Tenth Generation

98. Thomas NOBLE VI was born on 10 September 1696 in Westfield, Westfield Township, Hampden County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.^21,24,36,46 He died on 18 February 1775 at the age of 78 in Westfield, Westfield Township, Hampden County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.^24,46 Life Sketch: "Thomas Noble was born on September 10, 1696 in Westfield, Massachusetts to Thomas Noble and Elizabeth Dewey. Thomas was a farmer by profession. His grandfather, also named Thomas (married to Hannah Warriner) was an early settler of Westfield. The records of Westfield show that Thomas was chosen to be a fence viewer in 1739 and 1744. In 1761 he was on a committee to build pews in the meeting house. He was a moderator of town meetings held in that same meeting house. He lived on the land of his grandfather. He married Sarah Root in Westfield on September 1, 1722. Sarah Root was born in 1701 in Westfield, Massachusetts to John Root and Sarah Stebbins. She married Thomas Noble on September 1, 1722 and had 9 children with him. Sarah Root Noble died in Westfield on July 19, 1760." He was buried in Westfield, Westfield Township, Hampden County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.¹⁰ in the Old Burying Ground.

Thomas NOBLE VI and Sarah ROOT were married on 1 September 1722 in Westfield, Westfield Township, Hampden County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.^24,46 (They had 10 children.) Sarah ROOT, daughter of John ROOT and Sarah STEBBINS, was born on 9 March 1702 in Westfield, Westfield Township, Hampden County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.^{10,24,46,47,48,49} She died on 9 July 1760 at the age of 58 in Westfield, Westfield Township, Hampden County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.^10,24,46,48 She was buried in Westfield Township, Hampden County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.^4,10

Thomas NOBLE VI and Sarah ROOT had the following children:

