Daniel GRINNELL

Father: Matthew GRINNELL
Mother: Rose FRENCH

Family 1: Mary WORDELL

(1) Grinnell, Lawrence J., The Descendants of Matthew and Rose (French) Greenell (Abt. 1590-Bef. 1643), (The Grinnell Family Association of America, Greenacres, FL, 1997), p. 3.

  1. Daniel GRINNELL
  2. Jonathan GRINNELL
  3. Richard GRINNELL
  4. Benjamin GRINNELL
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Notes

Updated September 11, 2022. Compiled by Howder (www.howderfamily.com) from the following source(s):

(1) Benjamin Franklin Wilbour, "Little Compton Families, Volume I," Little Compton Historical Society, 1967.

- Page xiv (First Settlers): "GRINNELL, Daniel, Born - 1636, Ancestor - Mathew, Came From - Portsmouth, R.I."
- Page 307 (THE GRINNELL FAMILY): "Daniel-2 GRINNELL (Mathew-1) born about 1636, died in Little Compton after 1703. Residence Little Compton and Portsmouth. He married Mary WORDELL, daughter of William and Mary WORDELL, born in November 1640. He was a maltster. In 1656 he bought 30 acres of farm property in Portsmouth and on 8 June 1657 was received as an inhabitant of Portsmouth. In 1687 he left the island and took up his residence in LC. In 1688 he deeded his son Daniel Jr. the south half of the 13th lot in the grand division of LC, and in 1694 to his son Richard the other half of the lot. It was one of the one hundred acre great lots of the first purchase. In 1702 Richard sold this to his father with 100 acres more, but on 6 July 1703 Daniel re-conveyed to the son, and appears no more in the record."

(2) American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI) via Ancestry.com

- Name: Daniel GRINNELL
- Birth Date: 1636
- Birthplace: Rhode Island
- Volume: 68
- Page Number: 122
- Reference: Howland heirs. By Will. Morrell Emery. New Bedford, Ms, 1919. (484p.): 244

(3) Family Data Collection - Individual Records via Ancestry.com

- Name: Daniel GRINNELL
- Spouse: Mary WORDELL
- Parents: Matthew GRINNELL, Rose GRINNELL
- Birth Place: Portsmouth, RI
- Birth Date: 4 Mar 1636
- Marriage Place: Newport, RI
- Marriage Date: 14 May 1667
- Death Place: Little Compton, RI
- Death Date: 1703
- Source Information: Edmund West, comp.. Family Data Collection - Individual Records [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000.

(4) U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 via Ancestry.com

- Name: Daniel GRINNELL
- Gender: Male
- Birth Place: RI
- Birth Year: 1636
- Spouse Name: Mary WODELL
- Spouse Birth Place: RI
- Spouse Birth Year: 1640
- Marriage Year: 1667
- Marriage State: RI

(5) Erlenkotter Family Records, citing:

... (5a) Wakefield, Robert S., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Volume Eighteen, Part I: Family of Richard Warren, General Society of Mayflower Descendants, Plymouth, MA, 1999, pp. 7, 33, 131-132.
...(5b) [birth and death] Austin, John Osborne, Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island, (Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, MD, 1978), p. 310.

Additional notes provided by this source:

"Daniel GRINNELL was a maltster. He lived at Portsmouth, RI before moving to Little Compton in about 1679. While at Portsmouth, he served as a juryman, constable, and member of the Grand Jury. On 6 July 1703 he deeded land and other property to his son Richard."

"Freeman: 8 Jun 1657, Portsmouth, RI"