Windsor County Court February 19

Jaime Deforge DOB 4/6/79 pled not guilty to two charges of false tokens and two counts of using bad checks in April of 2012 in Windsor

Jaime Deforge DOB 4/6/79 pled not guilty to charges of operating with reckless or gross negligence, eluding an officer and resisting arrest on January 10, 2012.

Anthony Thompson, DOB 7/26/89 pled not guilty to charges of burglary, grand larceny and unlawful mischief in Springfield in December of 2012.

Mark Rogers, DOB 8/26/82 pled not guilty to charges of possession of heroin and possession of less than 100 doses of depressant, stimulant or narcotic in Royalton on December 21. 

Alfredo Gonzalez, DOB 2/5/90 pled not guilty to three counts of burglary and one count of unlawful mischief in Springfield in December of 2012.  He was involved with the same incidents as Anthony Thompson.

Randy Hook, DOB 6/1/73 pled not guilty to a charge of driving with his license suspended in Windsor on January 6

Catherine Hogan, DOB 11/22/61 pled not guilty to her first DUI charge.

David Snide, DOB 10/22/87 was charged with his second DUI charge.

Douglas Bennett, DOB 11/20/60 pled guilty to a charge of possession of marijuana in Hartford on November 21.

John Porter pled guilty to a charge of possession of marijuana in Hartford on January 12.

Kerry St. Lawrence, DOB 1/27/62 pled not guilty to a charge of petit larceny of $900 or less in Hartford on November 18, 2012

Jamieson Jodoin, DOB 12/28/94 pled guilty to a charge of retail theft of $900 or less in Norwich on January 14.  This charge involved the theft of a beer from Dan and Whit's.

A Town Meeting in Canaan

As black students started trickling into Canaan to attend Noyes Academy, the school's enemies became more and more agitated. Over the July 4^th holiday of 1835, they formed a mob with the intention of attacking the school building, but they were turned back by Joseph Richardson, a well-respected deacon of the church. The leaders of the mob regrouped, and decided that they would call a legally warned town meeting, Any decisions made at that meeting would have been made legally. Anyone carrying out those decisions would be exempt from prosecution.

The meeting was duly warned. The town convened on July 31. William Wallace tells us that “the house was crowded with men filled with rage, rum, and riotous intentions”. Interestingly enough, the moderator is the same Joseph Richardson who had turned back the mob a couple of weeks earlier. The citizens present voted to call the school a Public Nuisance, because white females and black males at the school are “closely intimate”, and before long, there will be an “amalgamation of blood”. In other words, it's only a matter of time before Canaan has some mixed race babies in their midst as a result of this academy.

After the school was labeled a Public Nuisance, it then became the duty of the good citizens of Canaan to tear it down. The meeting voted to remove the school from where it stood. They decided that the selectmen would pick its final resting place and the town would pay any expenses incurred during the removal of the school. A committee was chosen to oversee the removal of the school.

When William Wallace wrote the account of the town meeting, he had the report from the meeting right in front of him, although he says that “the author of which sleeps in obscurity.” The report lists the names of the men who were on the committee to oversee the school's removal. Someone who also slept in obscurity, had, long after the fact, taken a pencil and written a 19^th century “where are they now” next to the name of each committee member. Wallace is nice enough to include those comments in his story on Noyes Academy. Thus, here is the list of committee members with the anonymous comments in red.

Jacob Trussel (still at 90 broken and defiant)

Chamberlain Packard, Jr (killed by God)

Win Campbell ( a foolish old infidel)

Herod Richardson

Elijah R Colby ( dead and rotten and now forgotten)

Americus Gates

Daniel Patee, Jr (a blasphemous cripple)

Nathaniel Shepard (a common drunkard)

Luther Kinne (ossified legs)

Peter Stevens

Robert Clark (dead in his bed)

Salmon P Cobb (an old witch too mean to live or die)

Daniel Campbell

James Patee ( a drunkard)

John Fales, Jr (an idiot)

Wesley P Burpee (an awful death from cancer)

Benjamin W Porter (drowned)

Bartlett Hoit (killed by God after having stolen money sent to him to keep his wife's father from starving or being thrown on the town)

March Barber (old, foolish, jealous and insane)

