Ellsworth, Oliver, 1745-1807 [Connecticut document ordering payment for guarding, moving & feeding Continental POW's]

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GLC#
GLC00873
Type
Documents
Date
28 October 1776
Author/Creator
Ellsworth, Oliver, 1745-1807
Title
[Connecticut document ordering payment for guarding, moving & feeding Continental POW's]
Place Written
Hartford, Connecticut
Pagination
1p. : docket ; Height: 16.5 cm, Width: 21 cm
Primary time period
American Revolution, 1763-1783
Sub-Era
The War for Independence

Co-signed by Hartford mayor Thomas Seymour and Connecticut Treasurer John Lawrence. Countersigned by Moses Kimball on verso when he received payment and E. Plummer who audited the payment. Seymour and Ellsworth were members of the Connecticut Committee of Four, also called the Pay-Table, which handled finances for Connecticut during the Revolution. This document provides payment to Moses Kimball for the purchase of saltpetre. Also gives Kimball money to pay Prosper Whitmore for guarding, transporting, and feeding Continental prisoners.

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