Elisha Niles Esq. a Gentleman much esteemed and Improved in the Town in many Offices of publick Trust, as Town Clerk, & Treasurer he served twenty three years succesively & continued in said Offices to the Day of his Death which was, July 1st. 1776. Vital Records of Braintree, Edited by Samuel A. Bates, (Daniel H. Huxford, Printer, Randolph MA, 1886), Page 864.