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Mr. Noyes was one of the most in- fluential members of the infant settle- ment, representing it in the General Court, and was also a deacon of the church. He died Nov. 23d. 1701. aged 83.
Hannah, the wife of James Noyes, was the daughter of John Knight. jun .. son of John Knight, who with his brother, Deacon Richard Knight. came from Romsey, England, to Newbury,
in 1635. Their children were : Re- becca, born Jan. 12th, 1685 ; Joseph. born Sept. 20th, 1686 ; Hannah. born March 13th. 1688 ; Nicholas. born Feb. 9th. 1690. Nathan, born Feb. 5th, 1692 ; Ephraim, born Nov. 20th and died Dec. 19th, 1694: Lydia, born Nov. 30th, 1695 ; Ephraim, born Dec. 25th, 1698 ; Benjamin, born Feb. 22d, .1701; Mary, born March 13th, 1703 ; James, born Aug. 19th, 1705.
Capt. Ephraim Noyes, fifth son of James and Hannah (Knight) Noyes, settled on the main road, in the West Precinct, Newbury ; he married Abi- gail. daughter of Jonas and Anne Platts, and granddaughter of Deacon Joseph Bailey, of Bradford. Edna. daughter of Capt Ephraim and Abigail (Platts) Noyes, April 7th, 1756, mar ried John, son of David and Abigail (Chase) Emery.
The children of John and Mary (Poor) Noyes were: Nicholas, born May 18th, 1671, married Sarah Lunt. and settled in Abington before 1718. Daniel, born Oct. 23d. 1673. married Judith Knight, Dec. 29th, 1702 ; died March 13th, 1716. Mary, born Dec. 10th, 1675, married John Noyes. John. born Feb. 19th, 1677. married Ma- ry Thurlow, Jan. 25th. 1703 ; died previous to Nov. 2d, 1719. Martha. born Dec. 24tlı. 1679. married Joseph Lunt, Dec. 29th, 1702; died June 26th, 1706. Nathaniel, born Oct. 28th. 1681, married Priscilla Merrill ; was in Falmouth. 1733. Elizabeth, born Nov. 11th. 1684. Moses, born May 22d, 1688. died in 1714. Samuel. born Feb. 3d, 1692, married Hannah Poor; lived in Abington previous to 1736.
The children of Daniel and Judith (Knight) Noyes were: Daniel, born
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Oct. 16th, 1703, married Abigail Top- pan ; died April 16th, 1765. Joseph, born Aug. 6th, 1705, married Elizabeth Woodman. Nov. 10th, 1726 ; died Sept. 15th, 1781. Joshua, born Jan. 26th, 1707, married Sarah Hale. April 7th. 1730; died Jan. 1808. John, born May 9th, 1709, married Ann Woodbridge ; died Aug. 13th, 1759. Mary, born Nov. 24th, 1710, died Aug. 1794. Deborah, born May 22d, 1713, married Jacob Knight. Judith, born Jan. 7th, 1715, married Benjamin Poor.
The children of Daniel and Abigail (Toppan) Noyes were: Abigail, born Dec. 28th, 1728, died Aug. 3d 1731. Daniel, born Nov. 7th, 1730, died June 13th, 1735. Zebulon, died June 11th, 1735. Samuel, born April 25th, 1737, married Rebecca Wheeler; died April 1st, 1820. Eb- enezer, born in 1739, married Hannah Chase ; died Aug. 1767.
Mary and John, twins, born March, 1741. Mary married, first, Samuel Somerby, second, Nathaniel Dole ; John married, first, Sarah Little ; second. Mary Pierce ; died July 18th, 1778. Abigail, born Oct. 5th, 1744, married Joseph Moulton ; died Sept. 18th, 1818. Judith, born Nov. 1747, died Oct. 1832.
The children of Samuel and Rebecca (Wheeler) Noyes were : Daniel, born Oct. 22d, 1765, died Dec. 5th, 1768, Samuel, born May 25th, 1767, married, first, Jane Moody, Jan. 22d, 1795 ; she died Nov. 13th, 1802; second, Han- nah, youngest daughter of Joseph Lit- tle, and widow of James Stickney, who died Jan. 17th, 1805. Samuel Noyes died July 12th, 1852, and his widow, Hannah Noyes, died March 1st, 1861. Rebecca, born April, 1769. Ebenezer,
born April 26th, 1771, died June 16th, 1794, in the West Indies. Judith, born July 13th, 1773, died July 17th, 1777. Daniel, born May 6th, 1775, died Jan. 7th, 1777. Dr. Nathan, born April 3d, 1777, died Sept. 1842. Ju- dith, born Feb. 7th, 1779. married William Moulton ; died Oct. 1822.
