Excerpt from A Brief History and Genealogical Sketch: Of the First Daniel Griswold, of Springfield, Vermont These days have been spent much as they used to be, and those present have indulged largely in reminiscences of the absent and the past. At the picnic in 1877, it was voted, that the writer should prepare and read at the next gathering, a sketch of the life of Grandfather Griswold, the first in our ancestry who settled in Vermont. In compliance with that request the writer read a hastily written article. Those present insisted upon its being printed, and it was suggested that a short genealogy of the fam ily be added to it. The sketch is necessarily short and intended to embrace only the most important events of his life, and facts which would be interesting to his descendants. Of course it is only a matter of interest to the family, and those connected therewith. The genealogical part is substantially correct; some errors in dates may have crept in, but the information is mainly from the parties themselves. Some have answered more fully than others, and from some we can not get the desired information. For some of the data herein, I am indebted to the late Rev. F. W. Chapman, of Conn., who began a genealogy Of the Griswold family, but died before the work was completed, also to the February number, 1876, of Harper's Magazine, which gives a very interesting article upon the Griswolds, of Conn., under the head of Lyme, but mainly to my mother, who has been very much interest-ed in the little un dertaking, and who was the youngest child of Daniel Griswold, and is the only survivor of a noble band of brothers and sisters. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.