Revolutionary War Record:
26 August-25 September 1776: The 18th Connecticut Reg't in New York under Capt. Hezekiah Holcomb's Co. Until March 1780 in 6 th Brig., for defense of Seacoast under
Col. Philips. The decisive action that summer (1777) began in the North when General
Burgoyne arrived from England to lead the British Army down the Hudson
River to a planned rendevous with General Howe, who was to bring up the
Hudson from New York City, thus cutting New England off from the rest of the
country. On July 5 Burgoyne and his army occupied Ticonderoga without a
battle, proceeded to Skenesboro (now Whitehall) at the south end of Lake
Champlain and then started overland toward the Hudson River. Hoping to
replenish his supplies by capturing horses, cattle, and grain, Bergoyne sent a
detachment of troops to raid the American supply depot at Bennington,
Vermont. By some calculations, one-tenth of General Burgoyne's army was
killed, wounded, or captured in August during the Battle of Bennington. Seth
Griffin and Captains Hezekiah Holcombe, Joseph Forward, and Asahel
Holcombe participated in this American victory.

Excerpt from Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789
1777 Jan 30 - Cost of Bringing Information from Nova Scotia
"That there is due Seth Griffin, for riding express, from Bedford to New London, and from hence to Philadelphia and back, and for his expenses &c during his detention here, the sum of 108 dollars."

Seth Griffin, Aristarchus Griffin, and Calvin Gillett, with their wives,
organized the Methodist Episcopal church at Copper Hill in 1816. This Church
usually called the Copper Hill Methodist Church became part of the Granville
(Massachusetts) Circuit and shared a minister with other churches in the
association. In 1844 it became an Independent station with its own minister.

Connecticut Hale Collection of Cemetery Inscriptions, Phelps-Warner Cemetery, p. 148