John Niles & Mary Ely - my 7th Great Grandparents

11.  John Niles (John ³, John ², John ¹) was born in 1680 in New Shoreham, Block Island, RI and died in 1768 in Colchester, New London, CT. 

 

Notes: Living in 1769, when he was at North Castle, Westchester, NY. 

Sources:

Niles Descendants web site: http://rankel.com/genealogy/niles.htm

Genealogies of Rhode Island Families, from the New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Selected and Introduced by Gary Boyd Roberts, Clearfield Company Inc., Baltimore, MD: 2001. 

John Niles of Braintree, Mass. and Some of His Descendants, NEHGR, Vol. 85, p. 145-, 1931 

John married Mary Ely, daughter of Richard Ely and Mary Marvin, about 1716 in CT. Mary was born on Nov 29, 1689 in Lyme, New London Co., CT.

Sources:

The Ely Ancestry, lineage of Richard Ely of Plymouth, England, who came to Boston, Mass., about 1655, & settled at Lyme, Conn., in 1660.  Collected by Moses S. Beach and Rev. William Ely. Edited & enlarged by Geo. B. Vanderpoel.  The Calumet Press, New York, 1902. 

Descendants of Reinold and Matthew Marvin, of Hartford, CT., 1638 and 1635, sons of Edward Marvin of Great Bentley, England. By George Franklin Marvin and William T.R. Marvin. T.R. Marvin & Son, Publishers, Boston. 1904.

Children from this marriage were:

          20   M        i.         John Niles was born on Mar 25, 1718 in Colchester, New London, CT. 

Notes: He served as postmaster in President Van Buren's cabinet.

Sources:

Barbour Collection of Connecticut Vital Records, NEHGS, Boston, F93/C71 mf. Colchester, P. 121 (161). 

  +      21   M       ii.         Nathan Niles was born on Feb 20, 1719/20 in Colchester, New London, CT, died on Jul 5, 1778 in Colchester, New London, CT, and was buried in Niles Family Cemetery, Groton, New London Co., CT. 

          22   M      iii.         Samuel Niles was born on Mar 13, 1721/22 in Colchester, New London, CT and died on Aug 26, 1722. 

Sources:

Barbour Collection of Connecticut Vital Records, NEHGS, Boston, F93/C71 mf. Colchester, P. 121. 

          23   M     iv.         Nathaniel Niles was born on May 7, 1724 in Colchester, New London, CT. 

Sources:

Barbour Collection of Connecticut Vital Records, NEHGS, Boston, F93/C71 mf. Colchester, P. 121. 

          24   F        v.         Mary Niles was born on Jun 26, 1726 in Colchester, New London, CT. 

Sources:

Genealogies of Rhode Island Families, from the New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Selected and Introduced by Gary Boyd Roberts, Clearfield Company Inc., Baltimore, MD: 2001. 

Barbour Collection of Connecticut Vital Records, NEHGS, Boston, F93/C71 mf. Colchester, P. 121.

Mary married Increase Porter, son of ____________ ____________ and ____________ ____________, on May 15, 1750. 

Notes: Of Hebron, Connecticut. 

          25   M     vi.         Rev. Thomas Niles was born on Sep 28, 1728 in Colchester, New London, CT and died in May 1782 in Rumnet, NH. 

Sources:

Genealogies of Rhode Island Families, from the New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Selected and Introduced by Gary Boyd Roberts, Clearfield Company Inc., Baltimore, MD: 2001.

 

Barbour Collection of Connecticut Vital Records, NEHGS, Boston, F93/C71 mf. Colchester, P. 121. 

Thomas married Anna Woodman, daughter of ____________ ____________ and ____________ ____________, on Feb 1, 1774. 

Notes: Of Newbury, Mass. 

          26   F      vii.         Abigail Niles was born on Sep 4, 1730 in Colchester, New London, CT. 

Sources:

Barbour Collection of Connecticut Vital Records, NEHGS, Boston, F93/C71 mf. Colchester, P. 121. 

          27   M   viii.         David Niles was born on Feb 9, 1732/33 in Colchester, New London, CT. 

Sources:

Barbour Collection of Connecticut Vital Records, NEHGS, Boston, F93/C71 mf. Colchester, P. 121. 

          28   M     ix.         Barnabus Niles was born on Jun 12, 1735 in Colchester, New London, CT and died in 1789. 

Sources:

Barbour Collection of Connecticut Vital Records, NEHGS, Boston, F93/C71 mf. Colchester, P. 121. 

          29   M      x.         Ambrose Niles was born on Mar 30, 1741 in Colchester, New London, CT. 

Sources:

Barbour Collection of Connecticut Vital Records, NEHGS, Boston, F93/C71 mf. Colchester, P. 121.

John Niles & Abigail [Niles] - my 8th Great-Grandparents

4.  John Niles (John ², John ¹) was born on Mar 4, 1638/39 in Braintree, Norfolk Co., MA and died on Sep 7, 1683 in Block Island, RI.  

