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 1590 - 1657 (~ 67 years)
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| Name |
NOYES Peter |
| Prefix |
Dea. |
| Suffix |
Sr. |
| Christening |
30 Aug 1590 |
Andover, Hampshire, England  [4, 5] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Emigration |
11 Apr 1638 |
London, City of London, Greater London, England [4, 6, 7, 8] |
- (came at the age of 47 on 'Confidence' of London, 200 tons, John Jobson, Master. Left Southampton 24 April 1638.)
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| Will |
22 Sep 1657 [6, 9, 10] |
- (Mentions all his children except Nicholas; wife's name Abigail. Gave "unto my Kinsman shadrack Habgood" one white lined bullock. He also gave land in Andover, Hampshire, England which had been "setled upon my Eldest sonne Thomas Noys as a joint purchaser" partly also to his sons Peter and Joseph, who each received one-fourth as their share.)
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| Death |
23 Sep 1657 |
Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States [1, 4, 5, 11, 12, 13] |
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| Will (proved) |
5 Oct 1657 [6] |
| Occupation |
yeoman [1] |
| _UID |
6F680D38EB9ED5118A064445535400004B02 |
| Notes |
- Savage: PETER, Sudbury 1639, came in the Confidence, 1638, from Southampton, latter part of Apr. aged 47, with s. Thomas, 15; d. Eliz. and three serv. is call. yeoman in the custom-ho. rec. but aft. arr. gentleman. He was of Penton, in Co. Hants, wh. is near Andover; went home aft. short visit or explorat. here, well pleased with what he saw at Watertown, and next yr. came again in the "Jonathan", with sev. friends, and Nicholas, Dorothy, Abigail, and Peter, all prob. his ch. beside John Waterman, Richard Barnes, William Street, Agnes Bent, Eliz. Plimpton, and Agnes Blanchard, wh. I judge to be his serv. as he paid for their passages; but such was not Agnes**** Bent, for she paid for herself, for d. Agnes, Thomas Blanchard's w. with her h. and Richard Barnes, s. of said Blanchard's w. and prob. Eliz. Plimpton. Blanchard's w. with inf. d. on the passage, 15 days out, and Barnes's gr.mo. d. this side of the Banks. He had share in the first div. of lds. in his town, and again in the 2d and 3d, made 1640, was freem. 13 May 1640, selectman 18 yrs. rep. 1640, 1, and 50, deac. of the ch. and d. 23 Sept. 1657. Three yrs. bef. he gave his est. in Old Eng. to his eldest s. Thomas, and in his will, of wh. Thomas was made excor. made the day bef. his d. he names other ch. Peter, Joseph, Eliz. w. of Josiah Haynes, Dorothy, w. of John Haynes, Abigail, w. of Thomas Plympton, d.-in-law Mary, w. of his s. Thomas, and kinsm. Shadrach Hapgood
Anderson: Peter Noyes, who emigrated in 1638, came from a family long involved in nonconformist activities in southwestern England. (pages 49-50) Another emigrant, Peter Noyes, rented out part of his English property to his sister, partly to obtain money to pay for his family's passage. After he sailed in 1638, he retained possession of a house and land near Andover in Hampshire. This property provided Noyes with an annual rent of about £20 during his lifetime and, after his death in 1657, supplemented his three sons' portions .... [3] Renting out property in England and using the income to supplement a New England estate was obviously a prudent solution to the emigration problem, but it was also a scheme beyond the reach of most emigrants. Virtually all of those who adopted this strategy were older men who had accumulated substantial amounts of land prior to their emigration. Tilden, Noyes, Starr, and Besbeech were all aged forty-five or more ... Moreover, Tilden, Hall, and Noyes were all yeoman, acutely aware of the value of their freeholds and doubtless reluctant to give them up. Some land might have to be sold or rented to acquire the cash to pay for provisions and passage, but since their estates were clearly substantial, they could afford to retain some portion of them. [3] Citations to probate materials will be given by county, followed by a docket number, if the original will or inventory survives ... Peter Noyes, Middlesex no. 16074. For Noyes, see also Sumner Chilton Powell, Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town (Middletown, Conn., 1963), 5. (page 125) Nathaniel Tilden, Nicholas Butler, and Peter Noyes -- who had all been called yeomen in England -- concluded that their freehold ownership of substantial New England estates (and, perhaps, their ability to leave the task of actually working those farms to others) entitled them to assume the rank of gentleman. [75] [75] The term "yeoman" did not have a precise legal definition in this period, but it generally indicated freehold status .... Tilden was labeled a gentleman in his inventory ... as was Noyes in his (Middlesex County, docket no. 16074) .... Although Tilden, Butler, and Noyes called themselves yeoman at the time of their voyages, their English estates may not have been held exclusively as freeholds. Noyes, for instance, held land in copyhold in Weyhill, Hampshire; see Powell, Puritan Village.
