Ephraim Marble and Anna Dunham

Posted on September 2, 2011 by jmk

Ephraim Marble and Anna Dunham are possible parents of Sally Marble who married James Noyes.

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Husband: Ephraim + Marble (1)
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Born: 1767 Sep 9 – Conway, Franklin, Massachusetts (2)
Christened:
Died: 1835 – Bedford, Cuyahoga, Ohio
Buried:
Father: Nathaniel + Marble (1720/1721-1802) (2)
Mother: Abigail + Houghton (1733-1825) (2)
Marriage: Place:
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Other Spouse: Betsey Wood ( – )
Date: 1832 Jul 4 – Bedford, Cuyahoga, Ohio (2)
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Events
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1. Birth: 9 Sept 1767 Conway, Franklin, Massachusetts.

2. Matrimony 1: Married to Anna DUNHAM., Bef 1790.

3. Census: 1800 Phelps, Ontario, New York.
The page at Ancestry.com only shows an incomplete account, most of the
page clipped off, so for Ephraim MARBLE we only see that he has 2 males
under 10 and one male 10 to 15.

4. Census: 1810 Phelps, Ontario, New York. (3)
pg. 10 (ancestry.com)
Hugh DUNHAM
Ephrim MARBLE – 2 – 1 – | 6 – – 1 – (pg.
224)
Abijan MARBLE 1 2 2 – 1 | 2 1 – – 1 (pg. 224)
Levi MARBLE – – 1 – – | 1 1 – 1 –
Nathl MARBLE – 2 1 – 1 | 1 – 1 1 –

COMMENT: 2 free white males 10 to 15, 1 free white male 26 to 44, 6 free
white females under 10, 1 free white female 26 to 44 in Ephraim’s
household. 6 children seem a bit much for one decade but it’s possible.
The Gandolf genealogy would only account for two of these females via
Fanny and Amanda. If Sally MARBLE was born in 1796 then she is too old,
but an error may have been made (as often happens.)

5. Census: 1820 NY, Ontario Co. Phelps. (4)
pg. 287
James NOYS 2 1 1 1 – 1 1 1 1 – 1 – 2 – 1
pg. 291
James WATERS – 2 – 1 – 1 1 – 2 – 1 – 4
James WATERS is two doors away from a James WESTBROOK
pg. 297
Daniel MARBLE – – – – 1 – 1 – 1 – – – 1
Mary MARBLE 1 – – 1 – – – – 2 – 2 – 1
Ephraim MARBLE – 1 – 2 – 1 – 1 1 1 2 – 2 –
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NOTE: 1 male 10 to 16, 2 males 16 to 26, 1 male 45 and up, 1 female 10 to
16, 1 female 16 to 26, 1 female 26 to 45, 2 females 45 and up
William MARBLE 1 – – – 1 – 1 – – 1 – – 1
Abijah MARBLE 1 – – – – 1 – 1 1 – 1 – 1
Ebenezer MARBLE – – – 1 – – – – 1 – – – – – 1
Thomas MARBLE 1 – – – 1 – – – 1 – – – – – 1
Moses MARBLE 1 – – – 1 – 4 – – 1 – – 1

The male 10 to 16 would be unknown. The 2 males 16 to 26 would be
Solomon and Thomas. The male 45 and up is Ephraim. the female 10 to 16
is Serepta as Amanada is married already, the female 16 to 26 is unknown
as is the female 26 to 45, and one of the 45 and up females is unknown,
the other 45 and up being Anna.

6. Wife’s Death: Anna dies., 1832 Mar 25, Bedford, Cuyahoga, Ohio. He
didn’t waste much time getting married again!

7. Matrimony 2: Married to Betsey WOOD., 1832 Jul 4, Bedford, Cuyahoga,
Ohio.

8. Death: Cir 1835 Bedford, Cuyahoga, Ohio.

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Wife: Anna + Dunham (2)
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Born: 1767 Jun 14
Christened:
Died: 1832 Mar 25 – Bedford, Cuyahoga, Ohio (2)
Buried:
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Events
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1. Birth: 1767 Jun 14.

