Jonathan Trumbull Military Pay Order Signed April 28, 1777 Very Fine and Additional Revolutionary War Era Document Fine-Very Fine. ...
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Jonathan Trumbull Military Pay Order Signed April 28, 1777 Very Fine and Additional Revolutionary War Era Document Fine-Very Fine. Handwritten military pay order for 300 pounds of gunpowder to Jedediah Elderkin & Nathaniel Wales, Jr., owners of the Powder Mill at Windham. Jedediah Wales has penned a note on the verso to Jacob Sawyer at the Powder Mill to fill the order and deliver it to Selectmen of Coventry. Together with the accompanying receipt signed by Joseph Talcott, a Selectmen of Coventry, acknowledging receipt of the delivery. The accompanying receipt has some tears and a missing piece at top. Jonathan Trumbull Sr. (1710-1785) was the first Connecticut governor to serve in a true executive capacity, an office he held from 1769 to 1784. A close friend and advisor to George Washington, Trumbull gave his all to the American cause, going so far as to personally supply food, clothing, shoes, and munitions for the Continental Army. Once the headquarters for his mercantile business, Trumbull's store in Lebanon became a meeting place for the Connecticut Council of Safety that assisted him (1775-1783) and was referred to as "the War Office." During the Revolution, Governor Trumbull and the Council of Safety held more than eleven hundred meetings there. A great Revolutionary item. HID08101242017 www.HA.com/TexasAuctioneerLicenseNotice
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