The following information was assembled from numerous sources and cannot be used directly as proof of Qualifying Service or Lineage.
It is considered a research aid and is intended to assist in locating sources that can be used as proof.
State of Service: NJ
Qualifying Service: Private
Birth: 28 Apr 1764 New Vernon / / NJ Death: 05 Nov 1841 Newark / Essex / NJ
Qualifying Service Description:
Private, Capt Beach and Capt Bate's Co, Colonel Frelinghuysen and Colonel Seely's Regt NJ Militia
Additional References:
NARA, R.W. Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, M804, Cat 300022, RG 15, Roll 2294
Pension W.10.260, pg 4
Spouse: (1) Phebe Aber; (2) Phebe Penn Children: John; Phebe A; Mary Cooper;
James Stiles was born March 1764 at Morristown, NJ, a son of Thomas Stiles and Abigail (nee Ogden) Stiles. He died November 5, 1841 at Newark, NJ.
Per his pension testimony in 1833, James Stiles served in the New Jersey Militia as a private from June 1779 through the summer of 1782. He performed eight tours of duty in the following order: 1. Elizabethtown, NJ, under Capt. Carter, Orderly Sgt. Jonathan Day, Gen. Winds in command; 2. Substitute for Peter Fairchild at Trembly’s Point, NJ, under Capt. Beach and Col. Seely; 3. Elizabethtown Point, NJ, under Capt. Hathaway, Col. Frelinghuysen in command; 4. Newark, NJ, Col. Frelinghuysen in command; 5. Paramus, NJ, under Capt. Beach and Lt. Osborn, Col. Frelinghuysen in command; 6. Pompton, NJ, under Capt. Beach and Lt. Osborn, Col. Frelinghuysen in command; 7. Substitute for Enoch Goble (his step-Father) at Hackensack, NJ, under Capt. Bates and Lt. Osborn, Col. Frelinghuysen in command; and 8. Morristown, NJ, under Ensign Metarot and Sgt. Humphreyville. [Reference: Revolutionary War Pension W10260 – NJ ]
James Stiles’ father died about 1775 and his mother Abigail married Enoch Goble. His mother died about 1777. Enoch Goble then married Mary Cooper in 1778. James Stiles married Phebe Aber from Mendham, NJ, in 1789 and had 11 children, including three children that died at birth or in early infancy. The surviving children are John, Aaron Aber, Mary Cooper Aber, Julia Ann Riggs, Amzi B., Phebe Wade, James, and William. Phebe Aber Stiles died about 1822. James Stiles next married Phebe Penn in 1839. James Stiles lived most of his life in New Vernon, NJ, and Morristown, NJ and the remaining 15 – 16 years in Newark, NJ.
Lewis Condict of Morristown, NJ, President of the NJ State Medical Society, U.S Congressman (1821 – 1833), and James Stiles’ family physician, stated in his pension testimony on behalf of James Stiles (Oct 1, 1833), “He was an industrious man & and in good repute for many years.”
Send a biographical sketch of your patriot!
Patriot biographies must be the original work of the author, and work submitted must not belong to another person or group, in observance with copyright law. Patriot biographies are to be written in complete sentences, follow the established rules of grammar, syntax and punctuation, be free of typographical errors, and follow a narrative format. The narrative should unfold in a logical manner (e.g. the narrative does not jump from time period to time period) or have repeated digressions, or tell the history of the patriot's line from the patriot ancestor to the author. The thinking here is that this is a patriot biography, not a lineage report or a kinship determination project or other report published in a genealogy journal. The biography should discuss the qualifying service (military, patriotic, civil) of the patriot ancestor, where the service was rendered, whether this was a specific state or Continental service, as well as significant events (as determined by the author) of the patriot's life. This is the entire purpose of a patriot's biography.
Additional guidelines around the Biography writeup can be found here:
Send your submission1, in a Microsoft Word compatible format, to patriotbios@sar.org for inclusion in this space 1Upon submission of a patriot biography, the patriot biography becomes the property of the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, and may be edited to conform to the patriot biography submission standards.