1607 England starts a colony in Jamestown, Virginia.
1619 African slaves arrive in the colonies.
1620 Pilgrims arrive from England on the Mayflower.
1624 The Dutch settle in New Amsterdam (New York).
1640 Capt. (Dr.) John Grout settled in Watertown, Mass. I believe he left England during part of the Great Migration between 1630 - 1640 from England. He was aquainted with Gov. Winthrop, leader of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. (See Captain John Grout of Watertown and Sudbury, Massachusetts and some of his descendants) He was the grandson of an English knight (Richard Le Goutte) and a descendant of Raymond Le Gros. He was 37 in 1617? His first wife, Mary Cakebread, died in 1640, childless.
1644? Capt. (Dr.) John Grout marries Susan Busby. John was a doctor and served his community in may ways for many years.
???? John and Susan's son, Jonathan, is born.
???? Jonathan Grout marries Abigail Dix.
???? Jonathan and Abigail's son, John is born.
???? John Grout marries Joanna Boynton.
June 27, 1751 John and Joanna's son, Solomon is born. Solomon serves in the Revolutionary War. I believe that one of their sons, Elijah, was the great-grandfather of Josiah Grout, Jr., governor of Vermont, 1896-1898.
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| Gov. Josiah Grout, Jr. |
???? Solomon Grout marries Ruth Putnam. According to the book:
The geneaology of the descendants of Capt. John Grout,
Ruth (daughter of Ebenezer and Mary Putnam) was from Charlestown, N. H., a relative of Gen. Israel Putnam "and niece to the wife of Mr. Larabee who was taken by the Indians, being herself in the fort (pr. Hindsdale) at the time Mrs. How was taken." pg. 55 Ruth would have been about 5 years old at the time. Peter Larabee's wife was Ruth's aunt, Ruth Putnam (daughter of Seth Putnam and Ruth Whipple). Peter Larabee (Labaree?)was taken by the Indians (August 1754) from NH.
Ruth Putnam's parents were Ebenezer Putnam and Mary Parker. Ebenezer Putnam was one of the 1st grantees under NH. One of defenders of the Fort at Charlestown. He is listed in roll of company under Col.
Josiah Willard at Fort Dummer l746 and later under Capt. Phineas Stevens He died l782.
1692 Famous witch trials in Salem, Massachusets.
Her paternal grandparents were Seth Putnam and Ruth Whipple. Her paternal great-grandparents were Thomas Putnam (1652-1699) and Ann Carr. Thomas Putman participated in the Salem witch trials. Thomas Putman was also the great uncle of General Israel Putnam (through his half-brother Joseph Putman) and the nephew of Elizur Holyoke. Thomas' parents were Lt. Thomas Putnam (1615-1686) and Ann Holyoke. Joseph's parents were Lt. Thomas Putnam and Mary Vern.
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| General Israel Putnam |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Putnam
Ruth's brother, Seth Putnam, Jr. was killed by Mohawk Indians.
Solomon's sister-in-law, Submit Grout, wife of his brother, Hilkiah, and her three children were captured by Indians with Mrs. Jemima Howe on July 27, 1975 from Bridgman's Fort.
"Hilkiah" GROUT, a leading, and respected
although frequently cantankerous, citizen of early Weathersfield,
Windsor County, Vermont, and his wife Submit (HAWKES) GROUT. See
references below.
According to Butterfield's "Weathersfield Burying Grounds", page 52, "The Grout Graveyard (or Sherwin Yard)", Hilkiah and Submit are buried in Weathersfield. I give the two adjacent entries exactly as I see them
in the transcription of the stones:
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Maj. Hilkiah Grout died December 19 1795 in the 68th year of his age.
[Note: Hurd, below, says Dec 10.]
Mrs. Submit wife of Hilkiah Grout died May 7 1813 aged 84 years 3 months.
