Partially Printed Document Signed Controllers by Wolcott Oliver Jun (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Approximately 6.5" x 3.75" Dated September 3, 1788 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 Fowler Two Pounds as interest on his Revolutionary War 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.

Unbound. Condition: Near Fine. 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.".

Unbound. Condition: Near Fine. Approximately 7" x 3.5" 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 Two Pounds as interest on debt 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. Samuel Lockwood of Greenwich, Connecticut, served as an engineer in the Continental Army, but was captured and eventually paroled. He then joined his State's militia, lead a memorable raid, and captained a boat that attacked the British on Long Island Sound.