2. Marriage: Married to Ephraim MARBLE, Bef 1790.

6. Death: 1832 Mar 25.

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Children
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1 F Ann Marble (2)
Born:
Christened:
Died: Unknown
Buried:
Spouse: William Lozier (1806- ) (2)
Marr. Date:
Spouse:

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2 M Levi Marble
Born: 1790 May 10 – Massachusetts, Hampshire County, Williamsburg (2)
Christened:
Died: 1874 Mar 4 – Illinois, Woodford County
Buried:
Spouse: Elizabeth Granger (1791- ) (2)
Marr. Date:
Spouse:
Marr. Date:

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3 F Sally + Marble (5)
Born: 1796 Sep 6 – , , Massachusetts (6)
Christened:
Died: 1838 Aug 10 – Pavillion, Kalamazoo, Michigan
Buried:
Spouse: James + Noyes (1793-1864) (7)
Marr. Date: 1815 Sep 6 – Pavillion, Kalamazoo, Michigan (8)
Spouse:
Marr. Date:
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Events
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1. Birth: 6 Sept 1796. (6) Birth date from Family Record of James Noyes
created by James A. and Caroline Atwell Noyes. Sally Marble’s name was
not entered in full. She was referred to as Sally Noyes.

No record of Sally’s birth has been found. She may be daughter of
Ephraim Marble and Anna Dunham. According to Lynn Marble, they had a
daughter named Serepta. They appear on the 1810 census in Ontario
County, NY, with a daughter in her age range.

Source: Nancy Benton

2. Parentage:
In NY, 1815, a Petrus WESTBROOK b. 20 Sept. 1797, Deer Park, NY, died 8
Jan 1851, Kalamazoo, NY (sic) married a Fannie MARBLE b. 20 March 1801,
died 15 May 1849 in Kalamzaoo, MI. Their children were Amanda, Ephriam,
Benjamin, Henry H. Solomon, William, Ethan Allen and WIlliam Thomas.

The 1840 Kalamazoo Pavilion MI census shows a John WESTBROOK living
beside James NOYES. The 1850 census shows on page 218 a Peter WESTBROOK
b. MA and an Ephraim WESTBROOK.

?/1573 Peter WESTBROOK 58 $700 MA
Ethan 18 b, OH
William 10
?/1574 Ephraim 30
Jane 17
Nancy MOON 19

Petrus WESTROOK is the same Peter WESTBROOK shown in the 1850 Kalamazoo
census with sons Ethan, William and Ephraim.

Fannie MARBLE, given at
http://www.gencircles.com/users/gandalf/1/data/102833.html as born 20
March 1801 in Williamsburg, Hampshire Co. MA, was the daughter of Ephraim
MARBLE and Anna DUNHAM.

Ephraim MARBLE was born 9 Sept. 1767 in Conway, Franklin Co. MA and died
1835 in Bedford, Cuyahoga Co. Ohio. Anna DUNHAM was born 14 June 1767 in
Edgartown/Williamsburg and died 25 March 1832 in Bedford, Cuyahoga Co.
OH. Their children were: Ann married William LOZIER, Levi married
Elizabeth GRANGER, Solomon married Mary then Catherine CONVERSE, Thomas
married Catherine WINEFIELD, Fanny, Amanda married Ethan WAIT, Serepta,
Welcome and Rachel m. Robert LOGAN.

Parents of Ephraim MARBLE were Nathaniel MARBLE and Abigail HOUGHTON. The
1840 and 1850 Kalamazoo Pavilion censuses show an A. H. HOUGHTON. In the
1850 census he is living 2 households down from James NOYES.

A. H. HOUGHTON (BOUGHTON) 55 b. NY
Desire 50
C. W. 22
Alphonzo 20
Chancy 19
Charlotte 16
George M. 11
Loretta 9

These are the MARBLES in the 1810 Ontario Co. NY census:

1810 MARBLE ABIJAH Ontario County NY 224 12201-21001 Federal Population
Schedule NY 1810 Federal Census Index NYS1a2059167
1810 MARBLE EPHRAIM Ontario County NY 224 02010-60010 Federal Population
Schedule NY 1810 Federal Census Index NYS1a2059218
1810 MARBLE LEVI Ontario County NY 224 00100-00100 Federal Population
Schedule NY 1810 Federal Census Index NYS1a2059282
1810 MARBLE NATHANIEL Ontario County NY 224 02101-11010 Federal
Population Schedule NY 1810 Federal Census Index NYS1a2059303

3. Census: 1810 Phelps, Ontario, New York. (3)
pg. 10 (ancestry.com)
Hugh DUNHAM
Ephrim MARBLE – 2 – 1 – | 6 – – 1 – (pg.
224)
Abijan MARBLE 1 2 2 – 1 | 2 1 – – 1 (pg. 224)
Levi MARBLE – – 1 – – | 1 1 – 1 –
Nathl MARBLE – 2 1 – 1 | 1 – 1 1 –

4. Marriage: 6 Sept 1815, Pavillion, Kalamazoo, Michigan. Married James
NOYES at the age of 19. He was 21.

5. Child’s Birth: Ezra is born., 1817 Jul 7.

6. Child’s Birth: Elizabeth is born., 1819 Mar 22.

7. Census: 1820 Place Yet To Be Located.. James NOYES Sr. was living in
Phelps in 1820. James Allen NOYES and Sally MARBLE could have been living
with another family in the area and are thus not seen in the census…or
they could have moved on elsewhere.

