Biographical Sketch

• Early Friends Families of Upper Bucks, 1925

• [Note: Chapter XVIII, "Griffith Family," pp. 211-218. Only the portion of the chapter that bears directly on Joseph Griffith (b. 1745) is given below; the complete chapter is on file as the source document 365_367_368_369_370_371-griffith_family_of_upper_bucks.pdf.]
  
  [Note: his entry in the list of the children of Abraham, Jr., and Elizabeth (Lynn) Griffith, p. 214:]
  
  18 Joseph, b. 10-31—1745; m. Mary Thornton.
  
  [Note: sketch No. 18, p. 216, given in full:]
  
  18. JOSEPH GRIFFITH³ (Abraham,¹ Abraham²), eldest son of Abraham and Elizabeth (Lynn) Griffith, was born in Lower Dublin, Philadelphia County, 10 mo. 31, 1745. In 1771 he was living in Upper Dublin Township, now Montgomery County, and was a hatter by trade. His father joined him in the purchase of a lot for a hatter shop in Newtown, Bucks County, in September, 1771. The father later released his interest to the son. Joseph was married at Newtown, by Friends' ceremony, to Mary Thornton, before Gilbert Hicks, Esq., 1 mo. 6, 1774. He continued for several years to manufacture hats in Newtown, but in the spring of 1779 sold his property there and removed to Upper Merion, Montgomery County. We have no further record of him, and none of his brothers and sisters.