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He was educated in the public schools, and at the age of fourteen began learning the shoe business, and with others began the manufacture of shoes in 1893, continuing until 1898, when the firm was incorporated as the Ashe, Noyes & Small Co. He is independent in politics, and belongs to the Masons and to the Brotherhood of Protective Order of Elks.

Children born in Milford, Hudson, and Marlboro, MA.

Born say 1473; died ca. 1528, about which time his son William is stated to have begun occupying land belonging to the Rectory of Urchfont. William was mentioned in the Court Rolls of Urchfont in 1498; he was farming the manor of Urchfont in 1510/11, and was named as a juror there on 15 April 1512. In 1513, he held the manor and rectory of Urchfont of the Abbess of St. Mary, Winchester, and still occupied the demesne lands and rectory in 1518. He was first in a view of frankpledge at "Erchfont" 11 April 8 Henry VIII [1517], was mentioned also in 1519 and 1520, and ws listed at "Ercheffounte" in the subsidy of 14 & 15 Henry VIII [1523-24].

Robert Noyes, gentleman, has kept and pastured in Inlandes 5 horses, as if belonging to the Rectory of Erchfount; George Mortimer, occupier of the demesne lands of the manor belonging to site of manor or capital messuage, has pastured and kept 21 horses as in right of said demesne; and whereas William Noyes who had held and occupied as well the said demesne land as the land of the Rectory for 30 years in I Elizabeth, and before him William Noyes his father, grandfather of said Robert Noyes, occupied the same for many years, and Robert Noyes himself for 28 years past, and put only 21 horses on the said common pasture, the Inlands, one of them oppresses the pasture with foresaid horses; and at the next court the truth thereof is to be presented. [ADD ROLL 19,736 View of Frankpledge and Court at Erchfount 12 April, 31 Elizabeth]

Living 8 Nov. 1534 when he was a plaintiff in a Chancery Proceeding (C1/861/87-91). William was the founder of the extensive Shipton branch of the Noyes family.

WN & Q vol 5 pgs 446/7

[ADD ROLL 19,736 View of Frankpledge and Court at Erchfount 12 April, 31Elizabeth]

Robert Noyes, gentleman, has kept and pastured in Inlandes 5 horses, as if belonging to the Rectory of Erchfount; George Mortimer, occupier of the demesne lands of the manor belonging to site of manor or capital messuage, has pastured and kept 21 horses as in right of said demesne;and whereas William Noyes who had held and occupied as well the said demesne land as the land of the Rectory for 30 years in I Elizabeth, and before him William Noyes his father, grandfather of said Robert Noyes,occupied the same for many years, and Robert Noyes himself for 28 years past, and put only 21 horses on the said common pasture, the Inlands, one of them oppresses the pasture with foresaid horses; and at the next court the truth thereof is to be presented.

[This excerpt proves the existence of two generations of William Noyes.It was previously thought the references to William Noyes to be the same person.]

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Individual: Noyes, William
Birth date: Abt 1500
Birth place: ENG
CD# 100

Will made 1557. Purchased the prebend of Urchfont in 1540 from the Earl
of Hertford, afterwards Protector Somerset. The Noyes family of Urchfont
was the same stock as that of Cholderton.

Executor of his mother's will. Founder of the extensive Shipton branch of the Noyes family.

William was sole executor to his father, but did not fare well. On 28 Nov. 42 Eliz. I [1599], Richard Godwin stated that William Noyes' wife was "a misliving woman, and had hired a man to have killed her husband." She left him for "the minister of the same town, and so lived from her husband about two years." [The minister of Weyhill from at least 1568 through his death in 1617 was Richard Combes (PRO C24/275/71)]. John Noyes, William's brother, in a deposition dated 31 May 42 Eliz. I [1600] swore that he had both personal knowledge and had heard "by the common speech of the country" that Christopher Read, carpenter, "hath of long time been vehemently suspected to live lewdly" with William's wife. But it was she who on the advice of Peter Noyes, attorney, persuaded her estranged husband William to sue to regain Blissmore Hall. He was to lose his main possessions, having settled Blissmore Hall on his nephew Peter, who was in turn supposed to pay either £53 or about 24 marks (according to differing accounts) to William's two daughters. But William then sued Peter on the advice of their cousin Peter Noyes, Attorney of the Court of Common Pleas. William Noyes was prisoner in the King's Bench in July 1618, when he stated he "Is sorry he has given offence, having always found the proportion of men and arms for which he was assessed; being eighty years old, ill, and in debt, prays to be discharged further attendance..."

