William Noyes

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For the American jurist, see William Curtis Noyes. For the American analytical and organic chemist, see William A. Noyes.

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The Revd. William Noyes (1568–1622), Rector of Cholderton, Wiltshire, was an Anglican clergyman of Puritan teachings. Under the influence of his instruction, members of his family succeeded him in Puritan ministry both in England and in Massachusetts Bay Colony, at first in Newbury, Essex County, where two of his sons, James and Nicholas, and his nephew Thomas Parker, were prominent figures. His grandson Nicholas Noyes was closely involved in the Salem witch trials. The religious motivations which led them to New England also gave rise to an extensive American branch of the Noyes family, of which William Noyes is the direct progenitor.[1]

Origins and early life

William Noyes was the son of Robert Noyes (1524–1614) and Joan Attridge (1527–1618) of Urchfont, Wiltshire. The Noyes family were already established in various branches in Wiltshire during the 16th century. William Noyes of Urchfont, yeoman (d. 1557[2]) purchased the prebend of Urchfont in 1540 from the Earl of Hertford, afterwards Protector Somerset. His son Richard Noyes of Manningford Bruce mentions "the sons of Robert Noyes of Cholderton" in his will of 1590.[3] This may refer to Robert the father of William and his brothers Richard Noyes, of Cholderton, yeoman, who married Sara and died in 1639,[4] and Robert Noyes, yeoman, born 1570, who died 20 January 1659 and was buried at Cholderton. The Noyes families of Urchfont[5] and Cholderton were of the same stock, but there were various Noyes households.[6]

In November 1588 William matriculated from University College in the University of Oxford, and gained his B.A. in May 1592.[7] He was ordained deacon in September 1593 and priest in December of the same year by John Coldwell at Salisbury Cathedral.[8] In around 1595 he married Anne (b. c.1568) (claimed to have been daughter of Nicholas Stephens (d. 1611)[9] and his wife Frances Brydges[10] of Burderop Park near Chiseldon, Wiltshire.[11]) Within the first five years of the marriage their three elder sons were born. Anne was either sister to, or sister to Dorothy Stephens the wife of, the Revd. Robert Parker, M.A. (graduate of Magdalen College, Oxford[12]), whose only son was Thomas Parker.[13]

Rector of Cholderton

Noyes was instituted Rector of Cholderton[14] in the episcopacy of Henry Cotton in May 1602. Patronage was in John Thornborough (a bishop sympathetic to Puritan teaching) in 1567, and advowson being granted to Robert Noyes (yeoman), Giles Hutchins of Salisbury was William's lay patron. In July of the following year the appointment was renewed under the patronage of George Kingsmill,[15] Justiciar in the King's Bench, Westminster. Noyes held the living until shortly before his death.[16]

Noyes became the schoolmaster of his nephew Thomas Parker. The Revd. Cotton Mather, pastor of the North Church in Boston, gave an insight into his character in describing Parker's early education: "This Mr. Thomas Parker was the only son of his father, who being very desirous to have him a scholar, committed him unto perhaps a godly, but a very severe master. 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 the Tongues and in the Arts."[17]

William Noyes's grandson, the Revd. Nicholas Noyes of Salem, Massachusetts, gave Mather a valuable narrative of his father James Noyes (b. 1608), in which he explained that his grandfather was "a very learned man". William's children no doubt also received their instruction from their father, and after his death Robert Parker, Thomas's father, tutored James, engaged him as his assistant teacher in the Free School at Newbury, Berkshire and, with the help of Dr. William Twisse (the eminent Supralapsarian[18]), converted him to his ministry.[19] James's elder brother Nathan, who was to succeed their father as Rector at Cholderton, matriculated from Lincoln College, Oxford in May 1615, aged 17, and obtained his B.A. little more than a year later in October 1616. He was ordained deacon at Marsh Baldon near Oxford in March 1617.[20]

The Parish Register for William Noyes's time as Rector was presumably lost or destroyed by 1651, when, after the death of Nathan, his successor Samuel Heskins began a new book and supplied the confused record: "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."[21] Diocesan records show that a Faculty Office dispensation was granted to Nathan to hold the Rectory in his father's place on 4 February 1622:[22] William Noyes resigned the Rectory the next day, and Nathan was appointed Rector immediately with the Privy Counsellor Edward, Lord Zouche, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, Constable of Dover Castle and a Commissioner of the Virginia Company, as his patron.[23]

William Noyes died intestate before 30 April following, when an inventory of his estate was made. Anne, his widow, entered into a bond of administration dated 28 May jointly with Cuthbert Parker, yeoman, of Whitchbury, Hampshire, both signing in well-trained hands and both using heraldic seals.[24] She lived to the age of 82, long enough for her burial at Cholderton to be recorded in Samuel Heskins' register on 7 March 1657. Her will, made on 18 March 1655/56,[25] refers to her two sons James and Nicholas in New England and left to them and 'to such children as they have living' 12 pence apiece.[26]

