This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Griffin Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Jh.2ADE/1257 Message Board Post: These brothers, and their families, left Southwold area of Elgin County, Ontario, and moved to Illinois about 1838. Jacob moved first to Ogle County and then after a few years to Boone. I believe Abraham did the same. In 1850's Jacob returned to Canada and Abraham moved to Howard County in Iowa. Jacob Griffin is said to have established Free Will Baptist churches while in Illinois. He was in Bloomingville Precinct, an earlier name for Byron, in 1840 census. Given other things I know about him I suspect he was active in the underground railroad which was found in that area. Anyone have further knowledge of this history? Would like to correspond with anyone researching them.