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Revolutionary War 1779 Payment Warrant Signed by Oliver Wolcott, Jr.

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Revolutionary War 1779 Payment Warrant Signed by Oliver Wolcott, Jr.
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Hartford, Connecticut, 1779. Handwritten Payment warrant Issued by the Pay-Table, dated March 11th, 1779. £8. 16/-, Note is signed by John Lawrence and Olive Wolcott Jr. over printed text. Promissory Notes like this were issued by the State of Connecticut to help finance the Revolutionary War. Military finances in the state of Connecticut were managed by the Pay-Table which was also known as the Committee of Four during the Revolutionary War. VF condition. Signed by Committee members James Church, John Cheneward, and Oliver Wolcott Jr. who was an American politician and judge. He was the second United States Secretary of the Treasury, a judge of the United States Circuit Court for the Second Circuit, and the 24th Governor of Connecticut; John Lawrence (1719-1802) served as treasurer of the Connecticut colony, and later as the Connecticut State Treasurer from 1769 to 1789, spanning the crucial period of colonial rule, through the American revolution, and into the early years of the United States. During the Revolutionary War, Lawrence was commissioner of loans for the new nation.