8. Child’s Birth: James (1) is born., 1821 Jul 13.

9. Child’s Death: James (1) dies at the age of 2 of malaria fever., 1823
Apr.

10. Child’s Birth: B. J. is born., 1823 Oct 4.

11. Tax list: 1825, , , Michigan. 1825 NOYES JAMES Wayne&wshtnwco MI 799
Tax List 1825 Tax List MI Early Census Index MIS2a927036

12. Child’s Birth: James Allen is born., 1826 Dec 22. James will marry
Caroline ATWELL. DIRECT LINE

13. Chlid’s Birth: Maryette is born., 1828 Jul 17.

14. Child’s Birth: Dan is born., 1831 Nov 4.

15. Mother’s Death: Death of Anna DUNHAM MARBLE., 1832 Mar 25.

16. Child’s Birth: Delia is born., 1833 Nov 15.

17. Child’s Death: Dan dies at the age of 3 of malaria fever., 1835 Sep
10.

18. Father’s Death: Death of Ephraim MARBLE., Cir 1835.

19. Child’s Death: Delia dies at 4 of malaria fever., 1837.

20. Death: 1838 Aug 10 Pavillion, Kalamazoo, Michigan. (6) Death date
from Family Record of James Noyes created by James A. and Caroline Atwell
Noyes.

Sally died at 41. She and James had been married 22 years.

21. Accessory Document: James Noyes, Sally Marble and Susan Waters Family
Record. (9)

22. Accessory Document: James Noyes Family Record, 1848 Jun 3. (6)

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4 M Solomon Marble (2)
Born: 1796 Feb 20
Christened:
Died: 1879 Mar 17 – Illinois, Lake County, Waukegan (2)
Buried:
Spouse: Mary (Cir 1799- )
Marr. Date:
Spouse: Catherine Converse (1813- )
Marr. Date: 1845 May (2)
Spouse:
Marr. Date:

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5 M Thomas Marble
Born: 1798 Jun – , , Massachusetts (2)
Christened:
Died: 1835 Apr 2 – Bedford, Cuyahoga, Ohio
Buried:
Spouse: Catherine Winefield (1800- ) (2)
Marr. Date:
Spouse:
Marr. Date:

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6 F Fanny Marble
Born: 1801 Mar 20 – Massachusetts, Hampshire County, Williamsburg (2)
Christened:
Died: 1849 May 15 – , Kalamazoo, Michigan
Buried:
Spouse: Peter Westbrook ( -1851)
Marr. Date: Abt 1814 – , , New York (2)
Spouse:
Marr. Date:

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7 F Amanda Marble
Born: 1804 Feb 12 – Phelps, Ontario, New York (2)
Christened:
Died: 1893 Jan 8 – Illinois, Lake County, Monaville
Buried:
Spouse: Ethan Wait (1800-1844) (2)
Marr. Date: 1819 Nov 13 – Phelps, Ontario, New York
Spouse:
Marr. Date:

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8 F Serepta Marble
Born: Cir 1806
Christened:
Died: Unknown
Buried:
Spouse:
Marr. Date:

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9 M Welcome Marble (2)
Born: Cir 1812 – Phelps, Ontario, New York
Christened:
Died: 1893 Jan 8 (2)
Buried:
Spouse:
Marr. Date:

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10 F Rachel Marble
Born: Cir 1814 – , , New York (2)
Christened:
Died: Unknown
Buried:
Spouse: Robert Logan ( – )
Marr. Date: 1834 May 12 – Bedford, Cuyahoga, Ohio (2)
Spouse:
Marr. Date:

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General Notes: Husband – Ephraim + Marble
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POSSIBLE DIRECT LINE (TO SALLY MARBLE MARRIED JAMES NOYES)

Possible father of Sally MARBLE.

Sally MARBLE is given by family record as having been born 6 Sept. 1796. She
and James NOYES married 6 Sept. 1815 in Ontario Co. NY.

In NY, 1815, a Petrus WESTBROOK b. 20 Sept. 1797, Deer Park, NY, died 8 Jan
1851, Kalamazoo, NY (sic) married a Fannie MARBLE b. 20 March 1801, died 15 May
1849 in Kalamazaoo, MI. Their children were Amanda, Ephriam, Benjamin, Henry H.
Solomon, William, Ethan Allen and WIlliam Thomas.

