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Silas Niles (May 26, 1718 – September 12, 1774) was a justice of the Colonial Rhode Island Supreme Court from August 1763 to May 1765.[1]
Of South Kingstown.[2]
Niles was selected to serve on the colonial supreme court in October 1763, along with Justice Job Bennet Jr., and Chief Justice John Banister, though it does not appear that Banister actually served.[3]
NILES, Silas, of Nathaniel and Mary, [born] May 26, 1718.[4]
In 1767, Niles received at his home survivors of a shipwreck off of Rhode Island.[5]
Niles' wife Mary died in South Kingston on May 16, 1774.[6]
On September 24, 1777, the old South Kingstown courthouse was sold at public auction to his son, also named Silas Niles for $260.[7]
References
- ^ Manual - the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (1891), p. 208-13.
- ^ Samuel H. Allen, "Rhode Island Judiciary", in James N. Arnold, ed., The Narragansett Historical Register (1889), Volume 7, p. 60.
- ^ Marian Mathison Desrosiers, John Banister of Newport: The Life and Accounts of a Colonial Merchant (2017), p. 211, n. 57.
- ^ James N. Arnold, Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636–1850: First series, births, marriages and deaths (Narragansett Hist. Publ. Co., 1891), p. 87.
- ^ "Extract of a Letter, dated Newport, Rhode Island, July —, 1767", The Derby Mercury (December 11, 1767), p. 1: "In the two small Boats, not with-out being wet in landing; some of them, the same Night with Trouble and Fatigue, got up to the House of Mr. Silas Niles, who received them with great Humanity, and afforded them all the Assistance in his Power, as did also the rest of the Neighbours".
- ^ Samuel S. Purple, "American Genealogies", Boston Evening Transcript (February 8, 1909), p. 14.
- ^ J. R. Cole, History of Washington and Kent Counties, Volume 1 (1889), p. 75.
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