Rev. James Noyes

1640 - 1719  (79 years)

• Name	James Noyes
  Prefix	Rev.
  Birth	11 Mar 1640	Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts   [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
  Gender	Male
  Death	30 Dec 1719	Stonington, New London, Connecticut   [2, 3, 6, 7]
  Burial	Wequetequock Burial Ground, Stonington, New London, Connecticut   [2, 3]
  Siblings	1 sibling
  + 1. Deacon Joseph Noyes ,   b. 14 Oct 1637, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts d. 16 Nov 1717, Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts  (Age 80 years) ▻ Mary Darvill ,  m. 12 Nov 1662 ;  Mary ,  m. 14 Jul 1680 + 2. Rev. James Noyes ,   b. 11 Mar 1640, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts d. 30 Dec 1719, Stonington, New London, Connecticut  (Age 79 years) ▻ Dorothy Stanton ,  m. 11 Sep 1674
  Person ID	I335	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TNH
  Last Modified	12 Nov 2021

  
  

  Father	Rev. James Noyes,   b. 22 Oct 1608, Cholderton, Wiltshire, England d. 22 Oct 1656, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts (Age 48 years)
  Mother	Sarah Browne,   b. of Southampton, Hampshire, England d. 13 Sep 1691, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts
  Marriage	21 Mar 1634	Romsey, Hampshire, England   [1, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12]
  Family ID	F3526	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Dorothy Stanton,   b. 1651, Stonington, New London, Connecticut d. 18 Jan 1743, Stonington, New London, Connecticut (Age 92 years)
  Marriage	11 Sep 1674	Stonington, New London, Connecticut   [7, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17]
  Notes	They were married the day after the Rev. Noyes's ordination. Their wedding was officiated by Samuel Wyllys.
  Children	+ 1. Deacon John Noyes,   b. 13 Jan 1685, Stonington, New London, Connecticut d. 17 Sep 1751, Stonington, New London, Connecticut (Age 66 years)
  Family ID	F4019	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	12 Nov 2021

  
  

• Notes

  "Graduated at Harvard College and was ordained as pastor of the Congregational church in Stonington the day before his marriage. He was ordained 10 September 1674. He was associated with the First church from 1665-1719. He was a chaplain, 1676, in King Philip's War; Commissioner on Boundary with Rhode Island, 1699 and 1701. He was one of the trustees mentioned in the Act of 1701 that established Yale and was a Fellow of Yale 1700-1719." [Stanton Genealogy Database, citation details below] Anderson, Great Migration, confirms Harvard College 1659. "The Reverend James Noyes resided with the family of Thomas Stanton, Sr., until ordained 11 September 1674. The following day Rev. Noyes married Miss Dorothy Stanton, daughter of Thomas and Ann (Lord) Stanton. Rev. James Noyes was chaplain with Captain George Denison's expedition that captured Canonchet, Chief sachem of the Narragansett Indians, April 1676." [From http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:James_Noyes_%282%29, quoting It's About Time: Chronological, Historical, and Genealogical Research Notes on Some of the Maternal Ancestors and Descendants of America (Spilman) Mears (1846-1935), compiled by William L. Decoursey.] Another participant in that expedition was Capt. James Pendleton, a 10X-great grandfather of TNH, who was also present at the Rev. Noyes's ordination on 10 (or 11) Sep 1674. In Everett Hall Pendleton's 1956 volume Early New England Pendletons, With Some Account of the Three Groups who Took the Name Pembleton, and Notices of Other Pendletons of Later Origin in the United States, we read about the aftermath of that expedition: "While [Pendleton] seems to have had something substantial out of this adventure, his spiritual advisor, the Rev. James Noyes, of Stonington, was not so fortunate. Six months later he sent a long and rambling letter of complaint to John Allyn, the colony's secretary at Hartford, alleging that although he had been engaged 'three times in the warr service' he had received no compensation whatever, either in money or in prisoners. And he seemed particularly annoyed that some captive girl of fourteen years had not been sent him as requested, such a prize, no doubt, commanding a premium in the slave market." Also from http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:James_Noyes_%282%29: The First Congregational Church (later called the Old Road Church) of Stonington, Connecticut was established, 3 June 1674, with nine members: Rev. James Noyes, Thomas Stanton, Sr., Thomas Stanton, Jr., Nathaniel Chesebrough, Thomas Miner and his son Ephraim Miner, the brothers Nehemiah and Moses Palmer, and Thomas Wheeler. Thomas Miner was the first deacon. 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 humility here meet in one with greatest charity. He was first pastor of the Road Church and Society."

  
  

• Sources

  [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011. [S541] A Record, Genealogical, Biographical, Statistical, of Thomas Stanton, of Connecticut, and his Descendants, 1635-1891, by William A. Stanton. Albany, NY: J. Munsell, 1891. [S542] Stanton Genealogy Database, compiled by Brian Bonner. [S544] Noyes-Gilman Ancestry: Being a Series of Sketches, with a Chart of the Ancestors of Charles Phelps Noyes and Emily H. (Gilman) Noyes, His Wife by Charles Phelps Noyes. St. Paul, Minnesota, 1907. [S758] Dean Crawford Smith and Paul C. Reed, "Four Generations of Ancestry for the Noyes Families of New England." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 149:105, April 1995. [S6114] Descendants of Reverend William Noyes, Born, England, 1568, in Direct Line to LaVerne W. Noyes and Frances Adelia Noyes-Giffen by LaVerne W. Noyes. Chicago, 1900. [S1051] History of Wallingford, Connecticut from its Settlement in 1670 to the Present Time by Charles Henry Stanley Davis, M.D. Meriden, Connecticut: 1870. [S545] Magnalia Christi Americana: The Ecclesiastical History of New England by Cotton Mather. London: Thomas Parkhurst, 1702., "England" only. [S758] Dean Crawford Smith and Paul C. Reed, "Four Generations of Ancestry for the Noyes Families of New England." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 149:105, April 1995., says "about 1633". [S1791] The Ancestry of Abel Lunt, 1769-1806, of Newbury, Massachusetts by Walter Goodwin Davis. Portland, Maine: The Anthoensen Press, 1963., year only, says "shortly before 1634". [S5882] Ancestral Lines from Maine to North Carolina by Carl Boyer III. Santa Clarita, California, 2015., says "England 1633". [S6114] Descendants of Reverend William Noyes, Born, England, 1568, in Direct Line to LaVerne W. Noyes and Frances Adelia Noyes-Giffen by LaVerne W. Noyes. Chicago, 1900., year only. [S541] A Record, Genealogical, Biographical, Statistical, of Thomas Stanton, of Connecticut, and his Descendants, 1635-1891, by William A. Stanton. Albany, NY: J. Munsell, 1891., date only. [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011., date only. [S543] Genealogy of the Descendants of Thomas Lord, an Original Proprietor and Founder of Hartford, Conn., in 1636 by Kenneth Lord. New York, 1946. [S6114] Descendants of Reverend William Noyes, Born, England, 1568, in Direct Line to LaVerne W. Noyes and Frances Adelia Noyes-Giffen by LaVerne W. Noyes. Chicago, 1900., date only. [S3719] History of the First Congregational Church, Stonington, Conn., 1674-1874 by Richard Anson Wheeler. Norwich, Connecticut: T. H. Davis & Company, 1875.