The 1840 Kalamazoo Pavilion MI census shows a John WESTBROOK living beside
James NOYES. The 1850 census shows on page 218 a Peter WESTBROOK b. MA and an
Ephraim WESTBROOK, again, living a few households from James NOYES.

?/1573 Peter WESTBROOK 58 $700 MA
Ethan 18 b, OH
William 10
?/1574 Ephraim 30
Jane 17
Nancy MOON 19

Petrus WESTROOK is the same Peter WESTBROOK shown in the 1850 Kalamazoo census
with sons Ethan, William and Ephraim.

Fannie MARBLE, wife of Peter WESTRBOOK, is given as born 20 March 1801 in
Williamsburg, Hampshire Co. MA, the daughter of Ephraim MARBLE and Anna
DUNHAM.

Ephraim MARBLE was born 9 Sept. 1767 in Conway, Franklin Co. MA and died 1835
in Bedford, Cuyahoga Co. Ohio. Anna DUNHAM was born 14 June 1767 in
Edgartown/Williamsburg and died 25 March 1832 in Bedford, Cuyahoga Co. OH.
Their known children were: Ann married William LOZIER, Levi married Elizabeth
GRANGER, Solomon married Mary then Catherine CONVERSE, Thomas married Catherine
WINEFIELD, Fanny, Amanda married Ethan WAIT, Serepta, Welcome and Rachel m.
Robert LOGAN.

Parents of Ephraim MARBLE were Nathaniel MARBLE and Abigail HOUGHTON. The 1840
and 1850 Kalamazoo Pavilion censuses show an A. H. HOUGHTON. In the 1850 census
he is living 2 households down from James NOYES.

A. H. HOUGHTON (BOUGHTON) 55 b. NY
Desire 50
C. W. 22
Alphonzo 20
Chancy 19
Charlotte 16
George M. 11
Loretta 9

Sally is thought to be a daughter of Ephraim. There are 6 females in the 1810
census, all under 10, and only a couple of these are accounted for in the list
of known females for Ephaim and Marble. Only 2 of these females seem to be
observed in the 1820 household and it’s impossible to say who those two are.
The 1800 census only shows a couple of age groupings for the males, and the
rest of the page is cut off. There are several MARBLES in the 1810 and 1820
census and it could be that Sally (already married by 1820) is a daughter of
one of the other MARBLES, but right now we’re looking at Ephraim because of
Peter WESTBROOK.

When the Dunwells arrived in Marbletown, then called Taunton, the Marbles were
already settled here. Four Marble brothers, Nathaniel, Abijah, Ephraim,
Jeremiah, and a brother-in-law, Mr. Coates, were the leading spirit of the
settlement. The parents of the four brothers had emigrated to this section with
their children. Nathaniel, Sr. was born to Sudbury, Massachusetts, in 1721, and
died in Marbletown June 8, 1802. His marker and that of his wife, Abigail, who
died in 1825 at age ninety three, are in the Marbletown cemetery on Sweed
Road.

The Marbles were energetic men and had planted a vigorous settlement. Nathaniel
owned three hundred acres between Marbletown Road and Vienna Street Road. He
donated land for the cemetery, the church, and the school. Although some of the
Marbles moved to other sections, many of them and their descendants lived in
Marbletown for three generations. Miss Verona M. Marble, who now resides in
Newark is the great-great-great-great granddaughter of the first Nathaniel
Marble to settle in the section that now bears his name.

Daniel and Abijah Marble had cattle earmarks registered in the first town book
of Phelps. Cattle were allowed to roam in the woods then and the earmarks
served the same purpose as branding cattle in the West.

Miss Verona Marble’s father, the late Ray W. Marble, was interested in family
history. He sent to a place in Massachusetts for a genealogy of the Marble
family. Of the serveral children and their descendants of Edmund Marble, born
in Andover, Massachusetts, in 1664, all had been traced except Nathaniel who,
according to the family historian, had emigrated to York State and never heard
of again. Mr. Marble was pleased that he could fill in the “missing link” to
his family’s history.

Nathaniel, Abijah and Ephraim in the 1810 census in Ontario would either be
three of these MARBLE brothers, or related to them. As for their being in
Ontario:

Although Phelps and Gorham negotiated with Massachusetts for the lands which,
according to agreement, were to become a part of New York, they also had to
purchase them from the Seneca Indians. After much delay and many problems an
agreement was finally reached at a meeting with the Senecas held near the
present site of Buffalo, whereby the purchasers were to give the Indians five
thousand dollars in hand and five hundred dollars a year forever. This amount
to about one and one half cents per acre. Financial difficulties forced Phelps
and Gorham to allow about two thirds of the original purchase to revert back to
Massachusetts. This land was later sold to the Holland Land Company and a
portion called the Morris Reserve was sold to Robert Morris.

