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Nuncia pacis. [Noyes family scrapbook]

Genealogical scrapbook. Folder 1 has 3 photographs of Noyes family homes, family letters concerning family history and genealogical details (dated 1806-1895), undated biographies and family record sheets, list of marriages performed by Rev. James...

GLC02150.56.02

A short journal of the transactions of Capt. Augustus Stanton's company.

Grey-blue paper boards, 12 mo. A delicate and tiny 5 page long record, fully entitled: "A short jornal [sic] of the Transactions of Capt. Agustus Stanton's Company. and their Marchings and Camping in the Service of this Colony." Includes specifics...

GLC02150.02

Commission of Thomas Noyes.

Assigns Noyes as Lieutenant of the Eleventh Company in the Second Regiment of the Brigade raised by the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Signed by Hancock as President of Congress and countersigned by Charles Thomson as Secretary.

GLC02150.01

Noyes-Gilman ancestry.

Title continues "Being a series of sketches, with a chart of the ancestors of Charles Phelps Noyes and Emily H. (Gilman) Noyes, his wife." Published in St. Paul, Minnesota by Gilliss Press (New York). Inscription on flyleaf reads "This Book is one of...

GLC02150.56.01

Extracts from the votes and proceedings of the American Continental Congress.

Held at Philadelphia on the 5th of September, 1774. Containing the Bill of Rights, a List of Grievances, Occasional Resolves, the Association, an address to the people of Great Britin, a memorial to the inhabitants of the British-American Colonies...

GLC02150.03

To Thomas Noyes

Letter from Arthur Fenner to Thomas Noyes appointing Noyes Second Major of the Senior Class Regiment of Washington County, Rhode Island. Includes the seal of Rhode Island.
Co-signed by Henry Ward.

GLC02150.09

To Thomas Noyes

Letter from Arthur Fenner to Thomas Noyes appointing Noyes First Major of the Senior Class Regiment of Washington County, Rhode Island. Includes the seal of Rhode Island.
Co-signed by Henry Ward.

GLC02150.10

To Thomas Noyes

Letter from Arthur Fenner to Thomas Noyes appointing Noyes Lieutenant Colonel Commander of the Senior Class Regiment of Washington County, Rhode Island. Includes the seal of Rhode Island.
Co-signed by Henry Ward.

GLC02150.11

[Letter certifying the service of a Billings Burch in the Revolutionary War]

Letter from Thomas Noyes and Nicholas Clark certifying that they were acquainted with a Billings Burch of Stonington, Connecticut during their Revolutionary War service. They say that Burch served under Colonel Lippet, Colonel Babcock, and General...

GLC02150.18

Declaration for Invalid Pension

Form for a declaration of invalid pension that has been filled out by a Deputy County Clerk in Washington, Vermont. It says that William Noyes was wounded in action near St. Petersburg on April 2, 1865, when he was shot in his lower right leg. This...

GLC02150.41.02

War Department: Adjutant General's Office

Letter from the War Department outlining the injuries William Noyes suffered during the war. It claims to have no record of the cause or nature of the injury that ultimately sent him home.

GLC02150.41.03

[Questionnaire from the Bureau of Pensions]

Official form from the Department of the Interior Bureau of Pensions. It is addressed to William Noyes and asks him to please answer several questions pertaining to his family. These questions include whether he is married, who his wife is and where...

GLC02150.41.05

Drop Order and Report

Form from the Department of the Interior Bureau of Pensions order the Bureau to drop William Wallace Noyes frin their registry, because he is deceased. The top is crossed out with an X, and the word "Accrued" is scribbled above it.

GLC02150.41.09

[Letter regarding a final financial settlement]

Letter from an executor whose name is unclear but may have been B. T. Spaulding. It is regarding a final financial settlement with a woman named Eliza Kendall. It includes a $.02 stamp with George Washington's picture on it.

GLC02150.43

[Letter regarding a final financial settlement]

Letter indicating the receipt of funds totaling one dollar and eighty three cents. The letter is signed, but the name is difficult to distinguish. It includes a $.02 stamp with George Washington on it.

GLC02150.44

[Envelope addressed to Henry B. Noyes and Mr. Phelps]

Envelope addressed to Henry B. Noyes and Mr. Phelps, Esquire. The address is in Chicago, Illinois, and a $.02 stamp of Washington's profile is included on the envelope.

GLC02150.46

Thomas Noyes archive and collateral [Decimalized .01 - .56.03]

Collection contains Continental Army commissions papers, a company journal, a Continental Congress pamphlet, and family scrapbooks and genealogy.

GLC02150

The names of those in Captain Arnold's company which crossed the North River Dec 4th, 1776

A list of the men in Captain Arnold's company who crossed the North River on December 4, 1776.

GLC02150.04

To Thomas Noyes

Letter from Nicholas Cooke to Thomas Noyes appointing Noyes First Lieutenant of the Artillery Company of the Towns of Westerly, Charleston, and Hopkinton, in Kings County, Rhode Island.
Includes the seal of Rhode Island.
Co-signed by Henry Ward.

GLC02150.05

A pay abstract of wages due to the guards stationed at Grum Hill, Noyes Hill, and Watch Hill under the command of Thomas Noyes by order of Coll [Colonel] Christopher Greene doing duty from the 31 of October to the 15 of December 1780

Includes a short list of men, probably the commanders of the guardsmen owed wages, with numbers in columns next to their names.

GLC02150.06

[Letter from George Foster indicating receipt of money and rations from Thomas Noyes]

Short note indicating that Foster had received five shillings and rations from Thomas Noyes by the order of Colonel Christopher Greene.

GLC02150.07

[Sheet of figures signed by Henry Ward]

Short sheet of unlabeled figures, signed by Henry Ward, Secretary.

GLC02150.08

To Thomas Noyes

Letter from George Thurston to Thomas Noyes instructing him to bring the Second Class Regiment to a company parade on August 21.

GLC02150.12

[Note regarding William Sims's service in the Revolution]

Short note regarding William Sims's campaigns in the Rhode Island Continental Regiment, including the Battle of Red Bank, at which time several other soldiers were shot for desertion.

GLC02150.13

[Note certifying the Revolutionary War service of Thomas Slattery

Note written to certify the Revolutionary War service of a man whose name appears to be Thomas Slattery as Joseph Noyes's clerk in 1776 and 1777.
Similar content written on both sides of the document, with the handwriting on one side being much...

GLC02150.14