"The earliest colonial ancestors bearing the name of Griggs, settled in Massachusetts, Virginia and North Carolina. The New England families descended from George and Thomas who arrived from England about the year 1635. The Virginia emigrants were transported by different individuals and each Griggs settled in a different county. From Virginia the descendants of the colonists moved to Putnam County, Georgia, and from thence scattered through the Southern states and later to the West and Southwest."--Preface.