Edmund Stiles

Other Events and Attributes:

• Office Held: 1789 to 1792, Wendell, Franklin County, Massachusetts; He was a Selectman.
• Land/House : 1789, Wendell, Franklin County, Massachusetts; He purchased Benjamin Glazier's 59 acres for £200. In the deed, Edmund is refereed to as Edmund Stiles of Wendell.
• Land/House : 1814, Wendell, Franklin County, Massachusetts; According to Richardson (2015) Edmund sold thirty of his Bear Mountain acres to his son, Phinehas, for $400. The text of that deed begins this way: “I, Edmund Stiles, am selling the north half of the lot I bought from Joseph Pepper.” There is no record, however, of any such real estate transaction between Stiles and Pepper, but Joseph Pepper was the father of Benjamin Glazier’s first wife, Elizabeth Pepper. It may be that Joseph Pepper financed Glazier’s purchase of the Bear Mountain property, thus explaining Edmund’s remembering Pepper — rather than Glazier — as the one who sold him his property.

Edmund married Elizabeth Preston on 11 Oct 1763 in Boxford, Essex County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Phinehas Stiles was born on 20 Mar 1764 in Boxford, Essex County, Massachusetts; was christened on 5 Jun 1764 in Boxford, Essex County, Massachusetts; died on 31 Dec 1836 in Wendell, Franklin County, Massachusetts.