Powell: "On the twenty-sixth of March, 1638, Peter Noyes, yeoman of the parish of Weyhill, Hampshire, gave his land back to the Lord of the Manor. No longer would he help his Hampshire neighbors erect fences around the common fields in the spring or watch the plow teams turn furrows in the rich loam. Noyes had decided. He was taking his eldest son to visit New England in the expectation of moving his family from Weyhill forever...
"Noyes was destined to be a founder of a New England town, a leader of men in every sense of the word. As such, he was to be responsible for over six hundred and fifty separate 'orders,' carrying the weight of law and often of power of life and death over his townsmen. For a yeoman from a small West Country village, this was an awesome challenge.
"Peter Noyes chose this role deliberately. He was not 'harried out of the land.' Far from it. He took his steps cautiouslu but firmly; he had courage. and he had vision. He could easily have remained with the Tarrants and the other members of his own family, none of whom favored the activities of Archbishop Laud and his 'popish' ceremonies.
"Noyes did not rush away impetuously either. Members of another Noyes family, undoubtedly related to Peter, had been deeply involved in the religious controversies of the period and had left five years previous from Weyhill in Cholderton, Wiltshire, their activities must have been well known to Peter.
"The Cholderton Noyes family had been in the midst of the struggle over church reformation. The Reverend William Noyes, an Oxford graduate, had died in 1622, and the rectorship of the village church had gone to his son Nathan, also an Oxford Bachelor of Arts. Nathan's uncle, Robert, was a prominent yeoman in the town, as was his older brother Ephraim, But the two younger brothers had drunk deep of the Nonconformist brew, despite the fact that James had followed his father and elder brother to Oxford. Perhaps their cousin, the Reverend Thomas Parker, had fanned their rebellious spirits, for James, aged twenty-five, and Nicholas, aged eighteen, had decided to forsake Cholderton for Massachusetts.
"The records do not say whether these members of the family had visited Peter Noyes in Weyhill or had passed through the village on their way to their port of embarkation, London. They do state, however, that the families knew one another. [1]
"By 1637, then, Peter Noyes had heard news about New England. But however impressed, Peter displayed the shrewdness which characterized many of his later actions. During the year 1637-1638, he rented two of his four properties in Weyhill to his sister Dorothy, wife of John Waterman in Tangleu, Southampton, probably to gain money for his passage and expenses.Then taking £80 from a Mrs. Agnes Bent in Weyhill, who wished to accompany Peter in due time, Noyes sailed from Southampton in April, 1638, in the ship 'Confidence,' taking three servants, his eldest son and daughter, and his neighbor, John Bent. Noyes had not forgotten, however, to retain property near Andover, which paid him a yearly rent of about £20.
"On arrival in Watertown in 1638, Noyes was granted plowland, meadow, upland, and an outlaying lot of seventy acres. Impressed by the possibilities of the area, Noyes returned to Weyhill to dispose of all business. He gathered his family, old Mrs. Bent, and a few others, then headed back to New England." [2]
1. Col. Henry E. Noyes, ed., _Genealogical Record of Some of the Noyes Descendants of James, Nicholas and Peter Noyes_ (Boston, 1904), I, 43-44. Both men finally settled in Newbury, Mass. Both became freeman, while Nicholas served as deacon of the First Church and deputy of the General Court. A deposition of 1652, a copy of which is in the Weyhill Rectory MMS, attests to the fact that both Nicholas Noyes and other inhabitants of Newbury, Mass. knew various families in Wehill, Hants., and knew of the details of their trips to New England.
