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He was deeply interested in the local his- tory of Washington county, and at the for- mation of the county Historical Society, in 1876, was elected president. On the occasion of his election he delivered an address on the history of agriculture in the county. At the laying of the cornerstone of the new court house at Sandy Hill (Hudson Falls), June 8, 1872, he delivered an historical address on the bench and bar of the county for one hundred years. He also published sketches on the graves and gravestones of the county, on jour- nalism and various other subjects.
He was a member of the American Geo- graphical Society and took deep interest in its work. Although not looked upon as a busi- ness but as a professional man, he was for many years a director and vice-president of the National Bank of Salem and was officially connected with the management of Evergreen cemetery. It is worthy of mention that four generations have been connected with the press of Washington county. James B. Gib- son owned the Register and conducted it sev- eral years. James Gibson owned and edited the Post. James (2), son of Judge James (1) Gibson, edited the Salem Press for three years. James (3), son of James (2) Gibson,
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was manager of Salem Review-Press for five years.
Judge Gibson married. October 17, 1841, Jane, daughter of Ira and Wealthy Ann (Gil- bert ) Woodworth. Children: Mary, mar- ried T. A. Wright, died August 22, 1902. James, a lawyer of Salem, died October 9. 1881. Jennie, married Charles W. Townsend.
This personal appearance of Judge Gibson is this described in "Life Sketches of the Legislature" published in 1867: "Senator Gibson is a gentleman of quiet dignity. His long flowing hair and whiskers tinged with gray, his mild eye which seems to be over- flowing with kindly feelings ; his low, persua- sive voice, which is seldom brought up to a high pitch, unite in throwing around him a personal atmosphere which renders his pres- ence both pleasant and powerful."
The name Mansfield, "A MANSFIELD man in the field," is be- lieved to be of Saxon origin. In Germany the name is Mansfeld ; in England, after the Saxons mixed with Nor- mans, Danes, Celts and others, it easily be- came "Mansfield." The noble family of Mans- feld of Germany is very ancient ; traces nearly to the time of Charlemagne, and flourished down to the present time. Exeter, England. the place from which the original Mansfield departed for America, has been a city since the year 1200. There was a Sir John Mans- field mayor of the city a few years prior to the emigration. He was also "Master of the Manories and Queens Surveyor under Queen Elizabeth." The American ancestor and founder of the family in Connecticut, most of them in New York state and in the west and south, was Richard Mansfield, of Exeter, Devonshire, England, and New Haven, Con- necticut.
(I) Richard Mansfield with his wife Gillian (maiden name unknown), settled in Quinni- piack ( New Haven ), Connecticut, in 1639. . 1 deed for land, now the northwest corner of Church and Elin streets, proves this date. In a list of first planters, 1641, he is put down at £400, thirty acres in the first division, six acres in the "Neck," twenty-two acres of meadow, and eighty-eight acres in the second division. Ile owned other lands probably by purchase and established his home on his large farm in the second division called the "East farms," some four and one-half miles out on the present North Haven road, which was his home until his death, January 10, 1665. He took the oath of fidelity, July 1, 1644, before Governor Eaton and the general court at New Haven. Gillian, his wife, survived him and
married, in 1667, Alexander Field. After the death of her second husband she lived with hier son Moses in New Haven. She died 16x9. Children: Joseph, see forward, and Moses, born in 1639: married (first) Mercy Glover, ( second) Abigail Yale. He was ma- jor of militia and in honor of a victory he and his command gained over the Indians, the town of Mansfield was named after him. Ile was a member of the general court forty-eight sessions (two sessions annually ): judge of the probate and of the county court.
