Isaac Griffith and Ann Burson
Isaac Griffith, sixth child and fifth son of Abraham and Hannah (Lester) Griffith, was born in Richland, 1 mo. (March) 5, 1720-21. He married at Buckingham Meeting in 9 mo. (Nov.) 1744, Ann Burson, daughter of Joseph and Rachel (Potts) Burson, and granddaughter of George Burson, the founder of the Burson Family in Pennsylvania. She was born 2 mo. 9, 1721.
Isaac and Ann (Burson) Griffith continued to reside in Richland and Rockhill Townships until 1769, probably on two or three tracts acquired at different dates by his father. The will of Abraham Griffith, Sr., proved in 1760, indicates clearly that Isaac, a younger son, was the mainstay of the family at that time, as to him is delegated the care of his mother, the sale of the estate, and the payment of minor legacies. He acquired the homestead in Rockhill by deed from his brother Abraham immediately following the death of their father and apparently lived thereon until 1769, when to took a certificate for himself, his wife, his minor children and his mother, to Gunpowder Monthly Meeting in Baltimore County, Maryland. (In the "Friends' Intelligencer" of 12 mo. 15, 1923, the following extract from Gunpowder Monthly Meeting records is given: "Twenty-second of Ninth month, 1781, Isaac Griffith's paper condemning his misconduct in marrying his former wife's brother's wide was read and was satisfactory. The case was on hand for two years." [Perhaps it took the Meeting that long to trace the relationship.]) This certificate is dated 2 mo. 16, 1769. His son-in-law, Joseph Shaw, and family, followed them to Maryland in 1770, but returned to Richland ten years later. Isaac Griffith and his family seem to have remained in Maryland.
Copied from Early Friends Families of Upper Bucks, Clarence V. Roberts, 1925, Chapter XVIII, Page 214
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Isaac Griffith died long after 1781, and in Maryland: Gunpowder Meeting: 5mo 31, 1783: "Isaac Griffith having come to live on the verge of this meeting hath returned the Certificate we gave him to Fairfax Monthly Meeting in Virginia dated 24th day of the 11th month 1782 which is by this meeting received". His wife Ann, sometime after 1798: Gunpowder Meeting held at at Little Falls, 3mo 31, 1798: "Ann Griffith wife of Isaac Griffith produced a Certificate to this meeting from Fairfax Monthly Meeting the 23rd of 12th month 1797 which was read and received" after going back and forth between Fairfax Mtg and Gunpowder Mtg to condemn her going out in marriage. There are continued records for 1803, 1805 and 1819 (Ann widow of Isaac, Member of Baltimore Prep Mtg, Eastern District in 1819) at Gunpowder Mtg, but it is not clear if they belong to Issac Sr or Isaac Jr; therefore Isaac Sr's death (and that of his wife Ann) is unverified, but certainly they were still living in 1783 and 1798, respectively, in Maryland.
Submitted by Claudia Davenport-Sullivan (47345651)
∼Isaac Griffith was a Quaker. The events of his life can be found in the Minutes of these Friend's Mnthly Meetings of Gunpowder Falls, Baltimore Co. MD and Fairfax,VA. He married Ann Burson who bore 12 children. Shortly after her death about 1773 he married Mrs. Ann Dickey Roberts Burson (sister-in-law of his first wife). Isaac lived in Virginia until 1782 when he returned to Gunpowder Falls with his sons James and John. Land transactions in Baltimore Co. MD suggest Isaac was still alive in 1802. No burial record has been found.
Isaac Griffith, sixth child and fifth son of Abraham and Hannah (Lester) Griffith, was born in Richland, 1 mo. (March) 5, 1720-21. He married at Buckingham Meeting in 9 mo. (Nov.) 1744, Ann Burson, daughter of Joseph and Rachel (Potts) Burson, and granddaughter of George Burson, the founder of the Burson Family in Pennsylvania. She was born 2 mo. 9, 1721.
Isaac and Ann (Burson) Griffith continued to reside in Richland and Rockhill Townships until 1769, probably on two or three tracts acquired at different dates by his father. The will of Abraham Griffith, Sr., proved in 1760, indicates clearly that Isaac, a younger son, was the mainstay of the family at that time, as to him is delegated the care of his mother, the sale of the estate, and the payment of minor legacies. He acquired the homestead in Rockhill by deed from his brother Abraham immediately following the death of their father and apparently lived thereon until 1769, when to took a certificate for himself, his wife, his minor children and his mother, to Gunpowder Monthly Meeting in Baltimore County, Maryland. (In the "Friends' Intelligencer" of 12 mo. 15, 1923, the following extract from Gunpowder Monthly Meeting records is given: "Twenty-second of Ninth month, 1781, Isaac Griffith's paper condemning his misconduct in marrying his former wife's brother's wide was read and was satisfactory. The case was on hand for two years." [Perhaps it took the Meeting that long to trace the relationship.]) This certificate is dated 2 mo. 16, 1769. His son-in-law, Joseph Shaw, and family, followed them to Maryland in 1770, but returned to Richland ten years later. Isaac Griffith and his family seem to have remained in Maryland.
