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[Pay order for Captain John Grigg]

Co-signed by Ezekiel Williams and John Lawrence as the Treasurer. Request to pay Grigg 1000 pounds for the purchase of the Brigantine Lilly Ann which was bought by David Waterbury for service to the colony of Connecticut. Signed on back by Grigg...

GLC01450.067

[Pay order for repair of guns]

Cosigned by William Pithen, and Ez Williams. Pay order to Treasurer John Lawrence to pay Robert Sloan six pounds for repairing arms. Charges should be billed to Connecticut. Note on reverse dated 29 May 1775 signed by Robert Sloan certifying that...

GLC01450.073

[Pay order for Uriah Hanks]

Cosigned by T. Seymour. Requesting from Treasurer John Lawrence payment of 18 pounds 13 shillings for a gun lock Hanks manufactured. Costs should be charged to the state of Connecticut. Note on reverse signed by Uriah Hanks certifies that he...

GLC01450.074.01

to Benjamin Huntington

Writes to reprise a letter he had previously sent stating that he wishes "to hold some post under the new government." Prefers to be made a judge for the Eastern District, and in that case would like his son, William Ellery Jr., to succeed him as...

GLC00192

Members of the Federal Convention 1787

One engraving entitled "Members Of The Federal Convention" dated 1787. Portraits of Rufus King, John, Dickinson, Gouverneur Robert Morris, Oliver Ellsworth, John Rutledge. Engraved by J. Rogers.

GLC08878.0109