1775, Oliver Ellsworth, Signed Pay Order, Siege Of Boston, P. O. W. Elihu Humphrey
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This document, early Revolutionary War dated, Siege of Boston , July 28th, 1775....where Captain Elihu Humphreys has been paid for a company of troops ( 9th Connecticut )...signed on front by Thomas Seymour and Oliver Ellsworth, on back by Elihu Humphrey. Document is 5x8 folds, else in overall good condition.When the Connecticut General Assembly issued a call to the militia to aid Massachusetts after the battles at Lexington and Concord, a company of seventy-five troops wa...s raised from Simsbury. It marched to Boston under the command of Captain Elihu Humphrey, whose rank in peacetime had reverted to captain of militia, and it served through the Siege of Boston. After the expiration of its term in December 1775, the company regrouped and became part of General George Washington’s Continental Line, and Elihu Humphrey was given the rank of major in the 17th Continental Regiment under Colonel Huntington. In the spring and summer of 1776 he marched with his men to the Hudson highlands of New York, and he and his Simsbury troops were part of the Connecticut regiment which fought in the disastrous Battle of Long Island, August 26-30, 1776. In that battle Elihu Humphrey was wounded and captured and put into a prison called the Old Sugar-house which was notorious for its miserable conditions. He was so cruelly treated there by the British that soon after his release and return to Simsbury he died, at the age of fifty-nine.Oliver Ellsworth (April 29, 1745 – November 26, 1807) was an American lawyer, judge, politician, and diplomat. He was a framer of the United States Constitution, a United States Senator from Connecticut, and the third Chief Justice of the United States. Additionally, Ellsworth received 11 electoral votes in the 1796 presidential election.Col. Thomas Seymour was born at Hartford 17 March 1735, the son of Thomas Seymour II, and died at Hartford 30 July 1829.During the Revolution he was commissioned a Captain of Militia in 1773, promoted to Lt. Colonel in 1774 and led 3 regiments as Commander of the Connecticut Light Horse cavalry to aid the Continental Army in NY during the summer of 1776.Seymour also served as Head of the Committee of Pay Table. Politically Seymour represented Hartford at the General Assembly at 18 sessions between 1774 and 1793 serving as Speaker 5 times. Between 1793 and 1803 he was annually elected to the Connecticut Senate (then the House of Assistants) and after Hartford’s incorporation as a city in 1784 he became the first mayor and served in that position until his resignation in May of 1812. merchant, Ezekiel Williams was the sheriff of Hartford County from 1767 to 1789 and, during the Revolutionary War, he served as a member of the Committee of the Pay Table and Deputy Commissary General of Prisoners in Connecticut. Ezekiel Williams‘ son, Ezekiel, married a daughter of Oliver Ellsworth.Please view the other historical and Civil War related documents I'll be listing this week.SEE SCAN.I now accept PAYPAL but PREFER other forms of traditional paper payment. Buyer pays shipping(usually FREE within the US and $12 for International), payment must be received within 5 days.
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