REVOLUTIONARY PATRIOT & SIGNER SAMUEL HUNTINGTON ADS PAYING FOR SERVICES FOR THE COUNCIL OF SAFETY WITH FUNDS FROM CONFISCATED TORY ESTATES - TWO DOCUMENTS

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Description: SAMUEL HUNTINGTON (1731 1796) American Revolutionary, political leader, member Continental Congress, and its president (1779 81, 1783), signer of Declaration of Independence from Connecticut, governor of Connecticut. Set of two Revolutionary War related items which document payments in the aftermath of the war with funds from confiscated Tory estates: Document Signed as Clerk ""Samuel Huntington"". Connecticut. May 29, 1783. 1 page. 6½"" x 8½"". "At a Meeting of his Excellency the Governor of the Council of Safety...Desire Abraham Davenport...Resolved that the Committee of Paytable be directed and they are hereby directed to receive of the said Davenport...upon the Treasurer...for his Services as one of the Council of Safety and in Lieu thereof deliver to said Davenport...bearing the same date payable out of the Monies raised by the Sale of Confiscated Estates or any other unappropriated monies."" Related to this document accompanying it is the Pay Table order for ABRAHAM DAVENPORT (1715 1789 -Judge of the Fairfield County Court & Danbury Court ) Manuscript Document Signed. Connecticut. "Abrm. Davenport"". October 24, 1783. 1 page. 6½"" x 8½"": "State of Connecticut to the Honble Abrm Davenport to Order returned on 2/6 Tax equal to the specie Resolved to Gov & Council of Safety... the Committee of Pay Table their order on the Treasurer for Twenty Six Pounds Nine Shillings & six pence payable out of the monies recd by Sale of Confiscated Estates in full for the above bill.""

The Council of Safety was an important part of the Revolutionary War. It was where members plotted strategy and coordinated supplies in the during and shortly after the war. Some of the payments used to pay Judges, soldiers and patriots and such were appropriated from the sale of Confiscated estates of the enemy, the Tories.

In 1778, the Connecticut Confiscation Act was amended whereby the constable was not compelled to take household goods away from loyalist families, and all confiscated estates were thereafter brought before the probate courts, who were instructed to grant administration as in other estates. The monies used were then part of the spoils of war and brought into the treasury for use in payments such as this. A Choice item related to Tory estates signed by a Declaration signer. Both items in Choice condition.

Status: For Sale	Reference#: AM_1403
Condition: Excellent	Year: 1783

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