Miriam GRIFFIN
1765 - 1856 (90 years)-
Name Miriam GRIFFIN Born 15 Apr 1765 Coeymans Twp., Albany Co., New York 
- Ref: Obituary.
Gender Female Died 17 Mar 1856 Smithville, Lincoln Co., Ontario Person ID I20 John Felker and Son Lewis Family Tree Last Modified 12 Apr 2020
Father Richard GRIFFIN, Jr.
b. 22 Jun 1732, Nine Partners, Dutchess, New York
d. 8 Oct 1795, Grimsby, Lincoln Co., Ontario (Age 63 years) Mother Mary SMITH
b. c1734, Connecticut
d. 1794, Smithville, Lincoln Co., Ontario (Age ~ 59 years) Married 1757 Fishkill, Dutchess Co., New York Family ID F96 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Charles MEREDITH, U.E.
b. 1761, Somerset County, Pennsylvania
d. 1815, Smithville, Lincoln Co., Ontario (Age 54 years) Married 17 May 1793 Smithville, Lincoln Co., Ontario Children 1. John MEREDITH, .2
b. 16 May 1794, Grimsby, Lincoln Co., Ontario
d. 30 Dec 1867, Limehouse, Esquesing Twp., Halton Co., Ontario (Age 73 years)2. Richard MEREDITH
b. 1796, Grimsby, Lincoln Co., Ontario3. Mary MEREDITH, , DUE
b. 27 Feb 1798, Grimsby, Lincoln Co., Ontario
d. 26 May 1869, Belwood, Garafraxa West Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario (Age 71 years)4. Abraham MEREDITH
b. 24 Apr 1800, Grimsby, Lincoln Co., Ontario
d. 29 Nov 1882, Grimsby, Lincoln Co., Ontario (Age 82 years)5. Anne MEREDITH
b. 4 Dec 1804, Grimsby, Lincoln Co., Ontario
d. 6 Sep 1880, Brookfield, Renville Co., Minnesota (Age 75 years)6. Jesse MEREDITH
b. 24 Dec 1805, Grimsby, Lincoln Co., Ontario
d. 1865, Austin Twp., Sanilac Co., Michigan (Age 59 years)7. William MEREDITH
b. 1806, Grimsby, Lincoln Co., Ontario
d. 1891, Austin Twp., Sanilac Co., Michigan (Age 85 years)8. Deborah MEREDITH
b. 1809, Grimsby, Lincoln Co., Ontario
d. 1881, Dawson, Nebraska (Age 72 years)9. Bethiah MEREDITH
b. 6 Dec 1812, Grimsby, Lincoln Co., Ontario
d. 3 Nov 1896, Norwich Twp., Oxford Co., Ontario (Age 83 years)10. Elizabeth W MEREDITH
b. 6 Dec 1812, Grimsby, Lincoln Co., Ontario
d. 3 Nov 1896, Walkerville, Sandwich Twp., Essex Co., Ontario (Age 83 years)Last Modified 8 Aug 2020 Family ID F12 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - Miriam is the third daughter of Mary Smith & Richard Griffin.
Mississauga Native Names in Ontario: distance from Niagara named streams by their natural features:
Red Cedar (4 Mile Creek),
Small Alder (5 Mile), White Cedar Place (8 Mile);
Eagle's Nest Place (10 Mile);
Last Creek - in going down (12 Mile - today's St. Catharines);
Salt Lick where deer resort (40 Mile - today's Grimsby).
The carrying place over Burlington Beach (the long sandbar separating Burlington Bay from Lake Ontario) "place where a small kind of turtles lay their eggs."
12 Mile now Bronte Creek, "that which lies at the end,"
16 Mile , now Oakville) Creek, "having two outlets" - probably a sand bar divided the river into two beaches at its mouth.
Missinnihe River, "the Credit or Trusting Creek," derived its name from the traders, who annually assembled here & gave the First Nations credit for the following year.
TORONTO was the portage leading from the mouth of the Humber to the Holland River, Mississauga took to mean looming of trees.
Ref: Ontario Historical Society, 1996.
Death Notice MEREDITH
. 1856 Jun 16 - Mrs. Marion [sic] was born, April 15, 1765, in the township of Coeymans, Albany County, N.Y.,
came to Canada in 1788, &
married Charles Meredith, May 17, 1793.
She was converted in 1781, in the village of Smithville.
She died, March 17, 1856; survived by a number of children & grandchildren.
The funeral was held in the Wesleyan Chapel, Smithville, Ontario. - - -
- Miriam is the third daughter of Mary Smith & Richard Griffin.