He succeeded to the manor of Ramridge. Ramridge Court Rolls note the following: Oliver Livingston, the master, and two chaplains and 13 poor men of Eweime Almhouse entered into bond on 8 Dec. 1570 to William Noyes of Ramrugge yeoman [sic] in £400 to allow and grant their capital messuage and manor of Ramridge to the said William as by the lease thereof made to him. The lease was dated the same day and was for a term of 18 years [1570-1588] at a rent of £8 6s 8d. Another lease made 4 June 1592 demised to William Noyes of Rumridge, gentleman, four coppices called Lady Cops, Rydynge Cops, Pound Cops, and Shephouse Cops, in the manor of Ramridge and all trees thereon to have and hold to him during the lives of his son William and his daughters Sarah and Katherine for an annual rent of £4. William Noyes, farmer of the lord [of Ramridge] was fined 6d on 28 June 1592. William Noies of RAmridge, gentleman, entered into a bond of £1,000 on 17 June 1610 to the master and poor men of Ewelme not to interfere with the copyhold lands or courts of the manor of Ramridge, which manor and capital messuage of the same they had demised to him.

NEHG Register, Vol. 149: William Noyes Rev. Born, 1568. Died, before the 30th of April 1622, in Cholderton, Wilts, England (near the edge of Hants, between Amesbury in the west and Andover in Hampshire). William Noyes, plebian, was matriculated, age 20, at University College, Oxford, 15 Nov 1588, being admitted to the B.A. degree 31 May 1592. He was instituted rector of Cholderton in 1601, according to the Salisbury "Diocesan Register".

Rev. Cotton Mather, pastor of the North Church in Boston, provides an insight into the character of William Noyes while describing, from a contemporary viewpoint, the early education of Ann's nephew, Rev. Thomas Parker.
"This Mr. Thomas Parker was the only son of his father, who was very desirous to have him a scholar, committed him unto perhaps a godly, but a very severe master [Rev. William Noyes]. Under this hard master, though he was well nigh discouraged by the dulness which he apprehended in his own capacity, yet the consideration of his father's desire made him, with an early piety, to join his prayers unto his pains, that he might have his education prospered; and God so prospered him, that he arrived unto a desirable degree of knowledge, both in tongues and in arts." [Magnalia Christi Americana (Hartford, 1855), 1:480-488].

William's grandson, Rev. Nicholas Noyes, of Salem, Massachusetts, told Rev. Cotton Mather that his grandfather was "a very learned man", whose wife was a sister of the learned Mr. Robert Parker.

The register of the Diocese shows that he officiated in the Parish from 1602 to 1620, at which time he resigned. He was then appointed Attorney General to the King. In 1621, he was succeeded as rector by his son Nathan. Despite his scholarly ways, either Rev. William Noyes failed to keep a parish register for Cholderton, or the book has been lost. When Mr. Samuel Heskins became rector in 1651, he felt it necessary to begin a new book and recorded somewhat erroneous information concerning William and his son Nathan. In the NEHG Register, Vol. 42, Oct 1888, p.403 Edward Deering Noyes received a letter from the current Rector of Cholderton, Rev. Edwin P. Barrow in which is the following extract from the Registry Book: "Mr. William Noyes Rector of Choldington about 30 years departed this life anno 1616. Mr. Nathan Noyes succeeded his father in the Rectorie of Choldrington and departed this life in ye year 1651." Among the burials extracted from the register is "Mrs. Ann Noyes, widow & Relict of Mr. William Noyes sometime Rector of Choldrington, March 7, 1657, age 82. The present parish register was begun only in 1651, but a complete list of the incumbents from 1297 is preserved in the Salisbury Diocesan Register. The following records are taken from the "Parish Notes," published in 1889 by Rev. Edwin P. Barrow, the then rector.

"The Church of St. Nicholas, Cheldreton, was given to the Monks of St. Neots (Huntingdonshire) about 1175 by Roger Burnard, and the grant was confirmed by Pope Alexander III. In 1380, 1399 and 1401 John Skylling, lord of the manor, was also patron of the church, probably by temporary grants from the Convent. In 1445 it was again in St. Neots' Priory, but seems to have been finally alienated to John Skylling about 1449." Through several patrons it came to Sir Thomas Lovell, lord of the manor, in 1492 and 1494. John Thornborough was patron in 1567, and by him and Giles Hutchins the living was given to William Noyes. Rev. William Noyes became rector just before the death of Queen Elizabeth and held the living until his death. In 1840, the old church was pulled down

Cholderton is a small town on the Bourne, about eleven miles from Salisbury, which contains the great Salisbury Cathedral, built in the year 1220 A.D., whose lofty tower overlooks the dead Roman city of Sarum and "Stonehenge." the ruins of the wonderful pre-historic temple of the ancient Celtic Druids, in the midst of the Salisbury Plain. Nearby is Wilton House, the seat of the Earl of Pembroke. It is sometimes called West Cholderton, to distinguish it from Cholderton, Hampshire, which is known as East Cholderton.

