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Ellsworth, Oliver, 1745-1807 [Receipt for the payment of Uriah Bingham]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC01450.609.03 Author/Creator: Ellsworth, Oliver, 1745-1807 Place Written: Hartford, Connecticut Type: Autograph document signed Date: 6 September 1775 Pagination: 1 p. : docket Height: 15.1 cm, Width: 19.6 cm Order a Copy

To Connecticut Treasurer John Lawrence. Cosigned by Thomas Seymour. Requests payment from the Colony of Connecticut to Bingham "for victualling & other necessaries supplied sundry Companies of the Riflemen on their march thru' this Colony to Camp near Boston." Bingham confirms receipt of the sum on verso. Docket indicates that this receipt was audited 13 May 1776.

Lawrence, John, fl. 1769-1789
Ellsworth, Oliver, 1745-1807
Seymour, Thomas, fl. 1775
Bingham, Uriah, 1751-1817

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