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Item Details
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| Heading: |
(American Revolution) |
| Author: |
Ellsworth, Oliver, et al. |
| Title: |
Autograph Document Signed by Oliver Ellsworth & others, being a payment order to the Connecticut Treasury for military supplies |
| Place: |
Hartford, CT |
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| Date: |
July 6th, 1776 |
| Item # : |
206376 |
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| Sale Number |
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431 |
| Lot Number |
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16 |
| Sale Name |
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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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$ 330 |
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| Description: |
| 8 lines, in ink, with endorsement and docketing on verso. 12.2x20.7 cm. (4¾x8¼"). |
| Order from the Connecticut Pay-Table-Committee (apparently in Ellsworth's hand, but this is not verified), authorizing treasurer Jonathan Lawrence to "Pay Mr. Zachariah Pratt Seventeen Shillings & Six pence for 3 Cartouch [i.e. Cartridge] Boxes - Supplied the troops now raising in this Colony...July 6th, 1776." Signed by Thomas Lawrence, Ezra William and Oliver Ellsworth as members of the Committee; endorsed to Ellsworth by Pratt on the verso, and signed again by Ellsworth in receipt of payment. A fine Revolutionary War document executed just two days after the signing of the Declaration of Independence. |
| Condition: |
| Fine condition. |
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