He married Ann Parker, who was a sister of Rev. Robert Parker, a learned Puritan divine, and a graduate of Oxford, who was driven to Holland for "non-conformity" to Queen Elizabeth's forms.

He died intestate before 30 April 1622, when an inventory of his estate was made. 28 May 1622, his widow Anne was appointed administratrix (Court of Archdeacon of Sarum).

NEHG Register, Vol. 149: The inventory of "all the goods & cattles of Wm Noise clarck l[ate of] of West Choldrington in the County of Wiltsh[ire] taken and prized by John Bacheler & Richard Noyse the 30th of Aprill 1622" included:
Imprimis his wearing app[ar]ell & money in his purse s
Item in the Chamber ov[er] the hall
2 bedsteds i chest i flasket one little binery bord
i bedpan 2 old coffers i forme & other old household implents viiis iiij
Item linnen iijs
Item 2 old flock beds 2 flock pillowes
a fether bolster 3 little fether pillowes
3 blankets & 2 cov[er]leds, one pound and halfe of fethers xxs
Item in the chamber ov[er] the buttry
2 old bedsteads a peece of a presse and
a few other household implements ijs
Item in the buttry
1 old combe, i old barrell 3 little tables
2 old formes 1 little hiver 1 old powdring tub
search i seeve, i peck, i peele i torne i pewter platter
2 sawcers one old pottinger 1 chamber pott one little brasen candlestick
1 little old pot 2 little skillets & other old household implem[en]ts vjs
Item in the kitchen
one little bord, 2 old formes 1 frying pan, 1 greeiron
1 brech one tramell 1 pothanger one cradle 1 chaire
1 driping pan and a fewe other household implem[en]ts iijs iiijd
Item in the backside
one capon and 4 hens one old rack and 2 or three old troughs iijs
Item 2 bushels of wheate and a little bacon viijs

The total was an extremely modest £3, 2 shillings, 8 pence. We may assume that he had disposed of his library and other valuables before his death. Anne Noyse took administration with a bond, dated 28 May 1622 and co-signed in a well-educated hand by Cuthbert Parker, yeoman, of Whitchbury, Hampshire, presumable Anne's brother; both used heraldic seals.

James Frazier, in 1847, was rector of Cholderton, and in 1870 Bishop of Chester in 1884, and Bishop of Oxford, in 1888. The advowson of the rectory of Cholderton now belongs to the Provost and Fellows of Oriel College, Oxford, having come into their possession in 1698.

His brother, Richard Noyes, of Cholderton, yeoman, made his will 25 Aug 1639, in which he mentions widow Sara. Another brother, Robert Noyes, yeoman, born in 1570, died 20 Jan 1659, and was buried at Cholderton. The will of Richard Noyes of Manningford Bruce, in the diocese of Sarum, 2 Feb 1590, mentions "the sons of Robert Noyes of Cholderton." This Robert may have been the father of William, Richard, and Robert Noyes. Richard Noyes of Manningford Bruce was son of William Noyes of Urchfont, yeoman (will 1557), who purchased the prebend of Urchfont in 1540, from the Earl of Hertford, afterwards Protector Somerset. The Noyes family of Urchfont was of the same stock as that of Cholderton.

NEHG Register, Vol. 12, Jul 1858, p. 276. "Examination of a Register of the diocese of Sarum, from early in the 13th century, printed by Sir Thomas Philips, a distinguished Antiquary, but never published, helped James Savage, Esq. to one or two of our New England divines from Wiltshire: Wilielmus Noyes p.m. at the church of Choldrington 1602, and Nathaniel Noyes p.r. Wm Noyes at the church of West Chaldrington 1621. He states that p.m. is an abbreviation for per mortem and p.r. for per resignationem.

He was prominent in church affairs holding the office of deacon for many years. He served in his brother Capt. Thomas Noyes' Company of "Snowshoe men" during the Indian wars. He is first mentioned in the town records as taking oath of allegiance in 1678, being then twenty-five years of age.

