When Benjamin Griffin was born on 10 May 1754, in Windham, Windham, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Ebenezer Griffin, was 48 and his mother, Hannah Chandler, was 41. He married Chloe Howard on 8 February 1776, in Hampton, Windham, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He died about 1788, in Cooperstown, Otsego, New York, United States, at the age of 35.
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Welsh: from the personal name Gruffin, Griffin, a pet form of Middle Welsh Gruffudd. In the Welsh border counties this name was introduced directly from Welsh, and in the eastern counties of England by Bretons from France who came over with the Norman conquest.
Irish: Anglicized (part translated) form of Gaelic Ó Gríobhtha ‘descendant of Gríobhtha’, a personal name from gríobh ‘gryphon’.
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