10 PAGE NOBLE DOCUMENT, Found at the Kentucky Historical Society, Frankfort, KY, With Corrections and Modifications from Various Sources
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... Old Thomas Noble Sr. was born in Scotland 1704, in New Mill Banffshire. He attended school at Keith, until he was eighteen years of age, at which time he left there and entered Aberdeen Seminary where he studied for three years.
He left the Seminary in 1738, and decided to come to America, arriving in Maryland, he soon became a noted tobacco trader, and within a short time he was selling to the Scotch Importers, all the tobacco shipped into that country.
Upon returning to his native land to visit his parents, he met, wooed and wed Miss Mollie Gilbert, and they returned to America, and settled in Virginia, upon a farm, facing that of Lawrence Washington, one of the finest in Virginia. ...