The old church of Cholderton was pulled down in 1840.[27]

Family

The children of William Noyes and his wife Anne (?née Stephens) are shown as follows:

  • Ephraim Noyes, born c. 1596, Cholderton, died date unknown. He married Parnell Brewer 5 November 1633 in Orcheston St Mary, Wiltshire, England. She was born c. 1613 in Wiltshire, England.
  • Rev. Nathan Noyes, born 15 May 1597, Cholderton, died before 6 September 1651 in Sarum, Wiltshire, England. He married Mary Parker c. 1620 in Cholderton. She was born c. 1600 in Wiltshire, and died after 6 September 1651 (in Sarum, Wiltshire, possibly), when she was mentioned in her husband's will.
  • John Noyes, born c. 1600, Cholderton, died 1659 in Newton, Wiltshire, England. He married Elizabeth Bulpit 3 February 1640/41 in Faccombe, Hampshire, England.
  • (Daughter) Noyes, born c. 1604, died 1655. She married Robert Read c. 1624 in Wiltshire, England.
  • Sarah Noyes, born c. 1605, died unknown.
  • Rev. James Noyes, born 22 October 1608, Cholderton, died 22 October 1656, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts. With his cousin Rev. Thomas Parker he led a group of 100 Wiltshire settlers aboard the Mary and John to New England and founded Newbury, Massachusetts. Before migrating to New England, he married Miss Sara Brown in March 1633/34 in Cholderton, eldest daughter of Mr. Joseph and Mrs. Sarah Brown of Southampton. She was born 1610 in Southampton, Hampshire, England, and died 13 September 1691 in Newbury Old Town, Essex, Massachusetts.
  • Mowit Noyes, born 1613 in Cholderton, died 6 October 1671. She married Thomas Kent 23 September 1631 in Over Wallop, Hampshire, England.
  • Deacon Nicholas Noyes, born 1614, Cholderton, died 23 November 1701, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts. He was Deacon of Newbury church, and served four terms as deputy to the general court. In 1640 he married Mary Cutting in Newbury Old Town, Essex, Massachusetts, daughter of John and Mary Cutting. She was born c. 1619, and died after 23 June 1665. With his older brother James and cousin Rev. Thomas Parker, Nicholas led a group of Wiltshire settlers aboard the Mary & John to New England to found Newbury, Massachusetts. Nicholas was father of Nicholas Noyes who fed the flames during the trials.
  • Anne Noyes, born 16 December 1617, Cholderton, died before 1711.

