Noah Tiffney1

M, #619, * 7 Jul 1752, + 19 Jul 1818
FatherJohn Tiffany1 * Dec 1711, + 10 Jan 1788
MotherDeliverance Parmiter1 * 10 Nov 1717, + 16 Nov 1798
     Noah Tiffney was born on 7 Jul 1752 in Attleboro, Massachusetts.1 He (1) married Hannah Carpenter.2 He (2) married Mary Olney on 25 Sep 1786.2 He died on 19 Jul 1818 in Brooklyn, Pennsylvania.2

Other information: He lived a 1809 in Brooklyn, Pennsylvania.2
Noah Tiffney was in 1817 a postmaster, and kept a hotel. He was succeeded by his son Arunah in Brooklyn.2
Noah Tiffney had three children from his first and eight children from his second marriage.2

From: "Commemorative Biographical Record of Northeastern Pennsylvania"
Pg. 1057
     Noah Tiffany, son of John Tiffany, of Attleboro, Mass..b July 7, 1752. His first wife Hannah (Carpenter), was born in 1761, and died in 1783; and on September 25, 1786 he married Mary Olney, who was born in 1759 and died in 1837 in Gibson. Penn. He settled in Brooklyn township in 1809, and, like his brothers Hosea and Thomas, was one of the leading men of the community in which he lived. He owned the land on which a part of Brooklyn village, in the Hop Bottom Valley, stands. In 1810 Joshua Miles built a large frame house in the village which afterward became known as the "Abbey," and in this Noah Tiffany kept the postoffice and hotel in 1817. He died July 19, 1818, and was succeeded as postmaster by his son, Arunah Tiffany. Noah Tiffany was a member of the Second Congregational Church of Bridgewater, organized in Brooklyn in 1810, and was a deacon of the Society at the time of his death in 1818. The children of his first marriage were: Jemima (b. 2 Aug 1782, married 11 Nov 1804 to Eliab Farrar, died 21 Apr 1874), Hannah (b. 16 Dec 1783, married 19 Sep 1810 to Wells Stanley, died 4 Mar 1874), Arunah (b. 8 Aug 1785, married (1) 1 Oct 1809 to Lucy Follett, (2) in 1841 to Clarissa (Lawrence) Bronson. To the second marriage were born: Olney (b. 1787, married Mercy Miller, died 2 May 1831), Mary (b. 15 Sept 1789, married 12 Jun 1814 to Charles Perrigo, died 25 Mar 1819), Amy (b. 9 Aug 1791, died 1 Mar 1808), Noah (b. 10 May 1793, married 25 Nov 1817 to Charlotte Seaver, died 25 Dec 1878), John (b. 22 May 1795, married Catharine Van Bramer, died in Jan 1863), Clarissa married in 1829 David Waterman, and died 22 Jan 1869), Loring (b. 20 Jan 1798, died 24 Oct 1805), and Melinda (b. 16 Oct 1801, married 11 Jan 1825 to Myron Lindsey, died 16 Dec 1891).2

He served in the Revolutionary War. He served with Capt. Caleb Richardson of the Massachusetts Militia and others.3

Citations

  1. [S183] MA Attleborough, Attleborough, MA, pg. 262. Births. Noah, son of John Tiffney and Deliverance (Parmiter) 7 Jul 1752.
  2. [S376] Northeastern Pennsylvania, pg. 1056-1058. Available online at http://archive.org/details/commemorativebio02chic
  3. [S1088] US Rosters 1775-1783, Noah Tiffney; FamilySearch (<https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS3Q-C3F7-8> : 24 January 2018), Massachusetts, vol 15, Stibbens, Joseph-Tozer, Simon, image 740 of 944. Index and/or images online at https://www.familysearch.org/. citing various published state rosters, and citing NARA microfilm publication M246 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1980)..