February 13, 1820

Winchester, Susan, 1819-?

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Maria Breedlove

Thanks for letter, apology for not answering sooner. "You know my daughter my misfortune, to be entirely without education, else your letters should never remain a week unanswered." Sends family news, plans to visit in the coming summer if possible. Written at Cragfont

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27 June 1822

Winchester, James, 1725-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: to David Winchester

Writes regarding court case in which David Winchester is currently involved. He encloses documents for David to complete, and hopes for a favorable settlement. He conveys greetings from family and acquaintances. He ends with a discussion of the prospects of war in Europe: "We here, like you in Baltimore, look forward to the event of a war in Europe with pleasure, you because it will enlarge the field for enterprize [sic] and we because we think it will excite a demand for our surplus produce, but these are unworthy motives we should not rejoice at so great a calamity on our fellow man for any…

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January 24, 1826

Overton, William, 1826-?

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Winchester

Encloses a letter from William Lawrence, with a proposal for publication he thinks worthy of consideration. Would like the General's opinion on the subject.

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23 November 1829

Smith, Thomas, fl. 1829

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Winchester

pamphlet, newspaper publication

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1830

Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

Autograph document signed

Title: [Unused bill of sale]

Unused bill of sale for parcel of land in Memphis.

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6 October 1832

Quigerly, Jacob, fl. 1832

Autograph document signed

Title: [State of Kentucky Court of Appeals]

Certification: J. Wrightman Smith permitted to practice as a counselor and attorney.

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26 March 1833

Winchester, Lucilius, 1833-?

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James W. Breedlove

Statement of Mr. Breedlove's account

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10 November 1838

Cassedy, Charles, 1838-?

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Maria Breedlove

Cassedy is currently writing a biography of Mrs. Breedlove's father, James Winchester. He asks Mrs. Breedlove to have an engraving of her father made as a frontispiece for the book, which should be "as faithful to the truth of the countenance as the book itself will be to the character of the man." He expects that the upcoming presidential race will excite political controversy, and thus make the biography very popular Written at Cragfont

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13 June 1839

Cassedy, Charles, 1838-?

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James W. Breedlove

Written on the occasion of Breedlove's retirement from office. Cassedy does not believe current newspaper reports regarding Breedlove's mishandling of funds. He writes: "The allegation … is probably intended to affect the popular tide of the next Presidential Election: nothing is too base and unprincipled for the instrumentality of faction…" Written near Gallatin, Tennessee.

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1 August 1850

Smith, Urilda, fl. 1850

Autograph document signed

Title: [Receipt for funeral transactions]

Receipt for transactions involving shipment of husband's body.

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7 May 1792

Fenner, Arthur, 1745-1805

Typed letter signed

Title: 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.

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6 May 1793

Fenner, Arthur, 1745-1805

Typed letter signed

Title: 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.

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12 May 1794

Fenner, Arthur, 1745-1805

Typed letter signed

Title: 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.

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circa 1819

Noyes, Thomas, 1754-1819

Autograph document

Title: [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 Washington during the war.

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23 November 1865

Loveland, George, fl. 1865

Autograph document signed

Title: 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 apparently crushed his bones, and he has required the use of crutches since. The document also mentions another soldier who testified that this William Wallace Noyes was the same one who was injured at St. Petersburg. They accept his claim.

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25 June 1886

Ward, Thomas, fl. 1886

Autograph document signed

Title: 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.

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18 October 1897

Autograph document signed

Title: [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 they were married, what record he has of that, whether he was previously married, and whether he has any children. He lists his wife's name (Emily Maria Vinsonn) and the names and birth dates of his four children.

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2 August 1910

Patterson, J.H., fl. 1910

Autograph document signed

Title: 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.

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15 June 1866

Autograph letter signed

Title: [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.

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20 September 1868

Autograph letter signed

Title: [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.

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29 May 1777

Cooke, Nicholas, 1717-1782

Typed letter signed

Title: 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.

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October 31, - December 15, 1780

Autograph document

Title: 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.

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March 1782

Foster, George, fl. 1780-1782

Autograph document signed

Title: [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.

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1763-1783

Ward, Henry, 1732-1797

Autograph document signed

Title: [Sheet of figures signed by Henry Ward]

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

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14 July 1794

Thurston, George, 1741-1827

Autograph letter signed

Title: 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.

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