Richard Miles
Richard Miles was a planter of New Haven from the town's first years and a man the court kept giving jobs to.
He and Roger Allen were admitted members of the court on 29 November 1641. On the list of persons and estates taken in 1643 his household stands at seven persons with an estate of four hundred pounds, which puts him among the twenty or so substantial men in a town of a hundred and thirty households.
In 1644 the court ordered that he, William Davis and Nicholas Elsey "shall see thatt all the measures in the towne be made according to the stander sent from the Bay." He was chosen the same year, with Jasper Crane, Anthony Thompson and Francis Newman, to be a constant surveyor of all the common highways and the bridges, with power to press men and carts for repairs at the town's charge.
He turns up as a witness in the ordinary business of the place. When Thomas Robinson was in trouble over mowing another man's meadow and pleaded that he could not find the range, Richard Miles testified that he had given such exact directions that the man could not have missed the bounds if he had watched the line of Mr. Gregson's fence.
His daughter Martha married George Pardee on 20 October 1650.
Children
Martha Miles
Sources
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Cite: Heirology, "Richard Miles", https://heirology.com/ancestors/richard-miles-a57aca.