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- Griffin Crafts immigrated with wife Alice and daughter Hannah in theWinthrop Fleet of 1630, arriving in April and July. They are listed asbound for Roxbury, where they settled after arrival. There are reasonsfor believing he was from Yorkshire, England, and was born about 1600.Family tradition states that he came on the flagship 'Arabella'.
His name is spelled as Crofts, Crofte, Crafts, or Craft. Among hisdescendants, in eastern Massachusetts 'Craft' was favored, but in westernMassachusetts and Connecticut 'Crafts' was more common.
'Griffith Crofts' was admitted to the Roxbury church as member #45.Griffin was a freeman 18 May 1631. He was a deputy to the general courtin 1638-67 and a juryman in 1640. He was commissioned lieutenant of themilitia, September 10, 1653, and resigned his commission February 211675/76. He is supposed to have been part owner of a grist mill at ornear his homestead on Muddy River. He was selectman in 1650, and serveduntil 1673, with the exception of two years, 1665 to 1667, during whichtime he was one of a committee of three to give the selectmen orders. Hewas commissioner to end small causes from 1659 to 1670 inclusive. He wasoften on committees to decide boundaries and settle estates. The last fewyears of his life he was blind.
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Abt 1603 - 1689 (~ 86 years)