(II) Joseph, eldest son of Richard and Gil- lian Mansfield, is believed to have been born in England in 1636. He took the freeman's oath, February 8, 1657, or as soon as he was of age. Ile died November 15, 1692. He in- herited his father's large farm and had a town lot and house in New Haven, as well as a large amount of land in other parcels, in- cluding the grounds now owned and occu- pied by Yale University buildings. His es- tate inventoried four hundred pounds. His seat in the "meeting house" was No. 8 in the "long seats for men." He married, about 1657. Mary - -. Children: 1. Mary, un- married. 2. Martha, married, December 16. 1680. Richard Sperry, and had eight chil- (Iren. 3. Mercy, married Bristol. 4. Silence, married Chalfiekl, of Killing- worth. 5. Elizabeth, immarried. 6. Comfort, married John Benham. 7. John, died Decem- ber 22, 1600, aged nineteen years. 8. To- seph, see forward. 9. Ebenezer (changed from Ichabod), married Hannah Bassett : he was very well to do, his estate inventorying £1217. 10. Japhet, married Hannah Bradley.
(IHf) Joseph (2), second son and eighth child of Joseph (1) and Mary Mansfield, was born December 27. 1673. He was admitted to the First Church of New Haven, August 14. 1735. his wife, May 31, 1733. Ile married Elizabeth Cooper (?), who died March 4. 1763. llis gravestone is in the old North Ha- ven burying ground, hers is in the Grove Street cemetery. Children : 1. Mary. mar- ried Daniel Tuttle. 2. Lydia, unmarried. 3.
John, married Lydia Tuttle, granddaughter of William and Elizabeth Tuttle, who came from England in 1635. 4. Elizabeth, born Oc- tober 23. 1706. 5. Joseph, see forward. 6. Amos, no record of marriage. 7. Josiah, mar- ried and left issue. 8. Abigail, married Jacob Turner. 9. Thomas, married Hannah Good- year. His name appears in thirty-seven deeds recorded from 1739 to 1786: he left no male descendants as his son Samuel never married. 10. Ebenezer, died unmarried.
(IV) Joseph (3), second son of Joseph (2) and Elizabeth Mansfield, was born August 17.
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1708. He was a large land owner and ap- pears as grantor or grantee in many of the leeds recorded between 1739 and 1761. He married, October 10, 1732, Phebe Bassett, who died 1762. Children : I - -, mar- ried Sarah Cooper. 2. Titus, married Mabel Todd. 3. Captain Joseph, see forward. i Phebe, married Leman Potter.
(V) Captain Joseph (4) Mansfield, third son of Joseph (3) and Phebe (Bassett) Mans- field, was born April 16, 1737. His home, like those preceding him, was at "Mansfield Farms" where he lived until 1784, and where all his children were born. His gravestone is in Litchfield, Connecticut, where he re- moved, owned a large farm and died June 6. 1821. aged eighty-four years. When the rev- olutionary war broke out he enlisted and rose to the rank of captain, serving until the end. He took with him to the war his son Charles, aged fifteen, who played the fife. Captain Mansfield married Hannah Punderson, born October 21. 1740, eldest of the twelve children of David and Thankful (Todd) Punderson. She died August 26, 1826, aged eighty-five years. Children ; all born in New Haven: I. Charles, married Molly Howard, of Win- chester, New Hampshire ; he went to the war with his father as a fifer ; the fife he used is preserved in the family. 2. Elisha, removed with his parents to Litchfield, afterward to Canaan ; married Rebecca Camp. 3. Joseph, married and had issue. 4. Sally. died young. 5. David. married (first) Louisa Harmon, (second) Melinda Harmon, a younger sister : they settled in Westmoreland, Oneida county, New York: he lived to be ninety-six years of age. 6. William Punderson, see forward. 7. John Todd, married Dolly Steele. 8. Sally, married Lewis Spooner, no issue. 9. Tim- othy, married Annie Carter : settled in Penn- sylvania, afterward at Castleton, Ontario county, New York.
