Apr 16, 2019 - Sale 2505

Sale 2505 - Lot 22

Price Realized: $ 406
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1776.) Order to pay a military post-rider. Document Signed by T. Seymour and Oliver Ellsworth as members of the Pay Table Committee and John Lawrence as treasurer, 4 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches, docketed on verso and signed by Jesse Brown; horizontal fold, minimal wear. Hartford, CT, 29 November 1776
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This order reads "Please to pay Mr. Jessee Brown twenty pounds to be in account of his service as post rider in the service of the state & charge the state." Brown was a military messenger for Connecticut for at least two years during the war.