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settled upon the extreme point of land that stretches out between Connec-
ticut River and Long Island Sound. It was all "made land," under the
slow processes of nature ; the sea had washed up its sand to meet, and be
mingled with, the alluvial deposits brought down by the " Great River,"
in its progress from Canada to the sea. After all these centuries, the
modeling of nature's forces still appears in the roll and swell of the ground,
the hillocks and the eddies.
The land-records of Lyme show an indenture of March 8, 1664, by
which the first Matthew Griswold then had deeded to him
" A parcell of Land Lying and beeing uppon Blackball point, near the dwelling-
house of Matthew Griswold aforesaid" .
akers . . . with
. . the upland beeing by estimation forty
all the meadow or marshlands thereto belonging, part of which
meadow is adjoining to the upland, and part thereof is lying and beeing on the
southwest end of the Great Island or Marsh.
Among the family-papers is an original deed of Thomas Leffingwell
to Matthew Griswold, dated February 18, 1674, conveying his
"whole accommadations of Lands att Seabrooke, situate, lyeing and being on
both sides of Connecticot River, except .
. . The
unto the s"^ Mathew Griswell being as foUoweth ;
Imp",
p'ticulars of that w'^'' is sold
on the west side of the above
s"* River the whole right of Commonage belonging unto one hundred and fifty pound
Allottment withe the ox-pastour, house and home-Lott ;
Sec"", on the east side of the
s"* River the whole accommadations belonging unto a two hundred pound Allott-
ment, with such rights. Commonages, priviledges and appurtenances as doe or shall
belong thereunto, as also the whole right, title and interest unto and of one hundred
pound Allottment which was bought of ffrancis Griswell "... only excepted
twenty acers of Land of the first Division where the house stands .
unto ffrancis Griswell. . . ."
. . Resigned
" Showing that Matthew Griswold had a dwelling-house at Blackhall point before March 8, 1664.
The original well belonging to it is believed to exist still, within the grounds of Mrs. Charles C. Gris-
wold, a little to the south of whose residence the first dwelling of the first Matthew Griswold is said to
have stood.
" This is, undoubtedly, Francis son of Edward, mentioned above.
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