>From Gar Watson watson.gar@gmail.com ( contact him if youd like to compare notes ) I have been tracing the descendants of my ancestors James King and Deliverance Harriman. Five of their children married children of Aaron Noyes and Betsy Ladd, while another married a niece of Aaron Noyes. My line is through James and Deliverance's daughter Polly King who married Aaron and Betsy's son Trueworthy Noyes. I have recently learned that following his 1830 appearance in the Orange county, VT census, and before he and Polly were listed with his daughter Delia (Noyes) Hunt and son-in-law Ormond Hunt in the 1850 Boston, Ionia co., MI census, Trueworthy had lived in Potton, Quebec along with his brother Aaron who had married Polly's sister Betsy King. Aaron and Betsy's son Heman Brown Noyes married Potton native Sarah W Powell and raised a family there, including most notably John Powell Noyes. Paul M Noyes has a very good website on the Noyes family. http://www.noyesgenealogy.net/getperson.php?personID=I10269 <http://www.noyesgenealogy.net/getperson.php?personID=I10269&tree=noyes> &tree=noyes NOYES, John Powell, K.C.Advocate. Bore Potton. Brome. Que., Sept. 15, 1842. son of S. H. B. and Sarah (Powell) Noyes. Educated: Bangor Fort Covington. N.Y.; St. Mao's College. Mont real. Read law with late Hon. L. S. Huntingdon Q.C.. and late Judge Laframboise. Called to the Quebec Bar, 1866; created K.C. 1879. formerb practised profession, Waterloo. Que.; Batonoier Bedford. 1879; Batonnier-General for Province of Quebec. 1887; Royal Commissioner to investigate claims Hereford Railway employees. 1889: Provincial Railway Commissioner. 1889-1890; appointed Joint Prothonotary. Superior Court. Joint Clerk of Circuit Court and Joint Clerk of the Crown and Peace. District of Bedford. 1891; nam; mentioned as a candidate for the judiciary. Editor The Advertiser. Waterloo; author. "Canadian Loyalists and Early Settlers in the District of Bedford," 1901; Secretary-Treasurer. Stanstead. Shefford & Chambly Railway Co.. for an extended period. First Mayor. Waterloo; Chairman. School Board. Member and Director. Brome Historical Society; member and Director. Missisquoi Historical Society. Married Lucy A. Merry, daughter of Joseph Merry, Magog. Que. November. 1S67 (deceased. January. 1898). Societies: A.F. & AM.. R.A.M. Liberal; Anglican. Address: Cowanville, Que. A cyclopædia of Canadian biography: being chiefly men of the time. A ... By George Maclean Rose http://books.google.com/books?id=QftYAAAAMAAJ Noyes, John Powell, Q.C., Advocate, Waterloo, Quebec province, was born at Potton, county of Brome, Quebec, on the 15th September, 1842. His father, Heman B. Noyes, was of English descent, corning to Canada from Tunbridge, Vermont, where six generations of the family are buried. His mother, Sarah Powell, is also of English descent, but was born at Potton, Quebec. The subject of this sketch was educated at Bangor, Franklin county, N.Y., and at Fort Covington Academy. In 1861 he settled at Waterloo, studied law first with Huntington & Lay, and afterwards with Hon. Mr. Laframboise ; graduated at the law school connected with St. Mary's College, Montreal ; was admitted to the bar in October, 1866, and was created a Queen's counsel hi 1879. He has held the offices of ' secretary-treasurer of the township of Shefford and village of Waterloo, chairman of the Waterloo school board, special commissioner of Bolton lands, batonnier of the Bedford bar, and is at present batonniergeneral of the bar of the province of Quebec. He has been secretary-treasurer of the Stanstead, Shefford, and Chambly Railway for more than ten years. In 1864 he became editor of the Waterloo Advertiser, and continued to be so until 1875, making the paper a strong exponent of the principles of the Liberal party, as well as a very readable general newspaper. He is a leading member of the Masonic Order in his district; was worshipful master of his lodge for three terms ; first principal of the R.A. Chapter; and grand Z. of Grand Chapter of B.A.M., of Quebec, for 1885 and 1886. He has taken part in all political contests, and in municipal affairs, since 1860 ; has been secretary, and later chairman, of Shefford County Reform Club for many years ; and this has kept him in politics a great deal, as it has been remarked that this county seems to have a political contest always on hand. As if to make good our words, a contest is now (February, 1888) going on, and Mr. Noyes has been selected by the Reform or national convention of the county as its candidate; but in a county where the parties are so evenly divided, it is always difficult to tell in advance who will be elected. In religion, he is Protestant, and belongs to the Church of England ; has often been a delegate to the Synod, and a valued member of various committees there. He was married, in November, 1867, to Lucy A., daughter of Joseph Merry, of Magog, Quebec, whose father was one of the early