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