Due to an error in surveying, the boundary line was changed, resulting in an
irregular shaped piece of land called the “gore” between the old and new
preemption lines. The area known today as Wayne County was officially named
April 11, 1823. It was made up of parts of Ontario and Seneca Counties which
included the gore and from Seneca County the land that had been set aside as a
land bonus for soldiers of the Revolutionary War and was called the Military
Tract. Wayne County was named in honor of General Anthony Wayne in remembrance
of his great services in quelling the Indian uprisings in this section. (See
fig. 2)

SOURCE: History and Folklore of Marbletown, 1963, Lois D. Pelis

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General Notes: Wife – Anna + Dunham
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POSSIBLE DIRECT LINE (TO SALLY MARBLE MARRIED JAMES NOYES)

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Sources

1. David Buchroder, Gandalf’s Genealogy (http://www.gencircles.com). …. Lois
D. Pelis, History and Folklore of Marbletown (1963).
2. David Buchroder, Gandalf’s Genealogy (http://www.gencircles.com).
3. New York, Ontario County, 1810 U.S. Federal Census Population Schedule
(Images at Ancestry.com).
4. New York, Ontario County, 1820 U. S. Federal Census Population Schedule
(Microfilm at Ancestry.com).
5. Noyes notes. …. Nancy Benton genealogy database drawn from various
sources, some unnoted. Grace Noyes Pinkerton b. 1892, did much recording
during the mid 1900s, Nancy Benton assisting and later augmenting. Pansy
Noyes Bryant contributed greatly, mother of Nancy Benton, Noyes-Brewer
Genealogy with Associated Families (2003 Word Document file).
6. James A. Noyes and Caroline Atwell Noyes, James Noyes Family Record (Births
and deaths for James A. Noyes parents and siblings were initially written
June 4 1848 in Springfield Lagrange Co. Indiana by James A. Noyes. This
was copied and half-siblings’ births and deaths entered by Carrie A. Noyes
March 1, 1885.
Transcribed 2003 by jk from scan of original document in possession of
Nancy Benton.)
7. Nancy Benton genealogy database drawn from various sources, some unnoted.
Grace Noyes Pinkerton b. 1892, did much recording during the mid 1900s,
Nancy Benton assisting and later augmenting. Pansy Noyes Bryant
contributed greatly, mother of Nancy Benton, Noyes-Brewer Genealogy with
Associated Families (2003 Word Document file).
8. Noyes notes.
9. James Noyes family record showing children with Sally Marble and Susan
Waters (Digital copy courtesy of Nancy Benton).

James Noyes and Sally Marble

Posted on September 15, 2010 by jmk

James Noyes, born Sep 13, 1793 at Worcester County, Massachusetts, died Aug 26 1864 at Pavilion, Kalamazoo, Michigan. On Sep 6, 1815 he married first, at Pavilion, Kalamazoo, Michigan, Sally Marble. She was born Sep 6 1796 in Massachusetts and died at the age of 41 on Aug 10 1838 at Pavilion, Kalamazoo, Michigan.

James Noyes was the son of James Noyes and Rebecca Russell. Sally Marble was the daughter of Ephraim Marble and Anna Dunham.

James was in the War of 1812 and the Black Hawk Indian War. In both he was a musician and played the fife and flute. He was a great student of history…Captain James NOYES of Gourdneck Prairie and Ephraim HARRISON of Prairie Ronde were captains of the Prairie troops.
SOURCE: Michigan Pioneer and Historical Collections Vol XXX

In 1825 there were nine small houses in Ann Arbor, MI, located and occupied as near as can be ascertained as follows: Elisha W. RUMSEY occupied the “Wasterman Coffe House” and John ALLEN the block house. A long house with a frame addition stood on the northeast corner of Main and Ann Streets. Two small houses stood on opposite sides of Main Street near where Guffy’s Store now stands and were occupied by the two brothers, James and George W. NOYES.
SOURCE: Pioneer Society of Michigan, Vol I, page 334 (1874-76)

James NOYES came in October of 1830 from Ann Arbor, and settled NE/2, NW/4. Sect 23, where he built a log house and made improvements. He sold this land in 1831 and bought new lands in the township of Brady, on which he erected a sawmill, which, with his farm, he put into the Alphadelphia Society. On the disbanding of the society in 1848, he retained his property. He died at his home in Brady many years since. (p.353).
SOURCE: History of Kalamazoo County, MI, Its Prominent Men and Pioneers, 1880

