Archives International Auctions Auction 73 January 18, 2022 U.S., Chinese & Worldwide Banknotes, Scripophily, Colonial Banknotes, Colonial Fiscal Documents, Historic Ephemera and Security Printing Ephemera

Archives International Auctions - Sale 73 62 January 18, 2022 Archives International Auctions www.archivesinternational.com U.S. COLONIAL BANKNOTES & FISCAL DOCUMENTS 329 329 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 1794 Issued Land Deed Signed by Thomas Mifflin Pennsylvania, 1794. Early land deed issued to Archibald Buck for 400 acres of “adjoining land this day granted to James Buck” in Westmoreland County, “provided the land is not within the last purchase made of the Indians” at the rate of fifty shillings per 100 acres. Signed and witnessed by Thomas Mifflin, Governor of Pennsylvania, as well as surveyors Daniel Brodhead and John Moore. Thomas Mifflin ( January 10, 1744 - January 20, 1800) was an American merchant, soldier, and politician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He served in a variety of roles during and after the American Revolution, several of which qualify him to be counted among the Founding Fathers. He was the first Governor of Pennsylvania, serving from 1790 to 1799; he was also the last President of Pennsylvania, succeeding Benjamin Franklin and serving from 1788 until 1790. Daniel Brodhead IV (October 17, 1736 - November 15, 1809) was an American military and political leader during the American Revolutionary War and early days of the United States. Interesting document with founding a father’s signature. ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Est. $325-650 COLONIAL CONNECTICUT & EARLY U.S. FISCAL DOCUMENTS Connecticut 330 330 Revolutionary War Connecticut, 1776 Handwritten Promissory Note for Sickness Leaving Camp as a Soldier Hartford, Connecticut, 1776. Fantastic piece of history, a handwritten promissory note to pay Aaron Cadwell the sum of 24 Shillings & Six Pence for “expense of his sickness on his way home from Camp - a Soldier in Capt. Sedgwick’s Company,” Black handwriting and signed by Pay-Table members Thomas Seymour and Oliver Ellsworth, as well as John Lawrence as Connecticut Treasurer, Fine-VF condition with pronounced fold lines. Promissory Notes like this issued by the State of Connecticut help to finance the Revolutionary War. Military finances in the state of Connecticut were managed by the Pay-Table which was also known as the Committee of Four during the Revolutionary War. Captain Abraham Sedgwick (April 27th, 1721 - March 22nd, 1791) was a Captain of the Revolutionary Army during the American Revolution and the head of the West Hartford company that was sent to confront British General Thomas Gage’s British Army in Boston. He was the grandson of Samuel Sedgwick, an early settler of West Hartford, Connecticut, and the son of Ebenezer Sedgwick and Prudence Merrills. He lived on a farm inherited from his father to the west of North Main Street. On January 16, 1776, he attempted to dissuade angry American patriots across the Sarah Whitman Hooker house from attacking two prisoners of war, Philip and Andrew Skene, and their Tory friends inside. The incident was only stopped after Sarah Whitman Hooker herself went across the street on the corner of South Main Street and New Britain Avenue and confronted them. Thomas Seymour (1735-1829) became lieutenant colonel of the 1st Connecticut state regiment of light horse in June 1776 and the following month led three regiments of horsemen to New York as a temporary reinforcement to the Continental army. Oliver Ellsworth (1745-1807) served on the Committee of the Pay Table (1775-1777), was Connecticut’s attorney for Hartford County (1777-1785), a Member of the Continental Congress (1778-1783), Superior Court Judge (1785-1789), Delegate to the Federal Constitutional Convention (1787) and the State Ratifying Convention (1788), U.S. Senator, Connecticut (1789-1796), Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court (1796-1799), and U.S. Envoy Extraordinary to the Court of France to negotiate a treaty (1799). At the 1787 Constitutional Convention, Ellsworth played an influential role in the discussions leading to the “Connecticut Compromise” and proposed the use of “the United States” to identify the government under the authority of the Constitution. Ellsworth helped to draft the Bill of Rights and the Judiciary Act of 1789, which organized the Federal court system. John Lawrence (1719- 1802) served as treasurer of the Connecticut colony, and later as the Connecticut State Treasurer from 1769 to 1789. During the Revolutionary War, Lawrence was commissioner of loans for the new nation. ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Est. $200-350