+135	i.	Sarah NOBLE.
+136	ii.	Thomas NOBLE VII.
137	iii.	Stephen NOBLE¹⁰ was born on 16 April 1727 in Westfield, Westfield Township, Hampden County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.¹⁰ He died on 2 April 1791 at the age of 63 in Westfield, Westfield Township, Hampden County, MA.¹⁰ He was buried in Westfield, Westfield Township, Hampden County, MA.¹⁰ in the Old Burying Ground.
138	iv.	John NOBLE was born on 16 April 1731 in Westfield, Westfield Township, Hampden County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.¹⁰ He died on 15 September 1807 at the age of 76 in Blandford, Hampden County, MA.¹⁰ He was buried in Blandford, Hampden County, MA.¹⁰
+139	v.	Silas NOBLE.
140	vi.	Aaron NOBLE¹⁰ was born on 24 December 1735 in Westfield, Westfield Township, Hampden County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.¹⁰ He died on 26 November 1760 at the age of 24 in Westfield, Westfield Township, Hampden County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.¹⁰ He was buried in Westfield, Westfield Township, Hampden County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.¹⁰ in the Old Burying Ground.
+141	vii.	Caleb NOBLE Sr..
142	viii.	Reverend Seth NOBLE¹⁰ was born on 15 April 1743 in Westfield, Westfield Township, Hampden County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.¹⁰ He died on 15 September 1807 at the age of 64 in Westfield, Westfield Township, Hampden County, MA.¹⁰ Life Sketch: "REV. SETH NOBLE. was born in Westfield. Mass., April 15, 1743. He married (first), November 30, 1775. Hannah Barker, who was born in Rowley. Mass., February 19, 1759. the daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Palmer) Barker, of Rowley, Mass., and Maugerville. N. S. She died in " Kenduskeag Meadow," (Bangor) Province of Maine, June hi. 1790. He married (second). April 11, 1793. Mrs. Ruhama Emery. of Bangor, Maine, who died in Montgomery. Mass., in October or November, 1805. He married (third), Mrs. Mary Riddle. in June, 1807. He joined the Congregational Church at Westfield. Mass., May 5, 1770. His first settlement in the ministry was on the 15th day of June, 1774 over the Congregational Church in Maugerville, N. S., and the descendants of that society say that he was ordained at Newburyport, Mass. In 1784, New Brunswick was separated from Nova Scotia, and in 1789 the meeting house in which " Parson " Noble had preached was removed to that part of the town which is now Sheffield. and on the 13th day of July, 1876, Rev. Joseph Barker, a grandnephew of Mrs. Noble's, was settled as their pastor. Rev. Seth Noble's ministry at Maugerville continued until 1777, when upon the arrival of an armed British schooner, which had come to enforce the oath of allegiance to King George, he fled, narrowly escaping with his life, as he was an ardent advocate of the cause of the Colonists. He became, for awhile at least, a soldier in the Revolutionary army. On the 7th day of June, 1786, he was engaged as the first settled religious teacher and preacher by the citizens of Kenduskeag Meadow (Bangor) at an annual salary of £70. He was inducted into office September 10, 17S'). He was not only the first settled minister, but in 1790 he was deputized to go to Boston and procure from the General Assembly an act of incorporation, under the name of Sunfield; but being a teacher of sacred music and passionately fond of the solid old minor tune of " Bangor," he erased " Sunfield " and inserted Bangor in the petition. The field over which Mr. Noble presided included Bangor, Brewer, Eddington. Hampden, Holden and Orrinbgton. He added to these duties the instruction of youth in English branches, and also in singing. Deacon William Boyd. of Bangor, says he was a good singer and had a clear and pleasant voice. He taught those who were natural vocalists to sing by note and was the first teacher of sacred music in the place." During the Centennial exercises at Bangor in 1876, a brother of Vice President Hannibal Hamlin's was the orator. In his oration, he presents the foregoing facts. dwelling upon them at length. In 1797 he left Bangor and returned to New Market, N. H., where he had previously ministered to some now extinct Presbyterian congregations. and in 1799 went to Westfield, Mass., the place of his activity, where for two years he supplied vacant pulpits in Becket, Blanford, Feeding Hills, Ireland, Montgomery, Russell and Springfield. From the 4th of -November. 181)1. he was the first settled pastor of the church at Montgomery. Mass . up until his removal to Ohio in the spring of 1806. The only printed productions known from the pen of Mr. Noble is a nineteen page pamphlet of two sermons preached at Westhampton, Mass. June 26, 1802, and published by T. M. Pomeroy, of Northampton, in 1804. I have in my possession a lengthy letter written me in 1876, by Rev. Elisha D. Barrett, of Assumption, Ill., who was, at that time,- the oldest living Alumnus of Williams College, in which he says: " I well remember Rev. Seth Noble as the first pastor at Montgomery. He was tall and slim, but very active and energetic. His step was quick and firm, and his gait graceful. He wore a white wig, which he used to powder. His complexion was ruddy." " As a preacher he was sound and able; and his sermons were scholarly, unique, systematic and evangelical. On one occasion. a child by the name of Bartholomew was killed by a falling tree, and Mr. Noble preached the funeral discourse over the open grave from Ecclesiastes ix. 12. The effect was electrical, and proved the most dramatic scene I have ever witnessed." The Congress of the United States gave public lands to the Nova Scotia refugees. The refugee lands extend from the Scioto, at Columbus, Ohio, to the Muskingum, at Zanesville. Mr. Noble's share320 acres-fell where Columbus now stands. In the spring of 1806, he came to Ohio and settled in Franklinton. He built a house on his land. which Mr. Albert Bartholomew, now of Detroit, Mich., a grandchild, revisited and recognized about thirty years ago. His first recorded sermon preached in Ohio was at J. Andrus at Worthington, April 9, 1806. He preached at Granville. Licking County, August 17, 1806; at Franklinton, August 24,1806; " Derby " (Big Darby) September 22, 1806; Bixby's (Delaware), April 11, 1807, and at Berkshire. Delaware County, May 24 and 27,1807. In 1847, whilst I was a dry goods clerk in the store of George A. Hill & Co., in Plain City (then Pleasant Valley). James Ewing, the first white settler of what is now Union County. told me that Mr. Noble had frequently been a guest at his house, and had preached there a number of times. There were a number of Presbyterians along Bin Darby, north of Ewing's, and among his other preaching places were the houses of the Mitchells and Woods, the father of the late banker. William Wood. of Marysville, Ohio, and also at a point or points on Little Darby, over about the Fullington settlement. Mr. Wood was himself ordained in 1807 or 1808, as is shown by letters now in my possession. Mr. Noble had not infrequently ministered to Presbyterian congregations in New Hampshire, in and around New Market, both before and after his settlement at Bangor, Maine; and it is presumable that he fell into the Presbyterian ways of his congregations in Ohio with but little embarrassment. History is history; and Mr. Noble was not only the first pastor at Maugerville; at Bangor, and at Montgomery, but he was doubtless the first preacher to the Presbyterians at Franklinton, where he was on a salary and preached regularly, twice on each alternate Sunday, in 1807 where he had a church organization of fourteen members, of which Mrs. Lucas Sullivant was one. I saw, when a boy, among my mother's papers, the list of names of these fourteen members; and these fourteen persons were undoubtedly the persons who, in 1808, composed the " First Presbyterian Church," at the time of the ordination of the Rev. James Hoge. Mr. Noble's last recorded sermon was preached in Franklinton, August 9, 1807, from Matthew. xi. 28-"Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." He died on the 15th day of the following month (September). and was buried in the old Franklinton Burying ground: but the " march of empire." sweeping over and beyond, has left no token or sign of the exact spot where his body was laid to rest. His children by his first wife were as follows: Seth. born August 5, 1777, at Maugerville, N. S., was lost at sea off the New England coast. October 20, 1798, aged twenty-one; Joseph. born at New Market, N. H., June 13, 1783, died about 1869, at Brighton. N. B.. aged about eighty-six; Sarah. born June 1, 1785, and died in Montgomery, Mass., November 15, 1830. aged fifty-one; Benjamin, born June 25, 1787, died in Brighton. N. B., April 12, 1860, aged seventy-three: Hannah (my mother). born in Kenduskeag Meadow (Bangor). Maine, September 11, 1789. died in Amity, Madison County, Ohio, November 17, 1854, aged sixty-five. The children by the second marriage were Betsey, Thomas, Polly and John Adams. all of whom are now dead. History of Madison County/W.H.Beers & C.U. *Reverend Seth Noble was a Private in the Massachusetts Militia durring the Revolutionary War. He was also the first preacher in 1806 in the very young town of Franklinton, Ohio, now Columbus, which was founded by Lucas Sullivant in 1797. Seth Noble has a military white marble grave marker at the Old Franklinton Cemetery however the exact location of his grave in the cemetery is unknown." He was buried in Columbus, Franklin County, OH.¹⁰ in the Old Franklinton Cemetery.