Sep 27, 2018 - Sale 2486

Sale 2486 - Lot 203

Price Realized: $ 938
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Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1775.) Group of 8 Connecticut military pay orders and receipts, most from the first year of the war. 8 manuscript documents, each signed by multiple parties as recipients, local officials, or members of the Connecticut Pay Table; various sizes, minor wear. Vp, 1775-78
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Request to pay Captain George Catlin money "due to the soulgers under his command being in number 64, it being for twelve days training." Harwinton, CT, 29 May 1775 Request to pay Capt. Hezekiah Brown for money "due to the company under his command for their attendance on the twelve half days training." Waterbury, CT, 16 June 1775 Request to pay company clerk Noah Blakslee "to pay the soldiers belonging to sd company for their attendance on the twelve half-day trainings." Waterbury, CT, 19 June 1775 Request to pay Captain Martin Kellogg for his regiment's training days. Wethersfield, CT, 19 September 1775 Order to pay Elkanah Hodges "for riding express to carry counterorders from Col. Hinman to Capt. Sedgwick on public service" (then defending New York). Np, 10 April 1776 Order to pay Captain Jeremiah Shiply for the "sundry bills of sick soldiers that went to New York in the militia last summer in his company." Hartford, 10 April 1777 Order to pay Captain Sanford Kingsbury "for wages &c for his company in Col. Enos reg't." Hartford, CT, 4 April 1777 Receipt issued by Captain Eli Leavensworth for "this state's bounty for his company in Col. Meigs's batt'l." Hartford, CT, 16 June 1778.