in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Knights of the Golden Eagle, Sons of St. George and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Mr. Payne married (first) Mr. Payne married (first) April 4, 1884, Emma G., daughter of John and Zilpha (Spear) Spooner, of North Anson, Maine; one child, Marian, born March 22, 1885. He married (second) May 25, 1902, Nellie G. (Smart) Scruton; one child, Frederick G. Jr., born July 24, 1904.

Every person of the name of Dana DANA in the United States, entitled to the name by right of birth, is believed to trace his descent from Richard Dana, the immigrant. Uniform tradition has been that the father of Richard was a native of France, who immigrated to England about 1629 on account of religious persecution. Those bearing this name have contributed to the growth and development of this country generally, and New England particularly, by their labors in divinity, law, medicine, literature and the arts, sciences and industries. Among the most distinguished representatives of the name may be mentioned: The late Charles A. Dana, who made the New York Sun one of the best newspapers in the country; Francis Dana, minister to Russia, chief justice of Massachusetts; Daniel Dana, president of Dartmouth College; United States Senator Judah Dana, of Maine; and numerous able ministers.

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(I) Richard Dana, the immigrant, according to uniform tradition, came to this country from England, but whether he was a native of England or France is not known. settlement in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is fixed at 1640. In 1652, in the division of Shawsheen, he received twenty acres of land. In 1665 he was allotted twenty acres. In December, 1683, in the "list of the inhabitants that doo service and pay rates and to whom lands are approportioned as followeth: Lot 21 Richard Dany, 15 acres," April 20, 1656, he made a deed to Edward Jackson of fifty-eight acres of land situated on the south side of Charles river, on the road leading from Newton Corner to Boston, in the western part of Old Cambridge (now Brighton), now known as the Hunnewell farm. Richard Dana was elected constable in November, 1661; surveyor of highways, 1665, tithingman of the village, 1665; was one of the selectmen of Cambridge, and a grand juror. It has been stated that: "Richard Dana, the progenitor of the Dana family in this country, had a large estate on Market street, which street was laid

out wholly through his estate in 1656. Richard Dana died April 2, 1690, of injuries received by falling from a scaffold in his barn. August 2, 1690, an inventory of his estate was returned by the widow and her son Jacob, two hundred and nine pounds, three shillings, six pence, and one hundred and one acres of land. Richard Dana married Ann Bullard, of Cambridge, probably in 1648. She died June 15, 1711. Their children were: John, Hannah, Samuel, Jacob, Joseph, Abiah, Benjamin, Elizabeth, Daniel, Deliverance and Sarah.

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(II) Benjamin, fifth son of Richard and Ann (Bullard) Dana, was born February 20, 1660, baptized April 8, 1660, and died in Cambridge, August 13, 1738. He is said to have owned a farm one mile from the meeting house, on the road to Newton Corner. and his brothers, Jacob and Daniel, owned onetwelfth part of the Mashamoquet purchase of fifteen thousand acres in Pomfret, Connecticut, which cost thirty pounds in 1686. He was tythingman in 1699 and 1701, and a surveyor in 1702.

Letters of administration were granted on his estate August 22, 1738; the inventory returned August 31, 1730, mentions twenty acres of land in Newton, one hundred and sixty pounds; personal estate about ninety pounds. Benjamin Dana married, May 24, 1688, Mary Buckminster, who survived him, and married, July 19, 1742, when eighty-four years old, it seems, Joshua Fuller, of Newton, who was then eighty-seven years old. The children of Benjamin and Mary were: Benjamin, Jonathan, Mary, Isaac, Joseph, John, William, Ann, Sarah and Jedediah.

(III) Isaac, born 1698, is said by tradition to have been the son of Benjamin and Mary (Buckminster) Dana. He lived in Pomfret, Vermont, and died April 21, 1767. He married Sarah, daughter of John Winchester. Their children were: Sarah, Isaac (died young), Mary, Isaac, Joanna, Elizabeth, Benjamin, Frances, Benoni, Lois, John Winchester, Bethia, Martha and Judah.

