Samuel Griffin
BIRTH
1746
Richmond County
DEATH
November 3, 1810
Williamsburg
FAMILY
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Griffin, Samuel
(1746-1810)
Samuel Griffin was a Virginia lawyer, Continental Army colonel, and aide to General Charles Lee. His diversionary operations near Mount Holly helped draw Hessian troops away from Trenton in 1776; he later served as Williamsburg’s mayor and as a member of Congress.
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WIFE
Betsy Braxton Griffin
Elizabeth Corbin Griffin Gatliff Campbell Stewart
Places | Image | Address | GPS | Site |
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Petticoat Bridge Skirmish Marker | Mount View Street, Newton, New Jersey, 07460, USA | MARKER |
DIED:
Williamsburg
Nov 3, 1810
The exact date and place of Samuel Griffin’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. 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 Samuel Griffin with work or public activity as a lawyer, soldier, 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. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.