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Daguerreotype portrait of Prudence Jones Griffith (1796-1881), daughter of Charles Jones (1758-1811), an Irish immigrant, and Prudence Hawkins of Rhode Island. In 1814, she married Major Greenbury Griffith (1787-1848), a veteran of the War of 1812. The couple were parents to ten children: Jemima (1814-1872); Prudence Jones (1816-1853), married Henry Woodward Dorsey Waters; Emily (1818-1903),…

Daguerreotype portrait of Prudence Jones Griffith (1796-1881), daughter of Charles Jones (1758-1811), an Irish immigrant, and Prudence Hawkins of Rhode Island. In 1814, she married Major Greenbury Griffith (1787-1848), a veteran of the War of 1812. The couple were parents to ten children: Jemima (1814-1872); Prudence Jones (1816-1853), married Henry Woodward Dorsey Waters; Emily (1818-1903),…

Portrait of Prudence Jones Griffith

Description

Daguerreotype portrait of Prudence Jones Griffith (1796-1881), daughter of Charles Jones (1758-1811), an Irish immigrant, and Prudence Hawkins of Rhode Island. In 1814, she married Major Greenbury Griffith (1787-1848), a veteran of the War of 1812. The couple were parents to ten children: Jemima (1814-1872); Prudence Jones (1816-1853), married Henry Woodward Dorsey Waters; Emily (1818-1903), married Henry Woodward Dorsey Waters; Howard (1821-1897), married first Sarah Chiswell and second Angelica Young; Charles Greenbury (1823-1898); Sarah Leah (1826-1891), married George Chiswell; Joseph Thomas (1828-1910), married Jane Rebecca Wilson; Francis Moore (1831-1908), married Elizabeth Dickerson; David Porter (1835-1903), married Margaret Keys; and Greenbury (1838-1897).

Date

undated

Collection Number

CSPH

Dimensions

2 in x 2 1/2 in

Object ID

CSPH 059

Resource ID

4158

Digital Publisher

Digital resource provided by the Maryland Center for History and Culture

Rights

This digital image is made available here for private study, scholarship, and research. Commercial and other uses are prohibited without the permission of the Maryland Center for History and Culture. For more information, visit the MCHC’s Reproductions and Permissions web page.