Butler, Zebulon (1731-1795) [Recommendation for a leave of absence for Doctor John Noyes]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.09626 Author/Creator: Butler, Zebulon (1731-1795) Place Written: s.l. Type: Manuscript document signed Date: 4 February 1783 Pagination: 1 p. : docket ; 8.5 x 24.7 cm. Order a Copy
Colonel Butler recommends Noyes, of the First Connecticut Regiment, for a leave of absence until 15 April 1783. Directs his request to Major General Henry Knox.
Ancestral records indicate that Noyes served as Surgeon in Butler's 1st Connecticut regiment from 1778 to the close of the Revolutionary War. From that period, Noyes continued to live in Lyme until his death.
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