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July 11, 1760 William Noyes (cordwainer) buys house and land of John Lowell. (SD 95:73). North St. between. July 12, 1760 William Noyes (cordwainer) mortgages to John Lowell (clerk) land, and house and buildings thereon, North End, N. Fish St., W. land and flats of John Harris, S. the sea, E. land and flats of Joseph Glidden, late William Clarke's, running from sd street to the sea. Cancelled October 30, 1766. (SD 95:74). October 1, 1761 Estate of William Noyes: John Downe (merchant), Adm. of the estate of William Noyes (cordwainer), deed to Abraham Foster (cabinet maker) who was the highest bidder, house, land, and buildings, North End; N. Fish St., W. land and flats of John Harris, late Hannah Carlisle, S. the sea, E. land and flats of Joseph Glidden, late William Clarke's, running from sd street down to the sea, whatsoever the width or breadth may be; it being the whole right and interest that Sarah Turell and Rachel Hunt, two of the daughters of Capt. Thomas Moon, were entitled in their father's estate on the lower side of Fish St. (SD 96:265). North St. between Richmond and Sun Court Sts.

He was admitted to Braintree Church Feb. 7, 1739 but removed to Boston & died there 1760.

Children born in Stonington and Groton, Conn.

For 30 years an associate Judge of the New London County Court, endowed with strong mental powers, distinguished for activity discretion, integrity & firmness: he filled various public offices with honor to himself & much advantage to the community with honor to himself & much advantage to the community & the Church of God: Exemplifying through a long life in various stations, the domestic, social, public and Christian virtues: & not ashamed of the gospel of Christ; he closed life with calmness & a well founded hope of immortality through the Redeemer.

It is said that Judge Noyes "was a tall, grave man, the terror of Sabbath-breakers. He never allowed a traveler to pass through Lyme on the Lord's Day without some extraordinary excuse. He was strictly conventional. When on horseback with his grown-up sons, the latter never presumed to ride on a line with him, but always at a respectful distance behind."

Noyes, William. Private, Capt. Jonathan Evans's co., Col. Nathaniel Wade's regt.; enlisted July 8, 1778; discharged Jan. 1, 1779; service, 6 mos., at North Kingston, R. I., including 6 days (115 miles) travel home; roll sworn to at Newburyport; <i>also</i>, same co. and regt.; muster roll dated North Kingston, Nov. 6, 1778; <i>also</i>, same co. and regt.; muster rolls dated East Greenwich, Sept. 17, Sept. 22, Oct. 14, and Nov. 13, 1778; enlistment to expire Jan. 1, 1779. [Mass. Soldiers & Sailors In The War of The Revolution 11:559]

Noyes, William. Private, Capt. Jonathan Poor's co.; copy of a company return [year not given]; copy of a receipt dated Newbury, March 18, 1777, signed by [p.559] others of said company, for wages for 6 weeks service, appears on reverse of return. [Mass. Soldiers & Sailors In The War of The Revolution 11:559]

Noys, William. Major's co., Col. Bradford's (14th) regt.; entered service July 10, 1779; discharged March 10, 1780; term, 9 months. [Mass. Soldiers & Sailors In The War of The Revolution 11:560]

Noys, William. Private, Capt. Thomas Mighill's co., Col. Nathaniel Wade's regt.; enlisted July 5, 1780; discharged Oct. 10, 1780; service, 3 mos. 18 days, including 12 days (240 miles) travel home; company raised in Newbury, Rowley, and Ipswich; regiment raised in Essex Co. to reinforce Continental Army for 3 months. [Mass. Soldiers & Sailors In The War of The Revolution 11:560]

William and Elizabeth lived in Norwich, NY.

Noyes, William, Died GRD Sergeant LINE New York ((Noris) Pencil Notation) Warrent # 7543 Acreage: 100 Issued: July 16 1790 to Philip V. Cortlandt ADMR. [Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900, William Noyes; M804 Roll # 1832 Cell # 1992 (www.nara.gov )]

William Noyes, b. Apr 13 1743 CT. d. Aug 28 1798 NY. m. Elizabeth Gillet, NY BLWT.7543.ISS. 7/16/1790 to Philip V. Cortlandt, Admr. No Papers (NOTE: 'No Papers' could mean that nothing survived when Britian burned the Capital) ['Index of Revolutionary War Pension Applications in the National Archives' Bicentennial ed., rev. & enl. Washington : National Genealogical Society, 1976. (www.loc.gov) # CS42 .N43 no. 40]

One of the first members of the Second Company Governor's Foot Guard and went to the Lexington Alarm under Capt. Benedict Arnold.

Graduated at Yale College, 1781.

Individual: Noyes, William
Birth date: May 18, 1770
Birth place: NY
CD# 100

Clergyman who preached for the Free Will Baptists in many towns in New Hampshire and Vermont.

