Person:Thomas Griffith (19)

Notes

From "History of West Virginia"; By Virgil Anson Lewis; pub. 1887:

The Last Indian Incursion.

After the signal defeat at Donnally's Fort, the Indians made but two more incursions into the Greenbrier country, and these in small parties. In the first they came to Muddy creek. and there wounded Captain Samuel McClung and killed Mr. Munday and his wife. In the second they visited the same place, and Thomas Griffith, the last victim of savage butchery in Greenbrier county, was killed. His son was carried away prisoner, but while descending the Great Kanawha, they were pursued and overtaken by a body of whites. One Indian was killed and the boy released and returned to his friends. Thus ended the period of savage atrocity in Greenbrier county in the year 1780.

About one mile southeast of the Graham place, on what has since been known as the Eads farm, there lived William Withrow, who moved away in [a] short time. This property was afterwards occupied by Peter Eads and family [who] came from Albemarle County, Virginia, and settled here about 1830. There also lived at the same time of Graham's locating here, a family by the name of [McGraw], about two miles to the south on what has since been known as the [ lan] place. Eastward, about three miles, at the mouth of Griffith's Creek, lived a family by the name Griffith. The head of the family, Thomas Griffith, was killed by the Indians in 1780. He was the last victim of the savages in this section of the Country. This place was afterwards occupied [by] Enos Ellis and is still occupied by his descendants. It is thought that [Ellis] may have lived in this place before the Graham Settlement.

Thomas Griffith was killed by Indians on the mouth of Griffiths Creek. There were only two families of Griffith's in Greenbrier . Thomas lived on Griffith's Creek across the river from Owen Ellis Sr., and Benjamin Griffith lived on Indian Creek about 10 miles from Owen Ellis. Thomas Griffith was the first to obtain land in Greenbrier County in 1785, and Benjamin received a survey in 1787.

Citations

http://www.angelfire.com/ok5/ritterfamilyok/griffith.html

1.   Ancestry.com. Public Member Trees: (Note: not considered a reliable primary source).

   https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/109238392/person/400072116700/facts

2.   United States. National Archives and Records Service, and United States. War Department. Revolutionary War rolls, 1775-1783: National Archives microfilm publications, pamphlet describing M246. (Washington, District of Columbia: National Archives and Records Service, 1980).

   Name Thomas Griffith
   Gender Male
   Military Date May 1778
   Military Place Virginia, USA
   State or Army Served Virginia
   Regiment 8th Regiment
   Rank Private

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   In a terrible incident in 1780, pioneer settler Thomas Griffith and his wife and daughter were murdered by a band of renegade indians, accompanied by a British Army advisor, at the doorstep of his cabin. Son Thomas was taken prisoner.

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   https://www.doddridgecountyroots.com/bk6html/f18192.html
   Note: this tree has Thomas Griffith as the son of Abraham Griffith and his second wife Elizabeth Lynn, but they were married in 1742, several years AFTER Thomas Griffith was born. Thomas was a son of Abraham Griffith and his FIRST WIFE Mary _____.