Rev. Nicholas Noyes, graduated at Harvard 1667, preached in Haddam, Conn., thirteen years, ordained over the first society in Salem, Nov. 14th, 1683, and died Dec. 13th, 1717.
Rev. Edmund Noyes, born March 29th, 1729, graduated at Harvard 1747, was ordained in Salisbury Nov. 20th, 1751, and died July 12th, 1809.
Ebenezer Noyes, born in 1739, grad- uated at Nassan Hall in 1750, was a physician in Dover, where he died Aug. 11th, 1767.
Rev. Nathaniel Noyes, born Ang. 12th, 1735, graduated at Nassau Hall in 1759, was ordained in South Hamp- ton, N. H., Feb. 23d, 1763, dismissed Dec. 8th, 1800, and died in Newbury- port Dec. 1810. Sarah, consort of the Rev. Nathaniel Noyes, died in South Hampton, May 20th, 1771, aged 25 years, 8 months.
Rev. Thomas Noyes, son of Col. Thomas Noyes of the west parish, Newbury, graduated at Harvard in 1795, and died young.
Nathan Noyes, M. D., graduated at Dartmouth, a physician at Newbury- port.
Rev. Jeremiah Noyes, graduated at Dartmouth in 1799, ordained Nov. 16, 1803, in Gorham, Maine, and died Jan. 15th, 1807.
Moody Noyes, Harvard, 1800, died young.
Daniel Noyes, born Jan. 29th, 1739,
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graduated at Harvard in 1758, was register of probate for Essex, and died in Ipswich March 21st, 1815.
Joshua Noyes, born 1739, graduated at Nassau in 1759 ; was pastor eleet of the church in Kingston, N. H., and died July 8th, 1773, aged 34.
John Noyes, born May 9, 1709, graduated at Harvard in 1753, and died Aug. 13th, 1759.
Rev. George Rappall Noyes, born March 6th, 1798, graduated at Har- vard in 1818; was ordained in South Brookfield, Mass., Oet. 30th, 1827; resettled in Petersham Oct. 15th, 1834. Elected professor in the Divinity school, Cambridge, in 1840. Received the de- gree of D. D. the same year. He died June 3d, 1868, aged 70 years and 3 months. Of Dr. Noyes the late Thom- as B. Fox thus wrote :
" His outward life was that of a stu- dent and teacher mainly, and so pre- sented but few incidents or events to break the even tenor of its way ; but by his Christian character, his learning and his intellectual usefulness to his pupils and to the cause of sacred liter- ature, he won the love, respect and gratitude of all who knew him, as well as the esteem of such as were only fa- miliar with him as an author who had helped them in their inquiries after truth. Dr. Noyes graduated in the class of 1818 which gave fourteen of its members to the ministry. For sev- eral years he was pastor of the churches at South Brookfield and Petersham, but the greater portion of his days was spent in the service of his Alma Mater as tutor in the college and as a profes- sor on two foundations in the Divinity school. He first attracted public atten- tion by his translation of the book of Job -a work that was followed by
versions of the Psalms and the Proph- ets. Besides these more elaborate pro- ductions, he was a contributor of learn- ed and critical articles to the Christian Examiner. He was one of the most diligent and accurate of scholars, and everything that came from his pen showed the conscientious fidelity, the pure, lucid, calm productions of a mind seeking always to be judicially impar- tial in its investigations and in the statement of its conclusions. His scholarship was large and thorough, and his industry unwearied and unre- mitted even through seasons of physi- cal weakness and distress.
