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- Edward Griffin ('3), son of Richard & Susanna (nee Haight) Griffin, married Millicent Bishop. After living near his brother Jonathan, White Plains, N. Y., for a time, he migrated northward & settled at Nine Partners, Duchess Co., where he raised his family; was a prominent member of the Society of Friends in that place & died there in 1787.
. Children of Edward Griffin & Susanna Haight:
Richard, b. June 22, 1732; d. in 1794. Bridget, b. March 24, 1734. Susanna, b. July 24, 1736. Isaiah, b. July 30, 1738. Thomas, b. Feb. 6, 1741. Obadiah, b. March 9, 1743. Amy, b March 24, 1746. Sarah, b. Jan. 30, 1748. Miriam, b. May 3, 1749. Elizabeth, b. Dec. 25, 1752. Gershom, b. April 1, 1755. Jonathan, b. May 11, 1759.
. UCLPetition 119, G Misc 1789-95, C2042, p454.
To. Lt. Go. John Graves Simcoe,
Petition of Edward Griffin, Your petition has been upon Lot 6 on the Gore in the Township of Gainsborough, parys to be confirmed in the same.
Dated at, Newark, 28 Oct 1794. [No signature by E. Griffin.]
Envelope: Granted 1794 Oct 27th.
. In the war of the American revolution 3 of the 7 sons of Edward (3) were loyalists, viz., Richard, Thomas & Obadiah. The latter two took an active part in the British service, & 2 of the sons of Richard are said to have served in loyal colonial regiments. The remainder of Edward's family apparently were non-partisan, being Quakers. Thomas, a lieutenant in a loyal colonial regiment, was captured with a number of other loyalists, among them his brother Obadiah & a cousin named Joseph Griffin. They were imprisoned in Albany jail. Thomas was tried by the so-called Committee of Safety & sentenced to be hanged for the crime of having accepted a commission in the British service. His was not a solitary case of that kind, other instances being recorded & probably many unrecorded. When the jailer announced to him that he was to be hanged next day he said, "The man who will hang me is not born;" with his handcuffs he knocked down the jailer, took his keys & liberated himself & his fellow loyalists. Joseph Griffin escaped to Canada & years later gave evidence at the sittings of the court appointed to adjust loyalist claims. Thomas & Obadiah made their way to Nova 'Scotia. They received grants of farm land, also lots in the new city of St. John. Thus they became pioneers in another new province, that part of Nova Scotia becoming the Province of New Brunswick. Thomas married there & had 13 children, of whom little is known, though a grandson named Thomas H. Griffin was President of an Electric Light Co. in the city of Amherst, Nova Scotia, in 1891.
. About 1814 Obadiah migrated with his family to Upper Canada & remained a year with his relatives at Smithville. Of Obadiah ' s family we have record of only one son, Obadiiah; he had 10 children, of whom one, Jacob, was born at Smithville, Lincoln Co., Nov. 5, 1815. He became a Baptist preacher, & his eldest son, Rev. Zebina Flavius Griffin, b. Nov. 14, 1844, spent many years as a missionary in India. On his return, in 1893, he wrote a book entitled "Daily Life in Bengal," which is very interesting & marvelously concise. It was highly commended by the press for its accuracy & inclusiveness.
Ref: Ancestors & descends of Richard Griffin of Smithville, ON., Compiled by Justus A Griffin, Hamilton, Ont., 1924. - - -
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1708 - 1787 (79 years)