Finding Aid to the John C. Noell Papers

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JOHN C. NOELL (1789-1862) PAPERS
The papers (1825-1866, 1883) include assorted receipts from court clerks of
Lynchburg, Amherst, Bedford, Botetourt, Campbell, Roanoke, & Pittsylvania Counties,
VA, for transactions involving NOELL; papers relating to the settlement of NOELL's
estate, particularly lists of "Negroes and Lands" belonging to various members of the
NOELL family. The slaves are listed by name (no last name) and includes their
estimated values; one list also gives ages. The papers also include some accounts and a
letter from J. T. NOELL, Jr. (1883).
JOHN C. NOELL (1789-1862)
John C. NOELL, son of Thomas NOELL, was born February 1789 in Bedford
County, Virginia. He married (1) 7 December 1810 (bond) Polly MILLNER, daughter of
Williamson MILLNER and Sally NIEL. He married (2) 11 November 1815 (bond)
Nancy WITT, daughter of Dennett Abny WITT and Conney OGLESBY. [Jennie Noel
Weeks, compiler, Emigrant Cornelius Noell: From Holland to Virginia, Vol. 4, Family 4a (Salt Lake City,
UT: J. N. Weeks, 1978), pp. 311-312; William Wade Hinshaw, Encyclopedia of American Quaker
Genealogy, Vol. 6 (Ann Arbor, MI: Edwards Brothers, 1950), p. 970; "Marriage of Dennett Abny Witt and
Conney Oglesby," William Montgomery Sweeny, Marriage Bonds and Other Marriage Records of
Amherst County, Virginia 1763–1800 (Lynchburg, VA: J. P. Bell, 1937), p. 83.]

There is indication in the NOELL papers that John C. NOELL may have operated a
store ca. 1849 (perhaps Bedford County, Virginia). B. GARDINER to Samuel
GARLAND, 1 August 1849, order to pay John C. NOELL for merchandise "rec'd from
his store yesterday." [John C. Noell Papers, MS1762, Jones Memorial Library, Lynchburg, VA.]
John C. NOELL died in December 1862. [Weeks, Emigrant Cornelius Noel, loc.cit.]

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