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State of Connecticut, 1787, Pay-Table Office, Lot of 3 Tax Warrants, One ITASB Oliver Wolcott Jr.

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State of Connecticut, 1787, Pay-Table Office, Lot of 3 Tax Warrants, One ITASB Oliver Wolcott Jr.
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Connecticut, 1787. Lot of 3 Tax Warrants for payment of "Civil List", Issued to Oliver Wolcott Jr. for 13 Pounds; Isaac Spencer for 2 Pounds 15 Shillings; and Hudson & Goodwin for 6 Pounds, all "out of the Taxes appropriated for the payment of the Civil List." Black text with black handwriting and borders. Various signatures include Pay-Table members Eleazer Wales, Oliver Wolcott Jr., with Samuel Wyllys' signature across all three pieces. The Pay-Table (also known as the Committee of Four) managed Connecticut's military finances during the Revolutionary War and the subsequent period. Financing the Revolution laid a heavy burden upon each colony, especially those which balked at levying taxes. In order to meet immediate needs, such as wages, the colonies relied upon wealthy revolutionists, foreign loans, and taxes and gifts from abroad. The Pay-Table continued to manage finances following the Revolution. Eleazer Wales' signature appears of many documents from the 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. Samuel Wyllys (January 4, 1739 - June 9, 1823) was an American military officer in the American Revolution, Connecticut politician, and a member of the Wyllys–Haynes family. VF condition. (3)