712
Mother*Sarah Noble born about 1655, died about 1740

Family

Richard Griffin born about 1655
Children

Life Events

Birth*about 1676; Flushing, Queens, New York 
Marriage*about 1692; Principal=Richard Griffin 
Death*27 November 1760; Flushing, Queens, New York 
ChartsAncestry of Doris, Marilyn, Diane, and Craig
Ancestry of Isabel Coons
Last Edited4 July 2018
Pedigree

Edward Griffin1,2,3,4

#3851, born about 1602
Relationship9th great-grandfather of Doris J. Muller

Family

Mary Unknown born about 1628
Children

Life Events

Birth*about 1602 
Immigration*1635; first to Virginia, later (1657) to Flushing in New Amsterdam, NY 
Marriage*before 1648?; Principal=Mary Unknown 
Note*Later work by Theresa Griffin [WEB:]https://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~theresagriffin/[:WEBhas confirmed that the three men (Edward, John and Jasper in italics below) assumed to be brothers were not and that Edward was not Edward Pengruffwnd (Pengriffin) of Walton West, Pembrokeshire, Wales. According to Paul J. Griffin's website [https://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~griffingriffenfamily/][:WEBand his earlier work, "My focus concerns the descendants of Edward Griffin b.1602 in Wales,[ITAL:] his brother John Griffin b.1608 in Wales or Jasper Griffin b.1648 in Wales.[:ITAL] John settled in the Simsbury & Granby area of Connecticut. Some of his descendants are still there. Jasper settled near the eastern tip of Long Island in Southold, his descendants settled around New England. My ancestor Edward went from Wales to England and adopted the English spelling of his surname (originally Pengruffwnd, then Griffith). He was a constable in London when he killed a man in a tavern in the line of duty. He was pardoned by King James I on January 7, 1625 for justifiable manslaughter. He was said to have been a trusted servant and financial agent for Lady Wake (Wakefield?) in 1633. Edward and John sailed from England, on August 24, 1635 bound for Virginia, Edward aboard the ship "Abraham," John aboard the "Constance". It should be noted that those immigrants that left England at that time fortuitously escaped the Bubonic Plague that devastated the population some thirty years later. Edward first settled on Kent Island off the east shore of Chesapeake Bay near the mouth of the Susquehanna River. It is reported that he built oak staves for the hulls of ships. [The story handed down to me from my father was that the Griffins were ship builders in Wales.] In June 1638, armed emissaries of Lord Baltimore attacked the Virginia settlers on Kent and Palmers Islands, killed three of its defenders, captured Edward Griffin and took him to Maryland. [There was a land feud at this time concerning the control of Virginia and Maryland. Lord Baltimore, siding with Maryland in trying to force the Virginia colonist off the Islands, ordered his brother to seize Kent and Palmer Islands and arrest everyone loyal to Captain William Claybourne, secretary of the Colony of Virginia. King Charles I mediated this squabble and censured Lord Baltimore, ordering him to cease his violence against the Virginians. This was not immediately carried out as Edward was held a prisoner for some time.] Edward escaped to the Dutch Colony of New Amsterdam, where he acquired land and finally located at Flushing L.I. about 1657 as one of its first settlers. He joined the Society of Friends (Quakers) in 1657 and protested the persecution of Quakers to Gov. Peter Stuyvesant. His descendants in the third generation became pioneers in Westchester and Dutchess Counties (especially Nine Partners Patent area) in New York State. They continued to be pioneers when they migrated to new areas. Many generations after Edward were Quakers."5,1,3 
Note27 December 1657; Edward participated in the "Flushing Remonstrance." From an announcement by the Bowne House Historical Society:
"On December 27, 1657, thirty townspeople of Flushing, Queens signed a "remonstrance" addressed to Peter Stuyvesant, the director general of the Dutch colony, New Netherland. The two-page letter, set down by a local cleric, protested Stuyvesant's ban on the rights of Quakers to assemble and worship in the colony. Significantly, it further demanded that all people-regardless of religion or ethnic background-be given "free egresse and regresse unto our Town, and houses, as God shall persuade our consciences."
Stuyvesant ignored the Flushing Remonstrance, as it came to be known, but its principles were later tested by John Bowne, an English immigrant and prosperous landowner in Flushing. Although not a Quaker himself, Bowne was married to Quaker minister Hannah Feake Bowne. In defiance of Stuyvesant's ban, Bowne allowed people of her faith to meet and worship in their Flushing farmhouse. For this "crime," Stuyvesant imprisoned Bowne in 1662 and banished him to Holland. Refusing to capitulate, Bowne argued his case before the Dutch West India Company. In 1663, the company revoked Stuyvesant's ban, and ordered him "to allow everyone to have his own belief, as long as he behaves quietly."
The men who signed the Flushing Remonstrance, and John Bowne, risked their lives and their livelihoods by challenging Stuyvesant. Their heroic stand is widely acknowledged as having contributed to the principles codified more than a century later, in 1791, in the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights, which guarantees religious and political freedom to all citizens.
In honor of the 350th anniversary of the Flushing Remonstrance, the Bowne House Historical Society is seeking descendants of the men who signed the Flushing Remonstrance...."6 
ChartsAncestry of Doris, Marilyn, Diane, and Craig
Ancestry of Isabel Coons
Last Edited2 March 2020

