Frances Hewitt’s biography, Vermontville, Eaton County, Michigan Copyright © 1998 by USGenWeb. This copy contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives. ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ Frances E. Hewitt, now Mrs. R. W. Griswold, was born in Stonington, New London County, Conn., September 6, 1816, where she received her education and lived until nineteen years of age, when she was married to George S. Browning, of Griswold, Conn. They came to the wilds of Michigan in May, 1836, to build for themselves a home. They arrived in Bellevue the 6th of June, where they lived one year and a half, and then moved to Vermontville, where she has since remained. George S. Browning died July 26, 1874.