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| Birth: | 2 Jan 1640/41 in Friars St. Leonard Parish Bridgenorth Salop England |
| Death: | 27 Sep 1691 in Roxbury Suffolk MA |
| Sex: | M |
| Father: | William Gravenor b. Before 18 Dec 1593 in Thr Friars Bridgenorth Salop England |
| Mother: | Susanna Paston b. About 1595 in Withington,Chester,England |
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| Occupation: Tanner |
| Emigration: 1670 To America |
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| Ester Clarke (Wife) b. 1651 in probably Watertown, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts
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| Marriage: | 1672 in probably Roxbury, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts |
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 Ebenezer Grosvenor b. 9 Oct 1684 in Roxbury Suffolk MA
 William Grosvenor b. 8 Jan 1672/73 in Roxbury, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts
- Leicester Grosvenor b. About 1675 in Roxbury, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts
- John Grosvenor b. Before 6 Apr 1675 in Roxbury, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts
- Susannah Grosvenor b. 9 Feb 1680/81 in Roxbury, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts
- Thomas Grosvenor b. 30 Jun 1687 in Roxbury, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts
- Thomas Grosvenor b. After 30 Jun 1687 in Roxbury, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts
- Moses Grosvenor b. 1678
- Joseph Grosvenor b. 1 Sep 1689 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Mass
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38515] [SOURCE] "History of the Town of Lexington...," Lexington Historical Society, 1913 & "English Home & Ancestry of John Grosvenor," NEHGS "Register," Vol 72, pg. 138.
Genealogical & Family History of the State of Connecticut, Vol. III
AUTHOR: William Richard Cutter
PUBLICATION: NY: 1911; repr. by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, 1997
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PAGE: pg. 1334
"Genealogical Notes on the Woodstock, CT Branch of the Paines"
AUTHOR: Royal Paine
PUBLICATION: in Paine Family Records, H.D. Paine, 1880-1883
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[NS2875193] NEHGS Library
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/l/a/m/M-F-LaMont/GENE3-0001.html
PAGE: pg. 92
Emigrated to America in about 1670 and settled at Roxbury, a suburb of Boston
John bought property in Connecticut and his family moved there after his death. They soon branched out and many Grosvenors lived in Schoharie and Montgomery Counties of New York and Geauga and Miami Counties of Ohio.
He was one of the original purchasers (from Capt. James Fitch for 30 pounds) of the Mashamoquet tract of land (15,100 acres) , in northeastern Connecticut. Johns share of 502 acres comprised the site of the present village of Pomfret together with Prospect Hill, Sharp's Hill, and Spaulding's Hill. His home in Roxbury with four acres of orchard and pasture stood in the N.E. corner of the present Tremont and Parker Streets. He died before settlement at Pomfret began; but his widow and children settled there.
His name probably was spelled Gravener. The family in England flourished in the parish of Claverley derived its name from the hamlet of Gravenor, appearing in the earliest records as "de Gravenor." JOHN GROSVENOR OF ROXBURY, MASS., HIS FAMILY AND ANCESTRY states "In April, 1918, The New England Historical and Genealogical Register published an article entitled "The English Home and Ancestry of John Grosvenor of Roxbury, Mass.," in which the writer, Mr. Daniel Kent, effectually dispelled some of the myths in which romanticized tradition had previously enshrouded this subject. A brief account of the man and his immediate family will be given- - - "Of John Grosvenor himself, little is known. He was in Roxbury as early as 1672; but how long he had been there, we are not told. By occupation, he was a tanner. He held the office of town constable. According to his gravestone, he died Sept. 27, 1691, in his 49th year. He seems to have been prosperous, for his widow, as administratrix of his estate, furnished a bond of 700 pounds. In May, 1686, with five other men, (Samuel Ruggles Sr., Samuel Ruggles Jr., John White, Samuel Gore), he purchased from Capt. James Fitch of Norwich, Conn., the Mashamoquet tract of land, comprising 15,100 acres in the northeastern corner of Connecticut (which included the territory of the present towns of Pomfret, Brooklyn, and Putnam and the parish of Abington, Conn.). The price was 30 pounds. The deed stipulated that they should immediately take in six more partners and that 2 shares should be reserved for Capt. Fitch himself, making a total of 14 shares. The disturbed conditions which attended the regime of Gov. Andros delayed the enterprise, so that no division of the tract into separate holdings was made until March, 1694. John Grosvenor being dead, his share was allotted to his widow (502 acres and comprised the land where the village of Pomfret now stands and the hills which surround it, including Prospect Hill, which faces the east, and the commanding eminences called Sharp's Hill and Spaulding's Hill on the west.). Perhaps the fact that three