(VI) William Punderson, fifth son of Cap- tain Joseph (4) and Hannah ( Punderson) Mansfield, was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, September 6, 1774. died March 16, 1855. He was a merchant of Litchfield, afterward re- moved to Kent, Connecticut, where he was in business with his father-in-law, Bradley Mills. as Mills & Mansfield. Ile joined with his son-in-law. Hugh White, in building a flour- ing mill, later occupied by the Munson Manu- facturing Company at Waterford, New York, where he removed in 1833. He married, in 1807. Sally Mills, died February, 1842, daugh- ter of Bradley and Hannah (St. John) Mills, with whom he became acquainted while she was a student at the Morris Academy, Litch- field, Connecticut. Children: 1. Maria, mar-
ried Hon. Hugh White, of Oneida county, New York : he was the first manufacturer of hydraulic cement in the United States, and furnished large quantities for the building of the Croton aqueduct, New York City ; he was- member of congress, 1844, served three terms ; graduate of Hamilton College and member of the New York bar, but never practiced law ; ten children. 2. Florilla Punderson, died aged' seventeen years. 3. Bradley Mills, died aged' twenty-one years. 4. Lewis William, see for- ward.
(VII) Lewis William, second son and youngest child of William Punderson and Sally ( Mills) Mansfield, was born in Kent, Litchfield county, Connecticut, May 16, 1816. He prepared for college in the schools of Sharon, Connecticut, Chittenango, Madison county, New York, and at Montgomery, Or- ange county, New York. He entered the jut- nior class at Union College in 1833, and was graduated 1835. He embarked in business life with his brother-in-law, Hon. Hugh White, in the mantifacture of hydraulic cement, con- tinting for fifteen years with successful re- sults. He had developed an unusual literary talent and on going out of business gave him- self up wholly to authorship. He wrote and published "The Morning Watch," a narrative poem, published by G. P. Putnam, 1850: "Up Country Letters," Appleton, 1852: "Country Margins," a joint work with S. H. Hammond, published by J. C. Derby, 1855. In 1855 he engaged again in business in Cohoes, New York, where he had a knitting mill, and con- tinted ten years During the war, and strictly in reference to the army in the field, he began a daily hour prayer meeting in his mill at the noon hour, and on Sunday afternoons had a union prayer meeting for the same purpose at his home on the north side of the river. This prayer meeting continued at the mill without any interruption for about five hun- dred days, up to the close of the war, the last meeting being held April 5, when the news came of the taking of Richmond. His health failed him and he again retired from business. The next year, 1866, the mill was sold and he returned to literary pursuits. His first work was "The Ontlines of the Mental Plan," fol- lowed by the "Precepts and Doctrines of Christ," published by Phillips & Hunt, 1883, and by E. & T. B. Young, 1884. He is the author of the tracts "My Token," "The Spir- itual Body," and books "Hymns and Poems," "Looking up the Plan." "Overwork" and "Coming into Form." He was a man of ver- satile talent, and great ability, whose influence for good cannot be estimated.
lle was reared a Congregationalist, but
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about the time of his first marriage became a member of the Protestant Episcopal church. Ile continued his literary and religions work up to the year of his death, 1899. He mar- ried (first ) Carrie M., daughter of Rev. Lewis Bayard, LL. D .; married (second) December 19, 1855, Sarah B., born in York, New York, 1837, died in Waterford, March 10, 1860, daughter of Samuel and Hannah Lewis, of York, Livingston county, New York: mar- ried (third ) June 4, 1862, Mary J. Hogan. Children : 1. William K., see forward. 2. Joseph Punderson, born November 30, 1858, died September 23, 1859, both children of his second marriage.
