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William Griffis was a circuit rider in the Methodist Episcopal Church.

In 1822, he was assigned to the Thames circuit alongside James Jackson. The pair oversaw an increase of 47 members, 27 white settlers, and 20 Wyandott Indians who moved to Amherstburg from Ohio. This brought total circuit membership to 321

References

• Carroll, John (1869). 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. II. Toronto: Wesleyan Conference Office.