1782 State of Connecticut Note Signed by General Jedidiah Huntington

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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.

The note was issued to Ralph Pomeroy in 1782. Ralph Pomeroy served as a Military Paymaster who was in charged with finances during the Revolutionary War such as wages, expenses, and losses due to damages. This note was signed by Pay-Table members William Moseley and Eleazer Wales. Eleazer Wales was graduate of Yale and Presbyterian Minister who also later served as a Justice of the Peace in Hartford. Moseley would later serve in the State Senate (1822-1824). The reverse is signed/ endorsed by Ralph Pomeroy

John Lawrence as Treasurer.

Promissory Notes like this issued by the State of Connecticut helped 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.

1782 Revolutionary War Note - Signed by General Jedidiah Huntington, William Moseley, Eleazer Wales and Ralph Pomeroy.

Condition: as picture; edge splitting at the center fold, priced accordingly