Pay Order Issued to Andrew Adams and signed by Andrew Kingsbury and John Porter for Sale

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Pay Order Issued to Andrew Adams and signed by Andrew Kingsbury and John Porter :
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State of Connecticut Pay Order Issued to Andrew Adams and signed at back. Also signed by Andrew Kingsbury and John Porter on front. Further research necessary on John Porter. Andrew Adams (January 7, 1736 November 26, 1797) was an American lawyer, jurist, and political leader in Litchfield, Connecticut, during the American Revolutionary War. He was a delegate for Connecticut to the Continental Congress and later Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court. Adams was born in Stratford, the son of Samuel (1703-1788) and Mary Fairchild (1698-1803) Adams. His father practiced law in Stratford and was a judge of Fairfield County. Adams attended Yale and graduated in 1760 before reading law with his father. He first practiced in Stamford. In 1772 he was named the king's attorney for Litchfield County. He moved to Litchfield in 1774 and made his home there for the rest of his life. With the coming of the American Revolution, Adams was a member of Connecticut's Committee of Safety. He served in the state Assembly from 1776 until 1781 and was its speaker in 1779 and 1780. During the Revolutionary War he also served as a colonel in the Connecticut militia. He was appointed to the Second Continental Congress in 1778 and signed the Articles of Confederation. In 1789, Mr. Adams was appointed a judge of the supreme court of Massachusetts; and in this position his profound learning and vigorous mind were so fully displayed, that he was, in 1793, appointed chief-justice of the State of Connecticut. He died on the 26th of November, 1797, at the age of sixty-three years, leaving behind a high reputation as a lawyer, statesman, and patriot. Andrew Kingsbury was born 24 April 1759 at the West Farms. He was the son of Phebe French Kingsbury and Ephraim Kingsbury. He enlisted as a private soldier in June 1776, and was discharged with the Regiment in Salisbury, Pennsylvania, later that year. Kingsbury reentered the service at Danbury, Connecticut, in 1777; he was transferred to the General and Hospital Department, where he served as clerk until 15 December 1778, when he was appointed as Storekeeper. He remained in that position until 1781, when he became clerk in the office of Ralph Pomeroy, Esq., Deputy Quartermaster-General. Kingsbury married Mary Osborn (d. 1848) on 14 January 1783; they had five children. Kingsbury served in the Comptroller's Office until 1791. He was appointed Comptroller of Public Accounts, serving until 1793, when he was elected Treasurer of the State of Connecticut; Kingsbury remained in that office until 1818. He became Treasurer of the Connecticut Missionary Society in 1799, and Treasurer of Hartford Grammar School in 1806. Andrew Kingsbury died 6 October 1837 in Hartford, Connecticut. (Connecticut Historical Society) The American Revolutionary War (17751783), also known as the Revolutionary War and the American War of Independence, was initiated by delegates from the thirteen American colonies in Item ordered may not be exact piece shown. All original and authentic.