Ephraim Gile, I

Biography

From Burleigh, Charles, The Genealogy and History of the Guild, Guile, and Gile Family, Portland, Maine: Brown Thurston and Company (1887) Page 224 GoogleBooks

Ephraim Gile1 (Samuel1), son of Samuel and Judith (Davis) Guile, born at Haverhill, Mass., Mar. 21, 1661-2, married Jan. 5, 1686, Martha Bradley. He lived at Haverhill, and in 1711 was "one of the soldiers supplied with snow shoes for emergency in case of attack by the Indians." He was probably the Ephraim Gile who cut the first way to Cheshire, and was admitted an inhabitant of Chester in 1720.

Children born at Haverhill:

• 27 Mary,3 b. Feb. 11, 1687; m. Jan. 15,1705-6, Thomas Clough. Child: (1) Ephraim, b. at Haverhill, Nov. 12, 1706. *28 Hannah,8 b. Aug. 11, 1693; m. Jonaihin Clough of Haverhill. Children: (1) Hannah, b. Jan. 31, 1717-8; (2) Timothy, b. Feb. 21,1719-20; (3) Lyaia, b. May 20, 1721.
• 29 Mehitable,8 b. Dec. 1, 1692; m. Dec. 29, 1715, Nathaniel Johnson of Haver hill. Children: (1) Lydia, b. Dec. 29, 1716; (2) Ephraim, b. July 33, 1718; (3) Seth, b. July 12, 1720.
• 30 Sarah,8 b. Jan. 20, 1694-5; m. March 3, 1717, Samuel Davis.
• +31 Daniel,8 b. Dec. 10, 1697; m, Joanna Heath.
• 32 Judith,8 b. May 3, 1700; m. Henry Green of Killingly, Ct. Their daughter Judith married Lusher Gay, and a full account of her posterity is published in the N. E. Hist. & Gen. Register, vol. XXXH1, p. 54,
• +33 Samuel,8 b. Feb. 13, 1702-3; m. Sarah Emerson.
• 34 Ephraim,8 b. Aug. 15, 1705. In 1729, he bought of his father 20 acres of land at Chester, and in the same year bought 200 acres at Killingly, Conn. Jan. 28, 1730, he signed the church covenant at North Killingly, and bought a pew.
• 35 Ebenezer,8 b. Sept. 11, 1708; m. Lydia Johnson.

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