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He was chosen Commissioner for Lyme, in 1669, for the ensuing year ;"
in 1676 was appointed with others "to signe bills in their respectiue plan-
tations, for what is due from the country;"* and in 1677 was temporary
Lieutenant of the train-bands of Lyme.* In May, 1678, he was a Deputy
for Lyme;''" and the next year was appointed "to grant warrants and
marry persons in Lyme for the yeare ensueing."'*' One hundred acres of
land were granted to him by the General Court in 1681, "provided he
take it up where it may not prejudice any former grants."® He was a
Deputy for Lyme in 1685. '^ On the i^'^ of May, 1685 ("in the first
year of our Sovereign Lord James the Second of England") the township
of Lyme received a patent of confirmation, when it was granted, ratified
and confirmed
" Unto Mr. Matthew Griswold, Sen'', Mr. Moses Noyes, Mr. Wm. Measure, Mr.
Wm. Ely, Ln't Abraham Brunson, Sarg' Thomas Lee and John Lay Jr., and the rest
of the said present proprietors of the Township of Lyme, tlaeir heirs, successors and
assigns forever."
In 1686 the General Court confirmed to him and others a tract of
land eight miles square, "lyeing and being near unto Connecticut River,
about twelve or thirteen miles up the said River," which had been deeded
to them in 1674 by "Captain Sannup (or Sanhop)" of the Niantics.'"
The Court chose him in 1689 to be a Justice of the Peace, or Commis-
sioner, for Lyme, and he held the same office the five following years,
successively.®
To these notes from colonial records, mainly showing the public
trusts conferred on the first Matthev\^ Griswold, we add a few others from
the public records of Lyme and the family-archives, illustrative of the
growth of the Griswold landed domain within his time. By published
" Id., p. 106. « Id., p. 294.
"> The Public Records of the Col. of Conn,, 1678-1689, ut supra, p. 3.
" Id., p. 27. '' Id., p. 93.
"> Id., p. 252 ;
and
The Public Records of the Col. of Conn. .
Hoadly. Hartford, 1868, pp. 24, 43, 66, 92, 121.
16
-19 Id., p. 317.
'' Id., p. 181. " Id., pp. 200-01.
. . 1689-1706. By Charles J.