Noah NORTH

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• Fact: Son of Ebenezer North and Sybil Curtis

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Noah North went with his Father to Kensington to Torrington, when he was less than 10 years old. In the latte town he became an important and influential citizen. In religion he was a puritan of the strict and thorough kind. In going to the barn one Sunday afternoon, his grandson Cyrus, accompanying him, slid across a little piece of ice. The old gentleman obtained a whip, and proceeded to use it on him severely, and the boy was heard at some distance crying and saying: "I won't do it again, I wont do it again." To which the old gentleman was heard to reply: " I don't mean you shall." This was done as a religious duty rathe than a matter of passion or want of love for the child.

Noah North represented Torrington in the legislature fo several years, was selectman of the town, and deacon of the church.

Noah married Jemima LOOMIS on 25 Mar 1756 in Torrington, Litchfield County, Connecticut. Jemima (daughter of Abraham LOOMIS and Isabel EGGLESTON) was born on 04 Jul 1734 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died on 27 Dec 1767. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Noah married Elizabeth HUMPHREY on 20 Apr 1771. Elizabeth died on 5 Aug 1822. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Ebenezer North was one of the petitioners to the General Assembly at Hartford, May 10, 1739, for permission to erect a new meetinghouse in Kensington Parish. He removed from Great Swamp (now Berlin) or Kensington to Torrington in the spring of 1741 with his family. With Zebulon Curtis he bought two farms south of the old Matthew Grant place in Torrington, where he settled, later selling part of his land to Curtis.
Ebenezer North was the progenitor of the Torrington branch of the Norths.

Ebenezer married Sybil CURTISS on 10 Dec 1730. Sybil was born about 1703; died on 17 Nov 1794. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Dau. of Capt. Thomas Curtiss and Mary Goodrich

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• Fact: Son of John North and Mary Bird

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After his marriage and the birth of two sons, Thomas North enlisted under Captain Henchman in King Philip's War. He was stationed with Connecticut troops in the vicinity of Boston in 1675, and was with the garrison at Hadley, Mass., in the summer of 1676. He was made freeman there Feb. 8, 1678, and received a grant of land for his military services in or near Northington, Now Avon, where he and Joseph Woodford were pioneer settlers. There he lived on the east side of the river near the old Marshall's tavern, "under the mountain" and north of the Hartford and Albany turnpike. He was a magistrate of the colony of Connecticut.

Thomas married Hannah NEWELL in 1669. Hannah (daughter of Thomas NEWELL and Rebecca OLMSTEAD) was born in 1656; was christened on 11 Apr 1658; died on 4 Nov 1757. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]