(IV) John Winchester, fifth son of Isaac and Sarah (Winchester) Dana, was born January 6, or 29, 1740, and died in February, 1813. He resided in Pomfret, Vermont, where he held the office of town clerk and other town offices, and was representative in 177880-81-92. He married Hannah Pope Putnam, daughter of General Putnam, who died April 3, 1821. Their children were: Isaac, Betsey, Benjamin, Judah, Israel Putnam, Hannah P., John W., Daniel, Sarah W., David, Eunice, Schuyler and Polly.

(V) John Winchester (2), fifth son of

John Winchester (1) and Hannah (Putnam) Dana, was born January 16, 1777, and died in 1850. He resided in Cabot and Danville, Vermont, and was representative, councillor and judge. In 1849 he removed to Southport, Wisconsin. He married Susan, daughter of Rev. George Damon, by whom he had: George Dutton, Mary Ann, Susan Elizabeth, John W. (died young), Catherine Putnam, Oscar Fingall, mentioned below; Martha Eliza, Andrew Jackson, and John W., mentioned below.

(VI) Oscar Fingall, third son of John Winchester (2) and Susan (Damon) Dana, was born in Pomfret, Vermont, March 3, 1815, died in 1902. He graduated from the University of Vermont in 1836, and became a lawyer. He married, in 1839, Susan M. McLean, and they had children: Emily W., John W.. Richard H., Frances.

(VII) Captain John Winchester (3), eldest son of Oscar Fingall and Susan N. (McLean) Dana, was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin, 1843, and in early life came with his parents to Portland, Maine, where he attended the public schools. He enlisted in Company B, Twelfth Maine Volunteer Infantry, November 16, 1861, and served until the muster out of that organization, being stationed at Ship Island, in the Gulf of Mexico, and other points in Louisiana, under command of General B. F. Butler. He was promoted to second lieutenant and to captain of Company G, and served in the signal corps. Later he was appointed on the staff of General Grover, and served til July, 1865, when he resigned and was discharged at Portland. He was a clerk in the employ of the American Barrell Machine Company, in Boston, for a number of years, and then treasurer for several years. In 1870 he left this position and became an assessor in the United States internal revenue service, and was engaged in Virginia three years. Leaving that business, he returned to Portland and was cashier of the Portland & Ogdensburg railroad, and in 1876 was made treasurer of that organization, a position he still holds, after a continuous service of more than thirty years with the road, which although it has been absorbed by the Boston & Maine, still retains its original organization. Mr. Dana is domestic in his habits, finds his pleasure at home, and belongs to no societies or clubs. In national politics he is a Republican; in local affairs an independent. He married He married Martha Fessenden, daughter of Oliver and Martha (Trask) Fessenden, of Portland, and granddaughter of General Samuel Fessenden.

(VI) John Winchester (3), youngest child of John Winchester (2) and Susan (Damon) Dana, was born in Cabot, Vermont, November 4, 1822, and died in New York City, September 2, 1875. He studied at the University of Vermont, at Burlington, and went with the family when they removed to Southport (now Kenosha), Wisconsin. Subsequently he returned and went to Fryeburg, Maine, and studied law in the office of Judge Judah Dana, and taught in the Fryeburg Academy. In 1845 he entered the office of Howard & Shepley, lawyers, of Portland. About this time he taught in the Portland Academy. Later he was admitted to the bar and opened an office and began the practice of law in Gorham, and in 1858 formed with Mr. Shepley the firm of Dana & Shepley, who did a large law business. He married, May 22, 1849, in Portland, Caroline Pauline Fowler, born in Westfield, Massachusetts, September 9, 1831, daughter of Daniel and Miranda (Jones) Fowler, of Westfield. Children: 1. Anna Winslow, born April 4, 1850, died February, 1887. She had a daughter, Ethel Dana, who married Clinton L. Baxter, a graduate of Harvard College, who died of typhoid fever. 2. John Paul, April 24, 1853, died November 19, 1906; married Mary Welland and had one child, Carrie. 3. Arthur, September 30, 1854, died March 16, 1907. 4. Ethel, April, 1856, died May, 1857. 5. Cora Pauline, September 1, 1858, died April 21, 1888, wife of Clintin L. Baxter; she left one child, Carrie Dana. 6. Francisca, April 19, 1860, died October 27, 1862. 7. Wina, April 16, 1862, died December, 1862. 8. John Winchester, subject of the next paragraph.