William  NOYES, m. Sally Daniels of this town, and spent the last of his life here. He was the son of Bela  Noyes, an early settler in Norway, and for many years kept a hotel at "Greenwood City."

Other families of this name were quite early here, but did not remain long enough to be much identified with the town. John  Noyes, with a large family was here when the census of 1821 was taken.

from "Greenwood City in the Forties"
by Addison E. Verrill
Oxford County Advertiser, Norway, Maine August 7, 1914

"...
One of the taverns was kept by William Noyes, a very stout or "pussy" man and rather jovial. He afterwards moved to Paris and became a farmer, losing thereby much of his stoutness. The other early tavern was built by my grandfather, Hilborn and it was occupied by him for several years, about 1830 to 1836. My parents were married in that house in 1835. ...

William Noyes; His Son Stephen.
Probably every traveller that passed the night in the village, during many years, always remembered Bill Noyes, as he was called, for he kept the only tavern there for many years after the others were gone. He married, first, Sarah (or Sally) Daniels of Paris, second, her sister, daughter of John Daniels. He was an enormously fat man, weighing over 300 pounds, and he was jovial in proportion. His loud laugh could be heard all over the village, and his barroom was a favorite place for loafing and swapping lies.
He had a son, Stephen, about my age. When all the boys were playing in the street, not far away, games of 'round ball,' pitching quiots or horseshoes, 'busting wheels', and other favorite games, Mr. Noyes would usually appear at his bar-room door and call loudly: 'Stephen' and then louder 'Stephen' until Stephen finally answered. Then he invariably called back: 'Stephen, go to your mother!' Stephen usually replied: I can't, Sir.' His father would call: 'Why not?' Stephen would again reply: 'Can't do it, I'm swelled, Sir.' - Then the old man would laugh loudly, go in and shut the door, for perhaps half an hour, when the same long distance dialogue would be repeated.
Wm. Noyes later became a farmer in Paris, where he lost much of his surplus flesh. He was a brother of Bela Noyes of Norway, who met a tragic death by fire. Stephen later became a brakeman on the railroad."

"William Noyes, son of Nathan A., came to this town from Bow, N.H., with his father at an early age. He married Hannah Folsom, of Tunbridge, October 31, 1811, by whom he had two children, Asenath F. and Freeman W. He bought the land and felled the first trees on the farm in the extreme eastern part of the town where he resided until his death, aged eighty-one years."

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Individual: Noyes, William
Birth date: Jul 23, 1784
Birth place: ENG
CD# 100

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Individual: Noyes, William
Birth date: Feb 1791
Birth place: ENG
CD# 100

Served in the War of 1812.

William NOYES was a lucky drawer in the 1827 land lottery for Lot 3, Section 3, district 3 Troup county which is currently in Harris county. William, his wife Obedience (NEEL) (also called Beedy), and son Simeon (age 7-8) received their land April 3, 1832.

Family history is that William, Beedy, and Simeon were in this area until 1834 when William died shortly before the birth of his second son, also called William, who was born in September 1834. After William's death, Beedy returned to Early County, GA, where she lived with her father Jonathan NEEL until her marriage in 1836 to Littleton BARKS.

William Noyes (Born August 5, 1795 in Newburyport, Essex Co., MA) and Obediance Neal (Born about 1801 in Early Co., GA) were married in Georgia. William Noyes, moved to West Florida after his marriage, and settled in Jackson County, West Florida. His marriage, and move to Florida, prior to 1825, is documented by Joel W. Perry, Early County Georgia’s first historian in his book "Some Pioneer History of Early County", which covered the years 1817 - 1867.

William Noyes is also identified, with wife Obedience and son Simion(Under 5 years), in the 1830 Census, Florida, Jackson County, page 84.

In The Territorial Papers of the United States, Volume XXIV, The Territory of Florida 1828-1834, page 489 is a memorial to congress by citizens of the territory, dated January 1831. This document requests that the congress consider the establishment and construction of an armory at a location identified as the town of Ocheesee in Jackson county situated on the West Bank of the Apalachacola River. Among the signees to this petition is William Noyes.

A specific identified Florida Pioneer is Simeon Thomas Noyes. His descendent, William Charles Henderson, County Certificate #C245, #C246, #C247 (Okaloosa) has traced Simeon Noyes as currently documented in Florida Pioneers and their Decendents, Volume 1, By Anne Wood Taylor, Florida State Genealogical Society (FSGS) Publication #4, 1992, pages 93, 94.

William Noyes died shortly before the birth of his son William Noyes according to notes from Maud Elizabeth Noyes, grandaughter. After Willam Noyes' death, Obedience married L. H. Barks.

