Spotlight on the Lewis Noe Homestead

Along busy Southern Boulevard stands the historic Lewis Noe House at number 184. Today the home is owned and occupied by Patricia Wells, who allowed cameras from Chatham Patch to take some pictures of her historic home.

The house was built in 1770 by Lewis Noe, a French Hugenot who served as a lieutenant in Morris County. His father was a fifer in the same regiment.

According to the Historical Society of the Township of Chatham, Noe's wife Phoebe wasa an unwilling hostess to straggling or deserting soldiers from the Hessian troops. Phoebe spoke fluent German, so she was able to feed the soldiers, give them shelter for the evening and send them off the following morning.

Phoebe had her leg amputated without the use of anesthesia. She attached a three-legged stool to the healed stump and continued to run the farm.

All information provided by Caroline Knott and the Historical Society of the Township of Chatham.