Up almost to the hour of his decease, he was engaged in correcting with sedulous care the closing proof sheets of a translation of the New Testa- ment. The strength and clearness of his mental powers, the candor and fearlessness of his moral nature, the generosity and justice of his liberality, will be acknowledged by all who had the privilege of listening to his explana- tory defence of the Cambridge Theolog- ical School, at the last meeting of the Alumni of that institution. His address on that occasion obtained a solemn im- pression from his bodily infirmity, which had not dimmed the healthful bright- ness of his mind, or chilled the warmth of his heart. He spoke as it were on the border of the grave, and he spoke as one who humbly but trustfully awaited a judgment more searching than any human judgment can be. We allude to this, his last public discourse, because in it were seen the trained thinker, the honest and catholic man, and the faithful Christian teacher ; the culmination as it were, of a life of many virtues and graces, consecrated to learning and to the highest interesst
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of humanity ; a life none the less use- ful, noble, and brave, because mostly passed in the study, the lecture room, and inthe retirement of comparative pri- vacy, away from the bustle of the world and unattended by circumstances that attract the public gaze. Such a life could not but win the reverent regard of all who witnessed and were benefited by it, and the memory of him who lived it, will be cherished as the memory of a diseiple who uniformly sought to use the talents intrusted to him, as one who never forgot that he must give an account of his stewardship."
The following is a tribute from Dr. W. W. Newell. "The death of a work- er in the quiet paths of science is scarcely noticed by the world ; and yet few men of more active life may have exercised so deep an influence ;- so it was with the late George R. Noyes, D. D. For more than twenty years his was the leading mind in the Divinity school at Cambridge, and did more than any other to form the minds of the stu- dents, who will always cherish his name with love. It was from him they ac- quired the scientific spirit, patient, calm, impartial ; in him they saw the example of a truly devotional mind, combined with the most searching anal- ysis ; they learned to respect his prac- tical wisdom, and to receive his opin- ions almost as oracles. Such homage from young, free, and independent minds implies great qualities. They were sure' no word would fall from his lips not thoroughly weighed and tested. They could trust a moderation which. always forbore to dogmatize, and to express even an opinion on doubtful questions, however fascinating the temp- tation to leap an unbridged chasm, and when he did express an opinion they
knew it was no result of individual preference, or of dogmatic assumption but honest fruit of the widest compar- ison and the strictest inquiry. In his own department, the exegesis of the Scriptures, his' scholars believed him unapproached in America. Few could hear him and not admit that Biblical interpretation was now a science whose principles were fixed, and that the vast difference of results arise far more from the different opinions brought to the study, than from the difficulty of the subject. His translation of the poeti- cal books of the Old Testament is, we believe, the best in any language, com- bining a correct interpretation with the spirit of the original. His lectures il- lustrated to an even greater degree the high qualities of his mind,-his great shrewdness, profound scholarship, and freedom from prejudice. But opinions, which he arrived at by individual study, and held when they were little supported and indeed almost unknown in this country, have since become widely prevalent among scholars every- where. With these virtues of the scholar he combined keen wit, and great kindness and tolerance. His stu- dents did not admire him more than they reverenced him; and his whole life was in his work. No one could hear him in prayer and not revere his profoundly religious spirit, and wonder at such a union of qualities. No man lives who can fill the place he took in health ; and, if in life the general ig- norance and prejudice in regard to these subjects prevented general recog- nition of his merits, in the history of mind his name will stand among the first of American students who brought a scientific treatment to this branch of inquiry. In the minds of his students
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his memory will always live and his in- fluence always work."
Francis V. Noyes, born Sept. 22d, 1809, graduated at Dartmouth, receiv- ed the degree of M. D. at Harvard Aug. 1831. He was a physician in Newburyport until 1844, and at present is a resident of Billerica.
Rev. Daniel Parish Noyes, born June 4th, 1820, graduated Aug. 1840, at Yale College. Taught school till 1843; was a tutor in Yale till 1847; student at Andover till 1849 ; pastor of the 3d Presbyterian church, Brook- lyn, N. Y., from April 1849, till Jan. 1854. Secretary of the American Home Missionary Society from Jan. 1854, till June, 1865. Secretary of Home Evangelization in Massachusetts from Jan. 1865, till 1873. While prose- cuting this work, he founded a church at Pigeon Cove, Cape Ann, acting as pas- tor for a time; Oct. 1877 was install- ed pastor of a church in Wilmington.