Source: Early Joel by Robert P. Dews page 85: "Mark Snellgrove and a Mr. Noyes married two of Jonathan Neal's daughters previous to 1825. Noyes went to West Florida"
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Source: 1830 Census Jackson Co., FL written page 166, printed page 84:
William Noyce
1 m under 5 yrs
1 m of 30 and under 40
1 f of 20 and under 30 total 3 in household
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Source: Territorial Papers of the United States, Compiled and edited by Clarence Edwin Carter, Volume XXIV, The territory of Florida 1828-1834, pages 489-493. William Noyes signs a petition to House of Representatives for an arsenal to be installed on coast of Florida. Petition dated January, 1831.
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Individual: Noyes, William
Birth date: Jul 1797
Birth place: ENG
CD# 100

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Individual: Noyes, William
Birth date: Mar 1800
Birth place: ENG
CD# 100

He was the first printer of the "Maine Farmer" and head of the firm Wm. Noyes and Co. "The Maine Farmer" was originally called the "Kennebec Farmer and Journal of the Useful Arts" and its first issue was dated January 21, 1833. At the time, there was already another different paper being published, called "The Maine Farmer". That paper went out of print a short time later and the "Kennebec Farmer" changed its name to the "Maine Farmer on March 18, 1833. It was an eight page paper, the size of the printed page being 9 1-2 by 7 3-4 inches. The motto of the first number was "Our Home, our Country, and our Brother Man." Its original publishers were William Noyes and Co., the terms being $2 per annum, if paid in advance.
When Mr. Noyes and Company started the "Maine Farmer" the subscription list was 200. The editors of the "Maine Farmer" downplayed William Noyes' role and seemed to place him in the shadow of Dr. Ezekiel Holmes who, according to them, was the real father of the paper. Dr. Holmes was a benevolent man, but with no real head for business. He was descended from John Alden and Priscilla Mullens and was also a founder of the University of Maine. Mr. Noyes was the businessman, and for more than fifty years was connected with the Maine press. Noyes entered the printing office of Joseph Griffin of Brunswick, Maine and served an apprenticeship of seven years which terminated in 1821. After his graduation he worked in Boston, Nashua and Halowell. William Noyes was printer of "The Farmer" for the first eleven years, and, in 1844, sold out at no profit to Mr. Russell Eaton who moved the paper to Augusta, Maine. In 1845, in company with Mr. Lewis O. Cowan, Mr. Noyes started the "Union" at Biddeford, Maine, later called the "Union and Journal". They were burned out in 1847; the following year the partnership was dissolved and Mr. Noyes opened a job printing office in Biddeford. He subsequently engaged in several newspaper enterprises, the last of which was the "York County Independent" at Saco, Maine. In 1880 he retired and returned to Biddeford.

["Maine Farmer" 2 Dec 1843] (former owner of the "Maine Farmer) "the subscriber offers for sale the house he now lives in. There is attached to the house a wood shed, barn & something short of two acres of excellent land, with a small orchard, principally grafted. Said property will be sold at a great bargain."

Children born in Montpelier and Northfield, Vermont.

The Sunday Rutland Herald and Sunday Times Argus, dated May 21, 2000, reported he served in the Civil War and that his son was Wallace "William" Noyes who won the Medal of Honor at Spotsylvania.

He was drafted into the civil war at the age of 45, rank Private, 13th Vermont Infantry, Company I.

Name: William Noyes ,
Residence: Montpelier, Vermont
Enlistment Date: 25 August 1862
Distinguished Service: DISTINGUISHED SERVICE
Side Served: Union
State Served: Vermont
Death Date: 18 April 1900
Death Place: Montpelier, VT
Unit Numbers: 3024 3024
Service Record: Enlisted as a Private on 25 August 1862 at the age of 45
Enlisted in Company I, 13th Infantry Regiment Vermont on 10 October 1862.
Received a disability discharge Company I, 13th Infantry Regiment Vermont on 18 February 1863 in Brattleboro, VT

Early in his life William Noyes worked in his brother's comb shop; later, he learned the machinist's trade in Lowell and came back to West Newbury to form an 1841 partnership with Haydn Brown in the manufacture of tortise-shell combs. Three years later he joined his relative Somerby Chase Noyes in the latter's already-established West Newbury comb factory called S.C. Noyes and Company. This firm thrived on innovation, a major example of which was the machinery William Noyes invented both during and after his direct involvement with the firm. In the late 1850s he devised a machine to cut teeth in rubber, and the company engaged in a highly profitable rubber comb business until rubber supply problems forced it once again to work exclusively with horn. Franchising of the right to use the rubber-cutting machine was yet another source of profit.