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In Hurd's excellent "Weathersfield, Century One", pgs. 221-4 I found the
following regarding Hilkiah GROUT. If one is interested in this family,
Hurd's very readable book is a *must*:
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Hilkiah Grout was born in Lunenburg, Mass. in 1728, one of twelve
children in an influential New England family. Hilkiah's wife, Submit
Hawkes, was of a family of Indian fighters and frontiersmen, several
members of which were killed in the Deerfield Massacre. She was a niece
of Major John Hawkes who built the eastern end of the Crown Point Road
and for whom the high ridge now called Hawks Mountain is named. [Note:
The spelling of Hawkes with an e for the family, and Hawks without the e
for the mountain, are as printed.]
Hilkiah and Submit Grout were married in Deerfield in 1750 and their
first son, Hilkiah Jr. was born in Northfield, Massachusetts, in 1751.
Their next two children were born in Winchester, New Hampshire, Asa in
1753 and Martha in 1754. Soon after Martha's birth, the Grouts and two
other families moved to the newly-built Fort Bridgman on the bank of the
Connecticut River north of Fort Dummer. On July 27, 1755, the men of the
fort were returning from a day's work in their cornfield when they were
ambushed by a sizable raiding party of Indians. The other members of the
party were killed or captured, but Hilkiah escaped and could only watch
in helpless rage as the Indians entered and burned the fort and captured
the women and children. Legend has it that Hilkiah first saw the Black
River meadows that he would later purchase as he trailed the raiding
party north toward Canada. [Note: These meadows are in what is now
Weathersfield, Vermont.]
At the end of a terrible journey the captives were taken to Montreal.
Here, Submit was allowed to keep baby Martha and was sold as a household
servant to a wealthy Frenchman, LeRoy Demille. Hilkiah, Jr. and Asa were
sent to a village of the St. Francis Indians where they were soon as
wild as any of their red-skinned playmates.
Submit's captivity was not a period of hardship. Demille treated her
more like a member of his family than as the slave she actually was. She
soon became fluent in French and spent her time doing the arduous
housework of the times and caring for the Demille children and her own
daughter. The Grout and Hawkes families under the direction of Colonel
Zadock Hawkes raised ransom money and after Generals Putnam and Schuyler
contributed both funds and influence, Submit, Martha, and Asa were
ransomed in the spring of 1759. [Note: Quebec City was taken by the
English 250 years ago today, September 13, 1759. Montreal fell and the
French & Indian War effectively ended the next year.] Hilkiah, Jr. was
not found and was presumed dead, but there is a folktale that he was
adopted by a New York Indian tribe and that he later resumed the life of
a white man under another name.
There seems to be no record of how Hilkiah spent the years of Submit's
captivity, but he must have been in military service because he used the
title of "Major" before he was commissioned in the Cumberland County
Militia.
After Submit's return to her family the Grouts settled down as operators
of a tavern in Winchester, New Hampshire. Eight more sons were added to
the family between 1760 and 1773; Elihu, Hilkiah, 2nd, Bridgman, Seth,
Demille, Oliver, Orlando, and Leroy[sic]. Orlando and Bridgman were
named for the owner of Fort Bridgman, LeRoy[sic] and Demille for
Submit's Canadian master. Bridgman died young and his was the first
burial in the Grout Burying Ground.
... His youngest son, LeRoy, was born in Weathersfield in 1773 ...
After Hilkiah Grout died on December 10, 1795 [Note: Butterfield, above,
says Dec 19], Submit stayed on at the homestead with Roy[sic] and
Orlando until the farm was sold to John Sherwin in 1810 when she went to
live with Martha. She was now a beloved matriarch, adored by over sixty
grandchildren. Submit died May 8, 1813, at the age of eighty-four. To
... quote Dr. Butterfield:
"When Major Hilkiah died in 1795, the neighbors heard the eulogy by the
itinerant Episcopal minister. The showed their respect and perhaps some
slight degree of relief and they agreed that it was a good funeral.
Mid-December furnished an appropriate setting.
"It was different when Submit died 18 years later. The gentle woman had
become a historic figure; the school books told about her; she had not
an enemy in the world; she had been a captive and a slave; she had
whispered French nursery words in her last delirium; she was a mother in
Israel. Death had recently been in many homes but all of the town was
present at the funeral ..."
