1782 dated Pay Order Signed by Jedediah Huntington and Oliver Wolcott Jr. - Conn for Sale

1782 dated Pay Order Signed by Jedediah Huntington and Oliver Wolcott Jr. - Conn For Sale

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1782 dated Pay Order Signed by Jedediah Huntington and Oliver Wolcott Jr. - Conn:
$123.50

State of Connecticut Pay Ordersigned by Jed Huntington and Oliver Wolcott, Jr. Ralph Pomeroy pay table. When Ralph Pomeroy was born on 8 December 1737, in Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States, his father, Reverend Benjamin Pomeroy, was 33 and his mother, Abigail Wheelock, was 20. He married Eunice Belden on 31 January 1770. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. He registered for military service in 1776. He died on 19 March 1819, in Hebron, Tolland, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Hebron, Tolland, Connecticut, United States. Read more at Jedediah (or Jedidiah) Huntington (4 August 1743 " 25 September 1818), was an American general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. After the war, he served in numerous civilian posts. Huntington was born in Norwich, Connecticut, the son of Jabez and Elizabeth (Backus) Huntington. Huntington graduated from Harvard in 1763 and received a master's degree from Yale University in 1770. He was engaged in commercial pursuits with his father, was an active member of the Sons of Liberty, and of the Committee of Correspondence established at Norwich on 6 June 1774. He was a slightly built man: "His greatness was rather intellectual and moral than physical, as there is in existence a memorandum of the weighing of several revolutionary officers at West Point, August 19, 1788; when Gen. Washington weighed 209 pounds, Gen. Lincoln, 224, Gen. Knox, 280, and Gen. Huntington, 132." Read more at Item ordered may not be exact piece shown. All original and authentic.