William Noyes ended his direct participation in S.C. Noyes and Company in 1846, although he renewed his affiliation in the years from 1853 to 1862 and retained a fnancial interest in the firm until 1863. During that seenteen-year period, his professional comings and goings rivaled, in the restlessness they displayed, the globetrotting of his brother David a generation earlier. He worked on designs for small steam engines in West Newbury. He organized a new comb company. He spent some time in Newark, New Jersey. He returned to S.C. Noyes and Company in 1853, leaving nine years later to start a nursery which very quickly failed. His principal accomplishment during those years in the wilderness was the rubber-cutting machine of 1859. A record of his successive - if not successful - ventures following an 1863 move to Newburyport would be tedious, confusing, and illustrative primarily of the summary of his character offered in Doyle's "Comb Making in America': "...concentrated effort and patience in studying out details were lacking. He was not content to work over his inventions and improve them by degrees, but hastened from one to another. Could William Noyes in his youth have been trained to perfect one thing before beginning another, his success would have known no limits.

In 1871 William Noyes joined his sons William H. and Davis F. Noyes, in yet another comb makng business in Newburyport. Except for a few brief absences during which he worked elsewhere in the comb industry, the aging inventor stayed with the Newburyport firm until his death in 1885.

HISTORY OF WILLIAM NOYES AND HISTORY OF LETTIS COCKCROFT NOYES

Drafts made by Maud Elizabeth (Noyes) Johnson (granddaughter of William & Lettis Noyes) with corrections by Maud Alexandria (Noyes) Miller (daughter of William and Lettis Noyes).
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Transmitted to Joan Luella (Noyes)Berry with note from Maud Elizabeth (Noyes) Johnson in 1977:

William Noyes
1834-1882

" William Noyes was born in _________Georgia Sept. 3, 1834. He carried only the one name of William. His father was from some place in Illinois and folks in the South spoke of him as a Yankee. He died before the birth of his son William.
William had one older brother, Simm T. Noyes, one younger half brother and two younger half sisters named Barks. Simm T. Noyes' address in 1907 was Miligan, Fla. and at the same time the half brother, L. H. Barks Jr., was living in Crestview, Watton County, Fla.
William Noyes married Lettis Lucinda Cockcroft in Aug 6. 1856. They went to school together in Florida. Soon after their marriage they moved to Alabama. When the first child, Erencis, was due, Lettis went back to the home of her parents in Miligan, Florida, for the birth of the baby. They later moved to Limekiln, near Selma, Alabama, and at the end of the Civil War were living in Randolph, Alabama, where William was working as a pattern maker. They also lived for a short while in Mobile, Alabama, and Pensacola, Florida. They moved to Texas in 1869, going first to Calvert. They moved then to Waco, where they lived in and around the city. They were living in the village of Bosqueville northwest of Waco in 1872 when Lettis was treated for catarrh by two quack doctors with medicine so strong that it destroyed the tissues of her nose. William was so angry and grieved over the disfigurement of his young and pretty wife that he wanted to kill the two quacks, but was persuaded not to do so by Lettis.
The family moved to Lampasas in December, 1874 and lived in East Lampasas in a small house just north of the hill on the old Miller homestead. The house was between the hill and the creek and not far from Gooch Spring. William was a carpenter and did work on several of the old landmarks in Lampasas, including the First National Bank. He also was for a time engaged in the rounding up and selling of wild horses which ran in Lampasas, Coryell, and Bell Counties.
William died of pneumonia January 23, 1882 and Lettis dies a victim of burns December 27, 1920.
William and Lettis were the parents of nine children.
Erencis was born in Miligan, Fla. September 16, 1847. She went by the nickname of 'Dandoo' in her family. She married James V. Page in ______ and had two children: Ethel, who died while a student in Baylor "College in Waco, and Bessie Eula, born May 12, 189? Erencis Marion _____________in Lampasas February 16, 1937 and was buried in Lampasas.
The second child, Elnora, born Nov. 26 1859, was married to James W. Page and had two children, both of whom died young. Elnora died in Lampasas in 1886 or 1887.
The third child was William who was born Sept. 12, 1869 and lived only two years.
The fourth child was Edgar Jerome, nicknamed 'Hon" who was born while the family was living in Limekiln, near Selma, Alabama, on October 28, 1864. He was not given a name until he was six years old when he named himself "Edgar" after a boy who worked in the foundry and who he greatly admired. He married Luella Turner, December 1, 1897 in Lampasas, to which union were born three children: Edgar Turner, August 26, 1898; Alvin Peter November 24, 1899; and Maude Elizabeth April 9, 1902.
The fourth child of Lettis and William Noyes was Lula Bell, born Dec. 22, 1867, died Jan. 11,1868.
Cora was the sixth child. She was born Aug 11, 1870. She married C. L. Jennings in Lampasas and died in childbirth in Miles, Texas, February, 1910.
Jess, called "Hat" was born in Bosqueville Feb. 11, 1876. She married R. D. Shofner and had two children: Mae, born July 7 and Jo, born__________. Jess died March 26, 1916 and was buried in Austin, Texas.
Viola, called "Mug" and "Mugs" was born in Lampasas. She was married to James H. Landrum and had four children, two of which died at birth. the other two are Ruth and James Fernando. Ruth was born Mar 7, 1910 . James, June 20, 1916.
Maud Alexandra,nicknamed "Toof", was born in Lampasas March 12, 1879. She was married to Fernando Miller October 7, 1908. There were no children. Maud died in Lampasas Jan. 19, 1959. Edgar Jerome died in Lampasas April 15, 1961.

