Genealogical and family history of the state of Maine, Volume IV, Part 78

Author: Little, George Thomas, 1857-1915, ed; Burrage, Henry Sweetser, 1837-1926; Stubbs, Albert Roscoe
Publication date: 1909
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 896


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(IX) Thomas Clarence, third son of Crosby Stuart and Elizabeth S. (Williams) Noyes, was born January 14, 1868, at Washington, received his education at the public schools of Washington and Wrights Academy, and grad- uated from Princeton College in the class of 1889. He then began as reporter on the Wash- ington Evening Star, being afterwards assist- ant city editor, city editor, and is now news manager of that paper and treasurer of the Star Company. He was a delegate from Maryland to two National Republican con- ventions. He is director of the Evening Star Company, and other financial enterprises of his native city, is vice-president of the Wash- ington board of trade and a director of the chamber of commerce. He belongs to the Chevy Chase and University clubs of Wash- ington, Princeton Club of New York, Nassau Club of Princeton, New Jersey, and belongs to many of the Masonic Orders. September 5, 1895, he married Dorothy Rogers, of Mans- field, Ohio, and they have no children.


(IX) Maud E., eldest daughter of Crosby Stuart and Elizabeth S. (Williams) Noyes, married Frederick W. Hall, of San Francisco, California, where she resided until her death.


(IX) Mira C., second. daughter of Crosby Stuart and Elizabeth S. (Williams) Noyes, married George W. Boyd, and resides at Phila- delphia, Pennsylvania.


(For preceding generations see Rev. William Noyes I.) (IV) Joseph, fourth child and NOYES third son of Cutting and Eliza- beth (Knight) Noyes, was born in Newbury, January 21, 1688, and removed soon after 1731 to Portland, Maine, where he died February 14, 1755. He married Jane


Dole, in 1711, and they were the parents of Josiah, Dorothy, Hannah, Jane, Amos, Peter, and one who died young.


(V) Josiah, eldest child of Joseph and Jane (Dole) Noyes, born in Newbury, September 8, 1712, died in 1796, aged eighty-four. Josiah Noyes, of New Casco, was a member of Cap- tain James Merrill's company, Colonel Jona- than Mitchel's (Cumberland County) regi- ment; service, three days, in November, 1775, fortifying Falmouth; also private in Captain William Cobb's company, which marched July 8, 1779, and was discharged September 25, 1779 ; service, two months and seventeen days. This company was raised in Cumberland county for service on the Penobscot expedi- tion, and served in Colonel Jonathan Mitchel's detachment. He was also in Captain William Cobb's company in Colonel Jonathan Mitchel's detachment. The pay abstract for mileage was sworn to at North Yarmouth, November 26, 1779. He is reported as first having drawn rations at Falmouth, and as discharged at Falmouth. He married, in 1737, Mary Lunt, of Newbury. Their children born in Portland are: Joseph, Mary, Cutting, Moses, Jane, Hannah, Eunice, Ann, Josiah, Sarah, Thomas, and five who died young.


(VI) Joseph (2), eldest child of Josiah and Mary (Lunt) Noyes, born in Portland, Sep- tember 14, 1740, died October 13, 1795. He married (first) in 1763 Anne Moody; (sec- ond) 1767, Mary Cobham; (third) Elizabeth Turrell. His children were: Jacob, Anne, Elizabeth, Josiah and Polly. He was nine years representative to the general court cov- ering the entire period of the revolutionary war.


(VII) Jacob, eldest child of Joseph and Mary (Cobham) Noyes, born in Portland, 1768, died in 1820. He married, in 1798, Anna Jones, and they had the following named children: Joseph C., Edward F., Julia A., Elizabeth F., Horatio, Enoch J., and two who died young.


