Priscilla Greenel (or Grinnell), daughter of Daniel and Lydia Greenel, inhabitants of Westbrook, a town lying between Clinton and Saybrook. Daniel Greenel had come from Little Compton, then called Seaconnet, on the eastern shore of Narragansett Bay. His wife was Lydia Pabodie, daughter of William Pabodie and Elizabeth (Alden) Pabodie. Elizabeth Alden was the youngest daughter of John Alden and Priscilla Molines (or Mullens), of Plymouth, so sweetly commemorated in Longfellow's exquisite idyl, "The Courtship of Miles Standish." Thus two, yea three, of our ancestors did indeed ' come over in the Mayflower."[1]
Returning to the history of Theophilus Redfield: In ?1713 his father, James, visited him in Killingworth and made over to him the little tract of land he had owned in Saybrook. Soon after, Theophilus bought a tract of land on Chestnut Hill, in the northern portion of Killingworth. It was upon an elevated ridge extending north and south for nearly two miles between the forks of the Hamonassett River, and commanding an extensive and attractive view both eastward and westward. Thither he removed, and there he spent the remainder of his life. Several of his descendants still occupy a portion of that chosen site.
He died February 14, 1759, and his grave-stone may
- ↑ When the Genealogical History of the Redfield family was published (in 1861) the lineage of Lydia Greenel had not been traced back.
