Ancestors of Richard R. Wilson and Catherine G. Stevens:Information about Ephraim Stiles
Ephraim Stiles (b. August 3, 1645, d. June 21, 1714)
Notes for Ephraim Stiles:
From Henry Reed Stiles, The Stiles Family in America (1895), repr.http://www.familytreemaker.com/_glc_/3090/index.html, pp. 475-76:
Ephraim2 Stiles, [10], (Mr. Francis,1) born Aug. 3, 1645, at Windsor; settled about 1660 at Stratford, Conn., where he received land from his step-father Robert Clarke -- says Orcutt (Hist. Stratford, Conn., p. 252, 280)--in 1667, at Oronoke, where he settled and became a thriving, valuable citizen.He was considerably active in town matters, had a grist-mill at Farmill River, a little below Black Brook, near the place called the Plumtrees, (liberty granted Jan. 11, 1705-6), and in character and standing appears to have been among the first of the town.He had a proportion of the "common and undivided lands" 1699; and (Ibid, 288), Jan. 13, 1696, asked and received of the town the privilege of a forty-foot grant of land at Woronoke, between the homes of Hope Washborne and that of the heirs of James Blackman, on which to set up tan-vats; in 1693, (Ibid, 289), was one of the overseers of the killing of wolves.
The Colonial Records of Connecticut shows him to have been a Deputy from Stratford to the General Court at Hartford, Jan. and Oct., 1686; Oct., 1689; Oct., 1692; March, 1692-3; May, 1696; to the Court of Election, May, 1695; May, 1697; 1704, 1708; to the General Assembly, Oct., 1699 and 1702.At the Court of Election, May 9, 1700, Mr. Ephraim Stiles, with Mr. Samuel Sherman, was appointed to lay out one hundred and fifty acres of land for the Rev. Mr. Jno. James;?? and they were also appointed to lay out three hundred acres adjudged to Captain Johnson for his military services in 1697.At the Court of Election, May 11, 1704, he was appointed one of a Committee of Safety for Fairfield County.His name appears on the roll of members of the First Congregational Church, 1670.
He died June 21, 1714; will (Fairfield, Co. Probate) dated July 23, 1712; proved June 30, 1714; inventory taken Sept. 2, 1714; amount œ1,547.
More About Ephraim Stiles and Bathsheba Tomlinson:
Marriage: Aft. 16805075
Children of Ephraim Stiles and Bathsheba Tomlinson are:
- +Sarah Stiles, b. November 4, 1693, Stratford, Connecticut5076, 5077, d. WFT Est. 1725-17875078.