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    1. Documentation - James GYLES (GILES) possible ancestor of Lafford FRENCH
    2. 1681, January 6, a patent for 180 acres to James Giles, Piscataway, (referred to in 1693 deed of sale.) 1688 April 25. DO. to James Gyles of Piscataway, for 100 acres in Middlesex Co., N. Mathew Gyles, W. grantee, S. Benjamin Clark, E. unappropriated land. [Liber B, Page 118, Patents and Deeds of New Jersey, 1664-1703, East Jersey Deeds] -- [referred to in 1693 deed as a Side patent - Liber B, p.375, supra.] 1688 June 17: Will of James Gyles of Piscataway. Wife Elizabeth, son Matthew, daughters Eliza Olden, Anne Gyles, Mary Booth. Real and Personal estate. Executors the wife and son (in-law) William Olden with Edward Slater as overseer. Witnesses Edward Slater and William Sharpe proved 3d Tuesday of March 1690. [Liber D, Page 177, Patents and Deeds of New Jersey, 1664-1703, East Jersey Deeds] 1689 Dec 21. Do. Matthew Giles of Piscataway to his brother-in-law William OLDEN and sister Elizabeth Giles OLDEN of Middlesex Co., for 120 acres in Piscataway, N.W. the Bound Brook, S.E. Ambrose Brook and grantee's father, N.E. unsurveyed land, part of the estate of their father, Major James Giles. [Liber F, Page 293, Patents and Deeds of New Jersey, 1664-1703, East Jersey Deeds] 1690 July 24: Declaration of William Olden of Raraton R., surviving executor of Major James Gyles, refusing to act as executor and asking that Matthew, the son of James Gyles, be made executor., [Liber D, Page 178, Patents and Deeds of New Jersey, 1664-1703, East Jersey Deeds] [NOTE: 'Surviving executor' indicates that James Gyles' wife, Elizabeth, has died.] 1690 July 25: Letters of administration on the estate of Major James Gyles of Raraton R., granted to Mathew Gyles, the executors named having refused to act. [Liber D, Page 177, Patents and Deeds of New Jersey, 1664-1703, East Jersey Deeds] 1693 April 12. Deed. Matthew Giles of Piscatuay as administrator of the estate of Major James Giles of the same place, to John Peterson Melot of Perth Amboy, blacksmith, for all the real property of said James Giles in Piscatway, 180 acres, as per patent of January 6, 1681; and 100 a there, N. Mathew Giles, S. Benjamin Clerk, E. Unappropriated land. (Side patent of April 25, 1688, Liber B, p. 375, supra.) "Colonial New Jersey Source Records, 1600-1800s" listed in patents and Deeds of New Jersey, 1664-1703.

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