References

  1. ↑ H.E. Noyes and H. E. Noyes, Genealogical Record of some of the Noyes Descendants of James, Nicholas and Peter Noyes, 2 Vols. (Boston, Mass., 1904).
  2. ↑ Will of William Noyes, Yeoman of Archefounte, Wiltshire, T.N.A. PROB 11/40/120, proved 25 February 1558.
  3. ↑ Will dated 2 February 1590 (Diocese of Sarum).
  4. ↑ Will dated 25 Aug 1639, Inventory 26 October 1639, Wiltshire and Swindon Archive Catalogue, P2/N/129.
  5. ↑ 'Parishes: Urchfont', in A.P. Baggs, D.A. Crowley, R.B. Pugh, J.H. Stevenson and M. Tomlinson, A History of the County of Wiltshire Vol. 10, ed. Elizabeth Crittall (V.C.H., London 1975), pp. 173-190. (British History Online, accessed 1 June 2016).
  6. ↑ J.A. Noyes, 'Noyes Pedigree', New England Historical and Genealogical Register Vol. 53 (1899), p. 35 ff.
  7. ↑ 'Noyes, William', in J. Foster (ed.), Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714, (Oxford, 1891), pp. 1050-83. (British History Online accessed 31 May 2016)
  8. ↑ Episcopal Registers, Wiltshire and Somerset Record Office, D 1/2/18. Person ID: 151961, Church of England Clergy Database
  9. ↑ This was pronounced incorrect by Noyes & Noyes (1904), Genealogical Record I, p. 45, when it was thought she was a sister of Robert Parker's, but the author afterwards made a correction. See Notes.
  10. ↑ Frances was daughter of Sir Richard Brydges, see T.F.T. Baker, 'Brydges, Richard (c.1500-58), of West Shefford, Berks.', in S.T. Bindoff (ed.), The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509-1558 (Boydell and Brewer 1982). History of Parliament Online and Lady Jane Spencer, and grand-daughter of Sir William Spencer (1483–1532) of Wormleighton & Althorp, Northamptonshire.
  11. ↑ For Stephens of Burderop see 'Chiseldon: Manors and other estates', in R.W. Dunning, K.H. Rogers, P.A. Spalding, C. Shrimpton, J.H. Stevenson and M. Tomlinson, A History of the County of Wiltshire Vol. 9, ed. E. Crittall (V.C.H. London, 1970), pp. 6-23. (British History Online accessed 30 May 2016). A daughter Anne is not mentioned in the Will of Nicholas Stephens of Burdrop, T.N.A. PROB 11/117/403, proved 25 April 1611.
  12. ↑ J. Foster (ed.), Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714 (Oxford, 1891), pp. 1104-31 (British History Online accessed 31 May 2016)
  13. ↑ R.A. Wheeler, History of the Town of Stonington, County of New London, Connecticut (Press of the Day Publishing Co., New London, Conn. 1900), p. 484.
  14. ↑ 'Parishes: Cholderton', in A.P. Baggs, J. Freeman and J.H. Stevenson, A History of the County of Wiltshire Vol. 15, Amesbury Hundred, Branch and Dole Hundred, ed. D..A Crowley (V.C.H., London 1995), pp. 70-78. (British History Online accessed 11 May 2016)
  15. ↑ E. Foss, The Judges of England, with Sketches of their Lives, Vol. VI (1603-1660) (Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans and Roberts, London 1857), p. 163..
  16. ↑ Church of England Clergy database: Appointment Records 296888 and 296910 (Salisbury Diocesan Register D1/2/19).
  17. ↑ Cotton Mather, Magnalia Christi Americana: or, The Ecclesiastical History of New-England (Thomas Parkhurst, at the Bible and Crowns in Cheapside, London 1702), Book III: Polybius: Lives of Many Reverend, Learned and Holy Divines, Chap. XXV: 'Scholasticus. The Life of Mr Thomas Parker' pp. 143-45. Reprint, (Hartford, 1855), Vol. 1, pp. 480–488.
  18. ↑ Consult J. Gill, A Complete Body of Doctrinal and Practical Divinity (New Edition), 3 Vols (W. Winterbotham, London 1796), I, p. 270.
  19. ↑ Magnalia Christi Americana, Book III, Chap. XXV, 'An Appendix Containing Memoirs of Mr. James Noyes,' pp. 145-48.
  20. ↑ Church of England Clergy database: Subscription Record 40657 (Oxford Diocesan Papers: e.9 (Subscription Book) fol. 154r.) & Ordination Record 56135 (c.264 (Register)) (Oxfordshire County Record Office).
  21. ↑ E. Deering Noyes, New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 42, (October 1888), p.403.
  22. ↑ Church of England Clergy database: Dispensation Record 3201 (British Library, Add. MS 39534 (Dispensation Rolls))
  23. ↑ Church of England Clergy database: Vacancy Record 89086 ; Appointment Record 89086; Subscription Record 30143.
  24. ↑ Court of Archdeacon of Sarum.
  25. ↑ Will of Anne Noyes, Widow of Cholderton, Wiltshire, T.N.A. PROB 11/274/468, proved 21 April 1658.
  26. ↑ Noyes & Noyes (1904), Genealogical Record I, p. 45.
  27. ↑ E.P. Barrow, "Parish Notes" (1889).

Notes

The correction was published in 1906 as follows:

  • 8861. 2. Noyes. R.W. N., 22 Oct 1906. The "Additional Corrections and Additions," page 3, of Wheeler's "History of Stonington, Conn." has the following: "Miss Harriet E. Noyes of New Hampshire says: 'From recent investigations in England the name of Rev. William Noyes's wife was proven to be Anne Stephens, daughter of Nicholas Stephens of Burdrop Manor, and sister of Dorothy Stephens, mother of Rev. Thomas Parker.'" M. G. F.

Other Sources

  • G. Boyd-Roberts (ed), Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis (1885-1966): a reprinting, 3 Vols (Genealogical Publishing Co. 1996), III: Neal-Wright, p. 54.
  • P.C. Reed & D.C. Smith, 'The English Ancestry of Peter Noyes,' New England Historical and Genealogical Society Vol. 152 Part 3 (July 1998), p. 271.
  • L.W. Noyes and F.A. Noyes-Giffen, Descendants of the Reverend William Noyes (L.W. Noyes, Chicago, Ill. 1900) [1]
  • C.P. Noyes, 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 (Author, St. Paul, Minn. 1907), at p. 5.
  • J.J. Currier, "Ould Newbury": Historical and Biographical Sketches (Damrell & Upham, Newbury, Mass. 1896), p. 165.
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