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Hancock, John, 1737-1793 Commission of Thomas Noyes.

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02150.01 Author/Creator: Hancock, John, 1737-1793 Place Written: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Type: Document signed Date: 26 August 1776 Pagination: 1 p. : docket Height: 22.1 cm, Width: 34.5 cm Order a Copy

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.

Noyes, Thomas, 1754-1819

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