Joseph M. Noyes, a distinguished teacher, and Henry Durant Noyes of the firm of Noyes, Snow and Co., pub- lishers, 13} Bromfield street, Boston. These are grandsons of the Rev. Elijah Parish. Isaac Parsons Noyes, born Dec. 10th, 1822 ; appointed assistant postmaster at Newburyport, June 19th, 1861 ; appointed postmaster May 2d, 1877 ; served on the board of overseers of the poor three years, in the common council one year, secretary of school board six years, re-elected on school committee in 1878 for two years. William Henry Noyes, D. M. D., born in Newbury, July 28, 1825; graduated at Harvard University in dental medi- cine, March 9th, 1870 ; married May 14, 1848, Sarah M. Parshley of Straf- ford, N. H., Children : Ella Ada ; Earnest Henry, born Nov. 20th, 1853 ;
graduated at . Bowdoin College July 8th 1875, now studying medicine at Har- vard.
George E. L. Noyes, D. M. D., son of Geo. W. Noyes, born in Newbury- port Aug. 28th, 1850, graduated at Harvard University in dental medicine March 10, 1872; married Nov. 27, 1878, Mary Hill Goodwin of Newbury- port, daughter of Daniel A. Goodwin.
CHAPTER XXIX.
"Whence cometh Smith, be he knight or be he squire, But from the Smith that forgeth at the fire."
The arms of Smith, granted in some remote age to some meritorious black- smith, are :
SABLE, ON A FESSE DANCETTE ARGENT SEVEN BILLETS OF THE FIELD. CREST, A SALAMANDER COUCHANT REGARDANT, DUCALLY GORGED, IN FLAMES PROPER.
From the settlement on Crane-neck hill four generations bearing the name of James Smith have succeeded each other on the homestead, and two pre- ceded them at Oldtown, making six in America. The first of this patronymic of whom I have record were Sir James
The Noyes arms are :
ARGENT, GARB OR, THREE MULLETS GULES COUNTERCHANGED. CREST .- DOVE BEARING OLIVE BRANCH.
NOYCE PLACE
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Smith, the first baronet of Isfield, who was the eldest son of Sir James Smith Knt., Lord Mayor of London in 1685, who was the second son of Sir Robert Smith, of Upton, Bart., who descend- ed from Robert Smith, citizen and dra- per of London and Stoke Prior in Wor- cestershire. This Robert belonged to an ancient family, the Smiths of Cuerd- ley, in Lancaster. Robert Smith and his descendants Sir Robert, Sir James the Knt., and Sir James the Baronet, bore arms :
AZURE, TWO BARS WAVY ERMINE ON A CHIEF OR, A DEMI-LION RAMPANT ISSUANT SABLE. CREST- AN OSTRICH GULES, IN THE BEAK A
HORSE SHOE ARGENT.
This coat was confirmed by Flower Norroy on the 7th of July, 1579, to Thomas Smith, son and heir of Sir Laurence Smith of Hough. Motto : Duriora virtus - Virtue tries harder things.
The same arms were borne by Fer- dinando Dudley Lea Smith, esq., great grandson of William Smith of Stoke Prior, County Worcester by the Hon. Anne Lea, his wife, eldest sister and co-heiress of Ferdinando Dudley, Lord Dudley of Halesraven Grange.
Edmund is another patronymie that . has descended through the generations. It was derived from the marriage of Margaret, daughter of Thomas Smith of Cockermouth, with Edmund Wil- mot of Hampshire. Arms :
SABLE ON A EESSE ENGRAILED OR BETWEEN THREE SQUIRRELS SEJANT ARGENT, EACH HOLD-
ING A MARIGOLD SLIPPED PROP-
ER, AS MANY HERALD- IC FOUNTAINS.