This list provides some interesting topics for further research, for sure. For now, this list raises some questions for me. Who was this person who wrote these footnotes? It is clear that there were plenty of people in Canaan who supported the Academy. Where were they? Why did they give this mob of lowlives (if you believe the anonymous author of the comments) free reign? It's one thing to add snarky footnotes to a town report decades after the fact, but where were they when the whole thing was happening? From what we have read, I believe Nathaniel Currier was a really good man who was not a speech maker or necessarily a leader. Wallace quotes him as saying that himself, so I think it's fair to assume that he wasn't going to lead a defense of the school. We know that George Kimball had big ideas, but we also know that the New Hampshire Bar Association of the day called him lazy in a published directory of lawyers. That pretty much takes him off the list. Samuel Noyes himself was way too old. It appears that the lower elements seized the day in August of 1835 in Canaan.

Windsor County Court February 12

Nicholas Nunn, DOB 2/7/95 pled not guilty to a charge of possession of less than 2 ounces of marijuana in Hartford on December 28.

Kristina Morgan, DOB 6/5/89 pled not guilty to identity theft in Springfield on November 8.

Elaine Comstock, DOB 6/13/50 pled not guilty to a charge of her first DUI in Chester on February 10

Leonard Patrick, DOB 8/25/86 pled not guilty to a charge of petit larceny that allegedly stemmed from the theft of an electric dirt bike in Hartford on December 10.

David Bohn , DOB 7/25/58 pled not guilty to a charge of disorderly conduct/fight in Windsor on November 30.

Dana Courchesne, DOB 7/11/66 pled not guilty to a charge of driving with a suspended license in Weatherfield on December 5.

Nicholas Johnson, DOB 12/09/81 pled not guilty to first DUI charge, in Royalton on February 6-7.

Trevor Rocke pled not guilty to his first DUI charge, in Hartford on February 10.

Martha Hetnik pled not guilty to a charge of retail theft of $900 or less in Hartford on January 2.

Brian Prish pled guilty to a charge of reckless or negligent operation of a motor vehicle in Hartford on February 8.

Gretchen Mack, DOB 6/25/73 pled not guilty to two counts of violating conditions of release in Norwich on February 4.

John Guay, DOB 12/30/90, was found guilty of his first DUI, and possessing less than two ounces of marijuana in Springfield on February 6.

Students start arriving at Noyes Academy

The trustees wrote a circular outlining their reasons for deciding to admit black students into their school. When it was printed and circulated, they felt that is was a success, and that they should continue full speed ahead to establish the school. A committee went to the Andover Theological Seminary to hire a teacher for the boys. They chose a man named William Scales, from Lyndon, Vermont. Mary Harris, from Canaan, was chosen to teach the girls.

George Kimball spent the winter of 1835 raising funds for the school. He sold his house and bought another, bigger house. He needed a bigger house because he planned to turn the back half of the house into a dormitory, and the black students would live there.

 

 School was supposed to start in March, and as winter turned to spring, Negro students did in fact arrive in Canaan.

These students came from Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York City, and various other states. They traveled by stagecoach and boat. Their journeys sound very similar to Simeon Ide's journey to Washington, DC, with some huge differences. When a black people rode on a stagecoach, they weren't allowed to sit inside. They had to sit up on the driver's seat with the driver, in all weather. On a steamboat, black passengers weren't allowed to take cover, but had to stay out on the decks in all weather. March would be a particularly miserable month to travel that way, and the first black student arrived in Canaan on March 31.

The arrival of these black students was a wakeup call to the school's enemies. This was really happening. Young black people were going to live and study in Canaan. Rumors started flying. The whole slave population of the south was about to descend on Canaan. Freed blacks were coming to line Canaan Street with their huts. Black male students would be seen arm in arm with white girls. In July, an unruly mob descended on Canaan with the goal of tearing down the school. Henry Harris describes the scene. “They thronged the streets and fields of Canaan, clamorous and excited.” They proceeded toward the meeting house, on the way to the Academy, when Joseph Richardson, a well known and well respected deacon of the church, came out onto the front steps and started yelling at them. He gave a speech about rights and equity, and public nuisances and mobs. This had the intended affect and the mob dispersed.

Only, however, to meet on July 11^th to plan their next attack. One of the concerns of Dr. Flanders, one of the leaders, was that they were operating outside of the law. I would love to know if this Dr. Flanders was related to Louis Flanders, grandson of Simeon Ide. At any rate, they decided that if they had a legally warned town meeting, it would lend some legitimacy to whatever they decided to do, and would protect them from any legal repercussions. This town meeting was legally warned for July 31.

