Griffith, David (1735-1779)

Name:

Griffith, David (1735-1779)

Title:

Joined expedition against Quebec, taken prisoner by British, 1775

Other Names:

Griffeth, David

Born:

08/31/1735

Birthplace:

Portsmouth, NH

Died:

02/02/1779

Death Location:

Exeter, NH

Residence:

Portsmouth, NH 1735-
Exeter, NH 1777, 1778, 1779

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

Goldsmith 1757-1779
Silversmith
Merchant 1764-1779

Father:

Griffith, John (1698-1775)

Mother:

Lang, Deborah (1706-1771)

Relations:

Partnership with Samuel Bowles (general store) -1771

Spouse:

Mrs. Sarah Bowles (1738-1780), November 7, 1757, Waltham

Children:

Samuel, born April 1764; died 1807

Notes:

Henry Bond, Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Including Waltham and Weston...(Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogcial Society, 1860), 87.

Kathryn C. Buhler and Graham Hood, American Silver: Garvan and Other Collections in the Yale University Art Gallery. Volume I. New England. (New Haven, Connectitcut: Yale University Press, 1970), 302.

Henry N. Flynt and Martha Gandy Fales, The Heritage Foundation Collection of Silver, With Biographical Sketches of New England Silversmiths, 1625-1825. (Old Deerfield, Massachusetts: The Heritage Foundation, 1968), 235.

Marck, Profiles, 1955, 33

Charles S. Parsons, New Hampshire Silver. (Cranbury, NJ: Adams Brown Company, 1983), 105, 106.

Kenneth Scott, "Eight Silversmiths of Portsmouth, New Hampshire," Antiques, August 1958, 144.

"John Doane, Clock and Watch Maker from Boston" Advertisement, New-Hampshire Gazette, Portsmouth, NH, May 13, 1757, 2.

"Apprentice" Advertisement, New-Hampshire Gazette, Portsmouth, NH, May 27, 1757, 2.

"David Griffith" Weekly Vendue Advertisement, New-Hampshire Gazette, Portsmouth, NH, May 4, 1764, 3.

"Dissolution of Co-partnership" Advertisement, New-Hampshire Gazette, Portsmouth, NH, October 25, 1771, 4.

"Vinegar" Advertisement, New-Hampshire Gazette, Portsmouth, NH, August 26, 1774, 3.

"To Be Sold By David Griffith, At His Shop in Exeter" Advertisement, New-Hampshire Gazette, Portsmouth, NH, October 20, 1778, 4.

Death Notice, New-Hampshire Gazette, Portsmouth, NH, February 16, 1779, 3.

Probate Records, Exeter, Administration of the Estate fo David Griffith, 1779, Vol. 48

Winter Street Burial Ground, Exeter, NH