Joseph GRIFFIN

                   The 1784 Provisioning Lists show that Joseph has a wife and two daughters
under the age of ten with him in Elizabethtown..Loyal Rangers.
OC 23 Feb 1809
                  

                   OC 26 Nov 1823
                  

                   OC 6 Dec 1808
                  

                   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)
                  

                   The Parish Register at Kingston, Ontario has the item "Abel son of Joseph Griffin and Eunice Griffin baptized 27 Mar. 1808 Kingston, Upper Canada.