In a message dated 6/21/2004 4:17:16 PM Eastern Standard Time, kennard.3@osu.edu writes: > I am descended from a John Griffith of Virginia I am trying to find parents, places of birth of John and Catharine Griffith. He first appeared on the Shenandoah County, VA Personal Property Tax Lists in 1785. He and John Valentine, his son-in-law, jointly purchased land on Hawksbill Creek in 1786. He later purchased a tract of land on nearby Dry Run, where he died in 1820 and Catharine in 1824. These two tracts were located in present-day Page County, VA, which was formed from Shenandoah and Rockingham Counties. Children: Mary (m. John Valentine), David, John, William, Sally, Rachel, Elizabeth (m. Rickabaugh), Nancy, Ellen and Catharine. Joe Baker.