Oliver
Miles
Born about in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay
Ancestors 
Son of John Miles III
and Elizabeth (Brooks) Miles
Brother of
John Miles, Noah Miles, Abel Miles, Elizabeth (Miles) Kendall and Dorothy (Miles) Gardner
Husband of
Martha (Stone) Miles
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Descendants 
Died about
at about age 82
in Concord, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 5 Aug 2016
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Biography
Was wounded, stripped & captured by Indians at or near the siege of Fort William Henry in 1757. Escaped & returned after 3 months. Served as a private in the Revolutionary War, first (briefly) in Roxbury March 1776 under Lt. Ephriam Wheeler and Col. Eleazer Brooks, then apparently in NJ under Col. Thatcher. Married Martha Stone of Framingham. See links here and here and here.
Children: Joseph, Oliver, John, Martha (Holden) and Lydia (Conant / Noyes).
Sources
Miles Genealogy by Jonas Miles
Genealogy of the Miles Family, Henry Miles (1840), p. 8.
History of the Town of Concord, by Lemuel Shattuck
Find A Grave Memorial# 24340714.
A History of Framingham, Massachusetts By William Barry p. 412.
Biographical sketches of representative citizens of the commonwealth of Massachusetts ... Graves & Steinbarger, 1901, p. 341.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Oliver by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Oliver:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Oliver by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Oliver:
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~0.78%
Jon Kent
:
23andMe
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~0.78%
John Ditzler :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A546496 [compare], Ancestry member John_E_Ditzler
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~0.78%
Sharon (Miles) Siegfried :
MyHeritage DNA
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