American Historical Ephemera & Photography

Manuscript promissory note for £53, 6 shillings and 8 pence to Brigadier General John Mead (ca 1725-1790). Pay Table Office, [Connecticut], 14th June 1781. Signed by Fenn Wadsworth. 7 3/4 x 4 3/4. -- Manuscript promissory note for £10 to [Quartermaster General] Ralph Pomeroy (1737-1819). Pay Table Office, Connecticut, 13 August 1781. 7 7/8 x 5 1/8 in. Signed by Eleazer Wales and William Moseley. -- Partly printed promissory note to Brigadier General John Mead for £9. Pay Table Office, Connecticut, 8 February 1783. Signed by Eleazer Wales. -- Together, 3 Revolutionary War promissory notes.

Manuscript document appointing Amos Clark as Constable & Collector of State taxes. Bethlem, [CT], 1 December 1794. 7 3/4 x 3 1/4 in. -- Manuscript document appointing Samuel Dorrance as Collector of State Taxes. Windham, [CT], 2 December 1799. 6 3/8 x 3 1/4 in. -- Manuscript document appointing Joseph Noyes as Collector of State Taxes. Lyme, [CT], 18 November 1799. 7 3/4 x 6 1/8 in. -- Manuscript document certifying Job Smith as Constable and Collector of State Taxes. Ridgfield, [CT], 5 May 1800. 6 1/2 x 7 7/8 in. Integral leaf addressed to Andrew Kingsbury, State Treasurer. -- Together, 4 manuscript appointment documents. 
 
[Also with:] To theHon. Superior Court to be holden at Hartford, in and for Hartford County, on the second Tuesday of February, 1812. The Petition of Richard Treat. East Hartford, CT: N.p., 1812. 8 x 13 1/4 in. printed document (small separations at folds with repairs to verso, creasing, small dampstain). 

[Also with:] Manuscript indenture between Jacob Slaight of Northampton, Bucks County and his wife Jane. Bucks County, Pennsylvania, 1 May 1756. 24 x 11 3/4 in. (small separations at folds, natural discoloration of parchment).