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Oliver Ellsworth 1776 Pay Order for Sick Soldier Signed by Constitution Architect and Chief Justice
Oliver Ellsworth 1776 Pay Order for Sick Soldier Signed by Constitution Architect and Chief Justice
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Oliver Ellsworth 1776 Pay Order for Sick Soldier Signed by Constitution Architect and Chief Justice 

 

OLIVER ELLSWORTH, Document Signed, Pay Order for Joseph Andrews, December 12, 1776, Connecticut. Also signed by Jesse Root. 2 pp., 8" x 4.25"  Expected folds; very good.

 

Complete Transcript

Sir pay unto Ens: Joseph Andrews of Farmington who went to Newyork August last in Major Strongs Regiment of militia the sum of five pounds thirteen shillings & ten pence money being for Cost of his Sickness allowed & Charge this State

                                                            December 12th 1776

£5..13..10

To John Lawrence Esqr Treasr

                                                                        Jesse Root       } P T Commtee

                                                                        O Ellsworth     }

 

[Endorsement: Recd Decr 12th 1776 of Treasr Lawrence five pounds thirteen shillings and ten pence Li money the Contents

                                                                        ? Joseph Andrews

[Docketing:

No 5899 / Order / Jos: Andrews / £5.13..10. / Datd 12th Decr 1776 / audited [1st? Sepr 1777 / [E Ritkin?

 

Historical Background

The Pay-Table handled the military finances for the colony of Connecticut during the American Revolution. Also known as the Committee of Four, its members at different times included Oliver Ellsworth, Jedidiah Huntington, William Moseley, Hezekiah Rogers, Jesse Root, Thomas Seymour III, Fenn Wadsworth, Eleazer Wales, Ezekiel Williams, Oliver Wolcott Jr., and Samuel Wyllys.

 

In this pay order, the Pay-Table orders the colony’s treasurer to pay Ensign Joseph Andrews (1751-1831) for costs when he was ill in the army. Andrews was a carpenter in Farmington, Connecticut, before the war. In May 1776, the Connecticut General Assembly appointed Andrews as ensign of the sixth company or trainband in Major Simeon Strong’s 15th regiment of Connecticut Militia.

 

 

Oliver Ellsworth (1745-1807) was born in Windsor, Connecticut, and entered Yale College in 1762. At the end of his second year, he transferred to the College of New Jersey (Princeton), from which he graduated in 1766. He studied the law for four years, gained admission to the bar in 1771, and married Abigail Wolcott in 1772. In 1877, he became state’s attorney for Hartford County and also served on the Pay-Table Committee and helped manage Connecticut’s war expenditures during the Revolutionary War. In 1777, he was also named a delegate to the Continental Congress from Connecticut, a position he held until the end of the war. He served on the Supreme Court of Errors in Connecticut from 1785 and later the Connecticut Superior Court. In 1787, voters selected Ellsworth as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention, where he helped draft the Constitution and created with Roger Sherman the Connecticut Compromise between large and small states. He left the convention before signing the final document but worked for its ratification. He served as one of the first two U.S. Senators from Connecticut from March 1789 to March 1796, when President George Washington nominated Ellsworth as the third Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, a position he held from 1796 to 1800. After traveling to France as a special envoy to end the Quasi-War, he resigned from the Court in December 1800 because of illness.

 

Jesse Root (1736-1822) was born in Coventry, Connecticut, and graduated from the College of New Jersey (Princeton) in 1756. Ordained as a minister, he preached from 1758 to 1763. He studied law, gained admission to the bar, and opened a practice in Hartford. In 1778, he was elected to the Continental Congress and served until 1782. He was appointed Connecticut State Attorney in 1785, then as judge of the Connecticut Superior Court in 1789. He served as Chief Justice from 1796 to 1807. From 1807 to 1809, he served as a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives and a delegate to the state constitutional convention in 1818.

 

John Lawrence (1719-1802) served as treasurer of the colony and then state of Connecticut for twenty years from 1769 to 1789. During the Revolutionary War, he was also commissioner of loans for the United States.

 

 

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