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Mary Cutting Noyes

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Their story

Mary Cutting Noyes encountered Massachusetts’s regulation of clothing and social rank. In1652 she was presented for wearing a silk hood and scarf, then discharged on proof that her husband’s estate met the required wealth threshold. The episode records her own experience of colonial law.

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Partners

Nicholas NoyesDied 1701 · birth date not recordedPartner

Children with Nicholas Noyes

John NoyesBorn 1646 · death date not recorded

Parents

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Other names

Mary Cutting Noyes (c.1622–?)

Family records

Mary Cutting Noyes → John Noyes · Mary Cutting and Nicholas Noyes — Newbury probate evidence