(VIII) William K., eldest son of Lewis William and Sarah B. (Lewis) Mansfield, was born in Waterford, New York, in the old Mansfield home on Saratoga avenue, Septem- ber 17, 1856. He obtained his primary and preparatory education at St. John's Episco- pal School and the public schools of Cohoes. He entered Amherst College where he com- pleted his freshman and sophomore years. He left college and entered the knitting mill with his father, remaining one year. He then took the management of a flouring mill owned by Mr. Mansfield, senior, at Crescent, near Wa- terford. It was his father's wish that he fin- ish his college course and he hoped to discour- age him with business life, so the positions given the young man were not sinecures, but he was determined to succeed in busi- ness and stuck to his work so faithfully that the mill property was deeded to him. He remained at the mill seven years, made many improvements and did a prosperous business, disposing of the plant finally at a very advantageous figure .. In 1884 he embarked in journalism by purchasing the Cohocs Daily News, of which he was editor and owner for fourteen years. He made the paper a paying property and an in- fluential factor in the politics of the city. He retained control of the editorial page and sup- ported only men and measures that in his judgment made for good government, na- tional, state and local. In 1898 he disposed of his newspaper plant and engaged in brick manufacturing at Crescent, where his yards and kilns are located. This enterprise he still continues. He retains his home at the home- stead on Saratoga avenue in Waterford, but designated Cohoes "North Side." His brick- making plant is a large and modern one, the output being between three and four millions of merchantable brick annually, that find a ready market. Mr. Mansfield has always been an active Republican and has spent much of his time in the public service. In 1878 he was
appointed justice of the peace to fill a vacancy in the town of Half Moon, Saratoga county, and was twice elected to the same office, while living in Crescent. On his return to Water- ford, Albany county, he was elected to the same office, there continuing through four terms of four years each, representing the "North Side." In 1896 he was appointed gen- eral committee clerk at Albany by the assem- bly and was assigned to duty at the desk of the journal clerk during sessions. The fol- lowing year he was appointed deputy journal clerk, continuing as such by successive ap- pointments until 1901. At the session of 1901-02 he represented his district in the assembly, serving on the insurance, excise and labor committees. In 1903 he was again appointed assistant journal clerk and in 1905 general clerk of the assembly, and has been successively appointed as such up to the pres- ent time (1910). He is secretary of the coun- ty Republican committee, and a man of in- fluence, experience and ability. He is a mem- ber of St. John's Episcopal Church, Cohoes, and affiliated with the Masonic fraternity.
He married, October 30, 1882, Etta C. Clute, born in Crescent, Saratoga county, New York, daughter of Charles F. and Delia (Teachout) Clute, the latter born in Half Moon, died 1900. Charles F. Clute was born in Half Moon, 1834, died 1903. He was a farmer : also interested with his son-in-law, Mr. Mansfield, in the brick business, and nearly his whole life owned and conducted a general store at Crescent. He was a Demo- crat and served as supervisor of the town of Ilalf Moon several terms.
NOBLE The family tradition of the No- ble family herein traced is that they descend from Scotch an- cestry, although the Massachusetts and Con- necticut families are given as of English birth. The name is found in both countries and the early settlers were no doubt of both nationalities. The first record in this line was Moses Noble, born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. While the connection cannot be proved from the records published, yet there is strong proof that he was a descendant of Thomas Noble, born in England in or about 1632, died in Westfield, Massachusetts, Janu- ary 20, 1704. He is mentioned in Boston his- tories as early as 1653, when he was admit- ted an inhabitant January 5 of that year. That same year he removed to Springfield, Massachusetts, where he opened an account at the store of John Pyncheon. IIc later re- moved to Westfield, Massachusetts, where lands were granted him July, 1666, but he
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did not settle there until 1669. He was chosen constable of Westfield and took the oath of office, April 7, 1674. He was granted per- mission to erect a sawmill in 1685, and also became a well-to-do farmer, leaving a con- siderable estate. He married, November I, 1660, Hannah Warriner, born in Springfield, Massachusetts, August 17, 1643 ; she survived him and married (second) Deacon Medad Pomeroy, whom she also survived. Thomas and Hannah Noble had ten children, including six sons, all of whom married and had fami- lies. From one of these, Moses Noble, of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, may have de- scended, as members of the family settled in that state and Kittery, Maine.
