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Smith Griffon was a Methodist local preacher, a farmer, a miller and a merchant.

Griffon resided in Smithville, Upper Canada.[1] In 1823, he rode the Thames circuit, alongside James Jackson. The pair oversaw an increase in the church membership among the white settlers of 34 members, more than doubling the the total to sixty-four members. Thirty six Indians were also church members on that circuit.[2]

  1. ^ Carroll, John (1867). Case and his cotemporaries, or, The Canadian itinerants' memorial constituting a biographical history of Methodism in Canada, from its introduction into the Province, till the death of the Rev. Wm. Case in 1855. Vol. I. Toronto: Wesleyan Conference Office. p. 302.
  2. ^ Carroll, volume II, page 451