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1To George Washington from Thomas Waters Griffith, 7 December 1799 (Washington Papers)
Thomas Waters Griffith (1767–1838), the son of Benjamin and Rachel Waters Griffith, lived as a child in Chester County, Pa., and in Baltimore. After serving briefly as a clerk in a Baltimore mercantile firm, Griffith sailed in August 1791 from Georgetown, Md., with seventeen hogsheads of tobacco to seek his fortune in France. He witnessed the...