Cyrus Griffin
BIRTH
Jul 16, 1748
Farnham, Virginia
DEATH
December 14, 1810
Yorktown, Virginia
President of the Continental Congress
Jan 22, 1788 - Nov 2, 1788
FAMILY
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Griffin, Cyrus
(1748-1810)
Cyrus Griffin was a Virginia lawyer and statesman who served as the final president of the Confederation Congress before the new federal government began. He also worked in wartime diplomacy and later became a federal judge.
GRAVE:
MUSEUM
Bruton Parish Church
201 W Duke of Gloucester St, Williamsburg, VA 23185
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WIFE
Christina Stewart
(1751-1807)
Places | Image | Address | GPS | Site |
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Independence National Historical Park | 520 Chestnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19106 | MUSEUM | ||
Colonial Williamsburg | 101 Visitor Center Dr, Williamsburg, VA 23185 | MUSEUM | ||
Virginia Capitol Building | E Duke of Gloucester St, Williamsburg, VA 23185 | MUSEUM |
DIED:
Yorktown, Virginia
Dec 14, 1810
Cyrus Griffin was born on Jul 16, 1748 in Farnham, Virginia. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies Cyrus Griffin with work or public activity as a lawyer, judge, statesman. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Cyrus Griffin died on Dec 14, 1810 in Yorktown, Virginia. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.