In the meantime, Canaan was boiling with drama. Another newspaper article in the “New Hampshire Patriot” stated that “Since the establishment of the school, it has been no uncommon spectacle to witness colored gentlemen walking arm in arm with what ought to be respectable white females. And that respectable people opposed to the school, as well as others, have been invited to parties where the colored portion of the school were also invited guests. It is said that one of the principal agitators of the slave question in this state, George Kimball, Esq., and his family, sit at table with a half dozen colored people, while a white girl attends upon them as servant. We do not wonder that the white people of Canaan should consider such an establishment a “nuisance,” and that they should adopt all lawful measures for its removal.” The tea parties were a scandal all on their own.

Wallace tells us that Mrs. Harris had a tea party and invited the blacks, and they attended. Then Mrs. Wallace had a tea party, and didn't invite the blacks, but did invite George Kimball, his wife, ( I wish I knew her name) and Mr. Scales. Henry Harris tells us that Mrs. Harris also invited Mrs. Flanders, who said, “What an insult”, and told everyone that she was so angry she was insane for half an hour, which no one doubted who knew her.” William Wallace was in his twenties while this was going on, and it appears that he remembered it pretty clearly.

Again, I strongly urge everyone interested in Noyes Academy to read Chapter 18 of Wallace's History of Canaan. It is fascinating, and anything but dry. This book was started by Wallace, but actually compiled and edited by Wallace's son.

Point and Counterpoint in Canaan

There were two more incorporators of Noyes Academy that were from Canaan. George Walworth was born in Canaan in 1779. He was married to Philura Jones and they had 9 children, 5 boys and 4 girls. Of George's children, only Emily and John would have definitely been eligible to attend Noyes Academy. Mary Ann would have been the right age, but she was deaf. Caleb would have been 20, so he might have been a student at the Academy, but he would have been a little old.

There is some discussion online about George being an incorporator who was not committed to the Negro students. His name was on a list of 17 people the school's enemies were recruiting to “use all lawful means to prevent the establishment of the school and, if established, to counteract its influence.” It is true that there is a George Walworth on the list. It is possible that the name on the list refers to his son George Walworth, who would have been in his mid-twenties at the time. It's also possible that the school's enemies intended to recruit him, not realizing he was one of the incorporators. However, he was firmly committed to abolitionism.

After the dismantling of Noyes Academy, George and many of his family accompanied George Kimball to Alton, Illinois. Alton Illinois is another town infamous in the annals of racism and anti-abolionist mob action. Elijah Lovejoy was a printer there who ran an abolitionist newspaper. His print shop was attacked three times. The third time, in 1837, the printing press was thrown into the river and Lovejoy was killed in a riot. There were 23 men indicted for rioting, but they were the men defending the press, not the men who destroyed the press and killed Lovejoy. George Walworth was one of the 23 indicted for rioting (although George Kimball was not). As with the name on the list in Canaan, it is unclear whether this name refers to George Walworth, Sr, or George Walworth, Jr.

1839 finds George and his family in Anamosa, in Jones County, Iowa. George's son, George, Jr, was an Iowa State Legislator for several years, but was killed in an accident in Texas at age 43. Mary Ann Walworth, another of George and Philura's children, was deaf. She met Edmund Booth, another deaf student, as a student at the school for the deaf in Hartford Connecticut. Booth became a newspaper editor and then adventurer. His letters home to Mary Ann from the gold fields of California, were published in a book, “Edmund Booth, Forty-Niner”. There is also a biography of Edmund Booth, “Edmund Booth, Deaf Pioneer”. Dartmouth College has a collection of Edmund Booth's writings.

The last named incorporator of Noyes Academy is John Hough Harris. John was born in 1782. He was elected to the first school committee in Canaan in 1811, which was a busy year for him, because he had a daughter that year, Hannah. Hannah had two sisters, Mary, born in 1806 and Lucy, born in 1808. Hannah, Mary and Lucy were joined by Sarah in 1813 and Eliza in 1818. Only Eliza would have been an appropriate age to attend Noyes Academy, as she would have been 17 in 1835. The rest of the girls were too old. Mary died in 1840, never having been married. The rest of the Harris girls married and had children. None of them stayed in Canaan.

