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 MILES SHERBROOKE. 



Mr. Miles Sherbrooke, a member of the Auction 

 House of Perry, Hays & Sherbrooke, was a mem- 

 ber of the Committee of Correspondence of Fifty- 

 One in the year 1774. 



He remained in New York during the war and 

 carried on his business in Mill street. During some 

 period of his life he lived in Flatbush, Long Island, 

 where he was captured in June, 1778, by Capt. 

 Mariner, of the American army, who owed him a 

 personal grudge. At this same time Mr. Theophy- 

 lact Bache and Major Moncrieff were also taken 

 prisoners. He was one of the Vestry appointed by 

 General Robertson to relieve the poor of the city. In 

 the year 1779 his property was confiscated, and he 

 was banished. In 1784 he petitioned the New York 

 Legislature for a reversal of his Attainder, which 

 petition appears to have been granted, since he was 

 again living in New York City, in Whitehall street, 

 in 1790, and was elected the third President of the 

 St. George's Society in 1800, serving for two years. 

 He was one of the incorporators of the New York 

 Chamber of Commerce, a merchant of great ability, 

 and a gentleman of a warm, social nature combined 

 with a versatile and well-stored mind. 



