Genealogy Thomas » Silas Miles (± 1724-1766)
Personal data Silas Miles
Sources 1, 2- He was born about 1724 in South Carolina.
- He died on December 1, 1766 in South Carolina.
- A child of Thomas Miles and Mary Vincent
Household of Silas Miles
Attention: Wife (Elizabeth McPherson) is also his cousin.
He is married to Elizabeth McPherson.
They got married in the year 1750 at Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina.
Child(ren):
Notes about Silas Miles
Silas Miles, St. Paul's Parish, planter. Wife: Elizabeth, living on my plantation during her widowhood. Daus: Ann, Rachael, Elizabeth and Susanna, under age. Mentions: if male child is born before my death to have plantation in said parish next John Miles and widow Miles, wife and daus. to have proceeds from sale of estate: Exors: wife; Charles Cantey; Jonathan Brake; Edward Grifiths; Peter Villepontoux. Wit: James Lingard, James Tonge, Thomas Fullalove, George Walker.
D: 11 July 1765. P: 12 Dec. 1766. R: nd. p. 612.
RIN: MH:N343
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Day of death December 1, 1766
- The temperature on December 1, 1766 was about 4.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northeast. Weather type: donker. Special wheather fenomena: ijs. Source: KNMI
- Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
- In the year 1766: Source: Wikipedia
- March 5 » Antonio de Ulloa, the first Spanish governor of Louisiana, arrives in New Orleans.
- March 18 » American Revolution: The British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act.
- May 22 » A large earthquake causes heavy damage and loss of life in Istanbul and the Marmara region.
- July 1 » François-Jean de la Barre, a young French nobleman, is tortured and beheaded before his body is burnt on a pyre along with a copy of Voltaire's Dictionnaire philosophique nailed to his torso for the crime of not saluting a Roman Catholic religious procession in Abbeville, France.
- December 2 » Swedish parliament approved the Swedish Freedom of the Press Act and implemented it as a ground law, thus being first in the world with freedom of speech.
- December 25 » Mapuches in Chile launch a series of surprise attacks against the Spanish starting the Mapuche uprising of 1766.
Same birth/death day
- 1729 » Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer and mathematician (b. 1665)
- 1750 » Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr, German mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer (b. 1671)
- 1755 » Maurice Greene, English organist and composer (b. 1696)
- 1767 » Henry Erskine, 10th Earl of Buchan, Scottish politician (b. 1710)
- 1825 » Alexander I, emperor and autocrat of Russia (b. 1777)
- 1865 » Abraham Emanuel Fröhlich, Swiss pastor, poet, and educator (b. 1796)
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Amy Thomas, "Genealogy Thomas", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/genealogy-thomas/P6625.php : accessed June 9, 2024), "Silas Miles (± 1724-1766)".
Amy Thomas, "Genealogy Thomas", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/genealogy-thomas/P6625.php : accessed June 9, 2024), "Silas Miles (± 1724-1766)".