> Could you check those articles, esp. the one on Old Lyme, for the names > PELTON, GRISWOLD, CHAMPION? Mostly in 1700's. Thanks. Susan, I found this on Library.Com: CHAMPION, MAJOR HENRY, 1723-1797, Colchester, Conn. Ensign of the Train Band, South Company, of East Haddam, 1744; Lieutenant, 1750. Captain of the Twelfth Company, 1758, and of the Fifth Company, Second Regiment of the Connecticut Forces, French and Indian War, 1759. Major of the Twelfth Company, Colonial Militia, 1772. Deputy to the General Assembly, 1761, '65- 79. Society of Colonial Wars in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Boston, 1906, p 313