Lot 2097A
1780 State of Connecticut, Revolutionary War Pay Orders to Connecticut Line Soldiers of the Continental Army, Signed by Peter Colt
Signed by Peter Colt, Grandfather of Firearms Manufacturer Samuel Colt
Ausruf: $1,000
Estimate: $1,200 - $1,600
Four sequential serial-numbered Connecticut Line certificates, each acknowledging a debt of the State of Connecticut to a named soldier for service in the Connecticut Line of the Continental Army, payable on or before June 1, 1785 in gold or silver, or bills of credit equivalent in value, with lawful interest from the first day of January, payable annually each June 1 on demand, pursuant to an act of the General Assembly held at Hartford the second Thursday of May.
The four are issued to John Smart, nine pounds, seventeen shillings and eight pence (serial 18,527); Clark Herrington, ten pounds, nineteen shillings and six pence (serial 18,528); Ezekiel Herrington, eight pounds, seventeen shillings and one penny (serial 18,529); and Reuben Miller, fourteen pounds, eight shillings and two pence (serial 18,530). Certificates of this issue were prepared to settle balances of back pay owed to Connecticut soldiers.
Peter Colt (1744–1824) served as Deputy Commissary General of Purchases for the Eastern Department with the rank of colonel, and was later Treasurer of Connecticut, in which office he signed certificates of this issue.
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