A SUMMARY OF THE GENEALOGY OF
JOHN GROW OF IPSWICH
FROM 1620 TO 2002
with special attention to the
Family of
FRED AND NINA GROW
JOHN GROW is the first known Grow in the "new world". He is believed to have immigrated from
England (or possibly Wales) about 1640 or thereabouts and settled in Ipswich, Massachusetts. He was
born about 1636, and married Hannah Lord of Ipswich on 15 December 1669. Hannah was the daughter
of Robert and Mary (Waite) Lord, also immigrants from England. John-1 and Hannah were the parents of
eight children: John (1670-1671), Samuel (1671-1671), John (1673-1716), Joseph (1637-1748), Hannah
(1629-?), Nathaniel (1682 -?), Thomas-2 (1684-1753 -who married Rebecca Holt), and William (1690 -?).
Thomas and Rebecca had six children, among them Joseph-3 (1717-1782) who married Abigail Dana.
Joseph and Abigail had thirteen children, among them John-4 (1750) who married Deborah Davidson.
John and Deborah had ten children, among them Abial-5 (1791-1870). Abial married Sally Seely, and they
had six children, among them William Seely-6 (1819-1905).
William Seely married four times. l)Mary Case - and they had two children: Samuel Benson and Enos
Fulton. 2)Martha Thomas, with whom he had five children: William Hubbel, George Washington, Francis
Wayland, John Thomas, and Albert. 3) Mary Thomas, no children; and 4) Louise Johnson, with whom he
had five children: Charles Arthur, Rose Eliza, Fred Carroll-7, Harry Allen, and Charlotte.
Fred married Nina Maud Tebbets in 1900, and their family included:
(all 8th generation)
- Dorothy (1901-1915) (b.Dawson MN)
- Louise (1904-1905) (b.Marietta MN)
- Elwin Hammond (1905-1975) (b.Marietta MN)
- Elizabeth Mary (1905-1974) (b.Marietta MN)
- Paul William (1907-) (b.Marietta MN)
- Martha (1908-2000) (b.Hoven SD)
- Milton (1910-1919) (b.Hoven SD)
- Judith (1911-1989) (b.Hoven SD)
- William Seely (1912-1913) (b.Hoven SD)
- Margaret (1913-2000) (b.Watertown SD)
- Miriam (1915-) (b.Watertown SD)
- Willard Seward (1919-1970) (b.Watertown SD)
- Roger Dana (1921-) (b.Watertown SD)
TEN GENERATIONS - Watertown Grows
- 1 - John (Hannah Lord)
- 2 - Thomas (Rebecca Holt)
- 3 - Joseph (Abigail Dana)
- 4 - John (Deborah Davidson)
- 5 - Abial (Sally Seely)
- 6 - William Seely (Louise Johnson)
- 7 - Fred Carroll (Nina Tebbets)
- 8 - Roger Dana (Betty Lou Todd)
- 9 - Roger Dale (Margery Collins)
- 10 - Chellis/Emerson/Lincoln
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this page is being put together by roger grow, of Plainfield, VT, ninth generation...
last update 9/1/2002, on the reunion page; plus there's a new link on the links page.
