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Biography
Unknown (Unknown) Stiles is a part of US Black heritage.
This person is a slave owned by Benjamin Stiles. She is described as mulatto and lives in Cherokee North Carolina on the 1850 Slave Schedule. I assume when Benjamin died, she was included by name in his probate which I have yet to locate.
The last name of STILES is an identifier only to help look her up. I have no reason to believe she ever used the STILES name.
Notes
Her owner was born and died in North Carolina and his father was born in North Carolina.
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Sources
Year: 1840; Census Place: Cherokee, North Carolina; Roll: 357; Page: 238; Image: 485; Family History Library Film: 0018093
"United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1850 ," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-11901-14822-71?cc=1420440 : accessed 28 March 2016), North Carolina > Cherokee > Cherokee county > image 3 of 5; citing NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
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