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1860 Census, City of Pensacola, County of Escambia, State of Florida Written page 26, printed page No. 377-Reverse, Enumerator Jasper Gonzales, Enumerator Date 8th June 1860
dwelling house 192, family number 192
William Nosey 25 M W Carpenter b. in Georgia
Lettice " 21 F W b. in Ala
Irene " 3 F W b. in Fla
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1870 Census, the City of Waco, County McLenan, State Texas, written page 9-10, stamped or printed page no. 20, Enumerator Adalbert Tessen, enumerator date 21st June, 1870 dwelling house 64, family 65:
Noys, William 35 M W Carpenter born in Alabama

1870 Census, the City of Waco, County MeLennan, State of Texas, printed sheet #026,Enumerator Adalbert Tessen, date 23 June 1870, dwelling house 145, family 160:
Norris, Lucinda 30 F W Keeping House born in Alabama
", Francis 13 F W born in Florida
",Ellinor 10 F W born in Florida
", Robert 6 M W born in Alabama

Note by Joan Noyes Berry: Edger Jerome Noyes named himself after a little neighbor boy when he was nine year old. Robert in the above census is Edger Jerome Noyes!
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1880 Census, Justice Precinct No. 1, Lampasas, Texas written page 30, stampedor printed page 304, Eunumerator Dist. No. 85, Enumerator B. Lyman, Enumerator Date 16th & 29th June, 1880, dwelling 252, family 242:
Noyes, William W M 45 b GA,father b -- moth b-GA
", Lettie L. W F 40 wife b AL, father b SC moth b SC
", Erencius M. W F 22 dtr b FL, father b GA moth b AL
", Ellen A W F 20 dtr b FL, father b GA moth b AL
", Edward J W M 15 son b AL, father b GA moth b AL
", Cora L. W F 9 dtr b TX, father b GA moth b AL
", Jessie M. W F 7 dtr b TX, father b GA moth b AL
", Viola E. W F 4 dtr b TX, father b GA moth b AL
", Maud A. W F 1 dtr b TX, father b GA moth b AL
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They moved to Vernon County by covered wagon from Norborne, Carroll County, MO in about 1880, and then on to Cedar County, MO in about 1882. He was a farmer and loved to hunt and fish. They moved to Vernon County about 1909 and went to work in the railroad yards there.

Type of practice: Allopath Practice specialties: N Neurology, P Psychiatry
State/year of licenses: MA, 1894
Places/dates of practice: Boston, MA, 1885 Hospital affiliations: Boston Insane Hospital
Medical school: Harvard Medical School, Boston, 1885, (G)
Journal of the American Medical Asociation citation: 65:1568

[Brøderbund Family Archive #17, Ed. 1, Birth Records: United
States/Europe, Birth Records, AAI Birth Records Extraction, Date of
Import: Apr 27, 1996, Internal Ref. #1.17.1.24466.19]

Individual: Noyes, William
Birth date: Feb 18, 1873
Birth place: CA
CD# 110

Individual: Noyes, William
Birth date: Oct 8, 1879
Death date: Aug 1973
Social Security #: 368-22-2390
Last residence: MI 48910
State of issue: MI

Unmarried.

Bill was a member of the Coast Guard at the time of his marriage. He got out after four years of enlistment between the birth of his first and second children. He and Arlene lived in Seattle for the first couple of years. Then they moved to Mountlake Terrace (a suburb of Seattle). Bill retired from Seattle Metro where he had been a bus driver for about 40 years.