Humphreys, David (1752-1818) [Receipt for bills drawn by the Board of Treasury]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.03455 Author/Creator: Humphreys, David (1752-1818) Place Written: Hartford, Connecticut Type: Autograph document signed Date: 14 February 1787 Pagination: 1 p. : docket ; 16.2 x 20.2 cm. Order a Copy
Reads, "Received from the Secretary at War, ten Bills drawn by the Board of Treasury on William Imlay Esqr. Commissioner of the Continental Loan Office, State of Connecticut, amounting to one thousand Dollars, for which I have given duplicate Rects. of the same tenor & date, and for which I promise to be accountable to the [proper] offices."
Humphreys, Washington's former aide-de-camp, was heading Connecticut's contingent of the troops raised to quell Shays' Rebellion. Humphreys and his men did not reach Springfield until February of 1787, by which time the uprising had been put down.
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