{"id":1023,"date":"2018-04-15T08:39:25","date_gmt":"2018-04-15T12:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/wordpress\/?p=1023"},"modified":"2018-05-02T15:12:01","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T19:12:01","slug":"seth-noble-1743-1807","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/wordpress\/2018\/04\/seth-noble-1743-1807\/","title":{"rendered":"Seth Noble (1743-1807)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seth Noble<\/a> was born 15 Apr 1743 in Westfield, MA, tenth and last child of Thomas Noble and Sarah Root. He is my son-in-law’s 5th great-grand-uncle.<\/p>\n

He became a member of the Westfield Church in 1770, and decided he wanted to become a minister, but had no formal training. He drifted north, and first received a call in 1774 in Maugerville<\/a> on the St. John’s River in New Brunswick.<\/p>\n

Maugerville had many ties with New England, and was generally pro American Revolution. A number of the residents, including Seth, went south to join the Revolution. For a while his wife Hannah Barker, whom he had married in 1775, stayed behind in Maugerville; but in 1786 he and his family are living at\u00a0Kenduskeag Plantation, now Bangor, ME.(1)<\/sup> His wife died there in 1791.<\/p>\n

However, apparently he did not get paid, and he slowly drifted west, finally settling (and dying) in Franklinton, Ohio. He married his third wife 6 months before he died. She died shortly after him.<\/p>\n

Seth was apparently a colorful character, and much has been written about him. Supposedly, he named Bangor, ME after a song “Bangor,” the residents wanted to call it Sunbury. In addition to the Noble Genealogy by Boltwood, there are many articles and\u00a0books reconstructing his life.<\/p>\n

Boltwood, Lucius Manlius. History and genealogy of the family of Thomas Noble of Westfield, Massachusetts : with genealogical notes of other families by the name of Noble. Hartford, CT: Case, Lockwood & Brainard, 1878. Online<\/a> at OpenLibrary.org<\/a><\/p>\n

J. M. Bumsted, \u201cNOBLE, SETH<\/a>,\u201d in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 5, University of\u00a0 Toronto\/Universit\u00e9 Laval, 2003\u2013, accessed April 15, 2018.<\/p>\n

Carol B. Smith Fisher, “Rev. Seth Noble- A Revolutionary War Soldier’s Promise of America and The Founding of Bangor, Maine and Columbus, Ohio. Westminster, Md. : Heritage Books, 2010.<\/p>\n

Seth Noble, Maugerville, and the American Revolution<\/a>, by johnwood1946. Accessed April 15, 2018. A seemingly well researched blogpost with many references.<\/p>\n

\u2018Bangor\u2019 the song has complex past<\/a>.\u00a0By John Picone, Special to the Bangor Daily News \u2022 July 2, 2009 7:48 pm, accessed April 15, 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Seth Noble was born 15 Apr 1743 in Westfield, MA, tenth and last child of Thomas Noble and Sarah Root. He is my son-in-law’s 5th great-grand-uncle. He became a member of the Westfield Church in 1770, and decided he wanted to become a minister, but had no formal training. He …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,5],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-1023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-born-on-this-day","category-family","tag-tiffany","column","onecol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1023"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1063,"href":"http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions\/1063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}