(1) Moses Noble was born October 25. 1731, died May 7, 1796. He resided in Ports- mouth, New Hampshire, where he married, December 7. 1756, Hannah Simes, born Au- gust 14. 1732, died August 23, 1798. Chil- dren: I. Mark, born October 3, 1757, died unmarried. 2. Mary, died unmarried. 3. Jolin, married Sarah Chadbourne. 4. Joseph, born July 12, 1762. 5. Robert, of further mention. 6. Hannah, died unmarried at the age of thirty-three years. 7. Dorothy, died unmarried at the age of fifty-eight years. 8. Moses, born January 22, 1770, died at sea unmarried, at the age of twenty-three years. 9. Betsey, died unmarried at the age of twen- ty-six years. 10. Jeremiah, died at sea un- married, at the age of twenty-six years. II. Ann. married and lived in Portsmouth.
(II) Robert, son of Moses and Hannah (Simes) Noble, was born June 10, 1764, died October 20, 1828. He was a resident of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where his chil- dren, Jerry, Moses and Mary, were born, al- though the name of his wife has not been pre- served.
(III) Moses (2), son of Robert Noble, was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, June 17, 1787. He was a farmer of the town of Berwick, Maine, and later engaged in the manufacturing of cigars, known to the trade as "Long Nines" and "Short Sixes." He did an extensive business, and the fence in- closing his farm was built from cedar staves, taken from the hogsheads in which his leaf tobacco came packed. He lived to the good old age of eighty-six years, dying in Berwick, Maine. He married, in Portsmouth, October 7, 1810, Hannah Harvey, of Kittery, Maine, born August 11, 1790, descendant of the Mas- sachusetts Ilarveys. She was killed accident- ally at the Boston & Maine railroad crossing at Berwick, when well advanced in years. Moses and Hannah ( Harvey ) Noble were the parents of a very large family including Mo-
ses, the eldest son, of whom further mention is made; George, died in California; Mary, Samuel, Robert, Anna and Martha.
(IV) Moses (3), son of Moses (2) and Hannah ( Harvey) Noble, was born in Ber- wick, Maine, about 1812, died in Windham, New Hampshire. He married Elizabeth Jen- kins. Children: 1. George, born at Great Falls, New Hampshire, now a resident of Worcester, Massachusetts, in the employ of Grattin & Knight, leather manufacturers; married Belle Holt and has living children : Elizabeth, Goldie, Frank and William. 2. James Albert. of further mention. 3. Mark William, of Windham, New Hampshire.
(V) James Albert, son of Moses (3) and Elizabeth (Jenkins) Noble, was born Feb- ruary 5, 1845, at Great Falls, New Hamp- shire, in the part lying across the river now called Berwick. He was educated in the pub- lic schools, afterward working in the mills. On November 2, 1861, being then in his sey- enteenth year, he enlisted in the Union serv- ice as a private of Company G, Thirtieth Mas- sachusetts Volunteers. This regiment entered the service as the Second Eastern Bay State Regiment. His service extended over a pe- riod of four years, nine months, and eight days. He served in the Army of the Gulf under the immediate command of Generals Benjamin F. Butler and N. P. Banks; later under General Phil. Sheridan, with whom he campaigned after his second enlistment in 1864. He was with Sheridan in his Shenan- doah Valley campaign, and was wounded at Winchester, though not seriously. He was engaged at the battles of Plain Store, siege of Port Hudson, Baton Rouge, Opquihanic Creek, and other minor engagements during his first enlistment, and was in the battles of Winchester, Fisher's Hill and Cedar Creek under General Sheridan. Being so much un- der age, the records of the war department show him to have been two years older than he really was at date of enlistment. He was a good soldier and shirked no duty. After returning to civil life he engaged with his father at carpentry in Lawrence, Massachu- setts, remaining with him two years. He then took up the business of a millwright, working in various positions. For twenty years he was employed in the mechanical department of the Russell Paper Company of Lawrence. Massachusetts, and was master mechanic of the Tillotson & Hollingsworth Paper Com- pany at Groton, Massachusetts, then occupied the same position with the Hudson River Pulp & Paper Company at Palmer's Falls, New York, later returning to Lawrence, Massa- chusetts, with the Emerson Manufacturing
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Company. In 1804 he established in Hoosick Falls, New York, as the senior member of the firm of Noble & Foss, manufacturers of paper mill machinery. In 1895 the firm became No- ble & Jolinson, continuing the same line of manufacture until 1002, when their plant was destroyed by fire. The business was then incorporated as the Noble & Wood Ma- chine Company, with James A. Noble as vice- president and general manager. The company manufacture all kinds of paper mill machin- ery, including several proprietary machines. In addition they manufacture a line of opera chairs and school desks, their jobbing houses handling their output in the latter line. The company is a prosperous one and owes much to the wise management and executive ability of Mr. Noble. Mr. Noble is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, having passed through all the chairs of a subordinate lodge. He is also affiliated with the Benevo- lent and Protective Order of Elks. Politi- cally he is a Republican, although never ac- tive in party work.
