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(VII) John, son of Joseph (2) Hale, was born August 25, 1817, died April 26, 1888. He was a merchant ; after the war he became a traveling salesman, one of the first to adopt that means of selling goods as a regular pro- fession. He was a Democrat, and a man of much ability. He married (first) Mary Mead, of Walpole, New Hampshire ; (second) Laura Burns Hutchins, September 23, 1828. Re- sides with her daughter. Children of first wife: John and Mary V. Hale. Children of second wife: 1. Susie, born in Whitefield, New Hampshire, October 8, 1853; married James Finney McElroy (see McElroy, VI). 2. James Buchanan, July 13, 1855, merchant of Newbury, Vermont; married Carrie M. Kimball, December 7, 1880; children: Mary K., born December 27, 1885, graduate of Smith College; Harold Burns, October 23, 1890.
William Cadby was of Birming- CADBY ham, England, where he was connected with the great manu- facturing interests of that city. He died about 1865. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas and Mary Elizabeth Wrighton, and granddaughter of William and Elizabeth Mary Wrighton. William Wrighton died No- vember 20, 1792. His wife, Elizabeth Mary, October II, 1789. Thomas Wrighton, born 1760, died December 17, 1808. His wife, Mary Elizabeth, born 1760, died November 30, 1818. John Wrighton, eldest son of Thom- as and Mary Elizabeth Wrighton, died Feb- ruary 28, 1869, in his eighty-first year. "A truly honest man." He was a brother of
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Elizabeth (Wrighton) Cadby. This family, so far as known, lived and died in England. (II) John H. W., son of William and Eliza- beth (Wrighton) Cadby, was born in Birm- ingham, England. He was an educated man, and a lover of old and rare books in which he has dealt all his life. He came to the United States in 1871 with seven children, his son Jolin W. and two daughters having pre- ceded him. He settled in Troy, New York, where he was a member of Cluett Son's & Company, dealers in pianos and musical in- struments. He is now (1910) a resident of Utica, New York, practically retired, but keep- ing up his lifelong passion for dealing in old books. He married, in England. Emily Anne Cluett, a sister of George B. Cluett, the Troy, New York, manufacturer. She died in Eng- land before the family emigration. Children : John Wrighton, see forward; Mary Cluett, born January 4, 1854; Emily, November 30, 1855; Elizabeth, August 22, 1857; Annie, August 23, 1859; Percival, June 11, 1861 ; Florence, January 22, 1863; Clara, September 6, 1864; George, June 22, 1866; Lillian, Sep- tember 23, 1868.
(III) John Wrighton, eldest son of John H. W. and Emily Anne (Cluett) Cadby, was born in Birmingham, England, August 25, 1852. He came to the United States at the age of seventeen years, in 1869, with two of his sisters. He located in Troy, where his ma- ternal uncle, George B. Cluett, was engaged in the manufacture of shirts and collars. He received a positon with him and remained ten years, becoming superintendent of the shirt department. In 1880 he removed to Albany, where he associated with Samuel L. Munson in the same capacity, superintendent of shirt department. He remained with Mr. Munson several years. In 1895 he associated with his son, Harold W. Cadby, and established the firm of Cadby & Son, paper box manufac- turers of Albany, New York. The firm make paper boxes of all sorts, sizes and descrip- tions, and conduct an extensive and prosper- ous business. The love of old books is a rul- ing passion with Mr. Cadby ; it is in the blood, inherited from his father. While with Mr. Munson he began collecting and dealing, final- ly establishing a store for their sale. He con- tinued this until the present and has a regular systematized business, buying and selling old and rare books. He issues a catalogue each month and has a rare and valuable collection. He is thoroughly informed and conceded an authority in his special line. His collection of American old books, autograph letters, docu- ments and antiquities comprises some items of rare and unusual interest. He married
Alida M. Winne. Children: Frank H., mar- ried Gertrude Jackman ; Harold W., see for- ward; Paul C., married Florence Montgom- ery ; William W., unmarried. Alida M. Winne, daughter of William Cary Winne, is a direct descendant of Pieter Winne, "born in the city of Ghent in Planelers," and Tan- natje Adams, his wife, "born in the city of Leewaerden in Vrieslandt," of the town of Bethlehem, Albany county, New York, who made a joint will July 6, 1684.