of her children were under 10 years of age at the time made it seem unwise to expose them to the hardships of a life in the wilderness. However that may be, in the fall of 1695, Mrs. Grosvenor sold her property in Roxbury and bought a farm at Muddy River, now Brooklyn. They sold this farm in April, 1701, and removed to their wilderness estate. By the year 1713, a considerable settlement had grown up on the Grosvenor portion of Mashamoquet, and it was deemed advisable to incorporate. The village received the name of Pomfret. In the task of subduing the wilderness and in the subsequent life of the community, the Grosvenors bore an important and honorable part." On 1/28/1684 John Grosvenor's father-in-law, Hugh Clarke of Roxbury, confirmed to him by deed a grant made about 1672 of land on which John Grosvenor's house stood and the land on which his tan yard and tan house stood. (Suffolk Deeds, lib. 13, fo. 328.) (The original deed is in the possession of Benjamin H. Grosvenor of Pomfret, Conn.) Esther Grosvenor was appointed administratrix of the estate of her deceased Husband, and on 2/17/1691/2 filed her bond for 700 pounds. On 9/16/1695 she sold 6 acres called Rock Pasture, the "Rightful Inheritance of Hugh Clarke late of said Roxbury deceased and by the said Esther Grosvenor purchased of his son John," and 3 1/2 acres, the "Rightful Inheritance of aforesaid John Grosvenor... together with Mansion house, barn, etc." On the same day she and her son William "and all other Heirs of the said John Grosvenor" purchased 65 acres at Muddy River, now Brookline, Mass., together with a dwelling house, the consideration being 312 pounds. On 10/7/1695 they purchased 30 acres at Muddy River, "together with the house, fruit trees, wood," etc., the consideration being 150 pounds. On 4/15/1701 Esther Grosvenor, William Grosvenor, Gentleman, and Susannah Grosvenor of Muddy River, and John Grosvenor of "Mashamnggabuck" in New London Co. Conn., sold "their Farm Tract" at Muddy River.(Suffolk Deeds, lib. 17, ff. 261, 262, lib. 31, fo. 198, and lib. 33, fo. 188). About this time, probably, the Widow Esther Grosvenor went with her family to Mashamoquet in Connecticut, where she resided for the remaining years of her life. The road to Hartford and Windham passed through the Grosvenor land, near the first Connecticut resident of the family, which was on the western declivity of Prospect Hill,near the site afterwards occupied by Col. Thomas Grosvenor's mansion house. Mrs. Grosvenor was a woman of great courage and energy, and was held in high esteem by the early settlers of Pomfret. It is a family tradition that she was skilled in tending the sick. The so-called (old Ralph Sabin homestead at Sabin Corner, now(1950) owned by Capt. Hugh Goodhue, U.S.N., a descendant of the family) "Sabin" house, in which she died, is still standing, and is owned by her descendants. Her sons aided in bringing the large possessions of the family under cultivation, and identified themselves early with the growth and interests of the town. "Folklore and Firesides of Pomfret, Hampton and Vicinity" by Susan Jewett Griggs (1950) pp.30,31 No name is more outstanding in the history of Pomfret settlement than that of John Grosvenor. John Grosvenor, one of the wealthiest of the twelve proprietors of the Mashamoquet Purchase of 1680, had emigrated from England with his wife, Esther, and six grown sons-- William, John, Leicester, Ebenezer, Thomas and Joseph, and a daughter Susanna. (he married and children were all born in Roxbury, Mass.) John Grosvenor's death occurred before the settlement of the new Purchase in 1700. His wife and sons took possession of his allotment, although he had been commissioned by the Company at the time of the purchase to visit Norwich and pay to Major John Fitch the thirty pounds purchase price of the the fifteen thousand one hundred acres, comprising the Mashamoquet Purchase.
More About JOHN GROSVENOR:
Buried: 1691, Eustis Street Graveyard, Roxbury, Mass.
Baptized/Christ.: January 02, 1640/41, Bridgenorth, England
Grosvenor arms, quartered with others, were inscribed on his tombstone.
He was born in England in 1641, and came from Cheshire to New England when a young man.
He was one of the original purchasers of the Mashamoquet grant in 1686/91, which included fifteen thousand acres embracing the present towns of Pomfret, Brooklyn and Putnam, and the parish of Abington, Connecticut. In the division of this purchase, to the twelve Roxbury proprietors who bought it, there was allotted to the widow and sons of John Grosvenor all the land where the village of Pomfret is now located and the hills which surround it, including Prospect hill, which faces the east, and the commanding eminences called Sharp's hill and Spaulding's hill on the west. Here he settled. He married, in England, Esther Clarke, born in 1642, died June 16, 1738 (gravestone). He died at Roxbury, September 27, 1691, in his forty-seventh year, and his gravestone may still be seen in the old Roxbury burying ground.
From:BIOS FROM THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CONNECTICUT GENEALOGICAL MEMORIAL, REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 1917
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Fields/4791/thomasgrovenor.html
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