1782 Pay Table Note Signed by General Jedidiah Huntington

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Promissory Notes like this issued by the State of Connecticut help to 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.

This Pay Table Note features the signature (vertically) of General Jedidiah Huntington. Huntington was a General appointed at the personal request of George Washington of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. Huntington was a graduate of Harvard and Yale. After the war he was pay-table member and was appointed to Treasurer in 1789.

This note was signed by Pay-Table members Fenn Wadsworth and William Moseley. Moseley would later serve in the State Senate (1822-1824). such as wages, expenses, and losses due to damages. Fenn Wadsworth was a brigade major to General James Wadsworth during the Revolutionary War. After failing health, he served on Connecticut's Pay-Table.

John Lawrence as Treasurer.