Early Days in Richmond Hill
Richmond Hill Photo Images
Historic Cemeteries of South York Region
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- Miles, James
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1 Richmond Hill Photo Images: The home was occupied for many years by
Miles' nephew
James
Playter Jr., and later
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2 Early Days in Richmond Hill: Graham. It stood on the site donated by James Miles a century earlier, and has been in continual
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3 Early Days in Richmond Hill: the father-and-son duo of Abner and James Miles, who did so much to shape the infant
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4 Early Days in Richmond Hill: Abner's twenty-six-year-old son, James Miles, inherited his father's lands and business
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5 Early Days in Richmond Hill: James Miles built a substantial, two-storey,
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6 Early Days in Richmond Hill: emerging hamlet, described a visit to James Miles' house in 1830. "We found him with dinner
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7 Early Days in Richmond Hill: Miles seems to have been well liked by all.
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8 Early Days in Richmond Hill: Miles became affectionately known as "The Squire,"
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9 Early Days in Richmond Hill: classes at Miles' Hill were held in a log settlement house on
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10 Early Days in Richmond Hill: Miles usually possessed "a very even temper,"
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11 Early Days in Richmond Hill: Miles died in 1844, at age sixty-four, after
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12 Early Days in Richmond Hill: for his family - wife, Mercy, son, James, and daughters Hannah, Lucy, Elizabeth,
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13 Early Days in Richmond Hill: James Miles is so far from liking to show off his
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14 Early Days in Richmond Hill: Bridgeford, John Langstaff and James Miles, had put down their arms and returned to the
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15 Early Days in Richmond Hill: company. Arnold's brother-in-law, James Miles, was lieutenant and second-in-command.
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16 Early Days in Richmond Hill: Hill Presbyterian Church, erected in 1821. James Miles changed all that. Whether attempting to
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17 Early Days in Richmond Hill: Miles' most important religious contribution came in
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18 Early Days in Richmond Hill: a clearing in a grove of pine trees on James Miles' property on the west side of Yonge
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19 Early Days in Richmond Hill: belated payment for the property after Miles' death in 1844. The land was purchased from
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20 Early Days in Richmond Hill: new label - Richmond Hill. Perhaps James Miles had done something to alienate
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21 Early Days in Richmond Hill: of early leaders like Abner and James Miles, William Jenkins, and Benjamin Barnard
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22 Early Days in Richmond Hill: Miles' Hill may have evolved from James Miles' first Sunday School of 1811, or it may even
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23 Early Days in Richmond Hill: James Miles and the Stolen
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