Brief Life History of Noble
When Noble Smalley Sr was born in 1784, in Brookfield, Orange, Vermont, United States, his father, Joseph Smalley, was 42 and his mother, Mary "May" Smalley, was 40. He married Lydia Bigelow on 8 December 1808, in Brookfield, Orange, Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. He died on 9 June 1840, in his hometown, at the age of 56, and was buried in East Brookfield Cemetery, Brookfield, Orange, Vermont, United States.
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- 1830 United States Federal Census
- Noble Smalley, "Find A Grave Index"
- Noble Smalley, "Vermont, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1732-2005"
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1786 · Shays' Rebellion
Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
1789
Oldest grave seen in the Memorials list.
1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.
While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
Name Meaning
English (Lancashire): habitational name chiefly from Smalley in Balderston near Blackburn (Lancashire), but occasionally from Smalley (Derbyshire) and perhaps also from Smalley in Stanley (Yorkshire). The placenames derive from Old English smæl ‘narrow, thin’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. In Scots pronunciation the surname developed to Smellie , Smillie , and Smiley .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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