Notes: Block Island/New Shoreham. 

Sources:

Niles Descendants web site: http://rankel.com/genealogy/niles.htm 

John Niles of Braintree, Mass. and Some of His Descendants, NEHGR, Vol. 85, p. 145-, 1931 .

Genealogies of Rhode Island Families, from the New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Selected and Introduced by Gary Boyd Roberts, Clearfield Company Inc., Baltimore, MD: 2001. 

New England Marriages Prior to 1700, by Clarence A. Torrey, CD, NEHGS, 2001.

NILES, John & Abigail _____; m/2 John BANNING; ca 1679; New Shoreham; RI {TAG 22:281}. 

John married Abigail [Niles], daughter of ____________ ____________ and ____________ ____________, about 1679 in New Shoreham, Block Island, RI.  

Children from this marriage were:

  +      11   M        i.         John Niles was born in 1680 in New Shoreham, Block Island, RI and died

                                        in 1768 in Colchester, New London, CT.

  +      12   M       ii.         Ambrose Niles was born on Nov 28, 1683 in New Shoreham, Block Island,

                                        RI and died from before Mar 17, 1723/24 to Mar 17, 1724/25 in Lyme,

                                        New London Co., CT.

John Niles and Jane Read - my 9th Great-Grandparents

2.  John Niles (John ¹) was born about 1603 in Beaminster, Dorset Co., England, died on Feb 8, 1693/94 in Braintree, Norfolk Co., MA, and was buried in Hancock Cemetery, Quincy, MA.  

Notes: He was born possibly at Beaminster, Dorset Co., England (son of John Nyle and Johane Paviot).

He migrated in 1634. The first known New England record concerning him is dated Sept. 1, 1634 and concerns a grant of land in Dorchester.  He probably remained in Dorchester a short time before moving to Braintree (1636). He was in Braintree by 1643 where he was made a freeman on May 26, 1647.  He was a weaver by trade. 

Niles, John (1602/3-1693/4) from Wales, said to have been a passenger in the "Speedwell"; settled in Mass; at Squantum, 1632, Dorchester, 1634, Braintree, 1636; m 1635, Jane (d 1654), dau of William Reed, m. Lucy Hennage.

 

Sources:

The Great Migration. Immigrants to New England 1634-1635. Volume V (M-P). Robert Charles Anderson. Great Migration Study Project. New England Historic Genealogical Society. Boston 2007. 

Niles Descendants web site: http://rankel.com/genealogy/niles.htm 

http://www.nilesfamily.com/index.html

Genealogies of Rhode Island Families, from the New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Selected and Introduced by Gary Boyd Roberts, Clearfield Company Inc., Baltimore, MD: 2001. 

The Compendium of American Genealogy. First Families of America, edited by Frederick Adams Virkus. Multi volume set. 1937-1942. Immigrant Ancestors, Vol. VII, p. 825-895. 

Some Descendants of the Reverend Robert R. Niles, by Anne McKee Niles, Springfield, Missouri, 2004 

John Niles of Braintree, Mass. and Some of His Descendants, NEHGR, Vol. 85, p. 145-, 1931 

New England Marriages Prior to 1700, by Clarence A. Torrey, CD, NEHGS, 2001

NILES, John (-1694, ae 91) & 1/wf Jane [REED]? (-15 May 1654); ca 1635?; Braintree {McCormick-Hamilton 793; Reg. 37:166; Ludington-Saltus 167; Noyes-Gilman 172; Dillon Anc. 47-48; Vinton Mem. 344; Reg. 85:145}

NILES, John (-1694, ae 91) & 2/wf Hannah (_____) [AMES], w William; 6 Apr 1660?, ca 1656/7; Braintree {McCormick-Hamilton 793; Smith-Bryant 106; Pope's Pioneers 17; Ludington-Saltus 167; Noyes-Gilman 172; Vinton Mem. 344; Dillon Anc. 48; Reg. 85:145}

Compendium of New England Pioneers, Archive CD Books, 2006.

A Genealogical Register of the First Settlers Of New England, by John Farmer, 1829, Lancaster, Mass. 

The Pioneers of Massachusetts, by Charles H Pope, 1900, Boston, Mass.

A Catalogue of the Names of the Early Puritan Settlers of the Colony of Connecticut, by Royal R. Hinman, Hartford, CT: 1852. 

John married Jane Read daughter of William Read and Lucy Hennage about 1635 in Braintree, Norfolk Co., MA. Jane was born in 1611 in Canterbury, Kent, England, died on May 15, 1654 in Braintree, Norfolk Co., MA, and was buried in Hancock Cemetery, Quincy, MA.

Sources:

Family Search web site: www.familysearch.org 

Children from this marriage were: 

             3   F         i.         Hannah Niles was born on Feb 16, 1636/37 in Dorchester, MA. 

Sources:

John Niles of Braintree, Mass. and Some of His Descendants, NEHGR, Vol. 85, p. 145-, 1931 

Hannah married Nathaniel Mott, son of ____________ ____________ and ____________ ____________, on Dec 25, 1656.  

