Garrat Noel

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Noel's catalog, 1755 (Boston Public Library):

Garrat Noel (1706-1776) was a bookseller and educator in New York, New York, in the 18th century. He emigrated from Cadiz in 1750. In 1751 he worked as a "teacher of the Spanish tongue ... also ... reading, writing, arithmetick. He arrived in New York in 1750 from Cadiz, Spain, with children by his wife, Frances Matilda Jaymee, who died prior to that date. Their child Mary Noel, married Anthony Bleeker in 1763. Josepha Matilda married Antonio De Miera. Their only son died at sea in about 1764. From a second marriage with Experence Young there were three children, Eleanor, Garrat, and John Young Noel.

By 1752 he kept a shop on Broad Street, and in 1753 on Dock Street. From his shop Noel also operated a circulating library of "several thousand volumes of choice books, in history, divinity, travels, voyages, novels, &c."

Among the titles offered for sale by Noel in 1755:

Behn's Plays Bowen's New Atlas Bysshe's Art of Poetry[19] Francis Coventry's The History of a Lap Dog, Pompey the Little Echard's Gazetteer Fielding's Voyage to Lisbon The Gardner's Dictionary Harrison's House-keepers Pocket Companion[20] Hartley's Observations on Man Edward Hatton's Mathematical Manual Eliza Haywood's Female Spectator Heylen's Help to English History Hibernicus's Letters The Hive: a Collection of Choice New Songs[21] Hughes' Natural History of Barbados Hutcheson's Xenophon Independent Whig Alain-René Lesage's The Batchelor of Salamanca Noël-Antoine Pluche's History of the Heavens Potter's Antiquities of Greece The Tatler Wishart's Commentaries on the late War in Italy The World in Miniature The Young Lady Conducted

In addition to books and periodicals Noel sold stationary and other sundries.

Noel died in 1776 in Elizabethtown, New Jersey