First fleeter arrived in 1788 on the ship Scarborough, aged about 25.
Tried at Launceston, Cornwall on 19 March 1785 for stealing clothing worth 67 shillings and sentenced to seven years transportation.
Granted 30 acres at Prospect.
5 years later he sold half the grant.
He married Suzanne Smith in 1803 and was granted an additional 70 acres at Prospect in 1808, and more land later at Minto.
He and his wife were obliged to seek other employment.
He died at Windsor on the 19 of August 1838 leaving 4 daughters.
Buried at St Mathews Windsor.
Partner in original crime was John Rowe. Report from Dunkirk hulk was "tolerably decent and orderly.

Monument inscription:
               
In
Memory
of
EDWARD MILES
who died August 19th 1838
aged 87 years
also of
Susanah
wife of the above
who died December 14th 1838
Aged 60 years
Also of 
Edward Alderson
Grandson of the above
who died September 28th 1840
aged 10 days


  Edward Miles (Moyle) was convicted with John Rowe at the Launceston Assizes on 19 March 1795 of stealing clothing and other goods from the home of Benjamin Barrett at 11 o'clock one morning. Both Edward Miles and his companion in crime, John Rowe, were sentenced to transportation for seven years. He arrived in Australia aboard the Scarborough.

  During the lean and hungry first years of the colony when deprivation created rancor, Miles was involved in two court cases. In the first, he was a witness to the disrespectful behavior of the seaman James Davis to MR Reed, the carpenter of the supply and, in the second as the prisoner, accused of the theft of vegetables from the garden of Captain George Johnston. Of the latter crime he was discharged due to lack of evidence.

  Miles received several grants of land, at Prospect in 1779 and 1809, and later in Minto, but he does not seem to have worked on them himself as a farmer. He had married Susanah Smith, a convict who had come on the Glatton, at St John's, Parramatta, on the 31st of October 1803, and by her he had four daughters, but they were not successful....in 1828 they were recorded as working for others_ he as a carpenter for a MRS Ryan at illawarra and she as a servant to Robert Aull at Evan. He was then 67 years old and she was aged 52. Some time after he moved to Windsor. He died there on 19 August 1838 and is Buried there at St Matthew's.

  Edward Miles found no "brilliant career" in the colony. He did, however, found a family and among his descendants was one Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin who is better known today as her pseudonyms Brent of Bin Bin and Miles Franklin_an Australian author.