. The Stiles family in America : genealogies of the Connecticut family. Descendants of John Stiles, of Windsor, Conn., and of Mr. Francis Stiles, of Windsor and Stratford, Conn., 1635-1894; also the Connecticut New Jersey families, 1720-1894; and the southern (or Bermuda-Georgia) family, 1635-1894. With contributions to the genealogies of some New York and Pennsylvania families .... ntly discovered in the western country. Thiscorrespondence appeared in the American Magazine in 1788. He was this year admitted as an honorary member of the NewYork Society for the Manumission of Slaves. In 1789, c
. The Stiles family in America : genealogies of the Connecticut family. Descendants of John Stiles, of Windsor, Conn., and of Mr. Francis Stiles, of Windsor and Stratford, Conn., 1635-1894; also the Connecticut New Jersey families, 1720-1894; and the southern (or Bermuda-Georgia) family, 1635-1894. With contributions to the genealogies of some New York and Pennsylvania families .... ntly discovered in the western country. Thiscorrespondence appeared in the American Magazine in 1788. He was this year admitted as an honorary member of the NewYork Society for the Manumission of Slaves. In 1789, convinced, by observation and experiments, thatthe culture of silk might be carried on with success and profitin New England, he took great pains for the extensive distributionof mulberry seed, as the first step toward its manufacture. He sentan estimated quantity of seed to 80 ministers in Connecticut, witha printed circular letter, desiring them, by themselves, or by suchpersons as they might employ in their parishes, to sow, each, anursery of 4,000 trees in a parish, on this condition: That at theend of three years three-quarters of the trees then living belong tothe planters, and one-quarter to be distributed gratis in the respect-ive parishes. About midnight of June 10th, his home was struck by lightningwhich tore out a rafter in the garret, splintered one of the floors,. The Rectors House, occupied by Dr. Stiles during his Presidency. and did other mischief, but without harm to any of the inmates—ofwhich merciful deliverance he makes feeling acknowledgement in hisDiary. This house was the old College Rectors house, which sincethe later part of Presidents Claps term of service had been usedas the official residence of the College President. We present 184 THE STILES GENEALOGY. herewith, a view of this edifice, which we owe to the courtesy ofF. Holt & Co., publishers of The Yale Booh On the occasiou of Gen. President Washingtons tour throughthe Eastern States, and his visi
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