1782 State of Connecticut, Pay-Table Office Order Paying Deputy Quartermaster Ralph Pomeroy, Signed by Oliver Wolcott Jr. and William Moseley

Connecticut Pay-Table Office order dated at Hartford the 30th of January 1782, directing the State Treasurer to pay Ralph Pomeroy, Esquire, Deputy Quartermaster, the sum of one pound, two shillings and six pence (£1 2s 6d) out of the tax granted by the General Assembly, and charge the State. The order is addressed to "John Lawrence Esq. Treasurer" and signed on the face by two members of the Committee of the Pay-Table, Oliver Wolcott Jr. and William Moseley. Endorsed "For Ralph Pomeroy" and signed by Andrew Kingsbury as clerk, and signed by Ralph Pomeroy. The Committee of the Pay-Table, known as the Committee of Four, handled Connecticut’s military finances during the Revolution.
The order brings together several men who went on to hold the highest fiscal offices of the state and nation. Oliver Wolcott Jr. (1760–1833), son of Declaration signer and Governor Oliver Wolcott Sr., here a member of the Pay-Table, later served as the second Secretary of the Treasury of the United States under George Washington, succeeding Alexander Hamilton, and as Governor of Connecticut. Andrew Kingsbury, then a clerk in Ralph Pomeroy’s quartermaster office, served in the Comptroller’s office, was appointed Comptroller of Public Accounts, and in 1793 was elected Treasurer of the State of Connecticut, an office he held until 1818.
Ralph Pomeroy is related to George Eltweed Pomeroy founder of Pomeroy's Express.
Ralph Pomeroy (1737–1819), the Deputy Quartermaster named in this order, was a second cousin twice removed of George Eltweed Pomeroy (1807–1886), founder of Pomeroy's Letter Express (Scott 117L), whose 1844 local stamps are among the cornerstones of United States carrier-and-local philately. Both men descend from Medad Pomeroy (b. 1638), son of the Windsor, Connecticut, immigrant Eltweed Pomeroy; Ralph through Medad's son Joseph, George through Medad's son Ebenezer.