In a message dated 05/15/2000 4:33:38 PM Pacific Daylight Time, njennings@lisco.net writes: << I can find no evidence of an older Franklin b. 1803 in Louisa County in any of the records I have on my computer, tax lists, Funeral Home Records or cemetery records. >> So sorry Norma! My error not to tell you. Franklin and wife Eliza, were born in Meriden, New Haven Co, CT. They didn't come to IA until the early 1840's. I'm sorry for the wild goose chase. Keith Street found land records beginning in 1846 for Franklin Griswold of Louisa County, Iowa. Margery