partially printed document signed pay von wolcott oliver jun (5 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Approximately 8.25" x 6". Dated April 25, 1783. Neat old folds else very near fine. Revolutionary War period payment order signed by Wolcott, paying Col. John Chandler Twelve Pounds and change, the full amount owed to the Estate of Lemuel Hubbard, 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. Lemuel Hubbard of Hartford served as a Captain in the Revolutionary War, but we could find little detail about his service.

Unbound. Zustand: 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. Zustand: 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. Zustand: Near Fine. Approximately 6.75" x 6". Dated March 22, 1782. Neat old folds and small nicks and tears, else very near fine. Revolutionary War period payment order signed by Wolcott and Wales, paying Shipman two Pounds, ten shillings, and endorsed by Shipman. Connecticut official Oliver Wolcott was a Major General, and Secretary of the Treasury under Washington, succeeding Alexander Hamilton, and was later Governor of Connecticut. Shipman later attained the rank of Colonel in the First Battlation of the Connecticut State Militia.

Unbound. Zustand: 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).