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Pay Order Signed by Jedediah Huntington and Oliver Wolcott Jr. - Connecticut - A For Sale
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Pay Order Signed by Jedediah Huntington and Oliver Wolcott Jr. - Connecticut - A:
$125.00
State of Connecticut Pay Ordersigned by Jedediah Huntington and Oliver Wolcott, Jr. Jedediah (or Jedidiah) Huntington (4 August 1743 25 September 1818), was an American general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. After the war, he served in numerous civilian posts. Huntington was born in Norwich, Connecticut, the son of Jabez and Elizabeth (Backus) Huntington. Huntington graduated from Harvard in 1763 and received a master's degree from Yale University in 1770. He was engaged in commercial pursuits with his father, was an active member of the Sons of Liberty, and of the Committee of Correspondence established at Norwich on 6 June 1774. Read more at 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 falsely accused of setting fire to the State Department building.1799 as Secretary of the Treasury he designed the United States Civil Flag. From 1803 to 1815 he operated Item ordered may not be exact piece shown. All original and authentic.
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