(VIII) Joseph Cobham, eldest child of Jacob and Anna (Jones) Noyes, born in Portland, September 22, 1798, died in Portland, July 28, 1868, aged seventy. In 1819 he moved to Eastport and engaged in business as ship chandler and shipper of merchandise. He was honest and honorable, believed in a fair profit only, and scorned to take advantage of others' needs or enter into a combine to raise prices above what was just and right. A little inci- dent illustrates his position in this matter. On a certain occasion the canals were closed for the season and only about half the flour neces-


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sary 'to supply the local demand had been shipped in, but Mr. Noyes had what he con- sidered his full stock for the season. A num- ber of flour merchants wishing to take advan- tage of the scarcity and form a combination to raise the price, waited on Mr. Noyes and laid their plan before him, and asked him to join them. This he refused to do, and went further and refused to sell any of his goods to them at an advanced price or their representatives who attempted to buy of him. On the con- trary, he advertised to sell to all bonafide heads of families in Washington county, barrels of flour at an advance of twenty-five cents only above full cost, and in this way disreputed the scheme of those who proposed to take advan- tage of others to make an unfair gain, as he deemed it, out of the necessaries of life. He was elected a member of the Twenty-fifth con- gress as a Free Soil Whig, and being the first Free Soiler from eastern Maine was called the "Star in the East." In 1847 he engaged in the flour trade in Portland, and for some years carried on an extensive and lucrative business. He was appointed treasurer of the Portland Company (locomotive works) in 1859, and about the same time became treasurer of the Portland Savings Bank. For a time his at- tention was divided between the duties of these two offices, but in his later years his whole attention was given to the affairs of the bank. When he first became connected with the bank it had but one hundred and sixty thousand dollars on deposit, but its business was already beginning to increase, and at the time of his demise (1868) the deposits amounted to two million two hundred and sev- enty-three thousand dollars. Without doubt the influence of Mr. Noyes, his well known business ability and probity of character, had much to do with the public confidence in this institution as expressed in its deposits. The resolutions passed by the board of managers of the bank at the time of Mr. Noyes' death re- cite in part: "That in the death of the Hon- orable Joseph C. Noyes, for many years treas- urer of *is bank, we have lost a most able, faithful and honest officer. To his unwearied and zealous labors in its behalf, and his ear- nest and entire devotion to its interests, from its early, almost from the beginning of its his- tory, is largely due the signal success of the institution." Mr. Noyes married (first) De- cember. 30, 1823, Mary E. Ilsley, born April 24, 1805, daughter of Parker and Eliza (Smith) Ilsley, of Portland. She died November 17, 1835. He married (second) July 10, 1838, Helen M., born in Cornwall, Connecticut, May


14, 1818, daughter of James and Maria (Webb) Alling, of Cornwall, Connecticut. She died June 9, 1854. The children of first wife were: George F., Frank, and two daughters, who died young. Those of the second: Ed- ward A. and Joseph C.


(IX) Edward Alling, third son and child of Joseph Cobham and Helen M. (Alling) Noyes, was born at Eastport, Maine, Octo- ber 6, 1839. He was educated in the public schools, and then entered the office of Hon. Phinehas Barnes, where he read law. At nine- teen years of age he left his law studies to enter the Portland Savings Bank, of which his father was treasurer, and there he began his labors as a clerk in April, 1859. After a period of five years of service in the Portland Savings Bank, he served an equal length of time in The National Traders' Bank; and in 1868, soon after the death of his father, he returned to the Savings Bank, where he took the position of assistant treasurer. He filled that place until the death of his brother Frank, December 17, 1877, and then succeeded him as treasurer. He has now (1908) filled this po- sition over thirty years, and has been in the banking business continuously forty-nine years, and is not only the oldest bank treasurer, but the oldest bank official in the state in point of service, and one of the oldest in the coun- try ; and his service has all been with one bank. This veteran banker has been so long con- nected with the monetary affairs of Portland that his name is a reminder of financial suc- cess, and his reputation is that of one whose judgment in financial affairs is unimpeachable. He has given his attention mainly to banking, but has been connected with other enterprises, among which are the following: The Sav- ings Bank Association of Maine, of which he has been president from its formation to the present time ; the Portland Safe Deposit Com- pany, of which he is president; the Portland Savings Bank, of which he is a trustee; and the Union Mutual Life Insurance Company of Maine, in which he is a director. He has taken a deep and enduring interest in the Port- land Public Library, and was its first librarian (1878), serving without pay eleven years, and working earnestly for its success, and being able finally to see it in a prosperous condition. He has been its treasurer for many years, and is a chairman of its committee on books, and a member of its board of trustees. For eleven years he has been president of the Western Maine Music Festival Association. He is also a member of the Maine Historical Society, and of Ancient Landmark Lodge, No. 17, A. F.


