Hello Micki,
Thank you for your reply and advice.
Several years ago the commercial Quebec & Eastern Townships genealogy website at:
http://simmons.b2b2c.ca , provided me with an extract from the registers of the Free Will Baptist Church serving Hatley, Quebec, register for the years 1842-1885, on the front of folio 61, Quebec National Archives microfilm #M-346.3: which says: "The marriages of JASON D. NILES farmer & RACHEL ANN ROYCE both of the town of Charleston in the State of Vermont was solemnized by me the subscriber by License this eleventh day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & sixty five (signed) etc.etc."
It is most interesting, and I percieve relevant, that Jason Daniel Niles returned to Hatley, Stanstead County, Quebec to get married!
Yes, it has been determined that Jason Adams Niles (1814-1894) was a son of Daniel Swift (Swit) Niles of Hatley, QC.
Neither of the recorded wills for either Daniel Swift (Swit) Niles, or his son Jason Adams Niles mention Jason Daniel Niles in them as a legal heir, or otherwise.
Which suggests to me the possibility that Jason Daniel Niles could have been born out of wedlock; until such time as further developments disprove that hypothesis.
Associated question: How old was your CYRUS NILES in July 1838?
To date no record of Jason Daniel Niles birth has been found by me, other than the data on his death certificate filed in Charleston, Vermont.
The Eastern Townships Research Center (ETRC)
http://www.etrc.ca were also unable to locate a birth record in their available District of St. Francis records.
As a matter of additional interest, the diaries of Jason (Adams) Niles have been preserved at:
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Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
CB# 3926, The Wilson Library
Chapel Hill, N.C. 27514-8890
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#950
JASON NILES PAPERS
Inventory
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EXTRACT
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Jason Niles was born 19 December 1814 at Hatley, Quebec. He lived in the vicinity of Burlington, Vt., from 1831 to March 1838, attending the University of Vermont from 1834 until his graduation in 1837. He lived in Massachusetts, Ohio, and Tennessee from 1838 to 1848, teaching school. He married Harriet "Qu" McRee of Shelbyville, Tenn., on 15 August 1847.
Niles moved to Kosciusko, Miss., on 20 July 1848. Having
started reading law in January, he was admitted to the bar in 1851 and practiced intermittently throughout his residence in Kosciusko. He was editor of the Kosciusko Chronicle, 1851-1853; a delegate to the state constitutional conventions of 1851, 1865, and 1868; a member of the state House of Representatives in 1870; a circuit judge in 1871 and 1872; and Republican member of the United States Congress March 1873 to March 1875 (he was defeated in the 1874 election). Niles died at Kosciusko, Miss., on 7 July 1894.
The URL
http://www.lib.unc.edu/wilson/index.html will get you there
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NOTE: The Marlene Simmons
http://simmons.b2b2c.ca website currently has two listings for 1. Alma Parsons and 2. Alma Victoria Parson; but none for an Alma Persons.
I believe that the Alma Victoria Parsons record is for someone born much later than would be associated with Jason Daniel Niles birth; but a request for those records has been made nonetheless.
Regards,
Jack (in Australia)