Tonight in the family tree research, I go way back. This is my paternal grandmother’s family line who last name was Noble. This ancestor was born in 1739 in Massachusetts:
This isn’t even my oldest American ancestor. Obadiah’s great grandfather – Thomas Noble, is the one who came to Massachusetts from England in the 1600s. I was trying to find a really old census record that had an address of where they use to live- to see if any of the old houses were still standing, but they don’t list specific addresses- just land. And the number of “freed people”.
Here is a census of Obadiah’s grandson, Obadiah the 3rd:
And Obadiah the second was a Reverend who attended Princeton:
These old records are addicting. And my Great Great Grandpa Charles Noble fought in the Civil War:
In high school I used to put my head down on my desk in history class because I was so bored. My teacher, Mr. Jameison, would kneel down and look up at me and say, “Please listen- you’re gonna wanna know this stuff when you get older.”
Man was he right.
Saturday, March 15, 2025:
Theresa Donahoe 