| The People of Noyes Academy | |||
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| Incorporators and Trustees | |||
| Participants on the "Manual Labor School" project were given two levels on which they could serve—as incorporators or as trustees. The incorporators were Samuel Noyes, George Kimball, John H. Harris, Nathaniel Currier and George Walworth. | |||
| Samuel Noyes | Incorporator | Canaan | |
| Nathaniel Currier | Incorporator and Trustee | Canaan | |
| John H. Harris | Incorporator and Trustee | Canaan | |
| George Kimball | Incorporator and Trustee | Canaan | |
| George Walworth | Incorporator, NH State Rep. | Canaan | |
| Dr. Timothy Tilton | Trustee | Canaan | |
| David L. Child | Trustee, Instructor(?) | Boston | |
| Samuel E. Sewall | Trustee | Boston | |
| William Charles Munroe | Trustee | Portland, Maine | |
| Nathaniel Peabody Rogers | Trustee | Plymouth, NH | |
| George Kent | Trustee | Concord | |
| Samuel H. Cox | Trustee | New York City | |
| Students | |||
| At the time of the academy's closure there were about 42 students, 14 of them African American. These are the ones we know something about. | |||
| Maria C. Brackett | Student | Concord, NH | |
| Alexander Crummell | Student | New York City | |
| Henry Highland Garnet | Student | New York City | |
| _____ Johnson | Student | Phillips Academy | |
| Thomas Paul | Student | Boston | |
| Gilbert Pillsbury | Student | Hamilton, Mass. | |
| Richard Rust | Student | ||
| Thomas S. Sidney | Student | New York City | |
| Julia Williams | Student | Boston | |
| a young girl | Student | Boston | |
| seven young boys | Students | Providence, RI | |
| Instructors | |||
| The Academy offered two courses of study, one English and the other Classical. It is unclear whether Scales taught all of the courses in the male division of the school, and whether similar courses were offerred in the female division.
In the English course were classes in Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Bookkeeping, Geometry, Algebra, Trigonometry, Surveying, Navigation, Astronomy, Geography and Construction and use of Maps, Charts, and Mathematical Instruments. In the same course classes were offered in Natural History, General History, History and Constitution of the United States, Grammar, Logic, Intellectual and Moral Philosophy, Ecclesiastical History, Political Economy, Exercises in Composition and Elocution, Manners and Customs, Races and Religions of different nations of the world. The Classical course of study was advertised to include Ancient Geography, Grecian, Roman, Egyptian and Jewish Antiquities, Heathen Mythology and Biography. |
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| Mary Harris | Instructor, Noyes Academy | Canaan | |
| Jonathan Everett Sargent | Instructor, Canaan Academy | Hopkinton, NH | |
| William Scales | Instructor, Noyes Academy | Lyndon, Vt. | |
| Town Officials | |||
| Caleb Blodgett | Moderator, Sheriff | Canaan | |
| James Arvin | Selectman, Clerk | Canaan | |
| William Martin | Selectman | Canaan | |
| Sylvanus B. Morgan | Selectman | Canaan | |
| Stephen Smith | Sheriff's deputy | Canaan | |
| Lawyers | |||
| Elijah Blaisdell | opposing lawyer | Canaan | |
| Josiah Quincy | Lawyer | Rumney | |
| Ichabod Bartlett | Lawyer | Portsmouth | |
| Supporters | |||
| Col. Thomas Hill | Canaan | ||
| Col. Isaac Towle | Canaan | ||
| Joseph Dustin | Canaan | ||
| Ara Wheat | Doctor | Canaan | |
| Opponents | |||
| Joseph L. Richardson | Preacher | Canaan | |
| Thomas Flanders | Doctor | Canaan | |
| Jacob Trussell | Canaan | ||
| March Barber | Canaan | ||
| Elijah Colby | Canaan | ||
| Benjamin Porter | Canaan | ||