  +        4   M       ii.         John Niles was born on Mar 4, 1638/39 in Braintree, Norfolk Co., MA and died on Sep 7, 1683 in Block Island, RI.  

             5   M      iii.         Joseph Niles was born on Aug 15, 1640 in Braintree, Norfolk Co., MA and died before 1694 in Braintree, Norfolk Co., MA.

 

                       Notes: Joseph was made a "freeman" of Rhode Island in 1709. He witnessed a deed of
                       Benjamin Niles at Lyme Conn. in 1710. In his will dated at Lyme in 1731, he left all
                       his property to his wife Patience. 

Sources:

Niles Descendants web site: http://rankel.com/genealogy/niles.htm 

John Niles of Braintree, Mass. and Some of His Descendants, NEHGR, Vol. 85, p. 145-, 1931 

New England Marriages Prior to 1700, by Clarence A. Torrey, CD, NEHGS, 2001

NILES, Joseph (1640-) & Mary MYCALL; 15 Nov 1661, 2 Nov 1662; Braintree {Reg. 37:287, 85:146; Braintree 717; Noyes-Gilman 172; Vinton Mem. 344-5; Dillon Anc. 48} 

Joseph married Mary Mycall daughter of ____________ ____________ and ____________ ____________, on Nov 15, 1661 in Braintree, Norfolk Co., MA.  

             6   M     iv.         Nathaniel Niles was born on Aug 16, 1642 in Braintree, Norfolk Co., MA and died on Dec 22, 1727 in Braintree, Norfolk Co., MA.  

             7   M      v.         Samuel Niles was born on May 12, 1644 in Braintree, Norfolk Co., MA and died on Nov 23, 1715 in Braintree, Norfolk Co., MA.  

Sources:

John Niles of Braintree, Mass. and Some of His Descendants, NEHGR, Vol. 85, p. 145-, 1931 

Samuel married Mary Billings daughter of Roger Billings and Hannah [Billings] on Apr 20, 1680 in Braintree, Norfolk Co., MA. Mary was born in 1645 in Dorchester, Suffolk, MA, was christened on Nov 23, 1645 in Dorchester, Suffolk, MA, and died on Dec 15, 1683 in Braintree, Norfolk Co., MA. 

             8   M     vi.         Increase Niles was born on Dec 16, 1646 in Braintree, Norfolk Co., MA and died on Sep 1, 1693 in Braintree, Norfolk Co., MA.  

Notes: He served from Oct. to Dec. 1675 in Johnson's Company in King Philip's War.

Sources:

Genealogies of Rhode Island Families, from the New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Selected and Introduced by Gary Boyd Roberts, Clearfield Company Inc., Baltimore, MD: 2001. 

John Niles of Braintree, Mass. and Some of His Descendants, NEHGR, Vol. 85, p. 145-, 1931 

New England Marriages Prior to 1700, by Clarence A. Torrey, CD, NEHGS, 2001

NILES, Increase (1646-1693) & Mary PURCHASE, m/2 Francis NASH 1697; 4 Dec 1677; Braintree {Braintree 719; Vinton Mem. 344-5; Dillon Anc. 48; Reg. 37:347, 54:404, 85:147}

Increase married Mary Purchase, daughter of ____________ ____________ and ____________ ____________, on Dec 4, 1677 in Braintree, Norfolk Co., MA. Mary was born from Feb 3, 1658/59 to Feb 3, 1659/60 in Boston, Suffolk Co., MA and died on Apr 16, 1735. 

             9   M    vii.         Benjamin Niles was born on Mar 11, 1650/51 in Braintree, Norfolk Co., MA and died in 1712 in Lyme, New London Co., CT.  

Notes: Benjamin removed from Braintree to New Shoreham, R.I., later than his brother Nathaniel, but is mentioned in a return of the Lyme town meeting of November 19, 1690. His estate was distributed October 7, 1712 by his sons-in-law. Children, all except the youngest born at New Shoreham. 

Sources:

Niles Descendants web site: http://rankel.com/genealogy/niles.htm 

John Niles of Braintree, Mass. and Some of His Descendants, NEHGR, Vol. 85, p. 145-, 1931 

Benjamin married Ruth [Niles, daughter of ____________ ____________ and ____________ ____________, on Dec 13, 1681 in New Shoreham, Block Island, RI.

 

John next married 2nd Hannah Ames, daughter of ____________ ____________ and ____________ ____________, in 1656-1657. Hannah died on Jan 31, 1702/03 in Braintree, Dorchester, MA and was buried in Hancock Cemetery, Quincy, MA. 

Notes: Widow of William Ames. 

The child from this marriage was:

          10   M        i.         Isaac Niles was born on Apr 2, 1658 in Braintree, Norfolk Co., MA and died on Jan 30, 1658/59 in Braintree, Norfolk Co., MA.  

Sources:

John Niles of Braintree, Mass. and Some of His Descendants, NEHGR, Vol. 85, p. 145-, 1931