The Noble family was among the very first settlers in Bucks County. Richard Noble came to the area in 1675 on the ship "Joseph and Mary" under the command of Campain Matthew Payne; this was the first ship to land passengers at Salem, New Jersey. He settled in Bristol Township where he held a local office under the Duke of York as a surveyor. His son, Able, was an original purchaser in Warminster owning 695 acres at the time of the re-survey in 1702. The original Noble tract lay on both sides of the York Road above County Line and the village of Crooked Billet. Able Noble conveyed 165 acres to his son, Joseph in 1743. his other sons, Able and Job were owners of a considerable part of the remaining ancestral tract at that time. The first Noble home is still standing at the northwest corner of 5th Avenue and York Road in Warminster, and Able Noble left this to his son, Able. The Family Graveyard is located on his part of the Original Noble tract between York Road and Park Avenue behind the former Wolverton Welding. Job Noble died in 1775, leaving his tract to his two daughters. One of whom, Hanna, married William Moland, who was the son of John Moland, provincial counselor to the Penn family. William Moland was a veteran of the Revolution serving as a surgeon and is buried in the Noble Cemetery. On May 1st, 1778, General John Lacy and his command were attacked by British troops in the village then known as Crooked Billet. Lacy's camp was located a short distance from the location of the Noble Cemetery. After the engagement, soldiers who were killed on the first contact with the British were buried in the cemetery with permission of the Noble Family. The site of the Noble Family Burial Ground has been known for many years yet has largely been ignored. It has become a mere footnote to the Battle of Crooked Billet. Now it seems that this final resting place of one of Warminster's oldest families and those who gave their lives that first day in May 1778 will very likely be forever obliterated. There is a current plan to build a storage facility on the former Wolverton's Welding property. The matter of this historic Noble graveyard, which includes the remains of Revolutionary War Soldiers killed in the Battle of Crooked Billet, was brought up as it is located on this property. The earliest historical account of the cemetery's location is an 1876 reference as follows: "The remains of the Noble family burying-ground is below York Road, and near the county line, on the farm now owned by Justice Mitchell, on a knoll that overlooks a meadow in front. Half a dozen graves, with a few feet of the old wall, are all that marks the final resting place of these Warminster pioneers." In 1903, there was another observation of remaining grave sites on the "knoll": "This family plot is on land once a part of Able Noble's grant of the seventeenth century, ad a few rods from the old Manor House, now a part of the country seat of Mr. Henry Mitchell, this graveyard was evidently, once much more extensive than now, but both plow and mowing-machine have vandalized it sadly. There are not but three marked graves left to bear testimony to the things that were but are no more..This Noble cemetery is situated on a knoll, about one-quarter of a mile southeast of the Mitchell mansion, beneath a fine old, wide-spreading chestnut tree, in plain view of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad. The present owner of the estate regards the cemetery as rather a nuisance, preferring the use of the land for agriculture." The Noble Family Burial ground is located high in the field back of and slightly westward of the Calvary Community Church on County Line between Madison Avenue and the Reading Railroad. -Taken from The Millbrook Society Journal Fall 2018 Volume 34