(IV) Harold Winne, son of John W. and Alida M. (Winne) Cadby, was born in Troy, New York, July 14, 1877. He was educated in the common and high schools of Troy and Albany. He has the same inherited love of old, rare books and antiquities that distin- guishes the family, and for a time traveled, examining collections and making purchases. About 1895 he engaged in the manufacture of paper boxes, with his father, forming the firm of Cadby & Son; he is the manager of the factory and business. The company is successful and find a ready demand for their products in Albany and surrounding territor- ies. He is a member of the Fort Orange and County clubs of Albany, and for five years served in Troop B and the Signal Corps of the New York Guard. He married, April 18, 1900, Mabel A., daughter of Dayton and Cath- arine Ann (Forbes) Ball (see Ball IX).
(The Ball Line).
The Balls of Connecticut were early Puri- tans and came from England at an early date. Allen or Alling Ball was a captain of militia or train band, and was the progenitor of a very large family now settled all over the United States. He was a resident of New Haven ; married Dorothy
(II) Alling, son of Allen or Alling Ball, married in New Haven, Connecticut, Sarah Thompson.
(III) Edward, son of Alling and Sarah (Thompson) Ball, moved in 1666 to Newark, New Jersey, from Branford, Connecticut. He was one of the early settlers and founders of Newark, where by election and appointment he held various offices. He was court mes- senger in 1675-77; town attorney, 1679-81-86; overseer of the poor, 1692 ; constable, 1683-89; surveyor of the highway, 1674-78 ; high sher- iff of Essex county, New Jersey, 1693.
(IV) Thomas, son of Edward Ball, was born in Newark, New Jersey, 1687, died Oc- tober 18, 1744 ; married Sarah Davis and had twelve children.
(V) Ezekiel, fifth child of Thomas and Sar- ah (Davis) Ball, was born June 5, 1722, died December 26, 1804. He was an architect of
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note, and selected his home at Middleville (Hilton), New Jersey, now a suburb of New- ark, importing bricks from England for the purpose. His home was known as "Tuscan Hall." He was master of St. John's Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Newark, one of the oldest masons in the country. He was also an inventor of a machine for levelling and cutting roads, New Jersey even at that early day giving attention to the good roads for which she now stands pre-eminent. He married May Jones, of Southampton, Long Island, born November 19, 1725, died March 21, 1816; eleven children, all born at Tuscan Hall, Hilton, New Jersey. Four sons served in the revolution.
(VI) William, son of Ezekiel and Mary (Jones ) Ball, was born March 27, 1765, died July 29. 1864. Married, January 3, 1787, Phebe Hatfield, of Elizabethtown, New Jer- sey, born November 18, 1765, died April 25, 1862 ; they were the parents of eight children. The Hatfields were soldiers in the revolution and members of the First Presbyterian church of Elizabeth, whose pastor, Rev. Caldwell, was known as the "Fighting Parson" (whose wife was murdered by the British with her child in her arms).
(VII) Jonathan I. Dayton, eldest son of William and Phebe (Hatfield) Ball, was born at Hilton, New Jersey, December 21, 1787, died at Dayton, Ohio, March 26, 1862. He was a private in the war of 1812 (see Penna. Archives, 2nd series, p. 175). He married at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in 1816, Mary Phillips, born April 13, 1782, died July 18, 1871 ; ten children.
(VIII) Dayton, son of Jonathan I. Day- ton and Mary (Phillips) Ball, was born at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, August 8, 1832, died July 25, 1897. He came to Albany, New York, in 1861, to engage in the manufacture of lasts, which business he continued until his death. He was a very prominent Mason, life member of the Fort Orange club. He mar- ried, March 24, 1862, Catharine Ann Forbes, born May 16, 1836, died February 25, 1900. Children: I. Katie Amanda, born September 2, 1865, died May 29, 1890. 2. Mabel Au- gusta, see forward. 3. Henry Dayton, born November 2, 1877.
