The Minor Family of Somerset

Name Suffix:<NSFX> Sr
Name Prefix:<NPFX> Captain
Descendants of Reverend william Noyes. He was deputy to Genera
l Court of Assembly 1713,1717,1725,1727,1729,1733 (Coon. Col. Re
c., Vol 5 pp 19,363,513 Vol. 7 pp. 123,251,424).
In 1723 he was made Captain of Militia. The Conn. Cor. Rec., Vo
l 6, p. 371 "Thisassembly do establish and confirm Mr. Thomas N
oyes, of Stonington, to be Captain of the First Company or Trai
n Bond in the town of Stonington, and order that he be commissio
ned accordingly."
In the years 1723 and 1724 the Assemblynamed him as Justice o
f the Peace for New Haven County. (Coon. Col. Rec., Vol 6, pp.37
9,456).
In 1725 he was one of a Committee to partition off the parish o
f Groton, and set up the worship of God there. Representtive o
f the town of Stonington 1714-'15-'16-'17-'22-'23-'24-'25-'26 an
d Selectman during the same years.
Miss Wheeler in her "Old Homes in Stonnington," refers to the ho
me of Thomas as follows. "Capt. Noyes built this house after hi
s marriagein 1705 to Elizabeth, daughter of Gov. Peleg Sanfor
d and granddaugther of Gov. William Coddington of Rhode Island
. He and his son James were Colonial officers. Capt. Noyes wa
s a man of considerable property, and he it was who sent to Engl
and and had the Coat of Arms cut upon a stone and placed over t
he grave of his father, our first minister, Rev. James Noyes, wh
o was buried at Wequetequock. This house which he built, is se
t back from the road some little distance and impresses one wit
h a gran hospitable air. It is large, square, unpointed, whit
h a hip or quoil trap roof, truly in style o mansion house. Th
e broad front door has the old fashioned iron ring for the knock
er, with the small panes of glass over the top. From the fron
t hall below, the stairs can be seen winding away into the uppe
r story and again winding on intothe garret. The great east ro
om seventeen feet square has the old-fashionedcorner cupboard
, which now can be found very beautiful and ancient crockery,no
t belonging to the Noyes family, but to the present occupants
. The Westside of the room is ceiled from to to floor, the wid
th of some of the boardsare beyond belief unless they are seen
. The Kitchen has the old style dresser for crockery, and the s
ummer beams show in all the rooms. Ah! Could this house speak
, what a history it would give of Revolutionary heroes, of who
m Col. Peleg Noyes was one, being Captain at Fort Griswold in 17
77. What stories of love and war, heartaches and sorrows born
e patiently, and of lives livedout in their fulness and gone o
n into the unlimited beyond where all shall be satisfied. Thi
s place has long remained in the Noyes name from the time of Cap
t. Noyes to the present when it now belongs to the daughter of M
r. George and Martha (Noyes) Noyes, Mrs. Orson C. Rogers. "Th
e house he build wasstill standing in 1904.
He was, with his wife, admitted to the Church on June26 1737
. He died in Stonington, Conn., at the home of one of his sons
. Heis bured in the Wequetequock buring ground, abouth alf wa
y between Stoning,Conn, and Westerly, R.I.
Burial - Stonington, New London, Cennecticut.
Ancient Burial-Ground. IN MEMORY OF CAPT. THOMAS NOYES SON OF Y
E REV MR JAMES NOYES. he was born Aug ye 15th, 1679 and died ju
ne ye 26th 1755.
will - 10 feb 1755
will proved 6 aug 1755