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Cooke, Nicholas (1717-1782) To Thomas Noyes

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02150.05 Author/Creator: Cooke, Nicholas (1717-1782) Place Written: Rhode Island Type: Typed letter signed Date: 29 May 1777 Pagination: 1 p. : 19 x 16 cm Order a Copy

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.

Noyes, Thomas

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