He married, June 7. 1867. Diana, daughter of William Preston, of Leeds, England. Chil- dren: 1. Fred W., married Myrtle Gleason, and has a son Fred. He is employed with the Noble & Wood Machine Company. 2. John E., married Minnie Richards, and resides in Lawrence, Massachusetts, being engaged in paper manufacturing. 3. Arthur M., married Maud Van Buren ; engaged with the Noble & Wood Machine Company. 4. Clarence W .. married Jennie Stewart, engaged with the Noble & Wood Machine Company. 5. Her- bert D., also employed with the Noble & Wood Machine Company.
VAN BUREN The Dutch ancestor of Anna L. (Van Buren) Schuyler is Cornelis Maas
Van Buren, who with his wife, Catalyntje Martense, arrived on the ship "Rensselaer- wyck" fr . 1 Gelderland, Holland, in 1631. They were among the earliest settlers of Bey- erwyck ( now Alban ), their farm being at Papsknee, a little below Greenbush, where they both died and were buried on the same day in 1648. They had children: Hendrick, Marten, Maas, Styntje, married, 1663. Dirck Wessels Ten Broeck, who was the first re- corder of Albany, 1686: mayor, 1696-98, and major of Colonel Peter Schuyler's regiment in 1700: Tobias Marten, one of the sons, de- posed he was born in Houten, province of Utrecht, Holland. Marten is the ancestor of President Martin Van Buren.
( II ) Hendrick, eldest son of Cornelis Maas and Catalyntje (Martense) Van Buren, mar-
ried and had sons: Maas, Cornelis and llen- drick.
(Hl) Maas, son of Hendrick Van Buren, was of the manor of Rensselaerwyck in 1720, and was buried at Schodack, April 14. 1733. llis will was dated April 7, proved June 1. 1773. In it he spoke of wife Magdalena and three children. He married ( first ). Septem- ber 17. 1608, Ariantje Van Wie, who died February 3. 1700. He married ( second ). about 1711. Magdalena Bogard. Children mentioned in will: Hendrick, baptized Janu- ary 7, 1700 : Hendrick. December 28, 1701 : Jo- hannes, August 13, 1704. A fourth child, Cat- alyntje, was born April 20, 1712, but she is not named in his will.
(IV) Hendrick (2), son of Maas and Ari- antje (Van Wie) Van Buren, was baptized at Albany, December 28, 1701. He married, October 7, 1731, Aaltie, daughter of Daniel and Dirkje (Van Nes ) Winne. Children : Ariantje, died in childhood; Dirkje, baptized June 9, 1734: Maas, died young : Maas (2), baptized June 6. 1736 or 1738 : Daniel, August 31, 1740: Johannes, died young : Ariantje. baptized February 1, 1747 : Johannes, May 17. 1752.
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