3 Pay Orders Signed by Kingsbury and Porter - Connecticut Revolutionary War Bond for Sale

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3 Pay Orders Signed by Kingsbury and Porter - Connecticut Revolutionary War Bond For Sale

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3 Pay Orders Signed by Kingsbury and Porter - Connecticut Revolutionary War Bond:
$420.00

Set of 3 State of Connecticut Pay Orders numbered consecutively and signed by Kingsbury and John Porter. The American Revolutionary War (1775\"1783), also known as the Revolutionary War and the American War of Independence, was initiated by delegates from the thirteen American colonies in Congress against Great Britain over their objection to Parliament\'s taxation policies and lack of colonial representation. From their founding in the 1600s, the colonies were largely left to govern themselves. The cost of victory in the 1754 to 1763 French and Indian War and the 1756 to 1763 Seven Years\' War left the British government deeply in debt; attempts to have the colonies pay for their own defense were vigorously resisted. The Stamp Act and Townshend Acts provoked colonial opposition and unrest, leading to the 1770 Boston Massacre and 1773 Boston Tea Party. When Parliament imposed the Intolerable Acts upon Massachusetts, twelve colonies sent delegates to the First Continental Congress to draft a Petition to the King and organize a boycott of British goods. Fighting broke out on 19 April 1775: the British garrison at Boston was harassed by Massachusetts militia at Lexington and Concord after destroying colonial Assembly powder stores. In June the Second Continental Congress appointed George Washington to create a Item ordered may not be exact piece shown. All original and authentic.