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     Alice Lambert was born on 2 March 1554 in Sherborne, Dorsetshire, England.^1,2 She married John Haynes, son of ? Haynes, on 23 October 1575 in Sherborne, Dorsetshire, England.^1,2 Alice Lambert died on 24 February 1622/23 in Semley, Wiltshire, England, at age 68 The Foot & Gurd database has 2 March, 1620.^1,2

     ? Haynes was born in 1520.¹ He died after 1550.

     Deacon Peter Noyes was born in 1590 in Foxcotte, Hampshire, England.¹ He was the son of Thomas Noyes and Dorothy (?) Deacon Peter Noyes was christened on 30 August 1590 in Andover, Hampshire, England.¹ He married as his first wife Elizabeth (?) before 1623 in England.¹ Deacon Peter Noyes married as his second wife Abigail (?) after 1638 in Massachusetts Bay Colony.¹ Deacon Peter Noyes died on 23 September 1657 in Sudbury, Massachusetts Bay Colony.¹
     He immigrated on the Confidence, departing from Southampton, England April 24, 1638, arriving circa June 1638. His children Dorothy, Abigail, Peter, Thomas and Elizabeth traveled with him.^1,2 Deacon Peter Noyes left a will on 22 September 1657.^3,1

Paul Noyes compiled the following information about Peter Noyes:
"Savage: PETER, Sudbury 1639, came in the Confidence, 1638, from Southampton, latter part of Apr. aged 47, with s. Thomas, 15; d. Eliz. and three serv. is call. yeoman in the custom-ho. rec. but aft. arr. gentleman. He was of Penton, in Co. Hants, wh. is near Andover; went home aft. short visit or explorat. here, well pleased with what he saw at Watertown, and next yr. came again in the "Jonathan", with sev. friends, and Nicholas, Dorothy, Abigail, and Peter, all prob. his ch. beside John Waterman, Richard Barnes, William Street, Agnes Bent, Eliz. Plimpton, and Agnes Blanchard, wh. I judge to be his serv. as he paid for their passages; but such was not Agnes**** Bent, for she paid for herself, for d. Agnes, Thomas Blanchard's w. with her h. and Richard Barnes, s. of said Blanchard's w. and prob. Eliz. Plimpton. Blanchard's w. with inf. d. on the passage, 15 days out, and Barnes's gr.mo. d. this side of the Banks. He had share in the first div. of lds. in his town, and again in the 2d and 3d, made 1640, was freem. 13 May 1640, selectman 18 yrs. rep. 1640, 1, and 50, deac. of the ch. and d. 23 Sept. 1657. Three yrs. bef. he gave his est. in Old Eng. to his eldest s. Thomas, and in his will, of wh. Thomas was made excor. made the day bef. his d. he names other ch. Peter, Joseph, Eliz. w. of Josiah Haynes, Dorothy, w. of John Haynes, Abigail, w. of Thomas Plympton, d.-in-law Mary, w. of his s. Thomas, and kinsm. Shadrach Hapgood
Anderson: Peter Noyes, who emigrated in 1638, came from a family long involved in nonconformist activities in southwestern England. (pages 49-50) Another emigrant, Peter Noyes, rented out part of his English property to his sister, partly to obtain money to pay for his family's passage. After he sailed in 1638, he retained possession of a house and land near Andover in Hampshire. This property provided Noyes with an annual rent of about £20 during his lifetime and, after his death in 1657, supplemented his three sons' portions .... [3] Renting out property in England and using the income to supplement a New England estate was obviously a prudent solution to the emigration problem, but it was also a scheme beyond the reach of most emigrants. Virtually all of those who adopted this strategy were older men who had accumulated substantial amounts of land prior to their emigration. Tilden, Noyes, Starr, and Besbeech were all aged forty-five or more ... Moreover, Tilden, Hall, and Noyes were all yeoman, acutely aware of the value of their freeholds and doubtless reluctant to give them up. Some land might have to be sold or rented to acquire the cash to pay for provisions and passage, but since their estates were clearly substantial, they could afford to retain some portion of them. [3] Citations to probate materials will be given by county, followed by a docket number, if the original will or inventory survives ... Peter Noyes, Middlesex no. 16074. For Noyes, see also Sumner Chilton Powell, Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town (Middletown, Conn., 1963), 5. (page 125) Nathaniel Tilden, Nicholas Butler, and Peter Noyes -- who had all been called yeomen in England -- concluded that their freehold ownership of substantial New England estates (and, perhaps, their ability to leave the task of actually working those farms to others) entitled them to assume the rank of gentleman. [75] [75] The term "yeoman" did not have a precise legal definition in this period, but it generally indicated freehold status .... Tilden was labeled a gentleman in his inventory ... as was Noyes in his (Middlesex County, docket no. 16074) .... Although Tilden, Butler, and Noyes called themselves yeoman at the time of their voyages, their English estates may not have been held exclusively as freeholds. Noyes, for instance, held land in copyhold in Weyhill, Hampshire; see Powell, Puritan Village.

