Cyrus Griffin's Birthplace

Cyrus Griffin's Birthplace is a Virginia historical marker in Richmond (County) County, dedicated 1947.

Rte. 3, at Rte. 608 intersection (Farnham Creek Road)

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Four and a half miles southwest was born Cyrus Griffin, July 16, 1748. Educated in England, he served in the Virginia House of Delegates, 1777-8, 1786-7. He was a member of the Continental Congress, 1787-1788, in which last year he was president of the body. Griffin was president of the court of admiralty, commissioner to the Creeks, 1789, and a United States district judge. He died at Yorktown, December 14, 1810.

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Historical maps covering this location

1708 · Carte Particuliere de Virginie, Maryland, Pennsilvanie. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1755 · Virginie, Maryland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1781 · MARCH of the ARMY under Lieut:t General EARL CORNWALLIS in VIRGINIA, from the JUNCTION at… (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)
1787 · [French troops route to Yorktown] (Historical map archives, georeferenced via Allmaps)
1794 · Virginia, Maryland and Delaware. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Virginie, Maryland, 1755, covering the location of Cyrus Griffin's Birthplace, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Virginie, Maryland, 1755, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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