Editore: Hudson and Goodwin, Hartford, 1782
Da: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Approximately 6.5" x 3.75" Dated September 3, 1788 paying interest on debt. Signed by Wolcott. Cancel hole punched affecting the first letter in Wolcott's signature, neat old fold, very near fine. Pays Fowler Two Pounds as interest on his Revolutionary War service. Connecticut official Oliver Wolcott was a Major General, and Secretary of the Treasury under Washington, succeeding Alexander Hamilton, and was later Governor of Connecticut.
Editore: [Hartford], 1783
Da: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Approximately 8.25" x 6". Dated April 25, 1783. Neat old folds else very near fine. Revolutionary War period payment order signed by Wolcott, paying Col. John Chandler Twelve Pounds and change, the full amount owed to the Estate of Lemuel Hubbard, deceased, for his Revolutionary War service. Endorsed on the verso by John Chandler. Connecticut official Oliver Wolcott was a Major General, and Secretary of the Treasury under Washington, succeeding Alexander Hamilton, and was later Governor of Connecticut. Colonel Chander commanded the 8th Connecticut beginning on January 1, 1777 but ended during the Valley Forge encampment when he resigned on March 5, 1778, and retired from the Continental Army because of kidney stones. Lemuel Hubbard of Hartford served as a Captain in the Revolutionary War, but we could find little detail about his service.
Editore: Hudson and Goodwin, Hartford, 1789
Da: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Unbound. Condizione: Near Fine. Approximately 6.5" x 3.75" Dated May 29, 1789 paying interest on debt. Signed by Wolcott. Cancel hole punched affecting the first letter in Wolcott's signature, neat old fold, very near fine. Pays Davenport One Pound as interest on his state service. Connecticut official Oliver Wolcott was a Major General, and Secretary of the Treasury under Washington, succeeding Alexander Hamilton, and was later Governor of Connecticut. Abraham Davenport was a Colonel in the Connecticut militia, but mostly served as a member of various Connecticut legislatures before and during the Revolutionary War. Davenport was lauded in the 1866 poem "Abraham Davenport" (Tent on the Beach)" by John Greenleaf Whittier: "And there he stands in memory to this day, Erect, self-poised, a rugged face, half seen Against the background of unnatural dark, A witness to the ages as they pass, That simple duty hath no place for fear.".
Editore: [Hartford], 1783
Da: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
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Unbound. Condizione: Near Fine. Approximately 8.25" x 6.5". Dated May 19, 1783. Neat old folds else very near fine. Revolutionary War period payment order signed by Wolcott, paying Samuel Benedict Twenty-two Pounds and change, the full amount owed to John Benedict, deceased, for his Revolutionary War service. Endorsed on the verso by Joseph P[latt] Cooke. Connecticut official Oliver Wolcott was a Major General, and Secretary of the Treasury under Washington, succeeding Alexander Hamilton, and was later Governor of Connecticut. Colonel Joseph Cooke was the Commander of the 16th Connecticut militia, and was Lt. John Benedict's commanding officer.
Editore: [Hartford], 1783
Da: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
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Unbound. Condizione: Near Fine. Approximately 8.25" x 6.5". Dated April 25, 1783. Neat old folds else very near fine. Revolutionary War period payment order signed by Wolcott, paying Col. John Chandler Thirteen Pounds and change, the full amount owed to the Estate of Tobias Bennett, deceased, for his Revolutionary War service. Endorsed on the verso by John Chandler. Connecticut official Oliver Wolcott was a Major General, and Secretary of the Treasury under Washington, succeeding Alexander Hamilton, and was later Governor of Connecticut. Colonel Chander commanded the 8th Connecticut beginning on January 1, 1777 but ended during the Valley Forge encampment when he resigned on March 5, 1778, and retired from the Continental Army because of kidney stones. We could find little about Tobias Bennett.
Editore: [Hartford], 1782
Da: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Unbound. Condizione: Near Fine. Approximately 6.75" x 6". Dated March 22, 1782. Neat old folds and small nicks and tears, else very near fine. Revolutionary War period payment order signed by Wolcott and Wales, paying Shipman two Pounds, ten shillings, and endorsed by Shipman. Connecticut official Oliver Wolcott was a Major General, and Secretary of the Treasury under Washington, succeeding Alexander Hamilton, and was later Governor of Connecticut. Shipman later attained the rank of Colonel in the First Battlation of the Connecticut State Militia.
Editore: Hudson and Goodwin, Hartford, 1789
Da: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Unbound. Condizione: Near Fine. Approximately 7" x 3.5" Dated May 29, 1789 paying interest on debt. Signed by Wolcott. Cancel hole punched affecting the first letter in Wolcott's signature, neat old fold, very near fine. Pays Davenport Two Pounds as interest on debt his state service. Connecticut official Oliver Wolcott was a Major General, and Secretary of the Treasury under Washington, succeeding Alexander Hamilton, and was later Governor of Connecticut. Samuel Lockwood of Greenwich, Connecticut, served as an engineer in the Continental Army, but was captured and eventually paroled. He then joined his State's militia, lead a memorable raid, and captained a boat that attacked the British on Long Island Sound.
Editore: [Hartford], 1781
Da: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
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Unbound. Condizione: Near Fine. Approximately 6.25" x 5". Dated March 22, 1782. Neat old folds else very near fine. Revolutionary War period payment order signed by Wolcott and Wadsworth paying Sill Three Pounds, and endorsed by Sill. Connecticut official Oliver Wolcott was a Major General, and Secretary of the Treasury under Washington, succeeding Alexander Hamilton, and was later Governor of Connecticut. Finn Wadsworth, was a major in the military during the Revolution and served in several battles, but resigned from service to to declining health. Sill was a shipmaster living in the town of Saybrook, and was engaged for several years in West India and foreign voyages, as well as voyages on our own coast. During the revolutionary war in 1775, David Bushnell, a graduate from Yale college, became an inmate in Captain Sill's family, ".where he contrived and perfected that wonderful piece of mechanism called the torpedo, for the destruction of British ships infesting our coasts" (see vol. 2, Silliman's *Journal of Science,* p94).