(IX) Mabel Augusta, daughter of Dayton and Catharine Ann (Forbes) Ball, was born August 4, 1876. She married, April 18, 1900, Harold Winne Cadby, of Albany, (q. v.)
The history of the Noyes family NOYES in America begins with Rev. William Noyes (1), American ancestor of the Noyes family, of Troy, New
York. This family has been a prominent one, and in six generations there were three or- dained ministers of the gospel and three com- missioned army officers who had active mili- tary service. A curious fact may here be noted. In nearly every generation, two brothers marry two sisters or a brother and sister marry a sister and brother. An epi- taph on the tombstone of Timothy Noyes, of Newbury, a grandson of Rev. William Noyes, of Chalderton, England, reads :
"GOOD TIMOTHY
"HIS YOUTHFULL DAYS
"HE LIVED MUCH
"UNTO GODS PRAYS "WHEN AGE CAME ONE
"HE & HIS WIFE "THEY LIVED A HOLY "& PIOUS LIFE
"THEREFOR YOU CHILDREN
"WHOSE NAMS ARE NOYES
"MAKE JESUS CHRIST
"YOUR ONDLY CHOYES.
While there is much Noyes genealogy to be traced far beyond 1568, this record begins there.
(I) Rev. William Noyes was born in Eng- land about 1568; at age of twenty martricu- lated at University College, Oxford, as the following record attests: "NOYES, William of Wilts, Pleb. University College, Matric. 15, November 1588, aged 20, B. A. 31 May 1592-Rector, Chalderton Wilts, 1602." He became rector of Chalderton in 1601, and continued until his death in 1621. He mar- ried, about 1595, Anne Parker, born 1575, died at the age of eighty-two, and was buried at Chalderton, March 7, 1657. She was a sister of Rev. Robert Parker, a non-conform- ist minister, father of Rev. Thomas Parker. Children : Ephrahem, died in England; Rev. Nathan, succeeded his father as rector of Chalderton; Rev. James, see forward; Nich- olas, emigrated to New England; married Mary, daughter of Captain John Cutting ; was deacon of Newbury church, and deputy to the general court, four terms; John, died in England.
(II) Rev. James, third son of Rev. Wil- liam and Anne (Parker) Noyes, was born October 22, 1608, at Chalderton, England. He lost his father at age of fourteen, and a few years later, August 22, 1627, he matri- culated at Brazenose College. He did not graduate, as he was called away by his cous- in, Thomas Parker, to teach the Free School at Newbury, England. (From Mathers "Magnolia") :
"He was converted in his youth by the ministry of Dr. Twiss and Mrs. Thomas Parker, and was admired for his piety and vertue in his younger days. The reason for his coming to America was
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he could not comply with the ceremonies of the Church of England. He was married in England to Miss Sarah Brown, eldest daughter of Mr. Joseph Brown of Southampton, not long before he came to New England, which was in 1634. In the same ship came Mr. Thomas Parker, Mr. James
Noyes and a younger brother of his," * * * * "on the sea Mr. Parker and Mr. Noyes preached or expounded, one in the forenoon, one in the after- noon, every day during the voyage," * * * * "when they arrived, Mr. Parker was first called to preach at Ipswich and Mr. Noyes at Mistick, but Mr. Parker and others of his brethren and acquain- tances settling at Newbury" * * * * "and call- ing Mr. Noyes to be the teacher of it, and being loath to be separated from Mr. Parker and brethren that had so often fasted and prayed together both in England and on the Atlantic sea, so he became teacher of that church, and continued painful and successful in that station something above 20 years without any considerable trouble in the church,"
* * : * * "He was very much loved and honored in Newbury, his memory is precious there to this day, and his catechism (which is a publick and standing testimony of his understanding), and or- thodoxy in the principles of religion is publickly and privately used in that church and town hitherto. He was very learned in the tongue and in Greek excelled most. He was much read in the fathers and the schoolmen and he was much esteemed by his brethren of the ministry." * * * * "He was as religious at home as abroad, in his family and in secret as he was publicly, and they that knew him best, most loved and esteemed him. Mr. Parker and he kept a private fast once a month as long as they lived together, and Mr. Parker after his death until his own departure. There was the greatest amity, intimacy, unanimity, yea unity, imaginable between Mr. Parker and Mr. Noyes; so unshaken was their friendship, that nothing but death was able to part them. They taught in one school, came over in one ship ("Mary and John") were pastor and teacher in one church, and Mr. Parker con- tinuing in celibacy, they lived in one house, till death separated them for a time," * * * * "Mr. Parker and Mr. Noyes were excellent singers, both of them, and they were extraordinary de- lighted in singing the psalms. They sang four times a day in the public worship and always just after evening prayers, in the family, where reading the Scriptures, expounding and praying were the other constant exercises."