Copied from Early Friends Families of Upper Bucks, Clarence V. Roberts, 1925, Chapter XVIII, Page 214
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Isaac Griffith died long after 1781, and in Maryland: Gunpowder Meeting: 5mo 31, 1783: "Isaac Griffith having come to live on the verge of this meeting hath returned the Certificate we gave him to Fairfax Monthly Meeting in Virginia dated 24th day of the 11th month 1782 which is by this meeting received". His wife Ann, sometime after 1798: Gunpowder Meeting held at at Little Falls, 3mo 31, 1798: "Ann Griffith wife of Isaac Griffith produced a Certificate to this meeting from Fairfax Monthly Meeting the 23rd of 12th month 1797 which was read and received" after going back and forth between Fairfax Mtg and Gunpowder Mtg to condemn her going out in marriage. There are continued records for 1803, 1805 and 1819 (Ann widow of Isaac, Member of Baltimore Prep Mtg, Eastern District in 1819) at Gunpowder Mtg, but it is not clear if they belong to Issac Sr or Isaac Jr; therefore Isaac Sr's death (and that of his wife Ann) is unverified, but certainly they were still living in 1783 and 1798, respectively, in Maryland.
Submitted by Claudia Davenport-Sullivan (47345651)
∼Isaac Griffith was a Quaker. The events of his life can be found in the Minutes of these Friend's Mnthly Meetings of Gunpowder Falls, Baltimore Co. MD and Fairfax,VA. He married Ann Burson who bore 12 children. Shortly after her death about 1773 he married Mrs. Ann Dickey Roberts Burson (sister-in-law of his first wife). Isaac lived in Virginia until 1782 when he returned to Gunpowder Falls with his sons James and John. Land transactions in Baltimore Co. MD suggest Isaac was still alive in 1802. No burial record has been found.
Isaac Griffith and Ann Burson
Isaac Griffith, sixth child and fifth son of Abraham and Hannah (Lester) Griffith, was born in Richland, 1 mo. (March) 5, 1720-21. He married at Buckingham Meeting in 9 mo. (Nov.) 1744, Ann Burson, daughter of Joseph and Rachel (Potts) Burson, and granddaughter of George Burson, the founder of the Burson Family in Pennsylvania. She was born 2 mo. 9, 1721.
Isaac and Ann (Burson) Griffith continued to reside in Richland and Rockhill Townships until 1769, probably on two or three tracts acquired at different dates by his father. The will of Abraham Griffith, Sr., proved in 1760, indicates clearly that Isaac, a younger son, was the mainstay of the family at that time, as to him is delegated the care of his mother, the sale of the estate, and the payment of minor legacies. He acquired the homestead in Rockhill by deed from his brother Abraham immediately following the death of their father and apparently lived thereon until 1769, when to took a certificate for himself, his wife, his minor children and his mother, to Gunpowder Monthly Meeting in Baltimore County, Maryland. (In the "Friends' Intelligencer" of 12 mo. 15, 1923, the following extract from Gunpowder Monthly Meeting records is given: "Twenty-second of Ninth month, 1781, Isaac Griffith's paper condemning his misconduct in marrying his former wife's brother's wide was read and was satisfactory. The case was on hand for two years." [Perhaps it took the Meeting that long to trace the relationship.]) This certificate is dated 2 mo. 16, 1769. His son-in-law, Joseph Shaw, and family, followed them to Maryland in 1770, but returned to Richland ten years later. Isaac Griffith and his family seem to have remained in Maryland.
Copied from Early Friends Families of Upper Bucks, Clarence V. Roberts, 1925, Chapter XVIII, Page 214
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Isaac Griffith died long after 1781, and in Maryland: Gunpowder Meeting: 5mo 31, 1783: "Isaac Griffith having come to live on the verge of this meeting hath returned the Certificate we gave him to Fairfax Monthly Meeting in Virginia dated 24th day of the 11th month 1782 which is by this meeting received". His wife Ann, sometime after 1798: Gunpowder Meeting held at at Little Falls, 3mo 31, 1798: "Ann Griffith wife of Isaac Griffith produced a Certificate to this meeting from Fairfax Monthly Meeting the 23rd of 12th month 1797 which was read and received" after going back and forth between Fairfax Mtg and Gunpowder Mtg to condemn her going out in marriage. There are continued records for 1803, 1805 and 1819 (Ann widow of Isaac, Member of Baltimore Prep Mtg, Eastern District in 1819) at Gunpowder Mtg, but it is not clear if they belong to Issac Sr or Isaac Jr; therefore Isaac Sr's death (and that of his wife Ann) is unverified, but certainly they were still living in 1783 and 1798, respectively, in Maryland.