2. Weyhill Rectory MMS. Indenture of P. Noyes, 1652: Middlesex County Court, Registry of Deeds, III 292-293; Middlesex County Probate Records, VIII, 425.
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| Person ID |
I3680 |
Noyes Family Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
27 Jun 2019 |
| Father |
NOYES Thomas, b. Abt 1563, Weyhill, Hampshire, England d. Bef 10 Jul 1627, Charleton, Devonshire, England (Age ~ 64 years) |
| Mother |
[BLAKE] Dorothy, b. Abt 1559 d. Yes, date unknown (Age ~ 74 years) |
| Marriage |
Bef 1587 [14, 15] |
- Based on birth of dau. Anne.
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| Family ID |
F9446 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 2 |
SMITH Elizabeth d. Yes, date unknown |
| Marriage |
18 Nov 1622 |
Chieveley, Berkshire, England [5, 8, 11, 17] |
- Based on birth of first child.
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| Children |
| | 1. NOYES Thomas, c. 17 Nov 1623, Weyhill, Hampshire, England d. 7 Dec 1666, Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States (Age ~ 43 years) |
| | 2. NOYES Elizabeth, c. 19 Apr 1625, Weyhill, Hampshire, England d. Yes, date unknown |
| | 3. NOYES Dorothy, c. 23 Apr 1627, Weyhill, Hampshire, England d. 8 Apr 1715, Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States (Age ~ 87 years) |
| | 4. NOYES Abigail, c. 4 Feb 1628/9, Weyhill, Hampshire, England d. Yes, date unknown |
| | 5. NOYES Peter, Jr., c. 18 Jan 1630/1, Weyhill, Hampshire, England d. Yes, date unknown |
| | 6. NOYES Joseph, c. 13 Jun 1633, Weyhill, Hampshire, England d. Bef 2 Apr 1661, Barbados, West Indies (Age ~ 27 years) |
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| Family ID |
F1301 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
23 Feb 2024 |
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| Event Map |
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 | Christening - 30 Aug 1590 - Andover, Hampshire, England |
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 | Emigration - 11 Apr 1638 - London, City of London, Greater London, England |
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| Documents |
 | The English Ancestry of Peter Noyes
Paul C. Reed and Dean Crawford Smith, NEHG Register, Vol. 152, July, 1998. "The English Ancestry of Peter Noyes" (Boston: N.E. Historic Genealogical Society; 1998), pages 259-284
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| Sources |
- [S149] Book-Savage, Vol. 3, p.298.
- [S237] Book-New England's Generation: The Great Migratio, p.41.
- [S241] Book-Puritan Village.
- [S469] Register-English Ancestry of Peter Noyes, p.283.
- [S1237] Periodical-NEHGR, Vol. 150 Page 152 "The Search for Shadrack Hapgood".
- [S255] Book-Pioneers of Massachusetts, p.333.
- [S1629] Book-Descendants of Walter Haynes and Peter Noyes, p.4.
- [S177] Periodical-The American Genealogist, Whole Number 357; January 2018; Vol. 90, No. 1 Page 34 "The Ancestry of Elizabeth (Smith) Noyes, Wife of Peter Noyes of Sudbury, Massachusetts" by Leslie Mahler, FASG and Nathan W. Murphy, AG, FASG.
- [S103] Book-Noyes-The Noyes Descendants, Vol. II, p.228.
- [S1237] Periodical-NEHGR, Vol. 150 Page 141 "The Search for Shadrack Hapgood".
- [S103] Book-Noyes-The Noyes Descendants, Vol. II, p.227.
- [S47] CD-NEHG Register, Vol. 17, Jul 1863, p. 254.
- [S680] Book-VR Sudbury, MA, p.318.
- [S469] Register-English Ancestry of Peter Noyes, p.282.
- [S1237] Periodical-NEHGR, Vol. 150 Page 150 "The Search for Shadrack Hapgood".
- [S47] CD-NEHG Register, 47:72.
- [S175] Book-Torrey; NE Marriages Prior to 1700, p.541.
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