> 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 the following in Early Settlers of Old Lyme, Walter J. Noyes, Connecticut Nutmegger, Vol 7, No 1, June 1974: Henry Champion and Matthew Griswold are listed among the First Settlers of Lyme. "In those days, the families of Henry Champion, Matthew Griswold, Thomas Lee, the Lord brothers, and Abraham Watrous traveled to the meeting house from the Black Hall area. When they met the old Indian Trail called Pequot Path, they would turn westerly over the old bridge which crossed Black Hall River and continued up the Hill between the present homes of Mr. Joseph Door and Mr. Roger Griswold. The continued along the old trail until it joind Meeting House Hill Road to the meething house which was located just west of Meeting House Hill Cemetery. The men not only carried their psalm books to the services but came armed with their guns, shot and powder horns." Sgt. Samuel Griswold & Cpl. Andrew Griswold are listed among the men who marched to the relief of Boston in the Lexington Alarm of 1775. I couldn't find any mention of those names in the article on Middletown. Jane