Partially printed Document Signed from the Controller's Office (State of Connecticut) paying Abraham Davenport

Published by Hudson and Goodwin, Hartford, 1789

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Approximately 6.5" x 3.75" Dated May 29, 1789 paying interest on debt. Signed by Wolcott. Cancel hole punched affecting the first letter in Wolcott's signature, neat old fold, very near fine. Pays Davenport One Pound as interest on his state service. Connecticut official Oliver Wolcott was a Major General, and Secretary of the Treasury under Washington, succeeding Alexander Hamilton, and was later Governor of Connecticut. Abraham Davenport was a Colonel in the Connecticut militia, but mostly served as a member of various Connecticut legislatures before and during the Revolutionary War. Davenport was lauded in the 1866 poem "Abraham Davenport" (Tent on the Beach)" by John Greenleaf Whittier: "And there he stands in memory to this day, Erect, self-poised, a rugged face, half seen Against the background of unnatural dark, A witness to the ages as they pass, That simple duty hath no place for fear.".

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Title
Partially printed Document Signed from the Controller's Office (State of Connecticut) paying Abraham Davenport
Author
WOLCOTT, Oliver, Jun., (Abraham Davenport Esq.)
Publisher
Hudson and Goodwin, Hartford
Publication year
1789
Condition
Near Fine
Binding
Unbound
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