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1797 Dated Pay Order signed by Benjamin Huntington - Autograph - Autographs of F For Sale
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1797 Dated Pay Order signed by Benjamin Huntington - Autograph - Autographs of F:
$595.00
Pay Order for "Prosecuting Elisha Green for Burglary before the superior court". Signed by Benjamin Huntington; member of the Continental Congress. Also signed by Samuel Wyllys; a Colonel who served throughout the Revolution. And also signed by Oliver Wolcott, Jr., Secretary of the Treasury. Front and back illustrated. Benjamin Huntington (April 19, 1736 " October 16, 1800) was an eighteenth-century American lawyer, jurist and politician from Connecticut and served as a delegate to the Second Continental Congress and as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives during the First United States Congress. Huntington was born in Norwich in the Connecticut Colony, the only child of Daniel Huntington and his second wife Rachel (Wolcott) Huntington. He graduated from Yale College in 1761 and was appointed surveyor of lands for Windham County in October 1764. Huntington studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1765. He began the practice of law in Norwich. Yale College later bestowed an LL.D upon Huntington. Huntington served as a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from 1771 to 1780 and served as speaker of that body in 1778 and 1779. In 1775 he served on the committee of safety in the State House and was appointed to advise with Governor Jonathan Trumbull during the recess of the legislature. In 1778 Huntington was appointed a delegate to the Provincial Congress at New Haven. From 1780 to 1784, and again in 1787 and 1788, Huntington was a member of the Continental Congress. He served on the Connecticut council of assistants from 1781 to 1789 and from 1791 to 1792. Huntington served as a member of the State Senate from 1781 to 1780 and from 1791 to 1793. When the new government went into operation in 1789, he was chosen to represent Connecticut in the First Congress of the United States as a Pro-Admini Item ordered may not be exact piece shown. All original and authentic.
1797 Dated Pay Order signed by Benjamin Huntington - Autograph - Autographs of F $595.00
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