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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

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

[Note certifying the Revolutionary War service of a man, possibly named Joseph Scavitt]

Short note certifying the Revolutionary War service of Joseph Scavitt. He fought with a regiment in Rhode Island in 1776 under Captain Augustus Stanton and Colonel Henry Babcock.

GLC02150.15

To Thomas Noyes

Short note to Thomas Noyes attesting to the Revolutionary War service of a list of men which was said to be enclosed, but seems to have been separated from the document. The signature of the sender is unclear.

GLC02150.16

"The names of persons applyed for Pension under the act of Congress"

Letter from Thomas Ray regarding the Revolutionary War service of an enclosed list of men in Captain Ebenezer Adams's Company of Artillery in Colonel Elliott's Regiment in 1777.
This list is written on the opposite side of the document and includes...

GLC02150.17

Memo of an Inventory

Inventory of the personal estate of Col. Thomas Noyes of Westerly shortly after he died taken by the subscribers. It includes lists of clothing, furniture, farm equipment, farm stock, and food, along with an estimated value of each entry.

GLC02150.19

An inventory of the personal estate of Col. Thomas Noyes late of Westerly deceased taken and appraised by us the subscribers duly appointed for that purpose by the Honourable Court of Probate of the Town of Westerly

Inventory of the personal estate of Col. Thomas Noyes of Westerly shortly after he died. It includes a list of his possessions and their worth, as well as a list of family members who appear to have inherited money from him.

GLC02150.20

To the executor of the will of Thomas Noyes

Short letter from the attorney of the guardians of William Dalton, Jospeh W. Torrey, requesting a sum of money that had been due to him since March of 1819. It mentions that the failure to send the money has put him in debt to his guardians.

GLC02150.21

[Arrest warrant for Sanford Noyes]

Arrest warrant for Sanford Noyes in response to a complaint by James Noyes and Thomas Noyes, who claimed that he owed them 1,700 dollars. The form is typed, but details such as name, crime, and date have been handwritten in. It was witnessed by...

GLC02150.22

To James Noyes

Letter from Thomas Fitch to James Noyes granting Noyes further authority over troops in Stanford. A seal was at one point included, but it has since fallen off. Co-signed by George Wyllys.

GLC02150.23

To F. B. Noyes

A letter from George A. Gordon, regarding the military ancestry of Frank B. Noyes's wife, who was a daughter of Charles L. Wilder. Her great-grandfather, Moses Wilder, was a corporal in the revolution, and her great-great grandfather, Oliver Wilder...

GLC02150.24.01

To F. B. Noyes

A letter from George A. Gordon regarding Oliver Wilder's service in the Colonial Wars, as well as attached documentation. This information was apparently required to qualify several ladies F. B. Noyes was acquainted with for something.

GLC02150.24.02