John Griffin (1725 - 1819)

Born 1725 in Quaker Farms, Oxford, New Haven Co., Connecticut

Ancestors

Husband of Dinah (Smith) Griffin — married 21 Nov 1776 in New Haven Co., Connecticut, United States

Descendants

Died 19 Feb 1819 at about age 94 in Oxford, New Haven Co., Connecticut, United States

Biography

Lieutenant John GRIFFIN ^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]} was born ^[12][13] 1725 in Quaker Farms, Oxford, New Haven, CT. He died ^[14][15][16] 19 Feb 1819 in Oxford, New Haven Co., Connecticut, United States and was buried ^[17][18] in St. Peters Episcopal Cemetery, Oxford, New Haven Co., Connecticut, United States. John married ^[19] Dinah SMITH on 21 Nov 1776.

Sources

1. ↑ W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), p. 182. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/toc.html. " ... lived opposite the old Quaker Farms cemetery. He fought under Gen. Wolf at Quebec ..." http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/182.html.
2. ↑ W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford, pp. 169-170. " ... first English person born in Oxford ..." http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/169.html.
3. ↑ Dorothy A. DeBisschop, Historical Personalities of the Lower Naugatuck Valley, 73 -77, 79. . http://www.oxfordpast.com/hp73.html.
4. ↑ Historic House Committee of The Bicentennial Commission, Oxford, Connecticut, Early Houses of Oxford, Available at (http://www.oxford-historical-society.org/books-for-sale.htm) (Derby, CT, The Bacon Printing Company, 1976), #23. Quaker Farms Road Available at http://www.oxford-historical-society.org/books-for-sale.htm.
5. ↑ Dorothy A. DeBisschop, Oxford's Record: The First 175 Years (Oxford, CT, Oxford Record, Inc., 1973), p. 5. . " ... first English person born in Oxford ..." http://www.oxfordpast.com/p5.htm.
6. ↑ American Legion Cemetery List - 2003 (David S. Miles Post 174, American Legion, Oxford, Conn., 2003). . http://www.our-oxford.info/vets-graves/file0002.html.
7. ↑ Dorothy A. DeBisschop, Historical Personalities of the Lower Naugatuck Valley, p. 75. " Another interesting reference to land owned in Oxford by Lieut. John Griffin is an old deed to the Perry property on Governor's Hill Road, which reads as follows: " ... I, Emma Lounsbury of the Town of Oxford, County of New Haven and State of Connecticut, for the consideration of one dollar and other valuable considerations received to my full satisfaction of Raymond J. Perry of the Town of Oxford, aforesaid, do give, grant, bargain, sell and confirm unto the said Raymond J. Perry, one certaine piece of land lying in that part of Oxford called Governor's Hill, containing three acres more or less bounded on all three sides by land of Mrs. Mary Ann Perry, widow of the late Charles Perry, and on the south side by highway called Tim Drake Roade, it being the same piece which was deeded to me by my mother Mary C. Lounsbury, which was deeded to her by my father Dr. John Lounsbury, which he bought of James McEwen and purchased by him from Russell Hawkins and his daughter Mrs. Sarah Candee, widow of Robert Candee of Naugatuck, Connecticut; and was formerly owned by Lieutenant John Griffin, who built a small house on it soon after the Revolutionary War, which stood over one hundred years, and is now dissolved, the cellar being there yet . ." http://www.oxfordpast.com/hp75.html.
8. ↑ Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 7, p 1629. " ... of Oxford ..."
9. ↑ Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), p. 788. "French War, 1755-1763 ... was three years in the French war."
10. ↑ W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford, p. 8. "Admissions to Church Fellowship ... Dinah, wife of Lieut. John Griffin, from N. Cheshire, Apr. 6, 1777." (Oxford Congregational) http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/008.html.
11. ↑ Paul J. and Barbabra Medlam, Tombstone Inscriptions of Marion County Ohio, p. 39. http://oxfordpast.net/doc6698.jpg.
12. ↑ Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850., General Editor, Lorraine Cook White, Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000, p. 45. "GRIFFIN ... John, Lieut. 1st white person, b. in Oxford, 1725, at Quaker Farms, d. [ ], ae. 94 John, d. [Feb. [ ], 1819], ae 94."
13. ↑ Record of Marriage in the Town of Oxford, p. 39. " ... John Griffin, an officer in the Franch War, b in Conn, 1722 ..." http://oxfordpast.net/doc6698.jpg.
14. ↑ W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford, p. 77. " ... 1819 ... Feb. ..." http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/077.html.
15. ↑ Charles Elwell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Episcopal Cemetery (St. Peter's Episcopal Cemetery), p. 18. "Humphreys, infant son of Cyrus & Nancy, died Aug. 31, 1823 Twitchel, Jerusha, wife of Ebenezer, died June 2,1827, age 63 yrs. Hinman, Eben, died Nov. 18, 1795, age 86 yrs. Hubbell, Lois, wife of Ephraim, died Feb. 12, 1823, age 40 yrs. Griffin, John, died Feb. 19, 1819, age 94 yrs. (Flag) Dutton, Doct. Hosea, died Oct. 9, 1826, age 72 yrs." http://oxfordpast.net/epcemscan18.html.
16. ↑ Paul J. and Barbabra Medlam, Tombstone Inscriptions of Marion County Ohio, p. 39. "d. Feb. 22, 1818, 96 yrs." http://oxfordpast.net/doc6698.jpg.
17. ↑ Charles Elwell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Episcopal Cemetery, p. 18. http://oxfordpast.net/epcemscan18.html.
18. ↑ St. Peter's Episcopal Cemetery Photograph - Oxford, CT. http://oxfordpast.net/cem6694a.html.
19. ↑ Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven, vol 7, p 1629.

Acknowledgments

Thanks to Greg Rose for starting this profile. John and Gregory are second cousins 9 times removed. Click the Changes tab for the details of contributions by Greg and others.