GRIFFIN CENSUS RETURNS

Searching~Griffin~Bagley~Babson ~Bailey~Cass `Quimby~ in the Eastern Townships & New England
(direct line - see Mini Bio below)

Mini Bio
(direct line)
My Earliest Ancestors known to date is Silas Griffin,
born in Massachusetts in 1789,
Silas had 5 or six brothers, one known,
John

                              As early as 1804 this Griffin family is found in Stanstead, Quebec
where they  bought up a large parcel of land,
divided it between 6 or seven sons,
and after some years the area became known as Griffins Corner.

"Griffins Corner  was small  settlement that boasted a school ,
a church (which burned down in the 1930's),
a hotel , a cemetery, a tavern , a post office & a stage stop."

I believe Silas & John  were
the sons of Dudley Griffin & Esther Bowers

Silas Griffin married Hannah Babson Bailey b.1793
~ the marriage produced six children ~
Augustus , Rimmon, Wilder, Lucy, Silas & Willard

From letters dated 1845-1850 by a niece living with Silas & Hannah they had lived  in Griffins Corner, Stanstead PQ ., for "many years"
In  1850 Silas, Hannah
and the younger children moved south to Derby Line ,Vt.
Silas died "of paralysis" on his 75th birthday.
Silas & Hannah's grave sites are yet to be found..Silas died in Charleston ,Vermontand Hannah died in Stanstead .PQ

Silas' brother , Joseph Griffin, married Rebeckah Brockwood b.1784
They were married in Newport Vermont, on March 15th 1804 ,
they were both residents of Stanstead at the time of the marriage
~ the marriage produced these known sons~
John , Martin, and William.
         In the early 1800's this line of the family is found in  Newport,,Vermont.~John Sr and his wife, Rebeckah,
are buried in the Griffin family plot  in the East Main Cemetery   in Newport, Orleans county, Vermont.
(Poser: Marriage record found for JOSEPH Griffin & Rebeckah Brockwood - Headstone found for JOHN Griffin & Rebecca Brockwood)
 
 

Willard Mack
According to the 1861 Census for Stanstead ~ Willard was born in Quebec, to date
the earliest known record of Willard in the
Eastern townships of southern Quebec is his marriage record...
On March 20,  1844 Willard married
Hepseba Cass Quimby in  Eaton Baptist Church
Hepseba & Willard were both from Clifton when they  married &
lived in Leavitts Mills, PQ.after the marriage.
   Willard's will mentions two sons John Q. and George A.
and a daughter Nancy E.

George Albert Augustus   married Minnie Florence Bagley.
                          This union produced Rosa(mond), Nellie Emma and Josephine ,
followed by twins Burton & Bertha,
shortly after this birth both Bertha and her mother died ,
presumably from complications .

George then  married  2nd "the Griffin School teacher", a  'Mrs.Louise(Wallace) Miller' and this
marriage produced another son, Gleason Griffin ~
Gleason died of Pneumonia as a young man, while visiting his
sisters in Saskatchewan. He suffered from severe Asthma his whole life.
Burton lived his whole life in the Eastern Townships.
All three of George and Minnie's
daughters became nurses , Rose and Josephine became  Registered Nurses
and Nellie Emma was a Midwife working on confinement cases with Dr Merson
in Northern Saskatchewan from 1920 to 1949. Rose  married Victor Chivers Wilson, an accountant
for the Bank of Montreal, Josephine married Chester Cline.
Nellie Emma and her husband Thomas Timothy Morgan homesteaded in Lloydminster,Sask.
Thomas was born in Wales, near Cardiff, grew up in England worked for his step father for a short period of time as a butcher
and emigrated to Canada at age 21.
T.T. or "Tommy" as he was always known , lived in Toronto for a short time before moving on to Saskatchewan
& later  went to war. After the Second World War, October 8th ,1950,
Tommy  and Nellie moved to
the Lower Mainland of British Columbia,this marriage produced five sons & a daughter
Their son, G.H.Walter Morgan, married Jane Susan Springle.
my parents

springle@oberon.ark.com

this page last updated June 14, 2001