{"id":4216,"date":"2009-10-10T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-10T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/evermore.imagedjinn.com\/blg\/?p=4216"},"modified":"2012-06-20T16:26:11","modified_gmt":"2012-06-20T16:26:11","slug":"noyes-battle-creek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evermore.imagedjinn.com\/blg\/4216\/noyes-battle-creek\/","title":{"rendered":"James Allen Noyes  Placed in Battle Creek in 1849"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/evermore.imagedjinn.com\/blg\/4216\/noyes-battle-creek\/debtdickinson\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8654\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/evermore.imagedjinn.com\/blg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/debtdickinson.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"debtdickinson\" width=\"582\" height=\"222\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8654\" srcset=\"https:\/\/evermore.imagedjinn.com\/blg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/debtdickinson.jpg 582w, https:\/\/evermore.imagedjinn.com\/blg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/debtdickinson-400x152.jpg 400w, https:\/\/evermore.imagedjinn.com\/blg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/debtdickinson-450x171.jpg 450w, https:\/\/evermore.imagedjinn.com\/blg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/debtdickinson-300x114.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 582px) 100vw, 582px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nEven the littlest scrap of paper can provide information on a life.  The above debt helps us place James Allen Noyes in Battle Creek, Michigan in 1849.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Battle Creek Dec 14th 1849<\/p>\n<p>For value received I promised to pay to James A Noyes (illegible) the sum of twenty three dollars and sixty cents on or before the first of June 1850 with use<\/p>\n<p>Samuel Dickinson<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Why would this scrap of paper be saved, however?  <\/p>\n<p>The 1850 census shows:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1850 Battle Creek Calhoun Michigan<\/p>\n<p>124\/124 David Waters 44 farmer NY<br \/>\nMary 44<br \/>\nGilbert 10 MI<br \/>\nMary O. 7<br \/>\nMartha DICKINSON  21 NY<br \/>\nSamuel DICKINSON 25 Mason<br \/>\nRoswell Dickinson 1 MI<br \/>\nJames A. DRAKE 22 Bookeeper NY<br \/>\nBetsey DRAKE 20 <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It may be that David Waters was a brother of Susan Waters, James Noyes&#8217; second wife. I&#8217;ve attempted finding the family of David Waters, and the one of Samuel Dickinson, at Rootsweb and Ancestry.com. No one has claimed them. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even the littlest scrap of paper can provide information on a life. The above debt helps us place James Allen Noyes in Battle Creek, Michigan in 1849. Battle Creek Dec 14th 1849 For value received I promised to pay to James A Noyes (illegible) the sum of twenty three dollars and sixty cents on or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17,1],"tags":[175,364,596,688],"class_list":["post-4216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-noyes-line","category-noyes-line-photos","category-uncategorized","tag-david-waters","tag-james-allen-noyes","tag-noyes-line-2","tag-samuel-dickinson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evermore.imagedjinn.com\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evermore.imagedjinn.com\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evermore.imagedjinn.com\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evermore.imagedjinn.com\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evermore.imagedjinn.com\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/evermore.imagedjinn.com\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evermore.imagedjinn.com\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evermore.imagedjinn.com\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evermore.imagedjinn.com\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evermore.imagedjinn.com\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}