Sketches of Proprietors "Documentary History of Suffield, by Sheldon, 1879"

HISTORY OF SUFFIELD.

   Launcelot Granger was in Ipswich, 1648; removed to Newberry; married Joanna, daughter of Robert Adams, 1654; had eleven children; removed to Suffield 1674. In 1676 he was wounded by the Indians, receiving a ball in the leg, which be carried for life.
   Four of his sons had families in Suffield. Thomas and George were proprietors, and had house lots adjoining their father's in High street.
   He was land measurer several years, and ancestor of all of the name in Suffield, including Hon. Gideon and Francis, Postmaster Generals.
   "Farmer's Register" says he died at Newberry. Suffield Record says Launcelot Granger died September 3, 1689.
Gregory Gibbs from Windsor, Conn., son of Giles, born at Windsor, 1649, was of Springfield, 1677, and at Suffield, 1683 or before. He married Joyce, widow of James Osborne. He died March 15, 1707. No children.
   Samuel Glover, son of Rev. Peletiah Glover of Springfield, had sixty acres on his father's grant; his house lot on High street was afterwards Rev. Ebenezer Gay's. Was born November 28, 1661; died July 24, 1689, unmarried.
   Simon Gowin, from Rowley, was a soldier in Captain Appleton's Company, and wounded at the battle at Narragansett Fort. His land was above the ferry. No family is recorded; perhaps be did not long remain.
   Francis Harmon came in the ship Love, 1635, aged forty-three, from London, with children, John, age twelve, and Sarah, age ten, but no more is known of him.
   John of Springfield, 1644, probably son of Francis, was a first settler there, and had a house lot on Main street; where be married is unknown. He brought a wife, Sarah, and two children, John and Samuel, when he came to Springfield, and had six others born there, of whome were Joseph and Nathaniel.
   Samuel Harmon was the oldest of the three Harmons, who were the pioneers of Suffield. Ten years before the settlement began, the Harmous had endeavored to procure a grant for a new town. They were great hunters and trappers, as the number of beaver skins and other furs sold to Major Pynchon indicate, and were probably more familiar with the topography of the town, which was a dense wilderness, than any other white men. Samuel was unmarried. He returned to Springfield, where be died September 7, 1677, about thirty-six years of age. His Suffield lands became the property of Joseph and Nathaniel.
   Joseph, born at Springfield, 1647, married Hannah Filley of Wind-

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