John Grosvenor,1680,England
Thought someone would like to look at this
History of Windham County, Connecticut, Volume I, 1600-1760, and Volume II, 1760-1880
Mashamoquet. Mortlake.
These twelve proprietors were then all residents of Roxbury, though John Chandler and Benjamin Sabin were preparing to remove to New Roxbury. John Grosvenor, who with his family had emigrated from Cheshire, England, in 1680, is said to have been sent by the company to Norwich to pay Major Fitch the purchase money. During the summer, the fifteen thousand acres were selected and laid out south of New Roxbury on the Mashamoquet River, and the tract was thenceforth designated as the Mashamoquet or Roxbury purchase. A patent of a township, including this purchase and land adjacent, was granted by the Governor and Company of Connecticut, July 8, 1686, to John Blackwell, James Fitch, Samuel Craft, Nathaniel Wilson, the Mashamoquet proprietors and others not named, for the New Plantation in the Wabbaquasset Country, and in the following October, liberty was given "to Major Fitch, Lieutenant Ruggles and others of Roxbury to settle a plantation in those parts, they attending those things most accommodable to the plantation and orders of the Colony, in which case Major J. Tolcott and Captain Joseph Allyn are to be advised with."