Thomas Parker thus quaintly describes him: "Mr. James Noyes my colleague in the ministry of the gospel, was a man of singular qualifications, in piety excelling, an implacable enemy to all heresy and schism, and a most able warrior against the same. He was of a reaching and ready apprehen- sion, a large invention, a most profound judgment. a rare and tenacious and compre- hensive memory, fixed and immovable in his grounded conception without all passion or provoking language." *
* * "He was courageous in dangers, and still was apt to believe the best and made fair weather in a storm. He was most honored and esteemed in his country and his death was much be- wailed. I think he may be reckoned among the greatest worthees of this age." Rev.
James Noyes died at Newbury, October 22, 1658, aged forty-eight. Among his published works are: "A Catechism for Children," printed 1644 and written at the request of the general court of Massachusetts; "The Temple Measured," printed in 1647; "Moses and Aaron," printed in 1661. The Mss. of the last two are in the collection of the Mass- achusetts Historical Society. His widow, Sa- rah (Brown) Noyes, died at Newbury, Sep- tember 13, 1691. Children: I. Joseph, of Sudbury, Massachusetts, where he was select- man twenty-eight years, constable and justice of the peace; was a slave owner. 2. James, see forward. 3. Sarah, died in childhood. 4. Moses, was the first pastor of the Lyme Con- necticut church, and one of the founders of the town; was a "Narragansett Volunteer" during the Indian war. 5. John, second ser- geant of the "Ancient and Honorable Ar- tillery Company" of Boston in 1678, and con- stable in Boston, same year. 6. Thomas, in- herited the Newbury home; was selectman, served in the French and Indian war as cap- tain, major, lieutenant and colonel; owned slaves. 7. Rebecca, married John, son of John Knight. 8. William, deacon of the Newbury church for many years; served in his brothers company of "Snow Shoe men." 9. Sarah, married Rev. John Hale (his sec- ond wife) of Beverly, Massachusetts.
(III) Rev. James (2), second son of Rev. James (I) and Sarah (Brown) Noyes, was born at Newbury, Massachusetts, March II, 1640. He was but sixteen and his brother Moses but thirteen, when together they en- tered Harvard College in 1656. "His most kind kinsman, the Rev. Mr. Thomas Parker, gave him his Grammar Learning, and, fitted him for college, his father dying not long af- ter his admission." The records of the col- lege show that payment for their tuition was made by several parties in money, "Whealte Malte and barly" "butter" "an old cowe" "a barrell of beefn not very good" "two cattell" and allowances for "waitage in the hall one whole year" and as monitor; James gradu- ated at Harvard, 1659; went to Stonington, Connecticut, 1664; was invited by the town to become their minister and took freeman's oath, October 5, 1669. He was ordained September 10, 1674, as pastor of the First Congregational Church, organized in June of that year. The next day, September II, he was married. Land was granted him at Musqueta, later known as Noyes Point, now Westerly, Rhode Island. He was chaplain of Captain George Denison's expedition against the Massachusetts, which resulted in the cap- ture of Canonchet, chief sachem of the tribe.
