(AMERICAN REVOLUTION) ELLSWORTH OLIVER Autograph Document Si

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SIGNED ONE DAY AFTER INDEPENDENCE (AMERICAN REVOLUTION.) ELLSWORTH, OLIVER. Autograph Document Signed, "O. Ellsworth," ordering payment from Treasurer Jonathan Lawrence to Zoeth Eldredge, for "expense of his sickness while a soldier in the colony's service." Endorsement signatures on verso. 1 page, approximately 6x8 inches; folds. Hartford, 5 July 1776

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Eldredge (1751?-1828) was a private in the Willington CT militia and responded to the Lexington alarm. After service as a Minute Man, he enlisted in the 5th company of the Second Connecticut, serving at the siege of Boston and Bunker Hill. In the Spring of 1776, Eldredge served under George Washington in New York, where he contracted a fever -- the sickness referred to in this pay order.