Pair of Pay Orders Signed by Jed Huntington and Oliver Wolcott Jr. - Connecticut for Sale

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Pair of Pay Orders Signed by Jed Huntington and Oliver Wolcott Jr. - Connecticut For Sale

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Pair of Pay Orders Signed by Jed Huntington and Oliver Wolcott Jr. - Connecticut:
$300.00

Uncut Pair of State of Connecticut Pay Orders signed by Jed Huntington and Oliver Wolcott, Jr. Sequential numbers! Jedediah Huntington(1743-1818) was born August 4, 1743, in Norwich, Connecticut, to Jabez and Elizabeth (Backus) Huntington. He graduated at Harvard College in 1763, with distinguished honors. He also completed a Master's degree at Yale College in 1770. After the close of his academic course, he engaged with his father in commercial pursuits, and, with the approach of the struggle for independence, became noted as a Son of Liberty, and an active captain of the militia. Promoted to the command of a regiment, he joined the army at Cambridge, April 26, 1775, just a week after the battle of Lexington. His regiment was part of the force detailed for occupying Dorchester heights; and, after the evacuation of Boston by the British; he marched with the army to New York. In March 1777, Roger Sherman writes that Col. Huntington was recommended by Gen. Washington as a fit person for brigadier, but that Connecticut had more than her share. On May 12 of that year, he was promoted to that rank, as Mr. Sherman stated, "at Gen. Washington's request." Having shared the hardships of his companions in arms at Valley Forge, through the winter of 1777-8, he, together with Col. Wigglesworth, was, in March, appointed by the Commander in Chief, "to aid Gen. McDougall in inquiring into the loss of forts Montgomery and Clinton, in the State of New York; At the close of the war he received the brevet rank of major general. On retiring from the army he resumed business in his native town, and was successively chosen sheriff of the county, treasurer of the state, and delegate to the state convention, which adopted the Constitution of the United States. In 1789, he was appointed by President Washington collector of the customs at New London, then the port of entry for eastern Connecticut and Connecticut River, which office he retained fewer than four administrations, and resigned shortly before his death. He died in New London, September 25, 1818, where his remains were first interred, though subsequently transferred to the family tomb at Norwich, Connecticut. Oliver Wolcott Jr. (1760 1833) was United States Secretary of the Treasury from 1795 to 1800 and governor of Connecticut from 1817 to 1827.Wolcott was appointed in 1784 as one of the commissioners to mediate claims between the U.S. and the state of Connecticut. After serving as state comptroller of Connecticut from 1788-90, he was named auditor of the federal treasury, and became comptroller of the Treasury in 1791.He was appointed Secretary of the Treasury by George Washington in 1795 to succeed Alexander Hamilton, but resigned in 1800 due to unpopularity, and a particularly vitriolic campaign against him in the press in which, among other things, he was false Item ordered may not be exact piece shown. All original and authentic.