Dr.
Ward
Noyes
Born in Andover, Essex, Massachusetts
Ancestors 
Son of Nicholas Noyes
and Sarah (Ward) Noyes II
Brother of
Samuel Noyes, Timothy Noyes, Abigail Noyes, James Noyes, Nicholas Noyes, Sarah (Noyes) Brown, Samuel Noyes, Mary Noyes, Susanna Noyes and James Noyes
Husband of
Prudence (Stevens) Noyes
— married
19 May 1791 in Andover, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
[children unknown]
Died
at age 79
in Andover, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
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| Created 7 Dec 2016
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Biography
Dr. WARD NOYES, b. at Andover, 21 Dec 1729 son of Nicholas Noyes and Sarah Ward ;[1] Ward d. at Andover, 26 Dec 1808;[2] m. at Andover, 19 May 1791,[3] PRUDENCE STEVENS, b. at Andover, 29 Sep 1751 daughter of Samuel and Hephzibah (Ingalls) Stevens; Prudence d. at Andover, 19 Jul 1835.
Dr. Ward Noyes was a physician in Andover. He saw service as a physician in the French and Indian wars as a surgical mate in the company of Capt. Jonathan Poor in the regiment of Col. Ichabod Plaisted on the expedition to Crown Point 1756-1757, in the same regiment at Fort William Henry in 1756, and on the alarm list at Andover in 1758.[4]
Ward Noyes did not leave a will and his estate entered probate 17 January 1809 with widow Prudence as administratrix. Real estate was valued at $4,190 and personal estate of $3,374.25 much of that is the form of notes owed to the estate.[5]
In her will written 2 January 1832 (probate 21 July 1835), Prudence Noyes made bequests to the following persons: Mary Noyes daughter of Nicholas Noyes; Abigail Perkins daughter of late brother Peter Stevens; Nancy Holt wife of Timothy Holt of Bethel, Maine; Timothy J. Stevens of Salem; Betsy Adams and Hannah Adams daughters of Israel Adams of Rindge, New Hampshire; Sarah Maria Noyes daughter of David Noyes of Norway, Maine; Arunah Bell; and Archelaus Putnam Black son of Moses Black of Danvers. William Johnson of Andover was named executor. Real estate was $639.50 and personal estate was $812.18.[6]
Prudence Stevens and Ward Noyes were parents of two children born at Andover.
i SARAH WARD NOYES, b. 13 May 1792; d. at Andover, 19 Jul 1818;[7] m. at Andover, 10 Jul 1817, ARCHELAUS PUTNAM, b. at Danvers, 19 Jun 1787 son of Nathaniel and Mary (Ober) Putnam; Archelaus d. at Andover, 30 Mar 1818. Archelaus Putnam kept a diary that is in the collections of the Danvers Historical Society. The diary bears the title “A Journey & Diary of Foreign and Domestic Intelligence, or Remebrancer of Remarkable Days, Weather, etc., Commenced, Danvers, Massachusetts, January 1st, 1805.”[8]
ii MARIA NOYES, b. at Andover, 27 Apr 1794; d. at Andover, 3 Mar 1829. Maria did not marry.
Sources
- ↑ Mayflower Families, Isaac Allerton (volume 17), p 69; Mayflower Families Fifth Generation Descendants, 1700-1880. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2017). From Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Descendants of the Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth, Mass., December 1620. Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1975-2015.
- ↑ Noyes, Ward, Dr., Dec. 26, 1808, a. 79 y. 5 d. [a. 75 y. G.R.1.] Andover Vital Records, volume 2, p 512
- ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPZC-ZG8T : 31 October 2019), Ward Noyes and Prudence Stevens, 19 May 1791; citing Marriage, Andover, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007010678.
- ↑ Massachusetts Officers in the French and Indian Wars, 1748-1763, p 266; Colonial Soldiers and Officers in New England, 1620-1775. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2013).
- ↑ Essex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1638-1881.Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. Case 19857
- ↑ Essex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1638-1881.Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. Case 19820
- ↑ Putnam, Sarah, wid. Archelaus, d. Dr. Ward and Prudence Noyes, July 19, 1818, a. 26 y. G.R.6. Andover Vital Records, volume 2, p 532
- ↑ Danvers Historical Society. 1916. The Historical Collections of the Danvers Historical Society, volume 4. Danvers, MA: Published by the society. p 51
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