January 25th Rare Autograph & Book Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 1/25/2024
"A Debentor of the house of assistant at May sessions 1768". Shows a record of payments to members of the House of Assistants (Upper House) of the Colony of Connecticut, signed by many period Connecticut statesmen including Jabez Huntington, Matthew Griswold, Shubael Conant, Elephalet Dyer, Samuel A. Huntington, William Pitkin, Roger Sherman, Robert Walker, Abraham Davenport, William Samuel Johnson, Joseph Spencer and George Wyllys.
Dimensions
9.5" x 7" sight. Framed 13.5" x 19".
May 1768 debenture of the House of Assistants. 10 men are listed with amounts, countersigned by ten. The seventh is Roger Sherman (1722-1793), signer of the Continental Association of 1774, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the US Constitution.
Roger Sherman CONNECTICUT PRE-REVOLUTIONARY WAR SIGNED DOCUMENT 1768
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