(VII) John Winchester (4), youngest child. of John Winchester (3) and Caroline P. (Fowler) Dana, was born in Portland, January 22, 1864, and educated in the common schools. In 1879 he entered the employ of Loring, Short & Harmon, booksellers, where he remained ten years. He then went to Gardiner, Maine, as secretary of the Maine Trust and Banking Company, where he served six years. In 1695 he returned to Portland and became a partner in the lumber firm of Richardson, Dana & Company, and has ever since been connected with that firm. In politics he is a Republican and since 1906 has held the position of member of the school board from ward seven. He is a member of the following named clubs: Portland, Portland Camera, and Congress Square Men's Club. He married Mary Lester Fobes, born July 23, 1866, in Portland, daughter of Charles Scott and

Angelia Burell (Bartlett) Fobes. Mr. Fobes is a member of the firm of Burgess, Fobes & Company, manufacturers of paints. Two children have been born of this marriage: Alan Standish and Norman Putnam.

Commencing with the Plymouth NOYES Colony, in 1620, New England had many emigrants from the mother country in the early part of the century, and most, if not all, from the same cause. Under James I and Charles I all forms of worship which did not conform to those of the established church (Anglican) were strictly prohibited; and all "Non-Conformists," as they were called, were rigorously persecuted, and many fled to Holland and America. Catholics and Puritans suffered alike under that bigoted church. Puritan ministers were driven from their livings by the hundred, and flocked to Holland, their old shelter, and to America, a newly discovered refuge. Between 1627 and 1641, during the persecutions of Laud, New England received most of its early settlers, and this persecution was no doubt the cause of the emigration of James and Nicholas Noyes and those who came with them. The weight of authority seems to indicate that the family of Noyes is descended from one of the nobles of William the Conqueror of England in 1066. William des Noyers, one of these nobles, whose name rendered into English is William of the Walnut trees, was a prominent figure. The name des Noyers by first dropping the article became Noyers, and later was corrupted to Noyes.

(I) Rev. William Noyes was born in England, in 1568, and died in Cholderton, in the county of Wilts, England, before April 30, 1622. He matriculated at University College, Oxford, November 15, 1588, and was admitted to the degree of B. A., May 31, 1592. He was instituted rector of Cholderton, a place about eleven miles from Salisbury, in 1602, and served in that position until his death. The inventory of his estate was made April 30, 1622, and his widow appointed administratrix May 28, 1622. He married, about 1595, Anne Parker, born 1575, and buried at Cholderton, March 7, 1657. Their children were: Ephraim, Nathan, James, Nicholas, a daughter, name not known, and John.

(II) Deacon Nicholas, fourth son and child of Rev. William and Anne (Parker) Noyes, was born in England in 1615-16. Rev. James and Deacon Nicholas Noyes, brothers, in March, 1633, embarked for New England in the "Mary and John" of London, with their

