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JOHN GROW of Ipswich JOHN GROO (GROW) of Oxford DAVIS 1913 PARTS OF HAMPTON, EASTFORD, AND POMFRET, WINDHAM CO., CONN., WHERE WERE THE HOMES OF THOMAS GROW AND SOME OF HlS DESCENDANTS. {Family 9.) a. Thomas Grow located &bout 1730-1731. b. The Pomfret Center Bumnc-Gro1111d-Thomas and Rebecca Grow buried.----d. The A. billgton Con,:regatiopal Church, 171il. e. Bur,i:air Kl'0Wld, where three children of Elder James Grow were Interred. f. Grow Hill Bumnir GroWld. lb Site ot home of Thos. Grow, St'cond, TMrd and Fourth. h. Site ol Grow Hill Baptist Church: first put.or, William Grow. ,. G&r7 School House, where Elder James Grow was ord&ined. k. Home of Joseph Grow, father ot Honorable Galusha A. Grow. EXPLANATION ABBREVIATIONS, ETC. Names in parentheses, and christian names repeated on same page are not repeated in index. Abbreviations : abt. • .•.••.••••.•.••••....••••.•..••...••.•...••...•• about. b. ..•......•••••••••.••••..•.•••••.•..••••.. birth or born. ch •.•..•...•. ,..••••.•...•••• .• : ....••••. .'•••••.•••..•. child. chh. • •.•.•..••.••..•..•••••..•.•••.•••••.••.....•. children. dau ..•.••• , •••••••.•.•..•••....•••••..•••.•..•••.. daughter. d••••...•••.••.•..•••.••.•.. ; ••••••••..•• death or deceased. m••..•..••.•.•••.•••........•.•..•..•••. married or marriage. unm. .•.........•.•..•..•.•...••••..••••...... not married. per................................................ perhaps. rem. • ••.•...••.....•.....•..•.•••....•..........•• rc1noved. res .•• ; ..•..•.•.•••..•.... ; ......•..... residence or residell. bp. •........•.. ,..........•.•.••.••.....••. ~ ....•. baptized. The Arabic _numerals on left margin of pages, indicate the family number. Every male or female who was born a Grow and had identified chil<lren is given the appropriate family number twice, first when his or her birth is recorded and second, further on, where the name of wife or husband and children are set down. In many cases of female Grows not only the chi.ldren but their descendants are given under the family number of the woman who was born Grow, but who married and changed her name. There are two or three exceptional cases of Grows who never married but who yet have been given family numbers. · The Roman numerals on left page margins give the numerical -sequence in order of birth of children. The superior small Arabic numerals. after fore­ names indicate the generation to which the person belonged counting as I the first in the line. PREFACE The compiler of these pages has had no other motive than to bring together the earlier and later records of one of the families of "plain people" who so largely constituted the primitive American stock. Unlike many other American· genealogies, in this modest effort there will be found nothing to p1ove distinguished descent of our forbears nor to justify or illustrate the "boast of heraldry." Whence came the first of the name we know not, nor whether born in America or an immigrant. · So the record begins with John Grow, "weaver.'' who married the daughter of an immigrant. One of his sons was a "cordwainer", and another a "maltster", but nearly all were small farmers who reclaimed their fields from the wilderness, and had for their first habitations the thatched and mud chinked log cabin. The Grows, like most of the early settlers, were religious­ Congregationalists at first and later very generally Baptists. There were many preachers among them, and some of these· with better opportunities for education would· have become widely known; but their lives centered about the simple village green where the meeting house stood, and the range of their activities were very limited, but they helped to build the nation in which we now take so much pride. The share of the Grow family in this building of the State wa~ a very small one, but the burden was honorably bourn. A very few reached prominence in public life, and one bore a conspicuous part in national affairs of the country and helped "to mould a mighty state's decrees", while many were called by their fellow men to discharge responsible duties of a loca: character on the bench, at the bar, in the legislature and from the pulpit. It is hoped that this work. will itself bear testimony to the conscientious observance of the purpose stated, for no pains or expense has been spared to verify wherever possible statements of fact and to resolve doubtful questions. The reader is assured that every means at the command of the writer was exhausted to have the compilation free from errors, yet he fears that some exist, for it is often impossible to reconcile conflicting records and statements by individuals regarding the same incident or date, and it is sometimes equally impossible to learn from the unverifiable statement of · personal recollections what were the absolute facts. It is much to be regretted