Stephen Griswold was the son of Isaac Griswold and Jemima Keep. He was born on November 21, 1732 in Killingsworth, Middlesex County, Connecticut.
His married, Hannah Colmons on January 10, 1751 in Bolton, Tolland County, Connecticut.
Stephen and Hannah's children were born in Bolton, Tolland County, Connecticut. They were
Molly Griswold (1752, died as an infant), Isaac Griswold (1753, married Lucy Osgood),
Jemima Griswold Dewey (1756, married Timothy Dewey),
Mary Griswold Hurd (1761, married Zadoc Hurd) and Stephen Griswold (1767, married Cynthia Kingsbury, Elizabeth Curtis and Maria).
Hannah died on December 2, 1767 in Hartford Connecticut.
Captain Stephen Griswold was probably the first settler of Sullivan, Cheshire County, New Hampshire. He must have settled there as early as 1768.
Lieut. Stephen Griswold. This young man entered the army the very fall that his father moved from this place. He was made a lieutenant in the company of Capt. Isaac Davis, in Col. Ashley's regiment, which went, in 1776, at the requisition of Maj. Gen. Gates, to reinforce the continental army at Ticonderoga. Griswold became a captain of the militia in Keene. (History of the Town of Sullivan)
On September 22, 1778 he married Elizabeth Powers Davis. They were married by Abraham Wood, clerk in Keene. Their children and life together are described in detail in the section on Isaac and Elizabeth Davis.
After leaving the farm he may have lived in Gilsum where his son had a store and operated a mill. He died about 1806.
