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Canadian line, Roger volunteered to go in
his place. The march was attended by
great suffering on the part of the troops,
and Roger Noble was accustomed to
mend the shoes of the soldiers, many of
whom walked with bare feet exposed to
the frozen ground. Given leave from this
expedition to visit friends, he started for
home in the company of six white men
and two friendly Indians. Early in the
journey the Indians stole all of the pro-
visions and fled, and Roger Noble and his
associates endured great hardship before
they reached a habitation. In the Revolu-
tion he was in the battle of Bunker Hill,
and afterwards used to say that as he
heard the bullets whistling over his head
he felt some fear, which soon vanished.
He served during most of the war, and
was known as a man of courage. He
marched in Lieutenant J. Hickock's company
and Colonel John Ashley's regiment
to Kingsbury, and was out twenty-two
days. His trade was that of shoemaker,
but he left that calling for mercantile
dealings, in which he engaged first in
Sheffield, Massachusetts, and afterwards
in Hudson, New York. He also owned
at Great Barrington a store in partnership
with Captain Bacon. This was supposed
to have been burned by Shay's men, and
Rose and Ely, just before their execution,
confessed that they had plundered and
burned it. Roger Noble moved, about
1791, to Hudson, New York, and thence,
1794, to Pownal, Vermont. He married,
about 1772, Olive Hunt, born June 4,
1753, daughter of Daniel Hunt; she died
September 9, 1815. Children: Ormon,
James, Olive, Erastus, of whom further;
Esther, William, Cynthia, Cynthia (2),
Julia, Robert, Polly, and Betsey.
(VI) Erastus Noble, son of Roger and
Olive (Hunt) Noble, was born in Sheffield,
Massachusetts, October 6, 1778, and
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died in Williamstown, Massachusetts,
August 6, 1823. He was a blacksmith by
trade, and resided in Pownal, Vermont,
until about 1807, when he moved to Wil-
liamstown, Massachusetts. He married
Ruth Kinney, born in Williamstown, July
14, 1782, daughter of Jethro Kinney. She
died in Williamstown, September 11,
1870. Children : James, Sarah K., Charles
W., Robert, of whom further; Adaline,
Harriet, Marietta, Ruth Ann, Elizabeth
Jane.
(VII) Robert Noble, son of Erastus
and Ruth (Kinney) Noble, was born in
Pownal, Vermont, January 28, 1806. He
was a blacksmith of Williamstown, Mas-
sachusetts. He married, July 28. 1836,
Elizabeth Brownell Chamberlain, bom
in Williamstown, Massachusetts, January
28, 1816, daughter of Emery and
Mary (Brownell) Chamberlain. Children:
Charles S., Robert R., James, of whom
further; Mary Ellsworth, and Sarah
Gray.
(VIII) James Noble, son of Robert
and Elizabeth B. (Chamberlain) Noble,
was born December 8, 1842. He enlisted,
in June, 1864, in the Twenty-third New
York Independent Battery, afterwards
transferred to the Eighth New York
Heavy Artillery, and was present at the
taking of Richmond. He married, October
30, 1873, Anna Elizabeth Daniel, born
in New York, March 4, 1850, daughter of
James and Kate (Drumgold) Daniel.
Their daughter Kate became the wife of
J. Howard Bogardus.
BOGARDUS, Clarence Elmer,
Business Man.
Clarence E. Borgardus was born in
Fishkill-on-the-Hudson, New York, December
27, 1875, son of John S. and Kate
(Schutt) Bogardus (q. v.). He was a