When Asa Griffin was born about 1808, in Rockingham, Richmond, North Carolina, United States, his father, Southern Griffin, was 44 and his mother, Elizabeth Thompson, was 44. He married Nancy Frost about 1831, in North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Forbush Township, Yadkin, North Carolina, United States in 1870 and Little Yadkin Township, Yadkin, North Carolina, United States in 1880. In 1880, at the age of 73, his occupation is listed as blacksmith in Yadkin, North Carolina, United States. He died about 1885, in North Carolina, United States, at the age of 79.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
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’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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