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and insiduous Insinuations to the Injury of your moral Character (which others have
most unjustly supposed), but from an Apprehension that your want of Health would
render the office very burdensome to yourself, and less beneficial to the State, than
your former Administration had been, however ill-founded this Opinion might be.
Yet the Consciousness of your own Integrity, and the Universal Opinion of the State
in this respect, must render the event far less disagreable than it would otherwise
have been.—That you may finally be Approved of by that Being who cannot err is
the Devout wish of, Sir,
" Mrs. Wolcott presents
to you her sincere Respects."
" Your most obed' humble
Serv'
Oliver Wolcott."
Other letters have been preserved, from William Samuel Johnson,
Col. William Ledyard, Roger Sherman, Stephen Mix Mitchell, Charles
Thomson (Secretary of Congress), Oliver Wolcott, Samuel Huntington,
Governor Treadwell, Jonathan Sturgis, James Wadsworth and Erastus
Wolcott.
On his retirement from pubHc life in 1788 Gov. Griswold devoted
much time to farming-operations, which indeed seem to have always inter-
ested him. Professor Dexter of Yale University has kindly called our
attention to the following curious entries in the manuscript " Itinerary " of
a journey from New London to New Haven, in October 1790, by Pres.
Stiles :
Farmer :
"Gov' Griswold now aet. 76, born at Lyme 1710,'" fitted- for College, settled a
studied law proprio Marte, bo't him the first considera' Law Library in
Connec', took Att° oath and began practice 1743—a great Reader of Law.
" Has a fine Library of well chosen Books, 140 Fol. and 400 other Volumes, or
about 550 Volumes, now left in his Study, besides a part of his Libr'' given to his
Son in Norwich—about 200 Law Books, the rest Hist'' and Divinity.
" On leaving the chair of Gov" he went to Farming. He has a Farm of 400
acres, stock 100 Head of Cattle, cuts 100 Loads Hay, Eng. besides Salt, 22 acres Ind°
corn, and 80 Bush" Wheat, and 400 Bush" oats Raised this year. Hires 6 or 7 men ;
38 and 40 cows. Dairy 3m "^ cheese, 400"' Butter Fall Sales. In perfect Health of
'"' A slip of the pen for 1714— the true date—as he gives his age as 76.
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