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OLD GROUT CEMENTARY |
The stonework and memorial plaque were erected in the summer of 2003 in commemoration of the sacrifices made by the town of Wethersfield and the connections area inhabitants had to this ancient burial site that many still consider hallowed ground.  Many members of the Grout family, including Hilkiah and his wife Submit, were buried in the old Grout Cemetery. The story of the Grout family is an interesting one. Hilkiah Grout, with his wife Submit and their three young children, lived at Fort Bridgman near Vernon, Vermont, with two other families. On July 27, 1755, while Hilkiah and the other men were out hoeing corn, Indians attacked them. The Indians went on to ambush the fort and burn it, and they took the three women and their eleven children captive. The Indians headed north with their captives through Springfield, North Springfield, and up through what is now the North Springfield Dam area. It is said that Hilkiah followed them as far as Perkinsville. Submit, her three children, and the others were led by the Indians along an old Indian trail 120 miles through Vermont into Canada over 15 days. Submit and her youngest daughter, Martha, were sold to a wealthy Frenchman.  Three years later in 1759, Hilkiah was able to pay for the freedom of his wife and two children. His son, Hilkiah, Jr., never returned. About 1772, the family (now with eight sons) moved to Weathersfield near the old Indian trail the captives had traveled. Visitors are welcome to visit the original site off of Maple Street in Perkinsville. |
although frequently cantankerous, citizen of early Weathersfield,
Windsor County, Vermont, and his wife Submit (HAWKES) GROUT. See
references below.
According to Butterfield's "Weathersfield Burying Grounds", page 52, "The Grout Graveyard (or Sherwin Yard)", Hilkiah and Submit are buried in Weathersfield. I give the two adjacent entries exactly as I see them
in the transcription of the stones:
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Maj. Hilkiah Grout died December 19 1795 in the 68th year of his age.
[Note: Hurd, below, says Dec 10.]
Mrs. Submit wife of Hilkiah Grout died May 7 1813 aged 84 years 3 months.
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In Hurd's excellent "Weathersfield, Century One", pgs. 221-4 I found the
following regarding Hilkiah GROUT. If one is interested in this family,
Hurd's very readable book is a *must*:
----------
Hilkiah Grout was born in Lunenburg, Mass. in 1728, one of twelve
children in an influential New England family. Hilkiah's wife, Submit
Hawkes, was of a family of Indian fighters and frontiersmen, several
members of which were killed in the Deerfield Massacre. She was a niece
of Major John Hawkes who built the eastern end of the Crown Point Road
and for whom the high ridge now called Hawks Mountain is named. [Note:
The spelling of Hawkes with an e for the family, and Hawks without the e
for the mountain, are as printed.]
Hilkiah and Submit Grout were married in Deerfield in 1750 and their
first son, Hilkiah Jr. was born in Northfield, Massachusetts, in 1751.
Their next two children were born in Winchester, New Hampshire, Asa in
1753 and Martha in 1754. Soon after Martha's birth, the Grouts and two
other families moved to the newly-built Fort Bridgman on the bank of the
Connecticut River north of Fort Dummer. On July 27, 1755, the men of the
fort were returning from a day's work in their cornfield when they were
ambushed by a sizable raiding party of Indians. The other members of the
party were killed or captured, but Hilkiah escaped and could only watch
in helpless rage as the Indians entered and burned the fort and captured
the women and children. Legend has it that Hilkiah first saw the Black
River meadows that he would later purchase as he trailed the raiding
party north toward Canada. [Note: These meadows are in what is now
Weathersfield, Vermont.]
At the end of a terrible journey the captives were taken to Montreal.
Here, Submit was allowed to keep baby Martha and was sold as a household
servant to a wealthy Frenchman, LeRoy Demille. Hilkiah, Jr. and Asa were
sent to a village of the St. Francis Indians where they were soon as
wild as any of their red-skinned playmates.
