Lot 2097B
1789 State of Connecticut Superior Court Order to Shubael Abbe, Signed by Clerk George Pitkin and Oliver Wolcott Jr.
An Order Paying for the Execution of a Warrant and the Whipping of a Convicted Horse Thief
Openingsbod: $200
schatting: $300 - $350
Connecticut Superior Court order, partially printed and dated at the Windham County adjourned Superior Court in January 1789. The order directs the State Treasurer to pay Shubael Abbe three pounds (£3) out of the taxes appropriated for the Civil List for executing a warrant and whipping one David Phelps, convicted of horse stealing at the September session of the Superior Court.
It is addressed to "John Lawrence, Esq. Treasurer" and signed on the face by the clerk, George Pitkin. The verso carries the Comptroller’s Office registration at Hartford, numbered 417 and dated 1789, signed by Oliver Wolcott Jr. as Comptroller of Public Accounts, later Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, together with a further signature of Isaac Avery and a docket reading "Civil List Order £3.0.0." Cancelled by a punch hole.
The order is signed by George Pitkin (1729–1806), who held the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, and signature of Treasurer John Lawrence (1719–1802).
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