Now that we know a little bit about the incorporators of Noyes Academy and their families, we can return to the story of the school itself. Apparently racism was nothing new in Canaan. Along with Nancy, George Kimball's wife's slave, there was a black boy who lived in Canaan. Henry Wallace says, “How curiously he was examined, the flat nose, kinky hair, thick lips, but most wonderful of all, the blackness that enveloped his skin. The other boys gathered around him in a circle and wondered to see him laugh and talk like themselves.” After a while the novelty disappeared and Dennison Wentworth became “just a colored boy”. Not just another boy, but just a colored boy. When the Congregational Church was built, a northwest corner was labeled the “Negro Pen”, and set aside for only Negroes to sit in during church. The George Kimball family absolutely refused to have Nancy sit in the “Negro Pen”. She sat with the rest of the family in the middle of the Congregation. Likewise, Dennison Wentworth, who lived with a Captain Dole, also sat with the rest of the congregation. The Negro pen was never used.

On September 3, 1834, there was a town meeting warned. The warning stated that the meeting was called “To take the sense of qualified voters relative to the contemplated institution about to be established in this town, avowedly for the pupose of educating black and white children and youth promiscuously and without distinction and what measures to adopt in regard to said institution.”

Residents present at the town meeting passed the following resolutions- I have paraphrased them but have certainly not changed the meaning of any. Please check out the History of Canaan by Henry William Wallace, Chapter 17 for the original wording of the resolutions

1. The town views with abhorrence every attempt to introduce a black population and will use all lawful means to counteract such an introduction.
2. We support the emancipation of the slaves, as long as it works out well for the rights, views and interests of the South, and provided the emancipated slaves don't mix with whites.
3. It's unfortunate that there has to be slavery, but we are not about to break up the union or shed blood so that our country can have Black Presidents, Black Representatives, Black Governors or Black Judges.
4. We will not send our children to school with black students.
5. We are not going to tolerate a school in our town exclusively for black students, either.

A copy of these resolutions was sent to the New Hampshire Patriot and State Gazette. The town also sent copies to the offices of Southern Congressmen in Washington, so they rest easy. At least in the town of Canaan, New Hampshire, abolition wasn't getting the upper hand.

Wow, you couldn't make this up.

On September 11, the trustees of Noyes Academy had a meeting and issued a rebuttal. They restated their resolve to establish a school for high school students that both white and black students would attend. I wasn't going to print the whole thing, but after reading it, it impresses me as equal to or better than anything I've ever read on Civil Rights. Too bad we don't know who wrote this. It is amazing.

TO THE AMERICAN PUBLIC.

The undersigned Trustees of the Noyes Academy, in conformity with the wishes of a large majority of the donors of said Academy, and with the unanimous vote of the corporators, named in the act of the Legislature, have come to the resolution to admit to the privileges of this Institution, colored youth of good character on equal terms with whites of like character. In adopting this principle the Trustees deem that they are reducing to practice the spirit and letter of the Declaration of our National Independence, of the Constitution and laws of New Hampshire, and the Bills of Rights of all the States of this United Republic, except those which have made literature a crime, and prohibited the reading of the Bible under heavy penalties.

In the State of New Hampshire according to the law, character and not complexion, is the basis of every distinction, either of honor or infamy, reward or punishment. But what greater punishment can there be, what greater degradation, than to deprive the soul of its proper sustenance, the knowledge of divine and human things? Much better were it to kill the body than to doom the mind to ignorance and vice.

It is unhappily true, that heretofore the colored portion of our fellow citizens, even in the free States, while their toll and blood have contributed to establish, and their taxes equally with those of the white to maintain our free system of Education, have practically been excluded from the benefits of it. This Institution, propose to restore, so far as can, to this neglected and injured class the privileges of literary, moral and religious instruction. We propose to uncover a fountain of pure and healthful learning, holding towards all the language of the Book of Life: “Ho! EVERY ONE that thirsteth let him come and drink.”

We propose to afford colored youth a fair opportunity to show that they are capable, equally with the whites, of improving themselves in every scientific attainment, every social virtue, and every Christian ornament. 

