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Searching~Griffin~Bagley~Babson ~Bailey~Cass
`Quimby~ in the Eastern Townships & New England
(direct line
-)
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
this page last updated June 14, 2001