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Reverand NOYES James, II[1, 2, 3, 4]

Male 1640 - 1720  (80 years)


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  • Name NOYES James 
    Prefix Reverand 
    Suffix II 
    Birth 11 Mar 1639/40  Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17] 
    Gender Male 
    Graduation 1659  Harvard College, Boston North, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [7, 12, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19] 
    Ordained 10 Sep 1674  Stonington, New London, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [12, 14, 15, 20, 21] 
    Address:
    Road Church 
    • (The early history of the Road church is, in a sense, the history of the town of Stonington. In 1649, William Chesebrough became the first settler of Stonington. The first religious service in Stonington was held on March 22, 1657 at the home of Walter Palmer with Reverend William Thompson, a Harvard graduate, officiating. At the time, Reverend Thompson served as missionary to the Pequot Indians, dividing his time between the Pequots and the settlers. In 1661, the town erected a small meetinghouse on Montauk Avenue where town business and religious services were conducted.

      In 1664 the town appointed a committee to go to the Bay (Massachusetts) and procure a minister. The committee invited Mr. James Noyes of Newbury, a graduate of Harvard, to become their Gospel-preaching minister. He accepted the invitation and came in June 1664. He served the church for 55 years.)
    Will 12 Nov 1716  [22] 
    Death 30 Dec 1719/20  Stonington, New London, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 6, 11, 12, 15, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28] 
    • (The 18th day of December, 1719, The Reverend Mr. James Noyes was taken sick and so continued until the 30th day of the same month, (he dyed) he having served in the publick ministry in this place fifty-five years and six months. He lived much desired, and dyed much lamented. Rev. James Noyes' baptisms, 1176. He died at his home on the road to Wequetequock.)
    Burial Aft 30 Dec 1719/20  Stonington, New London, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [29, 30, 31, 32] 
    Address:
    Wequetequock Burial Ground 
    • (NEHGR p. 189: The person who prepared the inscription perhaps thought the year by new style commenced on Christmas Day, Dec. 25th; but such a mistake is a little singular, as the almanacs then printed began the year in Jan. It was an ancient English custom to begin the year at Christmas, but it had not then been in use for a long time.

      Noyes Descendants of James, Nicholas and Peter Noyes. I:20 : The arms shown on the tombstone of Rev. James Noyes of Stonington, Conn., have the crosses reversed, as they should slope from the left upper corner to the right lower corner; the dexter side being the right side as the shield is held in front of the bearer, and the left side as seen from the front.)
    James Noyes gravestone    		 James Noyes gravestone
    Rev. James Noyes II table slab    		 Rev. James Noyes II table slab

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    In Expectation
    of A joyful Resurrection
    to Eternal Life
    Here Lyeth Interred ye Body
    of the Rev'd Mr. James Noyes
    Aged 80 years
    Who after A Faithful Serving
    of the Church of Christ
    In this Place
    For more than 55 years
    Deceased Dec ye 30: 17 19/20
    Will (proved) Jan 1720/1  [22] 
    • On record in the Probate Office in New London, CN.
    Name James Noyce  [9] 
    _UID D6620D38EB9ED5118A06444553540000AC18 
    Notes 
    • Graduate Harvard 1659. Savage, Vol. 3: Began to preach in Stonington, Connecticut in 1664, residing in the family of Thomas Stanton, yet was not ordained before 10 September 1674, the day before he was married to Dorothy. The meeting house in which he preached was a short distance southwesterly of the present residence of Henry M. Palmer (1905). Mr. Noyes made his home on a large tract of land which he bought of Samuel Willis, of Hartford, on the road to Wequetequock. Preached 55 years. He served as a soldier and volunteer against the Indians in the Narraganset war and received land for services rendered in what became Voluntown, Conn. (Bodge's Soldiers of King Philip's war, page 443, Narraganset Register, Vol. 1, p. 144).Chief sachem of Narragansett Indians. Much honor attached to his name for so long faithfully fulfilling his ministry, as is shown in a most judicious funeral sermon by Adams of New London. Equally so, for service in the foundation of Yale College standing there as the first on the list of Fellows.

      He was, in his day, one of the leading ministers of the colony, greatly respected for his wisdom and his piety. He was a distinguished preacher, carrying uncommon fervor and Heavenly zeal into all of his public performances. His ordinary conversation breathed a spirit of that world to which he was endeavoring to guide his fellow men. In ecclesiastical controversies he was eminently useful. He was a counsellor in civil affairs at some critical periods. He was selected to be one of the first trustees of the college (Yale); for though he was then an old man, and in a remote corner of the colony, his influence was deemed essential to the success of the undertaking.

      (From Wheeler's History of Stonington, Conn.)
      Rev James Noyes came to Stonington to preach on an invitation of the town in 1664. The meeting house in which he preached was a short distance southwesterly of the present residence of Mr. Henry M. Palmer, west of Montauk Avenue. Traditionally, we learn that he resided in the family of Thomas Stanton, Sr., until he was ordained, Sept. 11, 1674, and the next day he was married to Miss Dorothy, daughter of Thomas and Ann (Lord) Stanton. He made his permanent place of abode upon a large tract of land in Stonington, which he purchased of Samuel Willis of Hartford, Conn., where he erected him a dwelling house on the site of the present first house south of Anguilla, on the highway from there to Wequetequock, which became the first parsonage of the First Congregational Church of Stonington, where he lived the remainder of his life, dying Dec. 30, 1719. For the first ten years of his ministry he preached as a licentiate, and the last forty-five years as an ordained clergyman. He was Chaplain with Capt. George Denison's expedition that captured Canonchet, chief sachem of the Narragansett Indians, April, 1676.

