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Oliver Ellsworth and Thomas Seymour signed this document form May 24, 1777 to pay 49 pounds, 4 shillings and 10 pence to a Capt. Shuball Griswold for his company for service of the state. Manuscript document signed "O Ellsworth" as "Comte". 1 pages, 8¼x6, 1 sheet, front and verso with docket on page 2, August 15,1777 pay by and also signed by the treasuere John Lawerence. Ellsworth served on Connecticut's Committee of the Pay Table during the American Revolutionary War and was one of the five men who supervised Connecticut's war expenditures. ELLSWORTH (1745-1807, born in Windsor, Connecticut) represented Connecticut in the Continental Congress from 1777 to 1784 and was a Judge of the Connecticut Superior Court from 1785 to 1789. A delegate to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, he helped broker the "Connecticut Compromise", which broke the impasse between large and small states over representation in Congress. He was one of Connecticut's first two U.S. Senators, serving from 1789 to March 8, 1796, when he resigned, having been appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court by President Washington. While in Congress, he drafted the Judiciary Act of 1789, which organized the federal judiciary system. He retired from the Court in 1799. fine condition.
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