"… we find in Elizabethtown, N.J., a John Miles who could have been, and probably was, John2 the son of Capt. John2 Miles of New Haven. John Harriman, only brother of the mother of John3 Miles, early removed from New Haven to Elizabethtown, and the young Miles probably followed his uncle thither. The will of John Miles of Elizabethtown, blacksmith, made 22 Mar. 1707/8, named wife Elizabeth and children Leonard, John, Sarah, Elizabeth and Mary, all apparently under age; inventory taken 15 Apr. 1708; and the daughter Elizabeth on 26 Apr. 1715 chose Richard Hamman [sic] for her guardian [N.J. Archives, Wills 1:319). John3 Miles, son of Capt. John2 of New Haven, through his mother had first cousins named Leonard and Richard Harriman. Leonard was not a common given name at the time, and it seems likely that John Miles of Elizabethtown named his son for this local cousin. Furthermore the name Richard Hamman seems to be otherwise unknown at that time and place, and he was probably the cousin Richard Harriman whose name could easily have been misread as Hamman."