      Noyes-Gilman Ancestry
      ""He was but 16 and his brother Moses but 13 when together they entered Harvard in 1656. His father died not long after his admission. Their father's friends and parishioners contributed to give the boys the best education then obtainable while they worked their way through college. After graduation in 1664 he went to Stonington, Conn. where he was invited by the town to become their minister and took the freeman's oath October 5, 1669. He received as a gift from the town a grant of 250 acres of land, called Musqueta, and later known as Noyes' Point, Westerly, R.I. which remained in the family for several generations..

      (From La Verne W. Noyes' "Noyes and Allied Families")
      "In April, 1697, upon the motion of the Honorable Lieut. Governour Stoughton, and information that the enemy, Indians, intended to scatter into small companies, to do mischief upon His Majestie's subjects, the Governour and Councill also being moved by the worshipful Captain Samuel Mason and the Reverent Mr. James Noise, ordered a letter sent to Capt. Samuel Mason and Mr. James Noise desiring them to promote of raising twentie or thirtie men, English and Indians, furnished with arms, ammunition and provision, to range the woods between Nashua (now in N.H.) and Deerfield, Mass., and near Mamerrimack River, and between Hadley and Marlburrough as they shall judge best. And the Governour and Councill being informed that the enemy, Indians, intended to scatter and to sett upon the small towns upon the river that were secure. Warrants were sent to the several constables of the towns in danger to see that due watch and ward be kept." (Conn. Col. Record, Vol. 4, p.196). Appointed by Assembly one of a committee to settle differences regarding division of land in Quinnebaug. In 1708 he was granted 200 acres of land.

      The remains of Rev. James Noyes are buried in the ancient burying-place ground, upon a sloping hill on the east side of Wequetequock Cove, midway between Stonington, Conn., and Westerly, R.I. A light brown stone covers the remains and upon it is cut the Coat of Arms of the family.

      The epitaph was written by Reverend Eliphalet Adams who graduated from Harvard College in 1694 and who died in 1753, and who was in 1720, pastor of the First Congregational Church of New London, Conn.

      The original draft of the epitaph was in 1889, in the Sunday School Library Room of the First Congregational Church of Stonington, Conn.

      His body was interred 1719 Stonington, Conn, old Wetequequock burying ground. The pier slab that for over a century has been over the grave of Rev. James Noyes of the old Wetequequock burying ground, Stonington, Conn., was relettered at Doty's marble works in the 1890s. The following is the inscription on it: "In expectation of a joyful resurrection to eternal life here lyeth interred the body of the Rev. Mr. James Noyes aged 80 years who after a faithful living of the Church of Christ in this place for more than 55 years deceased Dec. ye 30, 1719-20. Majesty, meekness and humilty here meet in one with greatest charity. He was first pastor of the Road Church and Society." Graduated at Harvard College and was ordained as pastor of the church in Stonington the day before his marriage. He was one of the founders of Yale College. He drew Cedar Swamp lots for Indian war service.

      (Hist. of First Cong. Church)

      On Aug. 28, 1692 he baptised Chimham, an Indian who he then raised.
    Person ID I2232  Noyes Family Genealogy
    Last Modified 14 Jul 2021 

    Father Rev. NOYES James,   b. 22 Oct 1608, Cholderton, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 22 Oct 1656, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 48 years) 
    Mother BROWN Sarah,   b. Abt 1610, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 13 Sep 1691, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 81 years) 
    Marriage 21 Mar 1633/4  Romsey, Hampshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [5, 16, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43] 
    Family ID F545  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family STANTON Dorothy,   b. 1651/2, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 19 Jan 1742/3, Stonington, New London, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 91 years) 
    Marriage 11 Sep 1674  Stonington, New London, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 5, 17, 39, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51] 
    • (The service was performed by Mr. Samuel Willis, assistant and member of Governor John Winthrop's Council.)
    Children 
     1. NOYES Dorothy,   b. 20 Jan 1675/6, Stonington, New London, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 6 Dec 1714, Preston, New London, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 38 years)
     2. Dr. NOYES James, III,   b. 2 Aug 1677, Stonington, New London, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 25 Mar 1718 (Age 40 years)
     3. Capt. NOYES Thomas,   b. 15 Aug 1679, Stonington, New London, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 26 Jun 1755, Stonington, New London, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 75 years)
     4. NOYES Anne "Anna",   b. 16 Apr 1682, Stonington, New London, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 28 Jun 1694, Stonington, New London, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 12 years)
     5. Deacon NOYES John Stanton,   b. 13 Jun 1685, Stonington, New London, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 17 Sep 1751, Stonington, New London, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 66 years)
     6. Reverend NOYES Joseph,   b. 16 Oct 1688, Stonington, New London, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 14 Jun 1761, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 72 years)
     7. NOYES Moses,   b. 19 Mar 1691/2, Stonington, New London, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 30 Apr 1692, Stonington, New London, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 0 years)
    Family ID F743  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 23 Feb 2024 

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