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In one account of the event, it is said that Mr. Noyes "Advised to despatch him there, as he was a very politic warlike fellow and had done a great deal of mischief in the country." He was taken, however, to Ston- ington and shot by three Indians, two sa- chems of the Pequots and Oneco, son of Un- cas, his lifelong enemy. Rev. Noyes was "an eye witness of the manner of his execution." For his services to this expedition, as physi- cian as well as chaplain, the general court granted him "200 acres of land for a farme" and he also received an equal share with the volunteers in Voluntown, Connecticut. He bore an active part in the founding of Yale College and his name was the first of "Ten of the principal monisters in the colony, nom- inated and agreed upon by general consent both of the ministers and people to stand as Trustees or Undertakers, to found, erect and govern a college." He was selected to be one of the first trustees and founders of Yale, for though he was an old man and in a remote corner of the colony, his influence was deemed essential to the success of the undertaking. Rev. Noyes' long pastorate at Stonington extended over a period exceeding fifty-five years. His salary at first was $166.66. His health failed at last, and he moved to New Haven. He baptized during his pastorate one thousand one hundred and seventy-six persons. He preached his last sermon November 22, 1719, and died Decem- ber 30, following, aged eighty years.
He married, September 11, 1674, Dorothy Stanton, born 1651, daughter of Thomas and Ann (Lord) Stanton. She died January 19, 1743, in her ninety-first year. Rev. James and his wife Dorothy are both buried in the old graveyard two and one-half miles from Stonington, Connecticut. Children: I. Dor- othy, married Rev. Samuel Treat, who was pastor of the church at Preston, Connecticut, 1698-1744. 2. Dr. James, married Ann, daughter of Governor Peleg and Mary San- ford. 3. Colonel Thomas, married Elizabeth Sanford, sister of Dr. James Noyes wife. Colonel Thomas Noyes was a distinguished soldier of the revolutionary war. He was colonel of a Connecticut regiment; two of his sons, Joseph and Sanford, were in his regiment, while his eldest son, Thomas, only twenty-one years of age, was lieutenant in Colonel Leppell's regiment. At the battle of Rhode Island, August, 1778, Colonel Noyes commanded a regiment and received honor- able mention at that time. 4. Anna, died in childhood. 5. John, see forward. 6. Rev. Joseph, was a tutor at Yale 1710-15. In 1716 was ordained pastor of the First Church of
New Haven, succeeding his father-in-law, Rev. James Pierpont. He served that church forty-five years. He married Abigail, daughter of Rev. James and Sarah (Haynes) Pierpont, the latter a descendant of Thomas Lord. 7. Moses, died in infancy.
(IV) Deacon John, fifth son of Rev. James. (2) and Dorothy (Stanton) Noyes, was born in Stonington, Connecticut, Janu- ary 13, 1685, died September 17, 1751. He was a farmer, and built the house near Wes- terly now known as the "Moss House" in 1714, described in Miss Wheelers "Old Homes of Stonington." He was a deacon of his father's church. He married (first) Mary Gallup, 1715; (second) 1739; Elizabeth Whiting. She was a great-granddaughter of Governor Bradford, of Plymouth Colony. Children of first wife: 1. William, see for- ward. 2. John, married Mercy Breed, 1744. 3. Joseph, born 1720. 4. James, married Mar- garet Woodburn, 1756. 5. Mary, married Joseph Champlin, 1753. 6. Sarah, married Andrew Staunton, 1747. 7. Anne, married John Palmer, 1752. 8. Joseph, married Pru- dence Denison, 1763. Child of second wife. 9. Dorothy, born September 17, 1740.
(V) William, eldest son of Deacon John and Mary (Gallup) Noyes, was born in Sto- nington, March 2, 1715. He married, 1739, Sybil Whiting, died 1809. Children, born in Groton and Old Canaan, Connecticut: I. William, married, 1764, Elizabeth Gillet. 2. Sybil, married, 1745, Samuel Avery. 3. Samuel, married, 1747, Abigail Harding. 4. John B., married, 1750, Mehitable Wright. 5. Mary, married, 1754, Elihu Phenney. 6. Temperance, married, 1781, William Allen. 7. Nathan, see forward. 8. Lucy, married Joseph Hemcox. 9. Elizabeth, married Wil- liam Lewis. 10. Charles W., married Mrs. Samuel Noyes. 11. Nathaniel, married Tem- perance Champlin.
