Joseph G. GRIFFIN
Birth:
Abt 1792
Elizabethtown Twp, Leeds, Ontario, Canada
Marriage:
Abt 1811
Ontario, Canada
Father:
Mother:
Sources:
Public Archives of Canada
Men of Upper Canada, Militia Nominal Rolls, 1828 - 1829
Ancestry.com
Men of Upper Canada, Militia Nominal Rolls, 1828 - 1829
Ancestry.com
Notes:
A letter from the Public Archives of Canada dated April 25th, 1950 gives the following information. "According to the Protestant register of Montreal, 1766-1787, one Joseph Griffin was born on June 16, 1786, and was baptized at Montreal, on June 25, of the same year. The name of the parents is not given." It is likely a record of our Joseph Griffin.
Albert P. Griffin's (son) gives his father's birthplace as New York
PROVINCE OF UPPER CANADA
I certify, that Joseph Griffin, a Native of Upper Canada and of the Township of Elizabethtown - Farmer - hath taken and subscribed the Oath of Allegiance as required by law, before me, at York, in the Home District, this Second day of June in the Year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and ninetenn.
Benj... Geale
TO HIS EXCELLENCY SIR PEREGRINE MAITLAND K.C.B. Lieutenant Governor of the province of Upper Canada, &
In Council ---
The petition of Joseph Griffin of the township of Flamborough East in the District of Gore, Sergeant late Glengarry Fencibles
Tailor
Humbly Showeth,
That your Petitioner is the Son of Joseph Griffin in Elisabethtown an enrolled U.E. Loyalist has taken the oath of alegence,
And has never had any Land or orders for land from the Crown,
Therefore Humbly Prays that your Excellency
Will be Pleased to Grant his two Hundred acres of the waste Lands of the Crown and Permit himself,
To be his Agent to Locate the Same and take out the Deed when completed
And your Petitioner
as in Duty Bound will Every Pray
Township of Flamborough ) Joseph Griffen, Junior
East District of Gore
Province of Upper Canada
June 1st 1819
Joseph Griffen maketh oath & will that he is the Person he Describes himselt to be in the within petition, and has never had any Land or order for Land from the Crown, and that he is twenty seven years of age.
Sworn before me at York Joseph Griffen
Home District this 2d
day of June 1819
D ?????? J.P.
There is record of land leased also
PETITION OF JOSEPH GRIFFIN for land as U.E.L.
Received 2nd of June '19
S.U.E. Read 2nd June 1819
Insptr G Order issued to be surveyed 9 June '19
Entered in Land Book 16 - Page 137
Public Archives of Canada
Upper Canada Land Petitions,
Bundle 12 - No. 43
PETITION OF JOSEPH GRIFFIN praying a Deed for a Lot on which his home is inserted
Govt House 14th May 1823
Referred for the Surv G
Report for the information of The Honorable Execution Council
by Comman John ?????? in the absence of Secr'y Hillier
The name of the Petitioner is inserted on Lot NO. ( in the 3rd Concession of East Flamborough a Crown Reserve containing 200 acres - under order of Lieut Governor Gore of the 10th of February 1817, to be granted - District of Gore
Land Records -grant a lot 9 Con 3 East Falmborough to Joseph Griffin of the township of Flamborough East as a Sarjeant in the Glengarry Light Infantry Fencible Regiment..the settlement duties thereon having been duly performed. 1 Apr 1824 (239-240)
Sarah H. BENEDICT
Birth:
10 Feb 1787
New York
Death:
6 Sep 1875
Windham Twp, Norfolk, Ontario, Canada
Father:
Blocked
Mother:
Blocked
Notes:
Little is known of Sarah. Yvonne Griffin McNees has a record that shows that Albert Griffin states that his mother was Sarah Benedict. We know that her name is included on the tombstone with her daughter Catherine Hilliker in Lynnville Cemetery in Norfolk County, Ontario Canada.
Sarah's birth is listed in most sources as 10 Feb 1787 in South East, Dutchess, New York. FamilyTree lists a birth of 31 Oct 1796, same location. Possible parents are Jacob Benedict and Dorcas Rescue/Ruscoe.
