Oc­to­ber 29, 1768, Walthamstow, Es­sex, Eng­land.

The son of poor par­ents, Grigg orig­in­al­ly trained as a me­chan­ic. In 1743, he be­came as­sist­ant min­is­ter to Thom­as Bures at the Pres­by­ter­i­an Church on Sil­ver Street in Lon­don, Eng­land. Up­on Bures’ death in 1747, Grigg re­tired from the min­is­try and, mar­ry­ing a la­dy of prop­er­ty, took up re­si­dence at St. Al­bans.

Grigg re­port­ed­ly wrote over 40 hymns. His works in­clude:

• Miscellanies on Mor­al and Re­li­gious Sub­jects (Lon­don: Eliz­a­beth Har­ris­on, 1756)
• The Voice of Dan­ger, the Voice of God (Lon­don: J. Buck­land, 1756)
• Four Hymns on Di­vine Sub­jects where­in the Pa­tience and Love of Our Di­vine Sa­vior Is Dis­played (Lon­don: 1765)
• A do­zen hymns con­trib­ut­ed to The Christ­ian Mag­a­zine in 1765 & 1766
• Hymns by the Late Rev. Jo­seph Grigg (Stourbridge, Eng­land: 1806)

In addition, D. Sedg­wick pub­lished Grigg’s col­lect­ed hymns and po­ems in 1861.

• Nutter, p. 411

1. Jesus, and Shall It Ev­er Be
2. Behold, a Strang­er at the Door
3. Shake, Bri­tain, like an As­pen Shake