that there are some instances where it is not possible to establish a direct descent for certain of the name from John of Ipswich; but there wiil be found a statement of all the facts, pertinent circumstances and conjectures, so that others may judge of the reliance that should be placed on the compiler's deductions. · John Groo (Grow) of Oxford (1720-1775) was the founder of a line that has been considered separate from the Ipswich family, but there is in the record a statement of some reasons why he should be considered a descendant of the earliest settler, John of Ipswich. When the task of compiling these simple annals was assumed, it was well understood that the recompense must be other than that measured by money values, and in this there has been and can be no disappointment. (J) Of very material assistance in the preparation of these records were the notes and correspondence left at his death by Mr. Edwin T. Hatch, of Denver, Colorado, who from 1882 to 1889 devoted himself assiduously to the collec­ tion of data for this family history. His widow kindly made all this matter available, and it has been of great value. To Miss Mary Miranda Grow, of Goodrich, Michigan, the compiler is indebted for the nearly complete family history of Elisha and Lois (Palmer) Grow, their 17 children and other descendants. Mrs. Alma Grow Boyden, of Boylston, Mass., and Mr. Harry Allen Grow, of Minneapolis, Minn., have been of very great help. Mr. Byron Groo, of Salt Lake City, and his kinsmen Captain Isaac Jelliff, of Hasbrouck, N. Y., and Mahlon Groo, of Washington, D. C., have also rendered material assistance, and so hav.e many others to whom acknowledg­ ments are due and are hereby tendered. If the readers should discover errors or omissions, as it is feared they may, and will kindly point them out, the compiler will be glad to incorporate the corrections in a revised edition, should one be justified. GEO, W. DAVIS, uso Connecticut A venue Washington, D. C. ERRATA Page 42, tenth line from bottom, for 232 read 370. Page 63, line 14, for his read her. Page 107, twenty-second line, for Walcott read Wolcott. Page 1o8, fifth line, for 23 read 13. Page 177, line 2, for Brooks read Brooke. Page 18o, line 10, for have read has. Page 185, thirtieth line, for Asenath read Ace11ath. Page 190, twenty-second line from bottom, for family V read II. Page 193, line 32, for Ernest M• read Ernest M6• Page 193, thirty-sevent line, for Lorraine A• read Lorraine A 6• Page 193, line 39, for family IV read ///; and for 1882 read 1822. Page 193, line 10, from bottom, for family VI read IV. Page 194, line 4, for family Vil read V. Page 194, line 44, for family VIII read VI. Page 194, line II, from :bottom, for family IX read VI I. Page 195, line 6, for family X read VIII. Page 195, line 9, for family XI read IX. · Page 215, line 21, omit hyphen (-) preceding name Robinson. Page 232, line S, from bottom, for family IX read X. The spelling Abagail wherever appearing should be Abigail. THE NAME GROW IN AMERICA The first in New England of this name of whom a record has been found, and the first in America of whom a record appears to have been preserved,· was John Grow, "weaver", of Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts, a "commoner" there in the year 1664, a weaver by trade and a small land owner. Whether born in New England or an emigrant from the old country we know not. The name with spelling as above is not found in any list of immigrants, nor in any state, county, town, church, or family history nor in any of the many early land and probate records consulted by the author, before its appearance in the Ipswich town record in the year 1664. It is easily found in early English parish records, appearing however with a different spelling. In Ipswich, England, there was in 1612 and earlier a Grove family. In London parishes it is written Groue, Grove and Crowe. In How Ham · parish, Somerset, England, are those named Grawe. Savage, in his Genea­ logical Dictionary, commenting on this name, noted by him only in Ipswich, Massachusetts, remarked that it seemed much more likely to have been originally Grove instead of Grow, observing that in early times the letters u and v were often pervert. In France there are many Gros, the pronuncia­ tion of which is as the English, Grow. The existing vital statistics and church records of Ipswich, Massachusetts, contain. 17 original entries of this family name, descendants of John· Grow, before 1750. The first and two others have it Grove; in two it is Groue; in · one it is Groves; in one it is Gove; and in ten it is clearly Grow. It is well nigh certain that all refer to the same family, tha"t. of John and Hannah (Lord) Grow. Of these names of the 17th century, Grove was probably oftenest recorded in New England. The name Groves is frequently seen.

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