Children
Marriage
1
Birth:
25 Jul 1812
Ontario, Canada
Death:
7 Oct 1881
Deerfield, Mecosta, Michigan
Notes:
Jasper O'Zial Griffin Family Records
Louise M. Reynolds U.E. Crooker Chronicles (Private Printing, Mississauga 1993). The Family History records that John W. Griffin, son of Joseph and Sarah Griffin married Mary Ann Crooker, daughter of Joseph Atherton Crooker (1792-c1851) andMriah ? (c1816 -c1858. Joseph Atherton Crooker was on Lot 10 Northern part, a neighbor of Joseph Griffin for a timebefore moving to Norfolk County in 1845.
2
Birth:
Abt 1814
Ontario, Canada
Death:
3
Birth:
Abt 1815
Windham Twp, Norfolk, Ontario, Canada
Death:
11 Mar 1892
Minot, Ward, North Dakota
Notes:
There is a newspaper clipping on file at the Norwich Archives of a poem dedicated to the memory of William Griffin who perished in the Dakota Storm March 11, 1892. (I believe the date was actually March 8 1892 because he must have been with Wilbur Griffin the day he also died)
4
Birth:
10 Jul 1825
Windham Twp, Norfolk, Ontario, Canada
Death:
21 Nov 1902
Ontario, Canada
5
Birth:
25 Jul 1827
Windham Twp, Norfolk, Ontario, Canada
Death:
4 May 1907
Otterville, Oxford, Ontario, Canada
Notes:
Joseph was probably born East Flamborough since his older brother was born there, although in the 1891 Census he says he was born in US. In the 1881 MFHC film # 1375903 he gives his origins as Quebec. The 1851 census lists him as a carpenter and a joiner. Later census records list him as a farmer. At the time of his death he lived at Concessions 9, Lot 2. Local records show that he was a 'figure' in the community. He was one of the directors that established the Cemetery Company. His son James was a member of the first Park Board in 1891. The Norwich Gazette of May 9, 1907 gives his date of death as May 4, 1907.
The Norwich Gazette of Aug 7, 1884 has this interesting item, "Mr. Joseph Griffin has returned from a prospecting tour through Dakota and gives a very interesting account of the country. It is his intention to move there as soon as he can get rid of his land here at a fair figure." This is particularly interesting because although he did not move two of his sons did move West - Wilbur and Francis Edward.
6
Birth:
1832
Windham Twp, Norfolk, Ontario, Canada
Death:
21 Jul 1896
Windham Twp, Norfolk, Ontario, Canada
Notes:
H. Crysler Hilliker Family Tree p.2
7
Birth:
16 Nov 1833
New York
Death:
17 Apr 1914
Notes:
August 23 I (Sandra Moore) received the death certificate for Albert P. Griffin from Mecosta County Clerk's Office, Michigan. Record # D-18 5293, It showed that he died on April 17, 1914, male: white, widower; Age 80 years, 5 months, and one day; place of Death, Deerfield Township; cause of death, Apoplexy. Birthplace, Cennecticut; Ocucupation, farmer; Father's name Joseph G. Griffin; his birthplace, New ork; date of Record July 6 1914
Note: Birthplace says Connecticut but allother sources lead to New York so this is probaby incorrect
information given by the informant in regard to his death certificate.
FamilyCentral Network
Joseph G. Griffin - Sarah H. Benedict
Joseph G. Griffin
was born at Elizabethtown Twp, Leeds, Ontario, Canada Abt 1792.
His parents were Joseph Griffin and Unis Boyer.
He married Sarah H. Benedict Abt 1811 at Ontario, Canada . Sarah H. Benedict was born at New York 10 Feb 1787 .
They were the parents of 7
children:
John W. Griffin
born 25 Jul 1812.
Rebecca Griffin
born Abt 1814.
William Griffin
born Abt 1815.
Barnard Griffin
born 10 Jul 1825.
Joseph Wellington Griffin
born 25 Jul 1827.
Catherine Griffin
born 1832.
Albert P. Griffin
born 16 Nov 1833.
Sarah H. Benedict died 6 Sep 1875 at Windham Twp, Norfolk, Ontario, Canada .