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Item Details
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| Heading: |
(American Revolution) |
| Author: |
Ellsworth, Oliver & Thomas Seymour |
| Title: |
Manuscript Document Signed by Oliver Ellsworth & Thomas Seymour, authorizing payment to participants in the "Lexington Alarm" of 1775 |
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Hartford, CT |
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| Date: |
Nov. 30, 1775 |
| Item # : |
206371 |
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| Sale Number |
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431 |
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13 |
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| Americana & World History: Books, Manuscripts & Ephemera from the Library of Calvin P. Otto |
| Sale Date |
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07/01/2010 |
| Price realized |
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$ 480 |
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| Description: |
| 10 lines, in ink, on single sheet, docketed and endorsed on verso. 16x19.5 cm. (6¼x7¾"). |
| Key document revealing the interaction between the colonies during the earliest stages of the American Revolution, and the financial interchanges that fueled the rebellion. Oliver Ellsworth, who helped frame the U.S. Constitution and was to serve as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and Thomas Seymour authorize Connecticut Treasurer Jonathan Lawrence to "Pay the Select Men of Fairfield Five pounds Five Shilling & nine pence in Bills - in part the Expence of the Inhabitants of sd. Town who marched towards Boston & to N. York in Alarm last Spring - & Necessaries supplied the Rifle Battalion marching thru this colony to camp at Cambridge..." Signed by Ellsworth and Seymour on the recto, and by Thaddeus Burr, acknowledging receipt of the funds, on the verso, along with docketing. |
| Condition: |
| Fine condition. |
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