Thomas Smith came from Romsey, England, with his wife Rebecca, in the ship James, to Ipswich, Mass., in 1635, thence to Newbury in 1638, and set- tled on the farm now owned by David Smith. He died April 22, 1666. His
children were : Thomas, born in 1639, who was drowned by falling into a clay- pit on his way to school, Dec. 6th, 1648 ; Rebecca, born Feb. 20th, 1641, married Aug. 4th, 1663, Stephen Swett; Lieut. James Smith, born Sept. 10th, 1645, married July 26th, 1667, Sarah Coker. He was drowned at Anticosti in the disastrous expe- dition to Quebec, in October, 1690. John, born March 9th, 1648, mar- ried Rebecca Poor Nov. 26th, 1667 ; Matthias, born Oct. 27th, 1652 ; Thom- as, born July 7th, 1654, was killed by the Indians at Bloody Brook in 1696. This was in King Philip's war. As Philip was on the Connecticut river it became necessary for the English to establish an opposing force in some convenient position. As Hadley was selected, an increased supply of pro- visions in that place was needed. A considerable quantity of wheat being preserved in stacks at Deerfield, it was deemed expedient to have it thresh- ed and brought to Hadley. Captain Lathrop and his company volunteered to proceed to Deerfield and protect the convoy. This company consisted of the flower of the population of Essex -her hopeful young men-all called out of the towns belonging to that county. Of the twenty-three men im- pressed from Newbury, on the 5th, 6th and 27th of August, to go against the Indian enemy, were Henry Bodwell, who married Bethia, daughter of John and Mary (Webster) Emery, John Toppan, Thomas Smith, Samuel Hills and Jon- athan Emery. They arrived safely at Deerfield, threshed the wheat, placed it in eighteen carts, and while on their return through South Deerfield, as they were stopping to gather grapes, which hung in clusters in the forest that lined
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the narrow road, they were surprised by an ambascade of Indians, outnum- bering Capt. Lathrop's company ten to one, who poured upon them a murder- ous fire ; not more than seven or eight of the eighty men in the company es- caped. Sergeant Thomas Smith, Sam- uel Stevens, his brother John Stevens, and John Littlehale were killed ; John Toppan, who was wounded in the shoulder, concealed himself in a water- course then almost dry, and drew grass and weeds over his head, so that, though the Indians sometimes stepped directly over him, he was not discover- ed. Henry Bodwell had his left arm broken by a musket ball, but being a man of great strength and courage, he siezed his gun in his right hand and swung it round his head, and so forced his way through the Indians by whom he was surrounded. John Toppan brought home the sword of Sergeant Thomas Smith, and it is preserved in the family at the old homestead as a most precious relic. At the recent sec- ond centennial celebration of the battle Bloody Brook, it was again borne to the field by Edmund Smith, of Newbury- port, where it was the sole memento of that cruel fray. The rapier excited universal attention, being regarded with awe and reverence. Mothers led up their little children to touch the sword of one, whose arm that wielded it, had been mouldering in the dust just two hundred years that day.
"An inventory of the lands, goods and chattels of Thomas Smith, late of Newbury, who was slayne when Capt. Lathrop was slayne, taken by Robert Long and Anthony Somerby, March 22d, 1675 : 76
Imprimis foure acres of plowland 3 acres of
pasture 4 acres salt marsh & 3 acres of swamp or slow land 55-0-0 A yoke of oxen & a 4 yearf old heifer 16-10-0 His wearing apparrell 5-0-0
A chest a cross cut saw a broad axe 2 angurs A maul 2 addes a rule & a raypier 2-8-0
A gnapsack & a bible & 2 paper bookes 0-3-6
and debts due to him about 1-0-0
Sum is 80-6-6
the deceased was out in the country service about 7 weeks he was at first corporall and after sergent under the said Capt. Lathrop & had all his arms & amunition well fixt which is all lost except the rapier
the debs that the deceased owes is about 10-0-0
Anthony Somerby Robert Long.
This inventoryfred in court held at Ips- wich the 28th of March 1676. As attest- Robert Lord eler."
The children of Lieut. James and Sarah (Coker) Smith were Sarah, born Sept. 12th, 1668, married in 1692, Richard Kelley ; James, born Oct. 16th, 1670, married, in 1695, Jane Kent ; Thomas, born March 9th, 1673, mar- ried March 29th, 1715, Martha Noyes ; Hannah, born March 23d, 1675, mar- ried in 1695, Joseph Pike. These were the progenitors of Albert Pike the poet. Joseph, born June 8th, 1677, died Ju- ly 19th, 1677 ; John, born Nov. 1st, 1678, married Dec. 9th, 1709, Ann Nelson ; Benjamin, born Aug. 21st, 1681, married April 19th, 1709, Han- nahSomes ; Mary, born Feb. 27th, 1684, died Dec. 15th, 1685.
