"[Died] In Greensborough, Ky., John Miles, in the 93d year of his age. He was born in England, near the city of London, in the year 1734. In the year 1753 he was kidnapped, and brought to America, and sold in the State of Maryland for the term of five years. At the commencement of the Revolution, he entered the American service as a private soldier, in which capacity he continued during the whole of the struggle for Independence. Shortly after the close of the war he emigrated to Kentucky, where he married and resided ever since. His wife, the only relation known to him in America, died about 12 months since, in the 83d year of her age; and what is remarkable of this aged couple is, that neither of them had ever taken a dose of medicine, or been bled in the course of their lives. For the last 12 years of his life, he was confined to his room, on account of a rupture and total blindness." [Raleigh Register and North Carolina Gazette, Raleigh, NC, 10 August 1827, Friday, p3, "Died"]