Note 912 — Chapter VII

We encounter Gyles frequently as commander of posts in the eastern country. He lived latterly at Roxbury, Mass., and published at Boston, in 1736, Memoirs of the odd adventures, strange deliverances, etc., in the captivity of John Gyles, Esq., Commander of the garrison on St. George’s River. This book is of great rarity. There is a copy in Harvard College library [5315.14] and a defective one in the Mass. Hist. Soc. library (Catalogue, p. 553). One is noted in S. G. Drake’s Sale Catalogue, 1845, which seems also to have been imperfect. Drake in reprinting the book in his Tragedies of the Wilderness, Boston, 1846 (p. 73), altered the text throughout. It was perhaps Drake’s copy which is noted in the Brinley Catalogue, i. no. 476, selling for $37. It was again reprinted in Cincinnati, by William Dodge, in 1869, but he followed Drake’s disordered text. (Cf. Carter-Brown, iii. no. 547; Mem. Hist. Boston, ii. 336; Church, Entertaining Passages, Dexter’s ed., ii. 163, 203; Johnston, Bristol, Bremen, and Pemaquid, 183; J. A. Vinton’s Gyles Family, 122; N. E. Hist. Geneal. Reg., Jan., 1867, p. 49; Oct., 1867, p. 361.)