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and A. M., of Portland. In politics he is a stalwart Republican. Between 1882 and 1886 he served two years in the common council, and two years in the board of aldermen, being president of the latter board. While a mem- ber of the city government he was chairman of the committee on street lighting, and was instrumental in introducing electric lights upon the streets of Portland. In 1884, when James G. Blaine was a candidate for the presidency, Mr. Noyes was treasurer of the Republican state committee.


Mr. Noyes was united in marriage Novem- ber 5, 1863, with. Julia Augusta, daughter of John Edwards, of Portland, and granddaugh- ter of Thomas Edwards, first judge advocate- general of the revolutionary army, and at the time of his death grand secretary of the So- ciety of the Cincinnati. Her mother was Sarah Merrill. The children of Edward A. and Julia A. (Edwards) Noyes are: I. Helen Alling, married Winthrop Jordan. 2. Marion, died young. 3. Mary Webb, died at the age of eighteen. 4. Charles Edward, married Marion E. Deering. 5. Julia Edwards. 6. Joseph Cobham, married Blanche Sewall. 7. Sidney Webb, married Abby Clark.


. (VII) Peter, eldest son of Nicholas (2) and Rachel (Hill) Noyes, was born at Minot, Maine, August 27, 1794, and died there in 1869. He was a deacon in the Congregational church for forty years; and also served as selectman, justice of the peace and postmaster for many terms. In 1818 he married Cynthia Verrill, and they had nine children, one of whom died an unnamed infant. The others were: I. Rachel H., born July 30, 1819, died in 1872. 2. Albion, August 25, 1820, mar- ried Lucretia Jackson. 3. John V., whose sketch follows. 4. Henry O., February 21, 1827, married Emily L. Collinson. 5. Nicholas, September II, 1828, died April 22, 1848. 6. Samuel V., June 21, 1830, married Elizabeth E. Eberback. 7. Sarah P., December 20, 1835, married Justus W. French. 8. George W., September 2, 1841, married Mary W. Gard- ner.


(VIII) John Verrill, second son of Peter and Cynthia (Verrill) Noyes, was born Sep- tember 9, 1825, died December 24, 1890. For ten years he was an efficient officer of the Bos- ton police force from 1854 to 1864, being lieu- tenant of Station I at the time of retirement. January 1, 1855, he married Philona A. Chase, daughter of Edmund and Nabby (Woodman) Chase, and they had four children: I. Pearl M., born January 12, 1857. 2. Edward H., April 17, 1858. 3. Emma A., September 24,


1859, married Moses H. Hackett. 4. Willard A., whose sketch follows. The children were born at Lisbon and Brunswick, Maine, East Boston, Massachusetts, and Auburn, Maine.


(IX) Willard Albion, son and youngest child of John Verrill and Philona A. (Chase) Noyes, was born at Lisbon, Maine, March 10, 1865. 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, continu- ing until. 1898, when the firm was incor- porated as the Ashe, Noyes & Small Co. He is independent in politics, and belongs to the Masons and to the Brotherhood of Pro- tective Order of Elks. On March 8, 1889, he married Nellie M. Ashe, daughter of Lieuten- ant John E. and Julia G. (Perry) Ashe, of Turner, Maine. (See Ashe II and Richard- son VIII.) Willard A. and Nellie M. (Ashe) Noyes have one child, Verna A., born at Au- burn, April 4, 1890.


(For preceding generation see Samuel Richardson I.)


(II) Joseph, second son


RICHARDSON of Samuel and Joanna Richardson, was born in Woburn, July 27, 1643, and died March 5, 1718. His whole life was spent in his native town. He was admitted freeman of the col- ony, May 15, 1672, and was therefore a mem- ber of the church. He was one of Major Sam- uel Appleton's soldiers, and was engaged in the fierce assault on the Narragansett fort, December 19, 1675. He was a selectman of Woburn, 1693-94-1702. He married, Novem- ber 5, 1666, Hannah Green, born about 1647, died May 20, 1721. She was a daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Green, of Malden. They had five children : Hannah, Mary, Eliza- beth, Joseph and Stephen.


