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1640 - 1719 (79 years)
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Name |
NOYES James |
Prefix |
Rev. |
Suffix |
II |
Birth |
11 Mar 1639/40 |
Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts [4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16] |
Gender |
Male |
Graduation |
1659 |
Harvard College, Boston North, Middlesex, Massachusetts [7, 8, 10, 14, 16, 17, 18] |
Ordained |
10 Sep 1674 |
Stonington, New London, Connecticut [7, 8, 14, 19, 20] |
Will |
12 Nov 1716 [21] |
Death |
30 Dec 1719 |
Stonington, New London, Connecticut [7, 8, 9, 12, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27] |
- (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.)
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Burial |
Aft 30 Dec 1719 |
Stonington, New London, Connecticut [28, 29, 30, 31] |
- Ancient Burial-Ground upon a sloping hill on the east side of Wequetequock Cove, midway between Stonington, Conn. and Westerly, R.I.
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
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.
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James Noyes Gravestone
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Will (proved) |
Jan 1720 [21] |
- On record in the Probate Office in New London, CN.
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Name |
James Noyce [5] |
_UID |
D6620D38EB9ED5118A06444553540000AC18 |
Notes |
- Graduate Harvard 1659. Savage, Vol. 3: Began to preach in Stonington, Connecticut in 1664, yet was not ordained before 10 September 1674, the day before he was married to Dorothy. 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.
Graduate Harvard 1659. Savage, Vol. 3: Began to preach in Stonington, Connecticut in 1664, yet was not ordained before 10 September 1674, the day before he was married to Dorothy. 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 wa, 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.
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Person ID |
I25993 |
Old North Yarmouth, Maine |
Last Modified |
16 Nov 2005 |
Father |
Rev. NOYES James, b. 22 Oct 1608, Cholderton, Wiltshire, England d. 22 Oct 1656, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts (Age 48 years) |
Mother |
BROWN Sarah, b. Abt 1610, England d. 13 Sep 1691, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts (Age ~ 81 years) |
Marriage |
21 Mar 1633/4 |
Romsey, Hampshire, England [4, 15, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42] |
Family ID |
F1006 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Family |
STANTON Dorothy, b. 1651/2, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut d. 19 Jan 1742/3, Stonington, New London, Connecticut (Age 91 years) |
Marriage |
11 Sep 1674 |
Stonington, New London, Connecticut [2, 4, 16, 38, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50] |
- (The service was performed by Mr. Samuel Willis, assistant and member of Governor John Winthrop's Council.)
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Children |
| 1. NOYES Dorothy, b. 20 Jan 1675/6, Stonington, New London, Connecticut d. 6 Dec 1714, Preston, New London, Connecticut (Age 38 years) |
| 2. Dr. NOYES James, III, b. 2 Aug 1677, Stonington, New London, Connecticut d. 25 Mar 1717/8 (Age 40 years) |
| 3. Capt. NOYES Thomas, b. 15 Aug 1679, Stonington, New London, Connecticut d. 26 Jun 1755, Stonington, New London, Connecticut (Age 75 years) |
| 4. NOYES Anne "Anna", b. 16 Apr 1682, Stonington, New London, Connecticut d. 28 Jun 1694, Stonington, New London, Connecticut (Age 12 years) |
+ | 5. Deacon NOYES John, b. 13 Jun 1685, Stonington, New London, Connecticut d. 17 Sep 1751, Stonington, New London, Connecticut (Age 66 years) |
| 6. Rev. NOYES Joseph, b. 16 Oct 1688, Stonington, New London, Connecticut d. 14 Jun 1761, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut (Age 72 years) |
| 7. NOYES Moses, b. 19 Mar 1691/2, Stonington, New London, Connecticut d. 30 Apr 1692, Stonington, New London, Connecticut (Age 0 years) |
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Family ID |
F7048 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Last Modified |
29 Mar 2020 |
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Event Map |
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| Birth - 11 Mar 1639/40 - Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts |
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| Graduation - 1659 - Harvard College, Boston North, Middlesex, Massachusetts |
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| Ordained - 10 Sep 1674 - Stonington, New London, Connecticut |
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| Marriage - 11 Sep 1674 - Stonington, New London, Connecticut |
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| Death - 30 Dec 1719 - Stonington, New London, Connecticut |
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| Burial - Aft 30 Dec 1719 - Stonington, New London, Connecticut |
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Sources |
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