cousin, Rev. Thomas Parker. No record has been found of the place and date of the landing of James and Nicholas, but it was probably on the bank of the Mystic river, as the records. show that they settled in Medford in 1634, and that they moved to Newbury the following year. On arriving, they sailed up the Parker river (then called the Quascacunquen) to a point a short distance below where the bridge now stands. Tradition says that Nicholas was the first to leap ashore. He walked forty miles to Cambridge to qualify as a voter when he was made a freeman, May 17, 1637. He was a deputy to the general court at Boston from Newbury, December 19, 1660, May 28, 1679, May 19, 1680, and January 4, 1681. He was chosen deacon of the First Parish, March 20, 1634, and died November 23, 1701, at Newbury. His will was made July 4, 1700, and proved December 29, 1701. The personal estate was £1,531, and the real estate was £1.160. "In 1652 many were brought before the court for not observing the sumptuary laws of 1651." The records say "Nicholas Noyes' wife, Hugh March's wife, and William Chandler's wife were each prosecuted for wearing a silk hood and scarf, but were discharged on proof that their husbands were worth two hundred pounds each. John Hutchins wife was also discharged upon testifying that she was brought up above the ordinary rank." Nicholas Noyes married, about 1640, Mary Cutting, daughter of Captain John Cutting (a ship master of London), and Mary, his wife. John Cutting in his will mentions Mary, wife of Nicholas Noyes. Their children. were: Mary, Hannah, John, Cutting, Sarah, Timothy, James, Abigail, Rachel, Thomas, and three who died young.

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(III) Cutting, third son of Deacon Nicholas and Mary (Cutting) Noves, was born at Newbury, Massachusetts, September 23, 1649, and died before November 18, 1734. In 1673 he married Elizabeth Knight; children: John, born November 15, 1674, married Mary Noyes. 2. Cutting (2), whose sketch follows. 3. Elizabeth, February 2, 1678, married Samuel Pettengill. 4. Joseph, January 21, 1688, married Jane Dole. 5. Bathsheba, 1690, married Cutting Pettengill. 6. Mary, March 27, 1693, married James Moulton. There were also two children who died young, whose names have not been preserved.

(IV) Cutting (2), second son of Cutting (1) and Elizabeth (Knight) Noyes, was born at Newbury, Massachusetts, January 28, 1676, and he died in 1757. He was a deacon of the Congregational church at Newbury, and a

member of the general court of Massachusetts in 1704-05. He was twice married, and had four children by each wife. In 1702 Deacon Cutting (2) Noyes married Elizabeth Toppan, who belonged to one of the old Newbury families. Their children were: 1. Cutting, born 1703, married Mary Woodman. 2. Jacob, whose sketch follows. 3. Samuel, born in 1706, married Martha Smith. 4. Elizabeth, December 31, 1707-08. In 1709 Deacon Cutting (2) Noyes married Elizabeth Gerrish, and they had four daughters: 5. Anne, born January 13, 1713-14. 6. Mary, December 4, 1718. 7. Jane, September 5, 1721. 8. Susanna, May 5, 1724. There were also two children who died young, whose names have not been preserved.

(V) Jacob, second son of Cutting (2) Noyes and his first wife, Elizabeth (Toppan) Noyes, was born at Newbury, Massachusetts, in 1704, and died there November 11, 1786. In 1726 he married Jane Titcomb; children: 1. Edmund, born October 29, 1729, called captain. 2. Jane, October 5, 1831, married Jonathan Dole. 3. Mary, February 22, 1734. 4. Joseph, July 11, 1736, died in his ninetieth year. 5. Judith, February 10, 1738. 6. Abraham, whose sketch follows. 7. Jacob, July 16, 1744, married Abigail Hall. 8. Anna, March 15, 1747. 9. Elizabeth, March 24, 1751, married Doctor James Clarkson. 10. A child, who died in infancy.

(VI) Abraham, third son of Jacob and Jane (Titcomb) Noyes, was born at Newbury, Massachusetts, February 28, 1742, and died August 24, 1798. He was twice married, but the children were all by the second wife. In 1765 Abraham Noyes was united to Anna Hayte, who lived but a few months. In 1767 he married Anna Atkinson; children: 1. Joseph, born September 17, 1770. 2. Hannah A., December 17, 1771, married Jacob Lord. 3. Anna, July 10, 1774. 4. Ebenezer, April 6, 1777, married, first, Elizabeth Sumner, and, second, Maria B. Smith. 5. John, whose sketch follows. 6. Sarah, December 10, 1780. Charles, April 14, 1784. 8. Elizabeth, who married a Lord.