pioneers there, by whom he had issue six children, only four of whom are now living. Mrs. Noyes graduated before her marriage, at McGill Normal School, with academy diploma, and is at present provincial superintendent of the department of physiology and hygiene of the Women's Christian Temperance Union of the province of Quebec. History of Brome County, Quebec By Ernest Manly Taylor p 251-255 Powell. Mrs. Woodbury's paternal grandfather was William Powell. He came from Plymouth, N.H. She thinks the name has been changed to Chester or Chesterfield. William Powell had five sons : David, Benjamin, Joseph, William and Daniel. His daughters were Comfort and Nancy. Nancy and David never came to Canada. Comfort married Theophilus Tilton of Bolton. William Powell ist and his wife Betsey Tolford came to their son Daniel's, with whom they died. William Powell, jun., or II, married Pamelia Wadleigh. Their children were John W., born October i3th, 1803, married Deborah Runnells, died March 2nd, 1841 ; Roxana, born October 21st, 1805, married John Powell, her cousin, died November, 1906; Palmyra, born July gth, 1807, married Benjamin Blanchard, died November 28th, 1854; Dolly, born June 22nd, 1809, married Dr. Amos Winnet Lay, son of Land Surveyor Amos Lay, died November 28th, 1853; Sally, born May 22nd, 1813, married Heman B. Noyes, died July 27th, 1900; Amanda, born April 22nd, 1816, married Hiram Hoskins; Betsey Callista, born April 29th, 1818, married Harvey Merriman Woodbury. Sally (William, William), married Heman B. Noyes. Their children were: Mary E., born 1835, married Stewart Drew, died April, 1907; Laura, born July 22nd, 1837; Phila G., born July 4th, 1840, died November 4th, 1861; John Powell, born September 15th, 1842, married Lucy A. Merry; Almon H., born December, 1844, married Louisa Brown, died May 5th, 1854; Laura, died unmarried; George Henry, died when an infant. THE POTTON NOYES FAMILY. About the year 1830 Heman B. Noyes came from Tunbridge, Orange Co., Vt., and settled in what was called the Sweat District, in Potton, where, in 1834, he married Sally Powell, fourth daughter of William Powell, of Potton, near what is now called Potton Springs, formerly Rexford Corners. A few years later came his uncle, Trueworthy Noyes, with his two sons, William K. and Hiram. They all acquired land along the Missisquoi River in Potton, but only remained a few years, subsequently emigrating to the west. Heman B. had several children born in Potton, among whom being the only one now living in this Province was John P. Noyes, K.C. and Joint Prothonotary of the Superior Court, District of Bedford. They were descendants of the old Puritan stock which had settled in Newbury, Mass., in 1634, from whence their descendants have scattered all over the continent. Their first American ancestor, who was the first to leap ashore at Newbury, Mass., as a commemorative rock placed on the spot records, was Nicholas, son of the Rev. William Noyes, Rector of Chowderton or Chodderton, Wiltshire, England. The descent from the latter to the Potton Noyeses runs as follows: Nicholas, born 1615, died 1701; John, born 1645, died 1716; Samuel, born 1691, died 1729; John, born 1720, died 1770; Aaron, born 1752, died 1821; Aaron, born 1776, died 1824; Heman B., born 1803, died 1876; John Powell, born 1842. Trueworthy Noyes was a son of the first Aaron Noyes and Bette Ladd, born 1774, married Polly King. His children were William K. and Hiram, above-mentioned, and Hiram married Augusta Bowen of Potton. John P Noyes wrote at least three historical books, so I wonder if he left anything more on his family and ancestry with your society. I would be very interested in learning if he wrote anything on his great grandfather James King, who apparently came to North America from the British Isles serving in the French and Indian War. He was claimed to have served with General James Wolfe and was allegedly with him when Wolfe was mortally wounded. http://genforum.genealogy.com/king/messages/19785.html http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nhgraft3/images/James%20King%20of%20Haverh ill.pdf <http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/%7Enhgraft3/images/James%20King%20of%20Hav erhill.pdf> Prior to this project and a similar one on tracing the descendants of my ancestors John White and Jemima Coolidge, I had never heard of your area. I find it interesting that two different family clans from two different counties in Vermont had branches that settled in Brome. John White and Jemima Coolidge's granddaughter Dorothy Whitcomb, daughter of Nathaniel Whitcomb and Lucy White, who married Turner Wing also settled in the area. There is a Wing family association that also traces the descendants of that branch. http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=DESC <http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=DESC&db=mewingnut&id=I20 04168> &db=mewingnut&id=I2004168 Thanks - Gar Watson