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Connecticut Comptroller's Office, 1790 Issued Payment to Christopher Leffingwell

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Connecticut Comptroller's Office, 1790 Issued Payment to Christopher Leffingwell
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Hartford, Connecticut, 1790. I/C payment for 5 Pounds, 16 Shillings, and 7 Pence of lawful money, out of any "Funds appropriated for the Payment of interest on the liquidated Debt of the State of Connecticut," to be paid to Christopher Leffingwell. Black text with black border, cancelled at center, and signed by Ralph Pomeroy as Comptroller. During the Revolutionary War, Pomeroy was a paymaster in the Continental Army. He remained involved in state politics after the war, acting as State Controller, and was also engaged in mercantile and manufacturing activities in Hartford. Christopher Leffingwell (1734Ð1810) was a Norwich businessman and manufacturer, who in 1766 established the first paper mill in Connecticut. In 1770 he established a fulling mill, a gristmill, and a chocolate mill in partnership with his brother Elisha Leffingwell. During the Revolution Leffingwell served as a colonel in the Norwich light infantry brigade, and in 1784 he was appointed naval officer for the port of Norwich. Leffingwell's paper from his mill was used to create shell casings for bullets and chocolate from his mill was often rationed to soldiers. He was an outspoken patriot, an advisor to Governor Trumbull, and corresponded with George Washington. His family home, now on the National Register of Historic Places, was an important meeting point during the Revolutionary War. Fine-VF condition. Printed by Hudson and Goodwin.