The Alphadelphia Assn believed in pastoral communion. Coming down through the ages into our own time, we find Charles Fourier of France teaching this principle in America through Dr. H.F. Schetterly, a German, who lived in Comstock. A group of sturdy pioneers took up Alphadelphia society. Among them was James NOYES, born 1793. To live together in harmony was the object; to live and work and enjoy the benefits of each other’s society and the fruits of their own labor like a happy, united family. After four year’s trial, it was a total failure. There were 300 members all together. A large number put their farms into the Association. Others put in various kinds of property. James NOYES put in his saw mill which was valuable in furnishing lumber to the Society. From their first meeting on the domain March 21, 1844, until the last entry on the journal on April 30, 1848, the presidents were Anson GELMUTTER, B. WRIGHT, Harry KEITH, Lymann TUBBS and James NOYES.
SOURCE: The Alphadelphia Association–Its History in Comstock, Kalamazoo Co., Michigan

James NOYES was an agent for the Indians when he lived at Pavilion, MI. The three children who survived (Elizabeth, James and Sarah Melissa) always told of the good times they had playing with the Indian boys and girls and of how many playmates they had during the time that the Alphadelphia Society existed and all the people lived in one community.

James NOYES conducted a part of the underground railroad which helped escaping slaves get to Canada and freedom. Slaves were kept in his barn by day and then taken on by night to the next station. His second wife was a southern sympathizer, so this caused a great deal of friction. Son James Allen left home.

SOURCE: Nancy Benton

Children of James and Sally were:

Ezra b. 7 July 1817, died, age 23, 17 June 1841, at Pavilion, MI.
Elizabeth, b. 22 March 1819, married LOVETT. She died 11 Sept. 1850 at the age of 31. She and LOVETT are given in the family record as having for children John William and James Frank. The 1850 KALAMAZOO SCHOOLCRAFT TOWNSHIP MICHIGAN CENSUS shows at household 1332/1346 an Elizabeth LOVETT, 31, $1000, b. NY, with John W. 11 and James F. 9, both born in MI. Living also in the household is Malissa NOYES, 14, b. MI. Malissa is her sister. The census was taken August 14 or 19th so Elizabeth died shortly thereafter. (Her husband is not in the household which causes me to wonder if he was already dead or if they were separated. If he was dead, one wonders what happened to the children.) A few households up live Freeman and Susan WATERS, 22 and 23, both born NY. Freeman is perhaps a relative of Susan WATERS who was James NOYES’ 2nd wife.
James Jr. was born 1 July 1821 and died April 1823 at Pavilion, Kalamazoo Co. MI, age 2, of malaria fever.
B. J. was born 4 Oct. 1823 and died 6 May 1843 at the age of 19. He died the same year as his 14 year old sister Maryette.
James Allen, b. 22 Dec. 1826, Ann Arbor, Michigan, married Caroline ATWELL.
Maryette, b. 17 July 1828, died 13 Feb 1843 at Pavilion, MI, at age 14. She died in the same year as B. J., her 19 year old brother.
Dan was born 4 Nov. 1831 at Kalamazoo Co. MI and died 20 Sept. 1835, Kalamazoo, MI, age 3, of malaria fever.
Delia was born 15 Nov. 1833 at Kalamazoo Co. MI and died 1837, Kalmazoo Co. MI, at age 4, of malaria fever.
Sarah Melissa NOYES was born 24 April 1836 at Kalamazoo Co. MI. She married John T. SLATER, 14 June 1857 in Wisconsin. SLATER was an Indian agent in Wisconsin. They moved to Butler MO in 1866. When on a trip to Florida to buy “goods”, he took yellow fever and died while on the trip. Sarah married (2) J. D. ANDERSON on 4 Oct. 1871. She died 7 May 1936 at Berryville, AR. at the age of 100. She appears in the 1850 Kalamazoo Co. census living with her sister Elizabeth LOVETT (see above). Pansy Noyes Bryant, her great-niece, wrote of Sarah, “Sarah Melissa was very religious and bought her home for later years across the road from the church she loved in Berryville, where she was a constant attendant, even being carried to services after she was blind and deaf and could not enjoy the services. I visited in her home in 1925 and a retired minister and his wife were caring for her. They talked with her in Morse code by tapping on her hand. Her mind was clear until the end.”