(III) Stephen, second son and youngest child of Joseph and Hannah (Green) Richard- son, was born February 7, 1673-74, at Wo- burn, Massachusetts, and died there February 4, 1751-52. He was selectman of that town in 172I, was chosen deacon of the church in 1745, but was commonly known as captain from his office in the militia. `On November 21, 1695, he married Bridget, daughter of Theophilus and Mary (Champney) Richard- son, and granddaughter of Ezekiel Richardson, the earliest of the name in America. She was the youngest of nine children, was born in 1674, just before her father's death, and died July 1, 1750. The ten children of Captain Stephen and Bridget (Richardson) Richard- son were : 1. Stephen, born June 12, 1696, died


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September 21, 1703. 2. Joseph, July 20, 1698, married Martha (Wyman) Tidd. 3. Thomas, February 5, 1699-1700, married Ruth Buck- nam. 4. Bridget, October 15, 1701, died young. 5. Phebe, May 16, 1704, married Isaac Snow. 6. Ichabod, January II, 1705-06. 7. Stephen, about 1796, married Mary Sawyer. 8. Adam, whose sketch follows. 9. Asa, De- cember 12, 1713, married Hannah Locke. 10. Bridget, 1722, died September 27, 1736.


(IV) Dr. Adam, sixth son of Stephen and Bridget (Richardson) Richardson, was born at Woburn, Massachusetts, April 10, 1709, and died some time after 1749. He was graduated from Harvard College in 1730, was a physi- cian at Groton in 1744, and at Woburn in 1748. He taught the grammar school in Wo- burn during 1747-48-49. About 1736 he mar- ried Rebecca, whose maiden name is unknown ; they had three children : I. Winslow, born De- cember 14, 1737, married (first) Rhoda John- son, (second) Elizabeth Byram. 2. Rebecca, July 13, 1740. 3. Stephen, whose sketch fol- lows.


(V) Stephen (2), younger son of Dr. Adam and Rebecca Richardson, was born at Wo- burn, Massachusetts, July. 6, 1743, and died some time after 1793, probably at Buckfield, Maine. He was a blacksmith, and lived in various places, In 1768 he was at Bridge- water, and after that in the neighboring town of Pembroke, Massachusetts, where all his children were born. In 1791 he moved to Bucktown, now Buckfield, Maine, and on March 15, 1793, bought a hundred acres of land of Dr. Stephen Swett, which he sold the following June. About 1767 he married Mercy Darling, and they had nine children: 1. John D., whose sketch follows. 2. David, born De- cember, 1772, married Hannah Martin. 3. Stephen, March 24, 1775, married Lydia Crooker. 4. Rebecca, born June 24, 1777, mar- ried. Thomas Loring and lived at Turner, Maine. 5. Ruth, July 31, 1779, married Jabez Pratt, and lived in Buckfield. 6. Adam, May 25, 1781, married Margaret Crooker. 7. Fanny, married David Record, and lived in Buckfield. 8. Mary or Polly, married Jotham Roberts, and lived in Brooks, Maine. 9. Mercy, February 20, 1793, married Benjamin Young, and both of them were living at Hart- ford, Maine, in 1874.


(VI) John Darling, eldest child of Stephen (2) and Mercy (Darling) Richardson, was born at Pembroke, Massachusetts, April 8, 1768, and moved to Turner, Maine, where he was a blacksmith and farmer. The date of his death is unknown, but it probably occurred


after 1804. About 1795 he married Lydia Willard, and they had six children: I. Abi- gail, born in 1796, married John Curtis, and lived at Bristol, Maine. 2. Benjamin, a sea- faring man, died unmarried in 1855. 3. Polly, whose sketch follows. 4. Lyman, about 1800, married Mercy Buck. 5. Jules R., a shoe- maker, died at Buckfield, Maine, in 1851. 6. Ruth, married Benjamin Curtis, and lived at Bristol, Maine.


