Judge JOHN GRISWOLD, born at Lyme, Dec. 22, 1690, was the fifth child and second son of Matthew Griswold and Phebe Hyde,
and the ancestor of the Blackhall branch of the Griswold family. June 23, 1713, he married his step-sister, HANNAH LEE, daughter
of Lieut. Thomas Lee, the first of Lyme, and his wife, Mary DeWolf, whom John's father had married as his second wife.