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Revolutionary War Connecticut, 1779 Promissory Note Signed by Oliver Wolcott Jr. and John Lawrence

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Revolutionary War Connecticut, 1779 Promissory Note Signed by Oliver Wolcott Jr. and John Lawrence
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Hartford, Connecticut, 1779. Handwritten promissory note to pay 7 Pounds of lawful money and "charge the state," dated April 9th, 1779. Signed by Pay-Table members James Church and John Chenward with Oliver Wolcott Jr's distinctive signature across. Also signed by Connecticut Treasurer John Lawrence at bottom left. Promissory Notes like this were issued by the State of Connecticut to help finance the Revolutionary War. The Pay-Table (also known as the Committee of Four) managed Connecticut's military finances during the ongoing conflict. John Chenward (1733-1805) was a Captain in the army and his signature appears on many documents from this period. Oliver Wolcott Jr. (January 11, 1760 - June 1, 1833) 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. He was a member of the Pay-Table Committee for several years, and was a commissioner to settle claims of Connecticut against the United States from 1784 to 1788. In 1796, he was George and Martha Washington's intermediary in getting the Collector of Customs for Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Joseph Whipple, to capture and send an escaped slave, Oney (sometimes Ona) Judge, back to Mount Vernon. He was ultimately unsuccessful. When Wolcott died in 1833 in New York City, he was the last surviving cabinet member of the Washington administration. 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. Fine-VF condition.