Powell: "On the twenty-sixth of March, 1638, Peter Noyes, yeoman of the parish of Weyhill, Hampshire, gave his land back to the Lord of the Manor. No longer would he help his Hampshire neighbors erect fences around the common fields in the spring or watch the plow teams turn furrows in the rich loam. Noyes had decided. He was taking his eldest son to visit New England in the expectation of moving his family from Weyhill forever...

"Noyes was destined to be a founder of a New England town, a leader of men in every sense of the word. As such, he was to be responsible for over six hundred and fifty separate 'orders,' carrying the weight of law and often of power of life and death over his townsmen. For a yeoman from a small West Country village, this was an awesome challenge.

"Peter Noyes chose this role deliberately. He was not 'harried out of the land.' Far from it. He took his steps cautiouslu but firmly; he had courage. and he had vision. He could easily have remained with the Tarrants and the other members of his own family, none of whom favored the activities of Archbishop Laud and his 'popish' ceremonies.

"Noyes did not rush away impetuously either. Members of another Noyes family, undoubtedly related to Peter, had been deeply involved in the religious controversies of the period and had left five years previous from Weyhill in Cholderton, Wiltshire, their activities must have been well known to Peter.

"The Cholderton Noyes family had been in the midst of the struggle over church reformation. The Reverend William Noyes, an Oxford graduate, had died in 1622, and the rectorship of the village church had gone to his son Nathan, also an Oxford Bachelor of Arts. Nathan's uncle, Robert, was a prominent yeoman in the town, as was his older brother Ephraim, But the two younger brothers had drunk deep of the Nonconformist brew, despite the fact that James had followed his father and elder brother to Oxford. Perhaps their cousin, the Reverend Thomas Parker, had fanned their rebellious spirits, for James, aged twenty-five, and Nicholas, aged eighteen, had decided to forsake Cholderton for Massachusetts.

"The records do not say whether these members of the family had visited Peter Noyes in Weyhill or had passed through the village on their way to their port of embarkation, London. They do state, however, that the families knew one another. [1]

"By 1637, then, Peter Noyes had heard news about New England. But however impressed, Peter displayed the shrewdness which characterized many of his later actions. During the year 1637-1638, he rented two fo his four properties in Weyhill to his sister Dorothy, wife of John Waterman in Tangleu, Southampton, probably to gain money for his passage and expenses.Then taking £80 from a Mrs. Agnes Bent in Weyhill, who wished to accompany Peter in due time, Noyes sailed from Southampton in April, 1638, in the ship 'Confidence,' taking three servants, his eldest son and daughter, and his neighbor, John Bent. Noyes had not forgotten, however, to retain property near Andover, which paid him a yearly rent of about £20.

"On arrival in Watertown in 1638, Noyes was granted plowland, meadow, upland, and an outlaying lot of seventy acres. Impressed by the possibilities of the area, Noyes returned to Weyhill to dispose of all business. He gathered his family, old Mrs. Bent, and a few others, then headed back to New England." [2]

1. Col. Henry E. Noyes, ed., _Genealogical Record of Some of the Noyes Descendants of James, Nicholas and Peter Noyes_ (Boston, 1904), I, 43-44. Both men finally settled in Newbury, Mass. Both became freeman, while Nicholas served as deacon of the First Church and deputy of the General Court. A deposition of 1652, a copy of which is in the Weyhill Rectory MMS, attests to the fact that both Nicholas Noyes and other inhabitants of Newbury, Mass. knew various families in Wehill, Hants., and knew of the details of their trips to New England.