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(VII) John, third son of Abraham and. Anna (Atkinson) Noyes, was born at Newburyport, Massachusetts, February 19, 1779, and died January 23, 1860. In 1812 he married Nancy Gavin, and of ten children, two died in infancy. 1. John, born March 27, 1813. 2. Henry, November 13, 1814, married Abigail W. Hoskins. 3. Albert, mentioned in the succeeding paragraph. 4. Nancy A., January 29, 1818, married a Carlyle. 5. Mary J.,

February 9, 1820, married a Simpson. 6. Daniel D., March 2, 1822. 7. Harriet M., March 25, 1828, married a Bush. 8. Henrietta, February 22, 1830, married a Wells.

(VIII) Albert, third son of John and Nancy (Gavin) Noyes, was born at Newburyport, Massachusetts, June 14, 1815, and died at Bangor, Maine, March 17, 1877. When a youth he worked for Mr. Choate in a dry goods store at Salem, Massachusetts. In 1832 he moved to Bangor, Maine, and opened a retail stove store, which he conducted till his death. He was also interested in agriculture. In 1840 Albert Noyes married Caroline Dole, daughter of Edmund Dole, of Bangor. Children: 1. Frank C., whose sketch follows. 2. Martha P., born July 14, 1843, married Gilbert S. Hadlock. 3. Helen A., November 8, 1845. 4. Arthur F., April 22, 1848. 5. Caroline A., April 18, 1851, married Alfred Webb, 1877. 6. Edmund D., October 24, 1853, married Annie S. Keene. 7. Albert G., July 21, 1857, married Mary L. Parkhurst.

(IX) Frank Choate, eldest child of Albert and Caroline (Dole) Noyes, was born at Bangor, Maine, August 29, 1840, and was educated in the schools of that city. He went to the civil war as clerk to the sutler of the Eighteenth Maine Regiment. He was stationed at Richmond, Virginia, and other places, and held this position till the close of the war. After peace was declared he returned to Bangor, and went into the stove business with his father. In 1891 the business was incorporated. under the name of the Noyes and Nutter Manufacturing Company with Mr. Noyes as president and Mr. Nutter as treasurer. About this time the company built a large foundry, and began the manufacture of stoves and their accessories. The business has increased till they now employ about fifty men. Mr. Noyes is a Republican in politics, and has represented ward four several times, both in the common council and on the board of aldermen. He occupies an advanced position in Masonic circles, belonging to Rising Virtue Lodge, No. 10; Mount Moriah, Royal Arch Masons, No. 6; Bangor Council Royal and Select Masters, St. John Commandery, Knights Templar, and Scottish Rite bodies; Eastern Star Lodge of Perfection, Palestine Council Princes of Jerusalem and Bangor Chapter, Rose Croix, and also to the Masonic Club. In 1866 Frank Choate Noyes married Mary Anne Burrows. Children: 1. Caroline Elizabeth, born October 23, 1870. 2. Mary C., June 16, 1877. 3. Isabelle G., April 19, 1880. Mrs. Mary A. Noyes died December 22, 1897, aged fifty-eight.

(For preceding generations see Rev. William Noyes I.)

(III) John, eldest son of NichNOYES olas and Mary (Cutting) Noyes,

was born January 20, 1645, at Newbury, Massachusetts, and died there in 1691. He was a house carpenter, and was made freeman in 1674; he lived in what was then called the "Farms District," in a house of unusual magnificence in those days, having a very handsome staircase and carved banisters, and the fireplace was so large that an ox could have been roasted whole therein. This house was owned in 1879 by Luther Noyes, having been remodelled somewhat from its original arrangement when it was built in 1677. Mr. Noyes married, November 23, 1668, at Newbury, Mary Poore, of Andover, born in 1651 and died after 1716. Their children were: Nicholas, born May 18, 1671; Daniel, October 23, 1673; Mary, December 10, 1675; John, February 19, 1677-78; Martha, December 15, 1680; Nathaniel, October 28, 1681; Elizabeth, November 15, 1684; Moses, May 22, 1688; Samuel, February 5, 1691, and one who died in infancy.

