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A Noble/Canby genealogy: George Thomas and Louisa (Canby) Noble
and some of their relatives, Sedwick, Clare, Wade, Taylor, Hough, Pierpont manuscript by Joan Knox Ritchey, 1985: 128 pages, updated 1994: 334 pages known copies at:
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Thanks to Benjamin K Nelson ("K") for this extract of data from the 19894 edition:
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I. | Thomas Sedgwick
will proven 28 Jan 1689, Calvert County, Maryland m. Elizabeth Children (likely all born in Calvert County, Maryland in ~1670s): 1. *Joshua 2. Elisha 3. Joseph 4. Rachel 5. Priscilla 6. Rebecca |
II. | Joshua Sedgwick
b. 1671 Calvert County, Maryland; will proven 3 Nov 1733, Calvert County, Maryland m. Elizabeth Children (likely all born in Calvert County, Maryland ~1700): 1. *Benjamin 2. Joshua 3. Grace (married John Grover or Groner) 4. **Dorcas (married Thomas Johnson) 5. Rachel (married Robert Day) 6. Rebecca (married William Day) 7. Eliza 8. Chaney **Dorcas & Thomas had a son named Thomas Johnson, who became Maryland's first governor. They had another son named Joshua Johnson, who served as U.S. Consulate General in London from 1785-1799; Joshua and his wife had a daughter, Lousa Catherine Johnson, who married John Quincy Adams - later president of the U.S. |
III. | Benjamin Sedgwick
will proven 5 Aug 1745, Calvert County, Maryland m. Betty (possibly his second marriage) Children (likely all born in Calvert County, Maryland ~ 1730s): 1. *Benjamin 2. Mary 3. Betty 4. Ann |
IV. | Benjamin Sedgwick
will proven 2 Sep 1783, Frederick County, Virginia m. Christiana Clare daughter of John & Betty Clare [John died 1756 in Calvert County, Maryland], Children (likely born in Calvert County, Maryland or Frederick County, Virginia ~1750s-60s): 1. *James 2. John 3. **Elizabeth Clare 4. Christiana Mary (married Mr. McKewan) 5. Hannah Ann 6. Martha (married Mr. Willis) **Elizabeth married (13 June 1782) Thomas Noble, who died in 1817 in Boone County, Kentucky |
V. | James
will proven 1790, Frederick County, Virginia |
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No details are given, but a family bible was passed down as follows:
1. John Edward & Elizabeth Rawlins Sedgwick
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