Submitted by Claudia Davenport-Sullivan (47345651)
∼Isaac Griffith was a Quaker. The events of his life can be found in the Minutes of these Friend's Mnthly Meetings of Gunpowder Falls, Baltimore Co. MD and Fairfax,VA. He married Ann Burson who bore 12 children. Shortly after her death about 1773 he married Mrs. Ann Dickey Roberts Burson (sister-in-law of his first wife). Isaac lived in Virginia until 1782 when he returned to Gunpowder Falls with his sons James and John. Land transactions in Baltimore Co. MD suggest Isaac was still alive in 1802. No burial record has been found.
Isaac Griffith, sixth child and fifth son of Abraham and Hannah (Lester) Griffith, was born in Richland, 1 mo. (March) 5, 1720-21. He married at Buckingham Meeting in 9 mo. (Nov.) 1744, Ann Burson, daughter of Joseph and Rachel (Potts) Burson, and granddaughter of George Burson, the founder of the Burson Family in Pennsylvania. She was born 2 mo. 9, 1721.
Isaac and Ann (Burson) Griffith continued to reside in Richland and Rockhill Townships until 1769, probably on two or three tracts acquired at different dates by his father. The will of Abraham Griffith, Sr., proved in 1760, indicates clearly that Isaac, a younger son, was the mainstay of the family at that time, as to him is delegated the care of his mother, the sale of the estate, and the payment of minor legacies. He acquired the homestead in Rockhill by deed from his brother Abraham immediately following the death of their father and apparently lived thereon until 1769, when to took a certificate for himself, his wife, his minor children and his mother, to Gunpowder Monthly Meeting in Baltimore County, Maryland. (In the "Friends' Intelligencer" of 12 mo. 15, 1923, the following extract from Gunpowder Monthly Meeting records is given: "Twenty-second of Ninth month, 1781, Isaac Griffith's paper condemning his misconduct in marrying his former wife's brother's wide was read and was satisfactory. The case was on hand for two years." [Perhaps it took the Meeting that long to trace the relationship.]) This certificate is dated 2 mo. 16, 1769. His son-in-law, Joseph Shaw, and family, followed them to Maryland in 1770, but returned to Richland ten years later. Isaac Griffith and his family seem to have remained in Maryland.
Copied from Early Friends Families of Upper Bucks, Clarence V. Roberts, 1925, Chapter XVIII, Page 214
_______________________________________________
Isaac Griffith died long after 1781, and in Maryland: Gunpowder Meeting: 5mo 31, 1783: "Isaac Griffith having come to live on the verge of this meeting hath returned the Certificate we gave him to Fairfax Monthly Meeting in Virginia dated 24th day of the 11th month 1782 which is by this meeting received". His wife Ann, sometime after 1798: Gunpowder Meeting held at at Little Falls, 3mo 31, 1798: "Ann Griffith wife of Isaac Griffith produced a Certificate to this meeting from Fairfax Monthly Meeting the 23rd of 12th month 1797 which was read and received" after going back and forth between Fairfax Mtg and Gunpowder Mtg to condemn her going out in marriage. There are continued records for 1803, 1805 and 1819 (Ann widow of Isaac, Member of Baltimore Prep Mtg, Eastern District in 1819) at Gunpowder Mtg, but it is not clear if they belong to Issac Sr or Isaac Jr; therefore Isaac Sr's death (and that of his wife Ann) is unverified, but certainly they were still living in 1783 and 1798, respectively, in Maryland.
Submitted by Claudia Davenport-Sullivan (47345651)
∼Isaac Griffith was a Quaker. The events of his life can be found in the Minutes of these Friend's Mnthly Meetings of Gunpowder Falls, Baltimore Co. MD and Fairfax,VA. He married Ann Burson who bore 12 children. Shortly after her death about 1773 he married Mrs. Ann Dickey Roberts Burson (sister-in-law of his first wife). Isaac lived in Virginia until 1782 when he returned to Gunpowder Falls with his sons James and John. Land transactions in Baltimore Co. MD suggest Isaac was still alive in 1802. No burial record has been found.
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