After Dinah, married Ann Pettibone

Barbara Bartels’ files say died 06 Sept 1788 Turkey Hills Ct130

The records of Suffield CT give the following records of John Granger:130
1732 Apppointed Road Surveyor
1735 Appointed Tithingman
1739 Appointed Road Surveyor
1740 Granted 12 shillings per hundred for 246 feet of plank to mend the highway
1743 Paid 4 shillings for planks for a highway. Appointed constable.
1744 Appointed constable and surveyor for highways
1745 Received one pound in payment for his services as constable
1746 Town voted 2 pounds, nine shillings for salary and “warning out” Thare and Griggs and their wives. Appointed constable.
1747 Paid two pounds for running the boundary with Springfield. He was paid more than two times what the other five workers were paid.

Thereafter he did not appear in town records. John and Dinah were said to have moved to Turkey Hills CT about 1745. Simsbury records show him being paid for services and Turkey Hills shows him being part of their government at the same time.130

From Barbara Bartels’ notes (sources on file):
The records of Simsbury refer to Dinah as “Ann,” but the Granger Geneaology and Holcomb family group sheet indicates it’s more likely her name was Dinah.

In Simsbury, the inhabitants were required to “attend upon the ordinances of the Gospel on the Sabbath and oher appointed days. Though for most of them the distance was great, in summer or winter most of them were in their accustomed seats. From Nod Meadow they came, and Turkey Hills and Salmon Brook. They came on foot, on horseback, and a few in wagons. Commonly it was a man on horseback with his wife on a pillion behond him, with a child or two in their arms. There were always two sermons on the Sabbath.

Weddings were often preceded by the stealing of the bride by people who were not invited to tghe wedding [an ancient custom known throughout the British Isles1]. She would be taken to some neighboring tavern, where music and supper had been planned, all at the expense of the groom.

Local products shipped regularly from Simsbury were corn, staves, hoop poles, fish, and sometimes mules and horses. East Granby was an exporter of ores and finished metal products. It claimed to be the first to produce iron from ore dug in the Colony; first to manufacture steel in the country; first to mint copper coins; first to invent a way of setting wire card-teeth by machinery.

Wool and linen for clothing the family was nearly all of home manufacture. [Before the War of Independence the Colonies exported raw wool to England and imported almost all their finished cloth. In the 1770s, colonists boycotted English-made cloth and learned to create their own, in orderto create more economic independence.1] People dressed warmly, the women wearing many skirts. What we now call underwear was entirely unknown...the formality of undressing before bed being ommitted.

The food eaten was almost all produced on the farm. Neat cattle, swine, and sheep were raised, as were fowl and geese, although the latter were chiefly kept for their feathers. Every cellar was stocked with a barrel of salt pork, another of beef, and perhaps hams and shoulders which had been smoked before being salted. Also a supply of salted shad and sometimes salted lamprey eels. There were barrels of cider and apples, piles of vegetables, a keg of boiled cider applesauce, a jar of salted butter, andpossibly a keg of soft soap. In cold weather, meat was often swapped between neighbors when butchering had been done.

In the event of a death, watchers were secured to sit up with the corpse during the nights before the funeral [another ancient custom particularly well-documented in Scotland.1] Liquors were provided for the watchers and for clergy and others in attendance. After the funeral, no matter how far, the casket was born to the cemetery by bearers in relay fashion, followed by the mourners.

Drinking alcohol was universal [this partly stems from ancient tradition, where local water was often contaminated by refuse and human waste and alcohol was the only “clean” beverage1]. A wedding without wine was unusual. On all public occasions, for business or pleasure, liquor was provided. On social visits, a “glass of sling” was the sign of welcome. The traveller on a journey as often called for a drink for himself as well as feed for his horse.

The “Militia Training” was a school of intemperance.

At 11:00am and 4:00pm, mechanics regularly took their grog. No farmer could reap his harvest or finish his haying without a keg of rum. Children were taught that a little tansy bitters was good to preserve health, restore health, and to give one a good appetite. If a neighbor called, one of the children must draw a cup of cider. Dinner without cider was unknown.

In 1725, Simsbury was divided, and the portion called Turkey Hills eventually became part of East Granby.130