(IV) John (2), third son of John (1) and Mary (Poore) Noyes, was born February 19, 1677-78, at Newbury, and died June 15, 1719, at the same place. He was a blacksmith, and in 1708 he and Edmund Goodrich were granted the privilege of building and operating a saw-mill for twenty-one years. In 1703 he married Mary Thurlo, and their children, born in Newbury, were: Jane P., born September 21, 1704, married David Pearson; John, February 13, 1706, married (first) Deborah Savell; (second) Mrs. Esther Cobb; Elizabeth, January 16, 1708, married William Adams; Mary, November 24, 1710, married Benjamin Jaques; Judith, April 8, 1713, married Samuel Fiske; Moses, May 8, 1715, married Susanna Jaques; Simon.

(V) Simon, third and youngest son of John (2) and Mary (Thurlo) Noyes, was born November 10, 1717, at Newbury, Massachusetts, died in 1816 at East Minot, Maine. His first eight children are recorded as born in Newbury, but the church records show he was living in East Kingston, New Hampshire, in 1744, and he moved to Minot, Maine, about 1774, as he was moderator of the first town meeting there September 17, 1774, and was elected selectman. He and his son James T. were soldiers in the revolution, their service recorded as from New Gloucester, Maine, but as the town and county records of that district of Maine were destroyed by fire, it has been difficult to trace his descendants, except his

son Nicholas, given below. He was twice married (first) December 8, 1743, Martha Tappan, born in Salisbury, Massachusetts, November 1, 1726, died May 8, 1754, and they had five children: had five children: 1. Mollie, born November 6, 1744, married James Crockett. 2. Martha, March 24, 1746, died 1770. 3. Sarah, March 26, 1748, married Luke Worcester. 4. Nathan, August 13, 1750, died October 16, 1752. 5. Simon, September 1, 1752, died September 25, 1773. He married (second) 1754, Elizabeth Eaton, who bore him nine children: 1. Elizabeth, November 15, 1755, married Edward Jumper. 2. James T., June 6, 1757, married Louisa Nash. 3. John, January 9, 1759, died July 18, 1761. 4. Nicholas, July 14, 1761, whose sketch follows. 5. Phebe, April 13, 1763, married James Parker. 6. Hannah, April 11, 1765, married Samuel Bradbury. 7. Jane, April 28, 1767, married (first) Benjamin Manuel; (second) Benjamin Ames. 8. Benjamin, April 1, 1772, married Phebe Hill. 9. Rebecca, May 18, 1769, died May 16, 1773. It is said that four more children died in infancy. From the dates of birth it is probable that some of these might have belonged to each marriage.

(VI) Nicholas (2), second son of Simon and Elizabeth (Eaton) Noyes, was born July 14, 1761, at East Kingston, New Hampshire, and removed to Minot, Maine, where his children were born, and he died in 1844. He married (first) Rachel Hill, who died April 21, 1814, and (second) in 1821, Susan Shaw. He had eleven children: 1. Sarah, born November 30, 1792, died October 1, 1793. 2. Peter, born August 27, 1794, married Cynthia Verrill. 3. Nancy, born August 2, 1796, married Samuel Hilborn. 4. Nicholas N., born January 16, 1798. 5. Miranda, born March 29, 1801, married (first) John Verrill; (second) Zebeon Croft. 6. Luke, born April 29, 1803, married Mary H. Griffin. 7. Phebe, born September 1, 1805, married Rufus Britt. 8. Sarah, born March 25, 1807, married Charles C. Atkinson. 9. Louisa, born August 29, 1809, married Osgood Robertson, in 1837. Two children died in infancy.

(VIII) Crosby Stuart Noyes was born February 16, 1825, at Minot, Maine. He was grandson of Nicholas, mentioned above. In his early days he worked on a farm, but as his strength was unequal to this work he moved to Lewiston, where he first worked in a cotton mill, and later taught school, and in this manner earned his way through an academy, and meanwhile he showed his literary gifts in writing several humorous sketches,