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Oliver Ellsworth, Northern Army 1777, Superb
Oliver Ellsworth, Northern Army 1777, Superb
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Ellsworth Oliver



Oliver Ellsworth, Northern Army 1777, Superb

Pay Order Signed by Constitution Architect and Chief Justice Oliver Ellsworth

 

OLIVER ELLSWORTH, Document Signed, Pay Order for Abraham Fox, January 16, 1777, Hartford, Connecticut. 2 pp., 7.5" x 4"  Expected folds; very good.

 

Complete Transcript

Sir

Please to pay Abraham Fox late a Soldier in the Connecticut New Levies Two pounds Eight Shillings for Expence of Sickness on his Return from Northern Army, as ? acct & charge the State. Hartford Jany 16, 1777.

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                                                                        Oliv:  Ellsworth           } Comtee

£2:8                                                                                                     }

Jno Lawrence, Esqr

Treasr

 

[Endorsement on verso:]

1777 Recd of Treasurer Lawrence January the 16 two pound Eight Shillings Contents

                                                                        ? Abraham Fox

[Docketing:]

No 6078 / Order / Abrm Fox / £2:8 / Dated 16 Jany 1777 / Audited Sept 1, 1777 / E Plummer

 

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, Oliver Ellsworth of the Pay-Table orders the colony’s treasurer to pay soldier Abraham Fox for expenses for returning from camp due to illness. Fox (1748-1821) was a member of a company of men who marched ninety miles from Glastonbury, Connecticut, to the relief of Boston on the Lexington Alarm in April 1775. He was later a private in Captain Daniel Dewey’s company in Colonel Obadiah Johnson’s regiment of the Connecticut militia. The company was stationed for two months at Providence, Rhode Island in 1778.

 

 

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.

 

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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