(VI) Nathan, seventh child of William and Sybil (Whiting) Noyes, was born about 1758. He was known as "Judge Nathan." He removed to Columbia county, New York, where his children were born at Kinderhook. He was town clerk of Canaan, 1796. He married Azuba Baldwin. Children: I. Hen- ry, see forward. 2. Sally, married, 1795, Ebe- nezer Calkins. 3. Amelia, married Aaron Kellogg. 4. Bernice, married, 1807, James S. Seamen. 5. Betsey, married Daniel F. Wood- worth.
(VII) Henry, eldest son of Judge Nathan and Azuba (Baldwin) Noyes, was born in Kinderhook, Columbia county, New York, 1780. When a young man, he was in charge of the United States barracks at Greenbush,
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New York. He settled at Troy, and was one of the early navigators of the river, own- ing and running sloops on the Hudson river carrying freight. He amassed a considerable fortune, part of which was lost later through kindness to friends. He married, 1809, Mary Paddock, who died 1855. She was only six- teen at the time of her marriage. Children : 1. Nathan H., see forward. 2. Stephen Van Rensselaer, a coal dealer of Lansingburg ; died unmarried.
(VIII) Nathan Henry, eldest son of Hen- ry and Mary (Paddock) Noyes, was born in Greenbush, Renssalaer county, New York, June 17, 1815, died in Troy, New York, Sep- tember, 1891. He was educated in the schools of that town, and after the removal to Troy at age of twelve, continued on with his studies in the schools there. He learned the carpenter's trade, but soon began running on his father's sloops. He became an expert river pilot and riverman. He became cap- tain of sailing sloops; he owned the "G. C. Davidson," a steamboat; sloops "Highland- er" and "Orum," piloted large rafts of tim- ber down the river, and led the adventurous life of the river. When steam drove the sail- ing vessels out of business as freight and pas- senger carriers, he entered that service and was captain of the express boat from Troy to New York, that was later purchased by the government. Captain Noyes later en- gaged as a partner with his brother, who had established a coal and wood yard at Lansing- burg, New York, where he continued in bus- iness until his death. He was a good bus- iness man and was successful in his under- takings. He was a genial and whole-souled man, with hosts of friends. He was a Re- publican politically, and a member of the First Methodist Episcopal Church. He married, May, 1835, at Troy, New York, Margaret Loucke, born in Rome, New York, April 26, 1818, died in Lansingburg, New York, July 26, 1896. Children: 1. Mary Elizabeth, mar- ried James H. Weaver. 2. Frances Amelia, died unmarried. 3. Charles, deceased. 4. Margaret, married (first) Zina P. Green, by whom she had two sons : Zina P. and Harry N .; married (second) Elias Ford Carr, of Trenton, New Jersey. 5. Lucinda V. S., resi- dent of Troy, New York. 6. Harriet Jane, married T. Blatchford Wager. 7. Katherine M., married John A. Corliss. 8. Grace, de- ceased. 9. Carrie, deceased.
The history of the Wheeler
WHEELER family in England, as shown by Burke, substan- tiates the fact that they are found in various
shires among the landed gentry, knighthood, members of parliament and baronets in the seventeenth century, and one was a governor of the Leeward Islands. They are found in the counties of Worcester, Warwick, York, Middlesex, Durham, Kent, and Nottingham. In the world of letters, members of the Wheeler family are pre-eminent, and the number of authors and their valuable contri- butions to theology, history, science, art, po- etry, philosophy and travels are something re- markable and surpassed by very few of any one name.
Farmer states that thirty distinct families of the name of Wheeler resided at Concord, Massachusetts, between 1650 and 1680. John Wheeler of Concord, went to Fairfield, Con- necticut, in 1644. John Wheeler, of Strat- ford, Connecticut, supposed to have been a son of John of Fairfield, was a signer of the fundamental articles of agreement for the settlement of Woodbury, Connecticut. He died May 12, 1704. By his wife Ruth, he had seven children. The fourth child, Thom- as, baptized May 25, 1673, married Sarah Stiles, August 20, 1701. He was killed by the fall of a tree March 2, 1728.
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