(AMERICAN REVOLUTION) ELLSWORTH OLIVER Document Signed OlivE

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(AMERICAN REVOLUTION.) ELLSWORTH, OLIVER. Document Signed, "Oliv:Ellsworth Assist't," ordering payment of £168.17.8 to the Committee for Signing Emission of Bills for "Numbering and Signing the Emission of Bills ordered by the General Assembly." Countersigned by Treasurer John Lawrence and J[oseph] Talcott. Additionally endorsed by each member of the Committee, twice, one set on the verso. Approximately 8 1/2x13 inches; short closed separations at folds, minor scattered foxing, minor toning to folds, docketing on verso. Hartford, 1 March 1780

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Ellsworth (1745-1807) was a jurist, delegate to the Continental Congress, 1777-83, member of the Connecticut Council of Safety, Senator, 1789-86, helped organize the federal judiciary, and served as U.S. Chief Justice beginning in 1796.