Citations

  1. Web page, https://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~griffingriffenfamily/. Hereinafter cited as Web page.
  2. Web page, https://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~theresagriffin/. Hereinafter cited as Web page.
  3. Web page, https://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~theresagriffin/debunkingwebpage.htm. Hereinafter cited as Web page.
  4. Surname DNA Project - www.familytreedna.com.
  5. Web page, https://www.isu.edu/~grifpaul/Griffin.html. This website contains an outstanding bibliography of virtually all that has been written about this immigrant family and its descendants.. Hereinafter cited as Web page.
  6. Family records, The Bowne House Historical Society
    37-01 Bowne Street Flushing, NY 11354.
Pedigree

Mary Unknown

#3852, born about 1628
Relationship9th great-grandmother of Doris J. Muller

Family

Edward Griffin born about 1602
Children

Life Events

Birth*about 1628 
Marriage*before 1648?; Principal=Edward Griffin 
ChartsAncestry of Doris, Marilyn, Diane, and Craig
Ancestry of Isabel Coons
Last Edited4 July 2018
Pedigree

Edward Griffin

#3853, born about 1648
Relationship8th great-granduncle of Doris J. Muller
Father*Edward Griffin born about 1602
Mother*Mary Unknown born about 1628

Family

Deborah Barnes born about 1650?

Life Events

Birth*about 1648 
Marriage*Principal=Deborah Barnes 
Last Edited28 April 2001
Pedigree

Deborah Barnes

#3854, born about 1650?

Family

Edward Griffin born about 1648

Life Events

Birth*about 1650? 
Marriage*Principal=Edward Griffin 
Last Edited1 April 2002
Pedigree

John Griffin

#3855, born about 1655
Relationship8th great-granduncle of Doris J. Muller
Father*Edward Griffin born about 1602
Mother*Mary Unknown born about 1628

Family 1

Elizabeth Wright born about 1655

Family 2

Susannah Price born about 1655?

Life Events

Birth*about 1655 
Marriage*Principal=Elizabeth Wright 
Marriage*Principal=Susannah Price 
Last Edited28 April 2001
Pedigree

Elizabeth Wright

#3856, born about 1655

Family

John Griffin born about 1655

Life Events

Birth*about 1655 
Marriage*Principal=John Griffin 
Last Edited28 April 2001
Pedigree

Susannah Price

#3857, born about 1655?

