When Samuel Clark Griffith was born in 1805, in Delaware, United States, his father, John Griffith, was 40 and his mother, Nancy Carey, was 47. He married Jane Long on 8 March 1827, in Licking, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Iowa, United States in 1870 and Mason Township, Taylor, Iowa, United States in 1880. He died on 24 November 1884, in Clarinda, Page, Iowa, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Clarinda, Page, Iowa, United States.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
The Treaty of Ghent was signed on 1814, ending the War of 1812. One of the signers was James Bayard of Delaware.
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 (Carmarthenshire and western England): from the Old Welsh personal name Gruffudd, Old Welsh Grip(p)iud, composed of the elements grip, of uncertain significance, + iud ‘chief, lord’.
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