Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Holland” in chapter 5, page 18 of James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown:
...is now possible to write,) will prove that his descent was as honorable and patriotic by his --mother's family, as from Peter Brown, the Puritan of the Mayflower.
Peter Miles was an emigrant from Holland , who settled at Bloomfield, Connecticut, near the confines of Windsor Plain.
He had seven sons, was a tailor by trade, and died in 1754, at the age of eighty-eight.
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