Order to pay soldiers, signed by Oliver Ellsworth, January 1776.

Authors

Oliver Ellsworth

Files

Description

Oliver Ellsworth instructs addressee to pay soldiers returning to camp, January 1776.

Transcription

[recto]Sir, Pay Capt. John Sedgwick Seven pounds nine Shillings & Eight Pence for Expense of Sundry Such Soldiers in his Company returning from Camp last Campaign as [illegible] charges the colony. [signed by] O Ellsworth (and) Ez. Williams January 29 1776 [verso] Hartford January 30th 1776 Rec'd of Treasurer Lawrence Seven pounds Nine Shillings and Eight Pence being the contents [signed] John Sedgwick [other annotations on verso]

Creation Date

1-29-1776

City

Hartford

County

Hartford

State/Province

Connecticut

Country

United States

Creator Life Dates

1745-1807

Keywords

Oliver Ellsworth, 1776, John Sedgwick. soldiers' pay, pay, soldiers, American Revolution, Revolutionary War

Resource Identifier

130321-01

Date Digital

November 2013

Document Type

Manuscript

Disciplines

Archival Science | Military History | Political History | Social History | United States History

Publisher

Wofford College

Format (medium)

manuscript

Format (IMT)

PDF

Language

En-us

Digitization Specifications

800ppi 24-bit depth color; Scanned with an Epson 15000 Photo scanner with Epson Scan software; Archival master is a TIFF; TIFFs converted to PDF with Adobe Acrobat XI Pro.

Source

The original from which this digital representation is taken is housed in The Littlejohn Collection at Wofford College, located in the Sandor Teszler Library.

Recommended Citation

Ellsworth, Oliver, "Order to pay soldiers, signed by Oliver Ellsworth, January 1776." (1776). Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection. 103.
https://digitalcommons.wofford.edu/littlejohnmss/103

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