2. Weyhill Rectory MMS. Indenture of P. Noyes, 1652: Middlesex County Court, Registry of Deeds, III 292-293; Middlesex County Probate Records, VIII, 425."¹

     Elizabeth (?) was born circa 1597 in England.¹ She married Deacon Peter Noyes, son of Thomas Noyes and Dorothy (?), before 1623 in England.¹ Elizabeth (?) died in February 1636 in Weyhill, Hampshire, England.¹ She was buried on 13 February 1635/36 in Weyhill, Hampshire, England.¹

     Mary (?) was born circa 1645 (estimated.) She married Lieut. Joseph Snow, son of Nicholas Snow and Constance Hopkins, before 1671.^4,1,5,3 Mary (?) died after 30 January 1722/23.^1,3

     Joseph Snow was born on 24 November 1671 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony, now Barnstable County, Massachusetts.^1,3,4 He was the son of Lieut. Joseph Snow and Mary (?)^2,3,4 Joseph Snow married Sarah Smith on 15 December 1690 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony, now Massachusetts, 3 kids.^1,2,3,4 Joseph Snow died on 23 January 1704/5 in Eastham, Province of Massachusetts Bay, at age 33.^1,3,4

     Benjamin Snow was born on 9 June 1673 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony, now Barnstable County, Massachusetts.^1,2,3 He was the son of Lieut. Joseph Snow and Mary (?)^4,2,3 Benjamin Snow married Thankful Bowerman on 6 June 1700 in Eastham, Province of Massachusetts Bay.^1,2,3 Benjamin Snow died between 1 February 1747/48 and 13 March 1750 in Eastham, Province of Massachusetts Bay.^1,3

     Mary Snow was born on 17 October 1674 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony, now Barnstable County, Massachusetts.^1,2,3 She was the daughter of Lieut. Joseph Snow and Mary (?)^4,2,3 Mary Snow married Nathaniel Mayo circa 1695 in Eastham, Province of Massachusetts Bay.³ Mary Snow died before 28 October 1703 in Eastham, Province of Massachusetts Bay.^1,3

     Sarah L Snow was born on 30 April 1677 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony, now Barnstable County, Massachusetts.^1,2,3 She was the daughter of Lieut. Joseph Snow and Mary (?)^4,2,3 Sarah L Snow married Benjamin Young, son of John Young and Ruth Cole, on 15 February 1699/0 in Eastham, Province of Massachusetts Bay.^4,1,2,3 Sarah L Snow died after 6 April 1742 in Eastham, Province of Massachusetts Bay.^1,3

     Ruth Snow was born on 14 October 1679 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony, now Barnstable County, Massachusetts.^1,2,3 She was the daughter of Lieut. Joseph Snow and Mary (?)^4,2,3 Ruth Snow married James Brown on 13 April 1704 in Eastham, Province of Massachusetts Bay. They had 9 kids. They were married by Jonathan Sparrow.^1,2,3 Ruth Snow died after 24 June 1720 in Eastham, Province of Massachusetts Bay.^1,3

     Stephen Snow was born on 24 February 1680/81 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony, now Barnstable County, Massachusetts.^1,2,3 He was the son of Lieut. Joseph Snow and Mary (?)^4,2,3 Stephen Snow married Margaret Elkins on 12 July 1705 in Eastham, Province of Massachusetts Bay.^1,2,3 Stephen Snow died before 8 August 1769 in Eastham, Province of Massachusetts Bay.^1,3

     Lydia Snow was born on 20 July 1684 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony, now Barnstable County, Massachusetts.^1,2,3 She was the daughter of Lieut. Joseph Snow and Mary (?)^4,2,3 Lydia Snow married James Linkornew on 10 February 1713/14 in Eastham, Province of Massachusetts Bay.^1,2 Lydia Snow died on 18 March 1737/38 in Eastham, Province of Massachusetts Bay, at age 53.^1,2,3

     Rebecca Snow was born on 4 December 1686 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony, now Massachusetts.^1,2,3 She was the daughter of Lieut. Joseph Snow and Mary (?)^4,2,3 Rebecca Snow died before 1717. She was not mentioned in her father's will.³