(VII) Polly, second daughter of John Dar- ling and Lydia (Willard) Richardson, was born about 1799 at Turner, Maine, and died there. About 1827 she was married to John Ashe. (See Ashe I.) The children of John and Polly (Richardson) Ashe were: I. Har- riett, married James Davis, of Portland, Maine. 2. and 3. Benjamin F. and John Everett (twins), born January 5, 1832. 4. Ruth, died unmarried. 5. Ellen, now living at Portland, Maine. 6. Isabelle, died unmar- ried. 7. Isabelle Porter, married Winfield Turner.


(VIII) John Everett, one of the twin sons of John E. and Polly (Richardson) Ashe, was born January 5, 1833, at Turner, Maine. He married, September 4, 1855, Julia G. Perry, daughter of Barnabas B. and Artemissia Perry, of Minot, Maine. Their children were: I. and 2. Julia Ellen and Thomas Everett (twins), born April 23, 1860, died June 10 and July II, 1864. 3. Nellie M., born March 8, 1867, married, March 8, 1889, Willard A. Noyes, of Auburn, Maine. (See Noyes IX.) They have one child, Verna, born April 4, 1890. 4. Thomas William, February 8, 1873, died March 14, 1877.


ASHE This name is not numerous either in England or America, though it probably dates from early Saxon times. The patronymic, from its very sim- plicity, indicates a natural origin. It is doubt- less derived from the ashe tree, though a pos- sible explanation might connect it with people living near the Ash or Esh, a small English stream. The numerous compound forms, like Ashbaugh, Ashbridge, Ashburn, Ashburnham, Ashcroft, Ashford, Ashdown, Ashmead, Ash- ley and Ashton, many of which are more fre- quently met than the simple form, would seem to indicate that the surname is derived from the tree; and the latter part of the compound, in most instances, explains itself. Thus Ash- ley means a lea or meadow with a growth of ash trees. Ashburnham, reduced to its primi- tive signification, would mean a hamlet near a burn or brook bordered by ash trees.


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The earliest one of the name to settle in New England appears to be John Ash, who was at Newbury, Massachusetts, in 1652. He had a son John (2), who was killed by the Indians at Amesbury, July 4, 1706, just seventy years before the Declaration of Independence. The family has considerable distinction in North Carolina. John Baptist Ashe, the first Amer- ican ancestor in that state, was a friend of Lord Craven, and emigrated to the new world in the early part of 1727. He was 'distin- guished for his opposition to the stamp act ; was speaker of the assembly under the colo- nial government from 1762 to 1765; and in 1776 was appointed brigadier-general of the Wilmington district. He was a daring leader, remarkable for his talents, firmness and fine personal appearance. His younger son, Sam- uel, born in 1725, became one of the three judges under the constitution, holding this office from 1777 till he was elected governor in 1795.


(I) John Ashe was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, about the beginning of the nineteenth century, and came to this country when he was seven years old. He lived in Maine, and married Polly Richardson.


(II) John E., son of John and Polly (Rich- ardson) Ashe, was born at Buckfield, Maine, January 5, 1833. When quite young he moved with his parents to the town of Turner, where he has lived the greater part of his life, and where he served two terms on the board of selectmen. On September 10, 1862, he en- listed in Company D. Twenty-third Maine Vol- unteers, was promoted to sergeant, and mus- tered out with his regiment July 15, 1863. He re-enlisted March 13, 1865, and was commis- sioned first lieutenant in Company C, First Battalion Maine Infantry. He was on duty in Washington at the time of the Great Review, June, 1865. Lieutenant Ashe was stationed in many places, including Savannah, Georgetown, Florence, Cheraw, Chesterfield, Charleston, Walhalla, Anderson and Laurens. He was also provost-marshal, and was in command of the provost guard at Anderson, South Caro- lina, with one-half of his own company mounted, and a detachment of the Sixth Regu- lar Cavalry under his command. He was ap- pointed quartermaster, also member of the military court, and was detailed for special duty by order of General Sickles, subject to orders from the military court at Charleston. He was mustered out with his command, April 5, 1866. On Lieutenant Ashe's return to his native state he became interested in the shoe business, and was one of the projectors of


the North Auburn Boot and Shoe Company. He is now senior member of the Ashe, Noyes and Small Shoe Company. On September 4, 1855, John E. Ashe married Julia G. Perry, daughter of Barnabus B. and Artemissia (Perry) Perry. There were four children. One of them, Nellie M. Ashe, born March 8, 1861, married Willard Albion Noyes, of Au- burn. (See Noyes IX.) (See Richardson VIII.)


