"The name of Biles is as often written Byles in the old records of Essex county, and it appears frequently as Boyles. Jonathan Biles1, born about 1646, lived in Beverly, being a house-carpenter by trade, but a yeoman as well. He was sworn a freeman 26 : 9 : 1678. He married, first [second; he married, first, Sarah Goldsmith, who died s.p.], Elizabeth Patch Nov. 15, 1674, and she was his wife in 1696. He married, second [third], Margaret Cleaves May 3, 1716. He conveyed his house and some land to his son Nicholas Biles in 1719. He was living in 1727."
