(MILITARY AMERICAN REVOLUTION) Order to pay the estate of d

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(MILITARY--AMERICAN REVOLUTION.) Order to pay the estate of deceased Connecticut soldier Prince Free. Partly-printed Document Signed by Oliver Wolcott Jr. One page, 6 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches, with receipt and docketing on verso; folds, minimal offsetting. [Hartford, CT], 29 June 1783

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Prince Free enlisted as a private in the 1st Connecticut Regiment in May 1777. Muster rolls from the regiment show that he was on the sick rolls from November until his death on 6 January 1778. This document is an order for the Connecticut treasurer to pay the administrator of Free's estate, Enoch Lord, "seven pounds nine shillings and ten pence lawf'l money, being the balance found due to him for Service in the Continental Army, before the year 1780." The order is signed by Oliver Wolcott Jr. of the Pay-Table Office; he later served as United States Secretary of the Treasury and Governor of Connecticut.