Samuel Griffin of New Castle Co On the Delaware
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: "SAMUEL GRIFFIN, OF NEW CASTLE COUNTY ON DELAWARE, PLANTER." (1) Samuel Griffin, born ; died December, 1729, in New Castle county, on Duck Creek; married, . CHILDREN.1 (2) I. William, born ; died 1771; mar ried Eleanor . (3) II. James, born ; died between 1729 , and 1746. He was living at the date of tbe father's will, but was not a signer of the deed of division. 1 The names of the children were taken from Samuel Griffin's will, and from the deed of division of the Kent county property. There is no record found of the division of the property in New Castle county. The early records of this county are defective. In relation to this matter, the solicitor of the city of Wilmington wrote me : s follows: " At the time when the British captured Washington, it is said, that all our records were removed, some peo
...ple say to Lancaster, others to York, Pa., in order to keep them from falling into the hands of the enemy. They were never all returned to New Castle county after the war. It is said that all the records, prior to 1809, of the settlements of accounts in the Register's Office disappeared in this way, as well as eight or ten of the Deed Records in our Recorder's Office." The records of the county are not only incomplete, but they are badly indexed. I have also read that during the Revolutionary War, Knyp- hausen' s Hessians plundered the county-seat and carried away some of the records, and that part of them were afterwards recovered in the State of New York. (4) III. Elizabeth, born ; died ; mar ried Alexander Chance. (5) IV. George, born ; died 1751; married Rebecca Rees. (6) V. Samuel, born ; died 1769 ; married Martha . (7) VI. Amy (Noomy), born ; died ; married William Carpenter. (8) VII. John, born ; died ; married M...
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