Judge NOYES William, Esqr.^{[1, 2]}

1728 - 1807  (79 years)

• Name	NOYES William
  Prefix	Judge
  Suffix	Esqr.
  Birth	1728	Lyme, New London, Connecticut, United States   [3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  _UID	A9620D38EB9ED5118A064445535400007F48
  Death	11 Feb 1807	Old Lyme, New London, Connecticut, United States   [2, 5]
  	(Ae. 80 y.)
  Burial	Aft 11 Feb 1807	Old Lyme, New London, Connecticut, United States   [5]
  	Address: Duck River Cemetery
  	(In MEMORY of WILLIAM Noyes, Esqr. For 30 years an associate Judge of the New London County Court. Endowed with strong mental powers, distinguished for activity, discretion, integrity & firmness: he filled various public offices with honor to himself & much advantage to the community & the church of God: Exemplifying through a long life, in various stations, the domestic, social, public & christian virtues: & not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: he closed life with calm -ness & a well founded hope of immortality through the Redeamer, on the 11th day of February, 1807, & in the 80th year of his age.)
  		William Noyes gravestone In MEMORY of WILLIAM Noyes, Esqr. For 30 years an associate Judge of the New London County Court. Endowed with strong mental powers, distinguished for activity, discretion, integrity & firmness: he filled various public offices with honor to himself & much advantage to the community & the church of God: Exemplifying through a long life, in various stations, the domestic, social, public & christian virtues: & not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: he closed life with calm -ness & a well founded hope of immortality through the Redeamer, on the 11th day of February, 1807, & in the 80th year of his age. The righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance.
  Notes	For 30 years an associate Judge of the New London County Court, endowed with strong mental powers, distinguished for activity discretion, integrity & firmness: he filled various public offices with honor to himself & much advantage to the community with honor to himself & much advantage to the community & the Church of God: Exemplifying through a long life in various stations, the domestic, social, public and Christian virtues: & not ashamed of the gospel of Christ; he closed life with calmness & a well founded hope of immortality through the Redeemer. It is said that Judge Noyes "was a tall, grave man, the terror of Sabbath-breakers. He never allowed a traveler to pass through Lyme on the Lord's Day without some extraordinary excuse. He was strictly conventional. When on horseback with his grown-up sons, the latter never presumed to ride on a line with him, but always at a respectful distance behind."
  Person ID	I2187	Noyes Family Genealogy
  Last Modified	22 Jul 2016

  
  

  Father	NOYES Moses, II, Esqr.,   b. 1 Aug 1678, Lyme, New London, Connecticut, United States d. 10 Oct 1743, Lyme, New London, Connecticut, United States (Age 65 years)
  Mother	ELY Mary,   b. 29 Nov 1689, Lyme, New London, Connecticut, United States d. 3 Feb 1764, Lyme, New London, Connecticut, United States (Age 74 years)
  Marriage	15 Jan 1712/3	Lyme, New London, Connecticut, United States   [4, 6, 7]
  	("Moses Noyes was married to Mary Ely his wife ye 15th of Janur 1712/13". [LLR2:169] The Noyes Descendants, Vol. II says 1713.)
  Family ID	F634	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	MARVIN Eunice,   b. 2 Dec 1735, Lyme, New London, Connecticut, United States d. 5 Apr 1816, Old Lyme, New London, Connecticut, United States (Age 80 years)
  Marriage	8 Apr 1756	Lyme, New London, Connecticut, United States   [4, 8, 9]
  	(Lyme Second Church. The Noyes Descendants, Vol. II says 1756.)
  Children	1. Dr. NOYES John,   b. 1757, Lyme, New London, Connecticut, United States d. 11 Aug 1808, Lyme, New London, Connecticut, United States (Age 51 years)   2. Capt. NOYES Joseph,   b. 7 Sep 1758, Lyme, New London, Connecticut, United States d. 19 Aug 1820, Old Lyme, New London, Connecticut, United States (Age 61 years)   3. NOYES William, Jr. Esqr.,   b. 30 Oct 1760, Old Lyme, New London, Connecticut, United States d. 23 Dec 1834, Old Lyme, New London, Connecticut, United States (Age 74 years)   4. Rev. NOYES Matthew,   b. 26 Feb 1764, Lyme, New London, Connecticut, United States d. 25 Sep 1839 (Age 75 years)
  Family ID	F735	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	23 Feb 2024

  
  

• Photos		Judge William Noyes, Esquire
  		Judge William Noyes, Esquire home Located further south on Lyme Street in Old Lyme from the house of William Noyes, Jr. is a house built the same year (1817) and designed by the same architect (Samuel Belcher). The Federal style house, whose original carpenters were shipbuilders, was constructed for John Sill, a “customs runner” who secreted his smuggled goods in hidden closets in the house. With Sill’s arrest in 1820, the house was bought by William Noyes and in 1822 by Charles Johnson McCurdy, a Yale graduate, politician, ambassador and judge. In 1944, an extensive restoration was undertaken by owner C. Whitney Carpenter with the local architect, Robert I. Carter, who later bought the home. In 1983, the house was sold by Carter’s children to the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts. It now houses offices and gallery space.

  
  

  Documents

  William Noyes (1728-1807) slaves Amid the recipes, medicinal cures, and obituary clippings pasted into a simple string-bound scrapbook appears a hand-written list of Judge William Noyes’ (1728–1807) slaves. Kept initially by his great-granddaughter Mary Ann Noyes Learned (1818–1875) and later maintained by her cousin Martha Noyes (1833–1874), the scrapbook documents the family’s Negro servants over four generations. Martha’s older sister Ellen Noyes Chadwick (1824–1900) had known the last of them, a “good Christian woman” called “old black Jenny” (1748–1832) https://tinyurl.com/ycmeqgx7

  
  

• Sources

  [S1239] Book-Family Histories and Genealogies Vol III, p.142, R929.2 qS1673 v3. [S47] CD-NEHG Register. Vol. 77, Jul 1923, p. 209 "Inscriptions at Old Lyme, Conn." [S15] Book-Compendium of Amer. Gen. - First Families in America. [S103] Book-Noyes-The Noyes Descendants, Vol. II, p.158. [S86] Death-gravestone, Duck River Cemetery, Old Lyme. [S1264] Correspondence-Internet-Ted Mudge, 15 Nov 2000 12:22 am. [S1265] Book-VR Lyme, CN, p.251. [S45] Correspondence-Internet-Steve McCarty. [S1112] CD-Ancestry.com Connecticut VR, Third Book, Lyme, New Haven Second Church page 136.