LEIGHTON says Tristam Frost Jordan, "The name of Leighton,"


in "An Account of the De-


scendants of Captain William Leighton, of Kittery, Maine," "occurs in some of the oldest annals of English and Scotch history. The spelling is various, as will commonly be the case with the cognomen of a family of which the scattered vestiges appear at wide intervals in the wilderness of the unlettered ages. It is spelled Leichtoun, Lichtoune, Lyghton, Ligh- ton, Layton, which are not' especially affixed to certain dates, but seem to have obtained indis- criminately in the same eras. It is to be re- membered, however, the modern orthography is the same which presents itself in the old world's register, of the greatest antiquity. It. is unmistakably Saxon in the origin, but was established both in England and Scotland be- fore the fourteenth century. In the Potuli Sco- tia, published from the originals in the tower, we read that A. D. 1734, John de Leighton Clerius de Scotia obtained a safe conduct to Oxford. Sir Walter Leighton, sheriff of An- gus, was killed in 1392 in a border conflict with a party of highlanders. In the beginning of the fifteenth century there is evidence of the family importance in ecclesiastical and po- litical affairs. Henry Leighton, parson of Duffus and chantor of Moray, was consecrated bishop of Moray in 1414, and ten years later consecrated bishop of Aberdeen. He was one of the commissioners sent to London to nego- tiate the ransom of James I. In 1415 William de Leighton, with his retainers, was with Henry V, at Agincoart. Later in the seven- teenth century Dr. Alexander Leighton suf- fered imprisonment in the tower for his at- tacks upon Episcopacy. His son Robert, the good archbishop of Glasgow, reflected lustre upon the name. No attempt has been made to connect the American family with the English or Scotch original. There is a tradition that the family came to America from Devonshire (Tiverton), but its authority is very question- able. The name is scarcely known in that part of England, but for several centuries in


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Shropshire and in Yorkshire a name of im- portance, and the emigrants to America prob- ably came from one of those counties or from Scotland, though it is quite possible that one of the western counties (probably Deconshire) was the place of embarkation.


- "Captain William Leighton, born about 1625, came to America and settled in Kittery, Maine, about 1650. Of his origin and his relation to other persons of the same name who came about the same time, there are conflicting tra- ditions, the truth of any of which must re- main matter of surmise or conjecture. One is that he was one of three brothers who emi- grated from England prior to 1650. The eld- est, John, settled at Saco; the second, Thomas, at Dover; and the youngest, William, at Kit- tery. It is certain that he was a shipmaster, and had possibly made voyages to New Eng- land before he finally settled there. There is a tradition that he was taken from a wreck at sea and carried to Kittery." Another tradi- tion, which seems to be authenticated, is that his father had been an officer in the parlia- mentary army, but we have no authoritative information as to his Christian name or his rank or the regiment in which he served. He settled in that part of the town then called Kittery Foreside, afterwards Crooked Lane, where he received a grant of land from the town, June 13, 1659, containing nineteen acres extending twenty poles on the water frontage, and lying on the west side of Richard Abbott's land, 104 poles. He seems to have been a man of considerable intelligence and fair education, and for a young man to have taken an im- portant part in the infant colony. Very soon after he received his grant, he removed to Watt's Fort, called since that time Leighton's Fort, in Eliot (then Kittery). He died in 1666. He married, 1656, Katherine, daugh- ter of Nicholas Frost, of Kittery. She was born August, 1633, at Tiverton, England, and died in Kittery, August 15, 1715. Widow Leighton married (second) Major Joseph Hammond, of Kittery, by whom she had two children. The children of Captain William and Katherine (Frost) Leighton were: Mary, William, John and Elizabeth. From John, the son who attained adult age, are descended most of the Leightons of Maine.




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