Submit's captivity was not a period of hardship. Demille treated her
more like a member of his family than as the slave she actually was. She
soon became fluent in French and spent her time doing the arduous
housework of the times and caring for the Demille children and her own
daughter. The Grout and Hawkes families under the direction of Colonel
Zadock Hawkes raised ransom money and after Generals Putnam and Schuyler
contributed both funds and influence, Submit, Martha, and Asa were
ransomed in the spring of 1759. [Note: Quebec City was taken by the
English 250 years ago today, September 13, 1759. Montreal fell and the
French & Indian War effectively ended the next year.] Hilkiah, Jr. was
not found and was presumed dead, but there is a folktale that he was
adopted by a New York Indian tribe and that he later resumed the life of
a white man under another name.
There seems to be no record of how Hilkiah spent the years of Submit's
captivity, but he must have been in military service because he used the
title of "Major" before he was commissioned in the Cumberland County
Militia.
After Submit's return to her family the Grouts settled down as operators
of a tavern in Winchester, New Hampshire. Eight more sons were added to
the family between 1760 and 1773; Elihu, Hilkiah, 2nd, Bridgman, Seth,
Demille, Oliver, Orlando, and Leroy[sic]. Orlando and Bridgman were
named for the owner of Fort Bridgman, LeRoy[sic] and Demille for
Submit's Canadian master. Bridgman died young and his was the first
burial in the Grout Burying Ground.
... His youngest son, LeRoy, was born in Weathersfield in 1773 ...
After Hilkiah Grout died on December 10, 1795 [Note: Butterfield, above,
says Dec 19], Submit stayed on at the homestead with Roy[sic] and
Orlando until the farm was sold to John Sherwin in 1810 when she went to
live with Martha. She was now a beloved matriarch, adored by over sixty
grandchildren. Submit died May 8, 1813, at the age of eighty-four. To
... quote Dr. Butterfield:
"When Major Hilkiah died in 1795, the neighbors heard the eulogy by the
itinerant Episcopal minister. The showed their respect and perhaps some
slight degree of relief and they agreed that it was a good funeral.
Mid-December furnished an appropriate setting.
"It was different when Submit died 18 years later. The gentle woman had
become a historic figure; the school books told about her; she had not
an enemy in the world; she had been a captive and a slave; she had
whispered French nursery words in her last delirium; she was a mother in
Israel. Death had recently been in many homes but all of the town was
present at the funeral ..."
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???? Daniel (Don) Grout marries Beulah Elmore. The Elmores founded the town of Elmore, Vt.
Mar. 8, 1823 Daniel (Don) and Beulah’s son, Luman McClintoc is born (dies 2/9/1913 in Elmore, VT at age of 90)
June 17, 1848 Luman McClintoc Grout marries Philura (Philusa? Philuna?) M. French. Luman served in the Civil War and the Vermont legislature. Their children were Sarah I, Frank E, Corlin W., George G., and Emily?
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| Major Luman M. Grout |
1851 Luman and Philura’s son, Frank Eugene is born.
???? Frank Eugene Grout marries Izora (Isora, Izura, Isura) W. Martin (b. 1856, d. 1940). They are farmers in Vermont. Their children were Mabel D., Ellen J. , George, Perley and Beulah.
Izora's parents were William Martin and Elizabeth Sweet. They had two daughters: Izora and Ellen.
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| Izora and Ellen Martin |
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| Izora and Ellen Martin |
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| Uncle Richard Sweet |
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| Eliza Sweet |
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| Izora Martin Grout |
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| Frank Grout |
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| Izora's obituary |
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| Frank's obituary |
1894 Frank and Izora’s daughter, Beulah, is born.
1900 Izora's stepmother, Clara Martin (b. 1824), is living
with Frank and Izora.
Dec. 6, 1924 Beulah Grout marries Ervin Wakefield.
1929 Zoe-Ann Wakefield (blog creator's mother) is born. Go to Ervin's descendents page to see more. http://diane-msdiane.blogspot.com/p/ervins-descendents.html