     James Snow was born on 31 March 1689 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony, now Massachusetts.^1,2,3 She was the daughter of Lieut. Joseph Snow and Mary (?)^4,2,3 James Snow died before 16 January 1721/22 when administration of his estate was granted to his brother Stephen.^1,3

     Jane Snow was born on 27 March 1692 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony, now Massachusetts.^1,2,3 She was the daughter of Lieut. Joseph Snow and Mary (?)^4,2,3 Jane Snow died before 1717. She was not mentioned in her father's will.³

     Josiah Snow was born on 27 November 1694 in Eastham, Province of Massachusetts Bay.^1,2,3 He was the son of Lieut. Joseph Snow and Mary (?)^4,2,3 Josiah Snow married Elizabeth Snow, daughter of Thomas Snow and Hannah Sears, on 20 October 1719 in Eastham, Province of Massachusetts Bay.^2,3 His death date has not been found.

     Bathshua Snow was born on 25 July 1664 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony, now Barnstable County, Massachusetts.^2,1,3,4 She was the daughter of Stephen Snow and Susanna Deane.^1,3,4 Bathshua Snow married John King. They had 6 children.^2,4 Bathshua Snow died between 21 May 1706 and 14 October 1707 in Harwich, Province of Massachusetts Bay.^2,4

     Hannah Snow was born on 22 January 1665/66 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony, now Barnstable County, Massachusetts.^2,1,3,4 She was the daughter of Stephen Snow and Susanna Deane.^1,3,4 Hannah Snow married William Cole, son of Daniel Cole and Ruth Chester, on 2 December 1686 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony, now Massachusetts.^1,2,3,4 Hannah Snow died on 23 June 1737 in Eastham, Province of Massachusetts Bay, at age 71.^2,1,3,4

     Micajah Snow was born on 22 December 1669 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony, now Barnstable County, Massachusetts.^2,1,3,4 He was the son of Stephen Snow and Susanna Deane.^1,3,4 Micajah Snow married Mary Young, daughter of John Young and Ruth Cole, on 21 November 1697 in Eastham, Province of Massachusetts Bay.^2,3,4 Micajah Snow died between 25 December 1753 and 23 July 1754 in Eastham, Province of Massachusetts Bay.^2,4
     He left a will on 5 December 1753.²

     Bethia Snow was born on 1 July 1672 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony, now Barnstable County, Massachusetts.^2,1,3,4 She was the daughter of Stephen Snow and Susanna Deane.^1,3,4 Bethia Snow married John Smyth, son of Samuel Smyth and Mary Hopkins, on 14 May 1694 in Eastham, Province of Massachusetts Bay.^2,5,1,3,4 Bethia Snow died after 31 July 1734 in Chatham, Province of Massachusetts Bay.^2,4

     Mehitable Snow was born after 1672 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony, now Barnstable County, Massachusetts.^1,2 She was the daughter of Stephen Snow and Susanna Deane.² Mehitable Snow died after 21 May 1706.²

     Ebenezer Snow was born after 1672 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony, now Barnstable County, Massachusetts.^1,3 He was the son of Stephen Snow and Susanna Deane.³ Ebenezer Snow married Hope Horton on 22 December 1698 in Eastham, Province of Massachusetts Bay.^1,2,3 Ebenezer Snow died on 9 April 1725 in Eastham, Province of Massachusetts Bay.^1,2,3

     Hannah Snow was born on 26 August 1670 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony, now Barnstable County, Massachusetts.^1,2,3 She was the daughter of John Snow and Mary Smalley.^2,3 Hannah Snow died circa 1716.

     Mary Snow was born on 10 March 1671/72 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony, now Barnstable County, Massachusetts.^1,2,3 She was the daughter of John Snow and Mary Smalley.^2,3 Mary Snow died date unknown in Delaware Colony.³

     Abigail Snow was born on 14 October 1673 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony, now Barnstable County, Massachusetts.^1,2,3 She was the daughter of John Snow and Mary Smalley.^2,3 Abigail Snow married Daniel Small, probably date unknown.³ Her death date has not been found.