After Sally’s death in 1838, James married in 1839, Susan WATERS, b. 1815 in NY. Their children were:

George W. b. 8 May 1840, died 3 May 1870 at 30. The Noyes Descendants, Vol. I says 3 Mar 1870. Age. 30 y 9 m 25 d. Died of consumption.
Daniel T., b. 11 Sept. 1843. Appears to have died in infancy as is not in the 1850 census.
Franklin b. 7 July 1845, died 29 July 1891. He married first Margaret A. ALDRICH then Clara E. HUBBARD.
Mary R., b. 7 March 1847. Appears to have died in infancy as is not in the 1850 census.
James (not given in family record) is seen in the 1850 census, age 2.
John W., b. 31 Jan. 1851, is given as 11 years old in the 1860 census. He is perhaps the James given above in the 1850 census.
Arilla W. (not given in family record) appears in the 1860 census as 9 so b. 1851 or so. She could not be a duplicate of Minerva who is given as dying in 1854.
Minerva, b. 19 June 1851, died 4 Sept. 1854 at age 2.
Lunetta, b. 20 April 1854, died 25 March 1878 at age 23.
Jean N. (not given in the family record) appears in the 1860 census as age 6 so born about 1854.

Census data for 1820 is yet to be found on James. By 1825 we find him on a Michigan tax list.

1825 NOYES JAMES JR. Wayne&wshtnwco MI 799 Tax List 1825 Tax List MI Early Census Index MIS2a927045
1825 NOYES JAMES JR. Wayne-washtenaw MI Huron Tax List MI Early Census Index MIS2a927046

He purchased land in Washtenaw County, Michigan in Feb. 1826.

In 1830 he is at Ann Arbor, Washtenaw, Michigan.

An unidentified 20 to 30 year old male is in the household.

pg. 138
Harvey CHUBB
John CHANDLER
Eli CHANDLER
John A. ENSWORTH
WIlliam STUBBS
Phillip McKUNAN?
Michael STUBBS
William PRINGLE
JOhn SLOE?
Elam SLOE?
Aaron ROSENGRANTS
Hugh MCCALL
John BENWICK
Isaac SEWALL
Avis BRUNDAGE
George MCGOUNTER?
Moses ALLEN
Eli CONKLIN
William ALLEN
David BOTIFORD
David HUEA?
Joseph LORCE
Benjamin SUTTON
James NOYES 1 – 1 – 1 1 | 1 1 1 – – 1
NOTE: 1 male under 5, 1 10 to 15, 1 male 20 to 30, 1 male 30 to 40, 1 female under 5, 1 female 5 to 10, 1 female 10 to 15, 1 female 30 to 40.
1 male under 5 would be James Allen. Male 10 to 15 would be Ezra. James is the 30 to 40 male. I don’t know who the 20 to 30 male is. 1 female under 5 would be Maryette. Female 5 to 10 would be B. J. Female 10 to 15 would be Elizabeth. And then Sally Marble.
John C. CARPENTER
John NIXEN
Isaac SUTTON

James father died in 1835.

He is in the 1837 Kalamazoo census.

1837 NOYES JAMES Kalamazoo County MI 002 Pavilion Township MI 1837 Kalamazoo County Census Index MI17593

Sally Marble died in 1838.

Possible land deeds for James in 1839, May 1.

NOYES JAMES 9 4 S 9 W 19 80.0000 01 10265 1839/05/01
NOYES JAMES 9 4 S 9 W 19 80.0000 01 10266 1839/05/01

In 1839 James married his second wife, Susan Waters.

The 1840 census.

1840 Pavilion, Kalamazoo, Michigan
pg. 253 (ancestry.com 1)
John B. CHIPMAN
Martin McCAIN
Sally CHIPMAN
John HOLCUM
James NOYES 1 – 1 1 2 – 1 | 1 – 1 1 1
NOTE: 1 male under 5, 1 male 10 to 15, 1 male 15 to 20, 2 males 20 to 30 1 male 40 to 50, 1 female under 5, 1 female 10 to 15, 1 female 15 to 20, 1 female 20 to 30

1 male under 5 would be George W. (son of Susan Waters and James Noyes), 1 male 10 to 15 would be James Allen. 1 male 15 to 20 would be? 1 of the 2 20 to 30 males would be Ezra, James is the 40 to 50 year old male. 1 female under 5 would be Sarah Malissa, 1 female 10 to 15 would be Maryette. 1 female 15 to 20 would be B. J. 1 female 20 to 30 would not be Elizabeth if she was married before 1839. Though Susan’s birthdate is given as 1815, this female would be her.

James NOYES is observed living near Martin MCCAIN. The wife and son of his son Frank L., by Susan WATERS, were buried in the MCCAIN cemetery.

There then followed a terrible succession of deaths. The first namesake of James had already died in 1823 at the age of 2 of malaria. Dan had died at 3, in 1835, of malaria. Delia had already died in 1837, at the age of 4, of malaria. Now, in 1841, Ezra died at the age of 23. In 1843, Maryette died at 14, then B. J. also died that year, at 19, of malaria. Daniel T. died in infancy in about 1843.

The first meeting of the Alphadelphia Association, which would be a Fourier-based socialist experiment in community, was March 21 1844.

