This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Stiles Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/jdJBAEB/610 Message Board Post: STILES, Ezra. 1727-1795. Educator, clergyman, b. North Haven, Conn. Congregational clergyman; scholar; president of Yale College, 1778-1795; supported the Revolution and kept a valuable diary of events, enhanced by maps. I am not related to this person, I am just passing on this information, which comes from a book titled "People & Events of the American Revolution" by Dupuy/Hammerman. R.R. Bowker Company, 1974. pg.408. Joyce