Abel Stiles (1709 - 1783)

Born 5 Mar 1709 in Windsor, Hartford, Colony of Connecticut, British Colonial America

Ancestors

Husband of Alethea (Robinson) Stiles — married after 2 Nov 1739 in Woodstock, Windham, Connecticut Colony

Died 25 Jul 1783 at age 74 in Woodstock, Windham, Connecticut, USA

Problems/Questions Profile manager: Robert Stiles [send private message]

Biography

grad. Yale 1733.

"Ordained and installed over the 1st Church in Woodstock in 1737. In 1760 the town was divided into two societies, and he continued to be pastor of the North Society, until his death in 1783. These letters betray the freshness an piquancy of his style." Dexter (1916)

• Fact: scholastic-achievement (1736) Yale (A.M.)
• Fact: Burial (1783) East Woodstock Cemetery, Windham, Connecticut, United States

Sources

• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 19 August 2018, 22:42), entry for Abel Stiles(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:LHQH-G9Z); contributed by various users.
• Dexter, Franklin Bowditch. Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College (Holt, 1885) Vol. 1, Page 488
• Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England (Boston, Little, Brown and Co., 1862) Vol 4, Page 194, 195
• Dexter, Franklin Bowditch. Extracts From The Itineraries and Other Miscellanies of Ezra Stiles (Yale Univ. Press, New Haven, Conn., 1916) Page 568-70
• Vital Records From Brown Diary, Woodstock, 1777-1900 (Connecticut State Library) Page 113: "Stiles, ____, Mr., d. July 25, 1783"