James Noyes

[4] Educated under the guidance of his father, and receiving much instruction from Parker, he entered Brasenose College, Oxford in 1627, but did not proceed to a degree.

Thomas Parker went with around 100 others to the new plantation at Agawam (Ipswich, Massachusetts) where as Teacher he assisted Nathaniel Ward as Pastor.

[11] James Noyes served at first in Medford, the settlement on the north side of the Mystic River laid out for Matthew Cradock.

This was granted in May 1635, only weeks before the revocation of the (Plymouth Council) Great Charter of New England,[12][13] and the settlement of Newbury, Massachusetts proceeded.

[14] A church (the tenth in the Colony) being gathered, Thomas Parker became their Pastor, and James Noyes, though also invited to a ministry at Watertown, preferred to join his dear friend at Newbury as Teacher.

The following portrait of Noyes by Thomas Parker deserves quotation in full:"He was a man of singular qualifications: in piety excelling, an implacable enemy to all heresy and schism, and a most able warrior against the same.

He was of a reaching and ready apprehension, a large invention, a most profound judgement, a rare, tenacious, and comprehensive memory, fixed and unmoveable in his grounded conceptions, sure in words and speech, without rashness, gentle and mild in expression, without all passion or provocative language; and as he was a notable disputant, so he never would provoke his adversary, saving by the short knocks and heavy weight of argument.

James Noyes II of Stonington, Connecticut, was one of the first trustees of Yale College, a group of ten Congregationalist ministers, now known as "The Founders".

[citation needed] The Noyes Family continues a long tradition at Yale with notable persons having contributed to the University.

James Noyes II was the first Senior Fellow (Chair) of the Board of Trustees, and his younger brother Rev.

His son James Noyes II (born 11 March 1640, Newbury – 30 December 1719, Stonington, Connecticut) was also a clergyman and founded Yale College.

A councilor in civil affairs in the critical periods of his colony, James Noyes II also practiced medicine with success.