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State of Connecticut, Pay-Table Office, 1785, Tax Warrants Pair Signed by Eleazer Wales and Oliver W

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State of Connecticut, Pay-Table Office, 1785, Tax Warrants Pair Signed by Eleazer Wales and Oliver W
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Hartford, Connecticut, 1783. Lot of 2 I/C Tax Warrants issued by the Pay-Table Office in Hartford. The Pay-Table (also known as the Committee of Four) managed Connecticut's military finances during the Revolutionary War. 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. Issuing notes such as these was only a temporary solution. Eleazer Wales was graduate of Yale and Presbyterian Minister who also later served as a Justice of the Peace in Hartford. He remained involved in state politics, acting as State Controller after the war. 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. When Wolcott died in 1833 in New York City, he was the last surviving cabinet member of the Washington administration. William Moseley (1755-1824) later would serve in the Connecticut state senate, while Eleazer Wales was another member of the Pay-Table. Notes are in VF to XF condition. (2). Sold "AS IS" no returns accepted.