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Auction: 315 - Numismatic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 542

Griswold, Roger Governor of Connecticut (1762-1812); earlier, a US Representative noted as the first to engage in brawl with another congressman in the House! Pair of Autograph Letters Signed "R: Griswold" as Governor, 1 page, New Haven, CT, October 25, 1811, and Lyme, April 3, 1812. He writes to Maj Nathaniel Terry, commanding the governor´s foot-guards of the state militia, asking in the first "that you will be so good as to give me your opinion in detail respecting a uniform for the Infantry..." In the second, he responds to Terry´s letter about a new state act authorizing "the Commandants of the companies of guards to recruit from Infantry companies...I have no doubt of the expediency of authorising the guards to recruit from any Regiment of Infantry, you have my approbation to enlist the right men..." Both clean and VG. Terry would resign his post in 1813 and be named a brigadier general in charge of all the state´s militia. [2]

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