During the McCarthy years, the Noyes family destroyed documents from the Alphadelphia Association and other materials concerning involvement of family in other utopian communities. Barbara Triphahn, a descendant of Charles Luke KEITH (also a president of the Alphadelphia Association) responded to a posting of mine on the internet requesting contact with anyone who might have information on the Association. She supplied a number of newspaper articles from the early 1900s and the Alphadelphia Society Constitution, links to which are in the Alphadelphia Association section.

Thanks also to Nancy BENTON, for a copy of the paper the “Alphadelphia Association” prepared by Catherine Livingston in 1958, whose research was based on documents loaned to her through Mrs. F. J. Buckley of Kalamazoo who had purchased records from Ethan Keith and Hannah Keith Towne. The paper has been transcribed and is again linked to in the Alphadelphia Association section.

James Noyes was, it appears, the last president of the Alphadelphia Association, following Anson Delamatter, Benjamin Wright, Harvey Keith, and Lyman Tubbs. On April 30 1848 the last journal entry for the association was made though the association itself continued for several more years.

The 1850 census shows James’ family in Pavilion, Kalamazoo, Michigan.

In the time since James’ marriage to Susan in 1839, and the 1840 census, 3 of the children born to James and Sally MARBLE have died, and James Allen and Sarah have abandoned the household, James to leave the area, and Sarah living with her sister Elizabeth.

They are living next to Peter WESTBROOK, widowed husband of Fanny, sister of Sally Marble NOYES (now deceased). Fanny had died in 1849.

1850 KALAMAZOO CO. PAVILION MI CENSUS

Pg. 218
25 ?/1573 Peter WESTBROOK 58 $700 MA
26 Ethan 18 b. OH
27 William 10 b. OH
28 ?/1574 Ephraim 30 $300 b. OH
29 Jane 17 b. OH
30 Nancy MOON 19 b. OH

pg. 220, Roll M432_353, Image 216
5-9 1571/1575? A. CALKINS and family
10 1572/1576 James NOYES 58 m farmer $1200 b. NY
11 Susan 35 f b. NY
12 George W. 7 m b. MI attended school
13 Franklin 5 m b. MI
14 James 2 m b. MI
15 1573/1577 Elsy HILL
16-23 1574/1578 A. H. HOUGHTON and family
24-28 1575/15? Lyman S. EARL and family
29-35 1576/? Chancey DEAN and family
36-38 1577/? George HAMILTON and family
39-42 1578/? George CULVER and family

More deaths followed. Mary R. died about 1850, before the age of 3. Daughter Elizabeth died in 1850 at the age of 31.

Though the last journal entry of the Alphadelphia Association was in 1848, the had a meeting August 1 1857 for the purpose of disposing of the deeds of members in attendance. Then on August 11 there was a meeting for the purpose of disposing of the Association’s books as the secretary was moving to Kansas. Noyes did not attend this meeting. Present were C. L. Keith, H. A. Taylor, C. R. Cridland and D. Taylor, witnessing the remark, “And thus ended the Alphadelphia Association.”

The 1860 census at Pavilion, Kalamazoo, Michigan shows the Noyes family.

Thomas BRADHAM?
David McCANE and Marian and family
Mary CUPPIN?
Del CHIPMAN and family
Mary CALKINS
Lawrence WALLACE and family
797/803
James NOYES 66 farmer $2200? $463 b. MA
Susan W. 48 b. NY
Geo. W. 20 farmer $150 (personal) b. MI
Frank 15
Jno W. 11
Arilla W. 9
Jean N. 6
Andrew MADISON 33 laborer

The grave site of James Noyes in Pavilion is yet to be located.

I’ve no record of when and where Susan Waters died, or where she is buried.

Noyes Family Record, 1848

Posted on October 10, 2009 by jmk

James Noyes born Sept 13 1793
Sally Noyes born Sept. 6 1796 Deceased Aug 10. 1838
Ezra Noyes born July 7 1817. Deceased June 17 1841
Elizabeth Noyes born March 22. 1819. Deceased Sept 11 1850
Ja. Noyes Jur. born July 13. 1821. Deceased Apr. 1823
B. J. Noyes born Oct 4. 1823. Deceased March 6 1843
J A Noyes born Dec 22 1825 (Jan 24 1901)
Margrette Noyes born July 17. 1828. Deceased Feb. 13 1843
Dan Noyes born Nov. 4 1831. Deceased Sept. 10 1835
Delia Noyes born Nov 15 1833. Deceased 1837
Melissa Noyes born Apr. 24 1836.

Springfield Lagrange Co. Indiana June 3 1848
James A. Noyes

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Noyes Family Record, 1848