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American judge (1718–)
Silas Niles (May 26, 1718 – YEAR) was a justice of the Colonial Rhode Island Supreme Court from August 1763 to May 1765.[1]
On September 24, 1777, the old South Kingstown courthouse was sold at public auction to Niles for $260.[2]
Of South Kingstown.[3]
NILES, Silas, of Nathaniel and Mary, [born] May 26, 1718.[4]
Niles' wife Mary died in South Kingston on May 16, 1774.[5]
- ^ Manual - the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (1891), p. 208-13.
- ^ J. R. Cole, History of Washington and Kent Counties, Volume 1 (1889), p. 75.
- ^ Samuel H. Allen, "Rhode Island Judiciary", in James N. Arnold, ed., The Narragansett Historical Register (1889), Volume 7, p. 60.
- ^ James N. Arnold, Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636–1850: First series, births, marriages and deaths (Narragansett Hist. Publ. Co., 1891), p. 87.
- ^ Samuel S. Purple, "American Genealogies", Boston Evening Transcript (February 8, 1909), p. 14.
Category:Justices of the Rhode Island Supreme Court
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