1782 Pay Table Note Signed by Fenn Wadsworth, William Moseley, Hezekiah Rogers

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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 note was signed by Pay-Table members Fenn Wadsworth, William Moseley and Hezekiah Rogers (vertically). Moseley would later serve in the State Senate (1822-1824). Fenn Wadsworth was a brigade major to General James Wadsworth during the Revolutionary War. After failing health, he served on Connecticut's Pay-Table. Hezekiah Rogers was an aide de camp to General Jedidiah Huntington

John Lawrence as Treasurer. Reverse is endorsed.