Connecticut Pay Table Document Signed, Signed (5 results)

Unbound. Condition: Near Fine. Approximately 8.25" x 6.5". Dated May 19, 1783. Neat old folds else very near fine. Revolutionary War period payment order signed by Wolcott, paying Samuel Benedict Twenty-two Pounds and change, the full amount owed to John Benedict, deceased, for his Revolutionary War service. Endorsed on the verso by Joseph P[latt] Cooke. Connecticut official Oliver Wolcott was a Major General, and Secretary of the Treasury under Washington, succeeding Alexander Hamilton, and was later Governor of Connecticut. Colonel Joseph Cooke was the Commander of the 16th Connecticut militia, and was Lt. John Benedict's commanding officer.

Unbound. Condition: Near Fine. Approximately 8.25" x 6.5". Dated April 25, 1783. Neat old folds else very near fine. Revolutionary War period payment order signed by Wolcott, paying Col. John Chandler Thirteen Pounds and change, the full amount owed to the Estate of Tobias Bennett, deceased, for his Revolutionary War service. Endorsed on the verso by John Chandler. Connecticut official Oliver Wolcott was a Major General, and Secretary of the Treasury under Washington, succeeding Alexander Hamilton, and was later Governor of Connecticut. Colonel Chander commanded the 8th Connecticut beginning on January 1, 1777 but ended during the Valley Forge encampment when he resigned on March 5, 1778, and retired from the Continental Army because of kidney stones. We could find little about Tobias Bennett.

Unbound. Condition: Near Fine. Approximately 6.25" x 5". Dated March 22, 1782. Neat old folds else very near fine. Revolutionary War period payment order signed by Wolcott and Wadsworth paying Sill Three Pounds, and endorsed by Sill. Connecticut official Oliver Wolcott was a Major General, and Secretary of the Treasury under Washington, succeeding Alexander Hamilton, and was later Governor of Connecticut. Finn Wadsworth, was a major in the military during the Revolution and served in several battles, but resigned from service to to declining health. Sill was a shipmaster living in the town of Saybrook, and was engaged for several years in West India and foreign voyages, as well as voyages on our own coast. During the revolutionary war in 1775, David Bushnell, a graduate from Yale college, became an inmate in Captain Sill's family, ".where he contrived and perfected that wonderful piece of mechanism called the torpedo, for the destruction of British ships infesting our coasts" (see vol. 2, Silliman's *Journal of Science,* p94).

Partially printed document measuring 6.25 x 5.5", completed in manuscript. The document is an order to pay the New Haven Committee of supplies 50 pounds. It is signed crossways by Hezekiah Rogers, a major in the Revolutionary War and later a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives. It is also signed by William Moseley and Fenn Wadsworth. Is is docketed on the back as "Order 17040", along with the name Henry Daggett. Folding creases, foxing, couple of small tears along edges, very good.

Partially printed document measuring 6.25 x 5.5", completed in manuscript. The document is an order to pay the Wethersfield Committee of Supplies. It is signed crossways by Hezekiah Rogers, a major in the Revolutionary War and later a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives. It is also signed by William Moseley and Fenn Wadsworth. Is is docketed on the back as "Order 13582", along with the name "John Robbins Selectman". Folding creases, foxing, couple of small tears along edges, very good.