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Person Details
 
Last NameN [NILES]
First NameS [SAMUEL]
Maiden 
Relation[S/O NATHANIEL] [H/O MARTHA PITCHER]
Cemetery NumberWG054
Cemetery NameNILES-NICHOLS-CONGDON LOT
Birth Day0
Birth Month 
Birth Year 
Death Day3
Death MonthOCT
Death Year1778
WarREVOLUTION
Gravestone Details
Section 
Lot 
Map00003
Stone Materialfieldstone
Conditionfair
Shaperound top
Carvingno carving
Legibilityfair
Number of Graves on Stone1
Stone Height (inches)12
Stone Width (inches)13
Exists?
Last Seen Date1992
Carver 
Notes/Misc Details
Notes[b. 8 FEB 1720 in East Greenwich] [WG probate records 2:215-217 Will for Samuel Niles (wife's name Martha) 6 SEP 1778; proved 6 NOV 1778] [Martha was daughter of Jonathan and Phebe (Hopkins) Pitcher. She d. about 1810 at Richfield Springs, Otsego Co., NY] [DAR Partiot Index (civilian service) town council member] [he served in the French & Indian War and as a Pvt in the Rev War.]
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