If however we are mistaken in supposing, that they possess such capacity; if, as some assert, they are naturally and irremediably stupid, and incorrigibly vicious, then the experiment we propose will prove this fact; and will in any event furnish valuable data, upon which the excited patriotism and piety of the land may predicate suitable measures In time to come, or may relapse into undisturbed repose, and forever forbear to form designs upon this agitating subject,

There are in the midst of this republic, of slaves and men nominally free, a number much greater than the population of the six New England States, and about nine times greater than the entire people of the State of New Hampshire. This mighty mass of human beings, of intelligent spirits and active passions must remain here, for weal or for wo, until the Creator of all shall come to judge the world. They must not only remain here but they must in spite of all human efforts, go on to increase in a ratio, which inspires apprehension in those who are conscious of doing them continual wrong.

If, therefore, there really exists between them and the whites, that natural and invincible antipathy, which many allege as an argument against our plan, how important and necessary is it for the welfare of this whole country that some of their own color should be humanized, christianized and, qualifled to gain that access to their minds and that control over their evil propensities which upon the above proposition lt is impossible for any white ever to acquire.

It is a familiar remark, that it would be an incalculable injury to this country, if the restraint which the influence and instructions of the Catholic Clergy impose, were to be removed from the uneducated and depraved among the Irish emigrants. The total number of those emigrants does not exceed one fifth of the colored Americans! If, on the other hand, the alleged antipathy does not exist, then one of the most common and formidable objections to the free and equal participation of all our youth in the means and opportunities of improvement, vanIshes at once and forever.

We propose to do nothing for the colored man—but to leave him at liberty to do something for himself. It is not our wish to raise him out of his place nor into it—but to remove the unnatural pressure which now paralizes his faculties and fixes him to the earth. We wish to afford him an impartial trial of his ability to ascend the steeps of science and to tread the narrow way, which leadeth unto life. We wish to see him start as fairly as others, unconfined, by fetters, unincumbered with burdens and boyant with hope; and if he shall then fail, we shall at the worst have this consolation, that we have done our utmost to confer upon him those excellent endowments, which the wisdom of God and the solemn appeal of our fathers have taught us to regard as the appropriate distinction of immortal and infinitely improvable beings.

We profess to be republicans, not jacobins, nor agrarians; we think with a great and liberal Englishman, that political equality means “not a right to an equal part, but an equal right to a part,” not a right to take from others, but an equal right with others to make for ourselves. We profess to be Christians and we look with humble reliance for the blessing of Him, with whom “there is neither Greek nor Jew, Barbarian nor Scythian bond nor free, but Christ is all In all.”

This declaration is intended to be preliminary to a detailed plan for the instruction and government of the Academy, which with the terms of tuition, the qualifications for admission, the time of commencement, and the name of the instructor, will form the subject of a future and early communication to our fellow citizens.

Windsor County Court January 29

I apologize to any readers who have been looking for this court report earlier in the week.  I was miserably sick and didn't manage to post it until now.  I will apologize in advance for the fact that there will be no court report for February 5.  Sorry, folks.  Upper Valley Anonymous will be back in full force with the February 12 court report.  I am psyched to have so many people reading my blog.  Thanks everyone!

Jacob Astbury DOB 7/26/91 pled not guilty to his first DUI charge and a charge of operating a motor vehicle carelessly and negligently in Woodstock on January 11

Jennifer Stone DOB 4/4/56 pled not guilty to her second DUI charge, allegedly occurring in Weathersfield on January 5

David Duke, DOB 6/30/89 was charged with 6 counts of forgery in Royalton on June 18

Reginald Tatro, DOB 10/3/49 pled not guilty to a charge of less than 2 ounces of marijuana on December 17 in Hartford

Adam Tatro, DOB 10/13/95 pled not guilty to a charge of possession of two ounces or more of marijuana on December 18 in Hartford

Vincent Flores, DOB 8/13/93 pled guilty to a charge of careless and negligent operation of a motor vehicle in Royalton on December 31

Jessica Hunsdon DOB 7/23/82 pled not guilty to a charge of operating a motor vehicle with a suspended license in Weathersfield on December 17

Melissa Hyde DOB 2/12/91 pled not guilty to a charge of disorderly conduct/noise on December 7 in Springfield

Dean Carvalho, DOB 8/23/91 pled guilty to a charge of possession of less than 2 ounces of marijuana in Windsor on December 15

Angela Redmond, DOB 12/21/72 pled guilty to her first charge of driving under the influence of drugs, alcohol or both in Hartford on November 14

Ronald Ritchie 5/9/64 pled not guilty to a charge of driving with a suspended license in Bridgewater on November 13

