Paul R. Marchesano on September 9th, 2022:
**From *1992 OHS Handbook*:**
The organ of 1835 was installed in the Richard Upjohn building, and seems lo have been fitted with a new la,;ade; Professor William Smyth of Bowdoin, who supervised construction of the building and was responsible for modifications to the original plan, wrote to Richard Upjohn in December 1845 to the effect that one project remaining to bring the building to completion was "a neat organ front".
In 1847, church records refer to payments of $5.32 for "insurance on the organ" in the Vestry. This was probably a cabinet organ; the Sunday School obtained a cabinet organ in 1867 at a cost of $240.
When the pipe organ in the gallery was repaired al a cost of $25., the music committee observed that the cost would have been greater "had we not an organist capable and ready to perform such work" That was Charles Noyes,
who retired later that year. "At one time", according to Thompson Eldridge Ashby's *History of the First Parish Church In Brunswick,* Maine, "Mr. Noyes lived in 'the Melcher house' on the Hill. There he built a small pipe organ for his own use and pleasure." He was also charged with the purchase of a new bell for the church building, and the Meneely bell in the tower is Inscribed "Cast by order of C. J. Noyes, 1855."
[ed.: could possibly be Paine & Sparrow or John H. K. Paine, who was partner in the firma nd lived in Maine until his death in 1835.]