Lot 127
Payment Order For A Mulatto Soldier From Connecticut in the Continental Army. Partly-printed Document Signed by Finn Wadsworth for the Connecticut Paytable, one page, 6¾ x 7¼, Dec. 17, 1782. Ordering the treasurer, John Lawrence, to pay Abel Scipio thirteen pounds three shillings and two pence, "for Service in the Continental Army in 1781…." Elijah Flower signed on the verso in receipt of payment for Scipio. Light soiling and some edge splits at folds. Abel Scipio is listed in David 0. White's Connecticut's Black Soldiers, 1775-1783 (1973). Scipio was a member of the Farmington regiment from 1771 until 1781.
Estimated Value $600 - 800.
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| Realized $360 |