Damian Little, DOB 6/8/88 pled guilty to a charge of his first DUI in Weathersfield on January 22

Dwight Bundy, DOB 9/22/83 was charged with petit larceny of $900 or less in Springfield on December 7

Zachary Blanchard 10/28/78 pled not guilty to his second charge of DUI in Ludlow on January 26

Kathleen Cote, DOB 5/6/66 pled not guilty to her first charge of DUI in Ludlow on January 17

Nathaniel Currier

Nathaniel Currier was the third incorporator of Noyes Academy. Nathaniel Currier was born in Concord, New Hampshire in 1791. In 1816 he married Rebecca Varnum Pratt and they moved to Canaan, New Hampshire, where Nathaniel had already owned property for two years. Nathaniel owned a woolen mill, where wool was carded and woven into fabric. Customers could bring their unprocessed wool to Nathaniel's woolen mill to be carded and fulled, and take it back home to be spun and woven. Currier's also wove fabric, but it is unclear if they did this for individual customers or whether they sold wool fabric on the open market. Many woolen mills employed weavers who still did weaving at their homes. My guess is that the Currier woolen mill employed cottage industry weavers, although that's only a guess.

Nathaniel and Rebecca had eleven children. Of those eleven, Horace, Nathaniel, Franklin , George Kimball (one can assume he was named after aforementioned George Kimball), Elizabeth Pratt and Henry Kirk White lived past age 21. Elizabeth was the only girl. Of those children, Horace and Nathaniel would have been the age to be students at Noyes Academy. In 1835, Horace would have been 17 and Nathaniel would have been 16. Franklin would have been 12, and I'm not sure if that is too young to have been enrolled in the school.

The Curriers had a house “on the street”, which means they were one of the prosperous families that had imposing residences on Canaan Street. Canaan Street was first called the Grafton Turnpike, then Broad Street and as Canaan grew and became more prosperous the road was renamed. Nathaniel and Rebecca's house was a stop on the Underground Railroad.

                               Nathaniel Currier's house on Canaan St (then Broad Street) in Canaan

In 1838, Nathaniel Currier went into business with James Wallace, who owned a general store in town. Currier and Wallace was known for selling rum, and when the mob was dismantling the Academy building, they demanded that the store give them a barrel of rum. In “The History of Canaan” William Allen Wallace mentions that the New Hampshire militia held musters on the ridge in back of the store, and were treated to rum and sheets of gingerbread. Wallace is a descendant of Nathaniel's business partner. In his book, Wallace goes on and on in excruciating, graphic detail about the evils and consequences of imbibing in alcohol. He feels he must explain, in commenting on the refreshments provided at the musters, that “they never caused even a headache”. The rum at Wallace and Currier's must have been very popular if it afforded all of the benefits of alcohol and none of the dangers.

         This house was once Currier's store.  It's hard to tell in this picture, but in real life, you can see
                                                  where it might have once been a store.

 

Nathaniel Currier wasn't a churchgoer. In his book, Wallace discusses how many young people went to California during the Gold Rush. He quotes one of his own relatives, “In this country, everyone but old Daniel Campbell and Nat Currier go to meeting. They put faith only in bone and muscle. There is no excitement, no wildness, no enthusiasm on any subject.” Either this person hadn't been alive during the Noyes Academy excitement, or he was too young to remember it.

 

I really believe that, although Nathaniel Currier was a staunch abolitionist and his house was a stop on the Underground Railroad, what his goal really was as an incorporator of Noyes Academy was to start a school where his teenagers could get further education. For a while, after the demolition of the Academy, classes were held in the rooms above the store. In 1839, Canaan residents again decided to build a secondary school. Of the original incorporators of Noyes Academy, only Nathaniel Currier was an incorporator of Canaan Union Academy. In Wallace's book, both George and Frank (Franklin) Currier are listed as students at the second Academy.

What I don't understand, is why the white students at Noyes Academy aren 't listed anywhere on the internet. There is lots of reading about the academy, and Wallace writes a whole chapter about it, naming the black students. You can go on the internet and read about several illustrious black ex-students of Noyes Academy, and there is a list of most of the black students on ancestry.com, but nowhere can I find a list of the white students. To my knowledge, George Kimball didn't have any children. If Samuel Noyes had any grandchildren in Canaan, I haven't been able to find them. I feel pretty certain that at least Horace and Nathaniel Currier Jr did attend Noyes Academy.