The children of James and Jane (Kent) Smith were: Capt. James, born Nov. 25th, 1696, married Dec. 9th, 1719, Elizabeth Moody ; Sarah, born June 21st, 1699, married 1728, William Moulton ; Mary, born May 23d, 1701, married Feb. 28th, 1724, Moses Noyes ; Richard, born March
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31st, 1706, died young ; John, born June 3d, 1709, married March 3d, 1730, Martha Toppan, and died Sept. 25th, 1734; Moses, born May 16th, 1711, married, Nov. 24th, 1742, Lydia Toppan ; James, the husband of Jane Kent, married a second wife, Sarah Ordway, in 1723. Martha Smith, widow of John Smith, married Cutting Moody. She left two children-John Smith, born Nov. 3, 1731, and Abi- gail Smith, born Nov. 29th, 1732 ; she married Jonathan Bradbury in 1758. Martha and Lydia Toppan, the wives of John and Moses Smith, were sisters of Rev. Benjamin Toppan, minister at Manchester, Mass., forty-seven years. They were children of Samuel Toppan, who married Abigail, daughter of the Rev. Michael Wigglesworth, author of the Day of Doom. Rev. David Top- pan was a son of Benjamin.
Soon after his marriage with Eliza- beth Moody, Capt. James Smith, hav- ing inherited from his grandfather, John Kent of Kent's island, a hundred acre lot on Crane-neck hill, moved thither. That part of Newbury then termed the "West Precinct," or "Newtown," was a wilderness, with Indians for neighbors. A garrison had been estab- lished on the place afterwards owned by Dea. Samuel Tenney. Capt. Smith put up a small house-the back part of the present dwelling ; the front was built a few years later. At its erec- tion the house was lighted by case- ments hung on hinges, with diamond- shaped panes set in leaden sashes. These windows were modernized by his son James, who remodelled the house and built the long barn.
Capt. James and Elizabeth Smith had ten children : Sarah, Samuel, Wil- liam, James, Richard, Mollie, Jenny,
Betty, Stephen and Moses. These ten sons and daughters all grew to man's and woman's estate, comprising a fine family, the young ladies being specially noted for beauty and grace. Sarah married Moody Follansbee and settled on a farm near Meeting-house hill. Samuel married Judith, and Wil- liam, Mary, sisters of Mr. David Em- ery at the main road. Capt. Smith gave to each of these two sons a thirty acre lot, upon which they erected houses on Crane-neck road-one above and the other below-where the pres- ent school-house is located. Isaac in- herited the homestead and married Elizabeth, daughter of Dea. John Noyes. Richard married Abigail, a sister of Moody Follansbee, and estab- lished himself in the shoe business in Newburyport, where he built a house on Short, now Independent street. Mollie became the wife of Capt. Wil- liam Noyes of Newburyport. Fanny died of consumption in early life, un- married. Betty's first husband was John Emery, son of David ; after his decease she married Col. Spofford of New Rowley, now Georgetown. Ste- phen and Moses moved to Lancaster, where they married. Stephen was a merchant, and Moses cultivated a large farm.
Capt. James Smith, 2d, and Eliza- beth (Noyes) Smith had seven chil- dren : Parker, Lizzie, John, Samuel, Sarah, James, Enoch.
Parker married Hannah Savory and settled on a farm in Newbury, near the Bradford line. Lizzie became the wife of Deacon Samuel Tenney ; John mar- ried Mary March, and purchased the Jonas Platts farm in Bradford, now Groveland. Samuel married Sarah Bailey ; he became the Methodist
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preacher ; Sarah remained unmarried. James (my father) married Prudence, eldest daughter of Mr. Joseph Little, and succeeded the line of James Smiths on the home farm. Enoch married Hannah Woodman, and purchased the farm of Maj. Hills on Crane-neck road, adjoining that of my grandfather Little. The Smiths of Newbury, West New- bury, and Newburyport, though noted for intelligence, ability, thrift and en- terprise, have not been a scholastic race.
Rev. David Smith graduated at Har- vard in 1790. I recollect hearing him preach some time during the interreg- num between the departure of Parson Toppan and the ordination of Dr. Woods. He was a fine looking man, and an eloquent divine. His record I have been unable to trace.
Daniel Smith, for forty years an apothecary in Newburyport, died Mar. 28, 1878, aged 90 years. Dr. Smith's drug store (now S. A. Smith's), was on Market square. He was one of the most upright and genial of men, pos- sessing great intelligence and force of character. The latter part of his life was passed in "Lawrence, where he died. His son, Daniel Talcot Smith, born Sept. 17th, 1813, graduated at Amherst in 1831, was assistant instruc- tor at Andover in 1834-6, ordained in Sherburne, Mass., Dec. 5th, 1836. Has been for many years professor in the Bangor Theological Seminary.
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