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Thomas GRIGGS (1668-1680) m. Hannah GILLIAM (1670-1700)
s/o John George GRIGGS (1635-1702) and Mary PATTEN (1634-1690)
d/o Henry GILLIAM (1635- ) and Hannah TURNER (nd)
p/o Thomas GRIGGS (1695-1745)


1668 Thomas GRIGGS born at Kings, New York

1670 Hannah GILLIAM born at Westchester, New York

1694 Thomas GRIGGS and Hannah GILLIAM married [12 December1730 will of Henry Gillam “of the Borrough town of Westchester, joyner.” Among the distributions to his heirs, Henry left £50 to “Thomas Griggs and his wife,” identifying their children as Thomas, John, Elizabeth, Hannah, and Mary. He appointed his wife Hannah, son-in-law Thomas Griggs, John Bell, and Nathaniel Underhill, executors. The origins of Prehn, Journal of a Genealogist (note 14, above), 486. The Genealogy of the Griggs Family, 37.

1695 son Thomas GRIGGS at Staten Island, Richmond, New York; died 1745 at Shrewsbury, Monmouth, New Jersey; married Magdalena du PUY in 1718 at Staten Island, Richmond, New York

bef 1700 dau Mary GRIGGS at Staten Island, Richmond, New York

bef 1700 son John GRIGGS at Staten Island, Richmond, New York

bef 1700 dau Elizabeth GRIGGS at Staten Island, Richmond, New York

bef 1700 dau Hannah GRIGGS at Staten Island, Richmond, New York

1680 Thomas GRIGGS died at Griggstown, Somerset, New Jersey

aft 1700 Hannah GILLIAM died at Staten Island, Richmond, New York