"United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8Q8-DFS : 23 December 2020), Larkin Griffin, Abbeville, Abbeville, South Carolina, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
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Also had a son named James M Griffin, who was killed in a hotel by a knife wound. The newspaper references James as the son of Col. Larkin Griffin of Edgefield District. It's in the Georgia courier. (Augusta, Ga.) 1826-1837, March 05, 1834, Page 2, Image 2 on Georgia Historic Newspapers
https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn82015765/1834-03-05/ed-1/seq-2/#sort=date_asc&index=3&rows=12&proxtext=%22Young+Griffin%22&sequence=0&words=Griffin+young&page=8