George Washington Papers

[Diary entry: 11 September 1774]

11. Dined at Mr. Griffen’s.

GW visited a man named Samuel Griffin in Philadelphia several times in 1775. This may be Samuel Griffin of Williamsburg (1746–1810), a lawyer who was appointed aide-de-camp to Gen. Charles Lee in 1775. He later became deputy adjutant general of the Flying Camp and a member of the Virginia Board of War. After the Revolution, Griffin served in the Virginia House of Delegates 1787–88 and the United States House of Representatives 1789–95.

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    [Diary entry: 11 September 1774]
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    Washington, George
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    11 September 1774

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    “[Diary entry: 11 September 1774],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-03-02-0004-0017-0011. [Original source: The Diaries of George Washington, vol. 3, 1 January 1771–5 November 1781, ed. Donald Jackson. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1978, p. 277.]