Family

John Griffin born about 1655

Life Events

Birth*about 1655? 
Marriage*Principal=John Griffin 
Last Edited1 April 2002
Pedigree

Deborah Griffin

#3858, born about 1660
Relationship8th great-grandaunt of Doris J. Muller
Father*Edward Griffin born about 1602
Mother*Mary Unknown born about 1628

Life Events

Birth*about 1660 
Last Edited28 April 2001
Pedigree

Susannah Griffin

#3859, born about 1662
Relationship8th great-grandaunt of Doris J. Muller
Father*Edward Griffin born about 1602
Mother*Mary Unknown born about 1628

Family

William Barnett born about 1660

Life Events

Birth*about 1662 
Marriage*1724; Principal=William Barnett 
Last Edited28 April 2001
Pedigree

Samuel Griffin

#3860, born about 1693
Relationship7th great-granduncle of Doris J. Muller
Father*Richard Griffin born about 1655
Mother*Susannah Haight born about 1676, died 27 November 1760

Family

Elizabeth Hopper born about 1695

Life Events

Birth*about 1693; Flushing, Queens, New York 
Marriage*Principal=Elizabeth Hopper 
Last Edited28 April 2001
Pedigree

Elizabeth Hopper

#3861, born about 1695

Family

Samuel Griffin born about 1693

Life Events

Birth*about 1695 
Marriage*Principal=Samuel Griffin 
Last Edited28 April 2001
Pedigree

Elizabeth Griffin

#3862, born about 1694
Relationship7th great-grandaunt of Doris J. Muller
Father*Richard Griffin born about 1655
Mother*Susannah Haight born about 1676, died 27 November 1760

Family

Unknown Hopper born about 1690?

Life Events

Birth*about 1694; Flushing, Queens, New York 
Marriage*Principal=Unknown Hopper 
Last Edited28 April 2001
Pedigree

Unknown Hopper

#3863, born about 1690?

Family

Elizabeth Griffin born about 1694

Life Events

Birth*about 1690? 
Marriage*Principal=Elizabeth Griffin 
Last Edited1 April 2002
Pedigree

Sarah Griffin

#3864, born about 1695
Relationship7th great-grandaunt of Doris J. Muller
Father*Richard Griffin born about 1655
Mother*Susannah Haight born about 1676, died 27 November 1760

Life Events

Birth*about 1695; Flushing, Queens, New York 
Last Edited28 April 2001
Pedigree

Richard Griffin

#3865, born about 1697
Relationship7th great-granduncle of Doris J. Muller
Father*Richard Griffin born about 1655
Mother*Susannah Haight born about 1676, died 27 November 1760

Life Events

Birth*about 1697; Flushing, Queens, New York 
Last Edited28 April 2001
Pedigree

Elizabeth Griffin

#3866, born about 1743
Relationship6th great-grandaunt of Doris J. Muller
Father*Joshua Griffin born about 1699
Mother*Elizabeth Hopper(?) born about 1700

Family

Jonathan Brooks II born about 1740

Life Events

Birth*about 1743; Fishkill, Dutchess, New York 
Marriage*17 July 1763; Rombout Presbyterian Church, Rombout, Dutchess, New York; Principal=Jonathan Brooks II 
Last Edited28 April 2001
Pedigree

Jonathan Brooks II

#3867, born about 1740

Family

Elizabeth Griffin born about 1743

Life Events

Birth*about 1740 
Marriage*17 July 1763; Rombout Presbyterian Church, Rombout, Dutchess, New York; Principal=Elizabeth Griffin 
Last Edited28 April 2001
Pedigree

Richard Griffin

#3868, born about 1722
Relationship6th great-granduncle of Doris J. Muller
Father*Joshua Griffin born about 1699
Mother*Elizabeth Hopper(?) born about 1700

Family

Catherine Vanderhoef born about 1722

Life Events

Birth*about 1722; Flushing, Queens, New York 
Marriage*1745; Principal=Catherine Vanderhoef 
Last Edited30 October 2001
Pedigree

Catherine Vanderhoef

#3869, born about 1722

Family

Richard Griffin born about 1722

Life Events

Birth*about 1722; Bushwick, Queens, New York 
Marriage*1745; Principal=Richard Griffin 
Last Edited30 October 2001
Pedigree

John Griffin

#3870, born about 1724
Relationship6th great-granduncle of Doris J. Muller
Father*Joshua Griffin born about 1699
Mother*Elizabeth Hopper(?) born about 1700

Family

Mary Unknown born about 1725?

Life Events

Birth*about 1724; Flushing, Queens, New York 
Marriage*Principal=Mary Unknown 
Last Edited28 April 2001