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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)
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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