Revolutionary War
Fairfield, CT, November 29, 1780
Connecticut Express Rider Seeks Payment for Services
MDS

[CONNECTICUT.] Joseph Perry, Manuscript Document Signed, Account with State of Connecticut, November 29, 1780, Fairfield County, Connecticut. 2 pp., 8" x 6.25". With separate paper wrapper. Expected folds; general toning; very good.

Joseph Perry submitted this account for payment of ?3..15..0 for providing express services for Lt. Col. Jonathan Dimon (1738-1786) of the Connecticut militia during the Revolutionary War. Justices of the Peace Abraham Andrews (1721-1805) and Hezekiah Hubbell (1728-1784) reviewed and approved the charges, adding an order for Treasurer John Lawrence to make the payment. Future U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Oliver Wolcott Jr. signed the order to indicate that he had audited it.

Complete Transcript:
Fairfield November ye 29 Ad 1780
State of Connecticut Dr to Joseph Perry
to my Rideing Express By Order of Jonat Dimon Lieut Colo
to two Days in Service pr Day 13/6 1 7 0
to my Expenses while Doing Sd Services 1 8 0
to horse travel 60 miles at [?] per mile 1 0 0
The above Acct is State money 3 15 0 State money
Fairfield County Sc on the 22nd Day of February A:D 1781 Personally appeared Joseph Perry and made solemn oath to the Truth of the above account
Sworn before me George Burr Jusce Peace

[Endorsement 1:]
These Certifie that I emplide Joseph Peary to Do the above Service
Jonn Dimon Lt Colo Comdg

[Endorsement 2:]
We the subscribers have Examined the above account and allow ye same to Just and reasonably Charge
Hez Hubbell } Justices Peace
Abram Andrews }

[Endorsement 3, on verso:]
To John Lawrence Esqr Treasurer Pay ye within Acct of three pounds fifteen shillings Pr. order of
Abram Andrews } Justice
Hez. Hubbell } of ye peace
[Signed across Endorsement 3:] Oliv. Wolcott Jr aud.

Joseph Perry 3d (1754-1829) was born in Fairfield, Connecticut. In 1775, he served as a private in Captain Jonathan Dimon's company of the Connecticut militia. In 1784 or 1785, he married Mary Beers (1754-1845) with whom he had at least one child. He died in Fairfield, Connecticut.
John Lawrence (1719-1802) served as treasurer of the colony and then the state of Connecticut for twenty years from 1769 to 1789. During the Revolutionary War, he was also commissioner of loans for the United States.

Oliver Wolcott Jr. (1760-1833) was born in Connecticut and graduated from Yale College and Litchfield Law School. During the Revolutionary War, he served as his father's aide-de-camp and then as quartermaster from 1779 to 1781. He left the army to practice law and served on the Connecticut Committee of the Pay Table from 1782 to 1784. After serving as Connecticut Comptroller of Public Accounts, he became the first auditor of the federal Treasury Department in 1789. In 1791, he became the Comptroller of the Treasury Department. In 1795, he succeeded Alexander Hamilton as Secretary of the Treasury and served until the end of 1800, when he resigned under accusations by political enemies. President John Adams appointed Wolcott as judge of the U.S. Circuit Court for the Second Circuit, one of Adams's "midnight judge" appointments at the end of his administration. Wolcott held the position until President Thomas Jefferson and the Republican-controlled Congress abolished it in mid-1802. After serving as a director of the Bank of the United States from 1810 to 1811, he established the Bank of America in 1811 and continued with it until 1814. He served ten consecutive one-year terms as Governor of Connecticut from 1817 to 1827 and served as a delegate to the state constitutional convention in 1818.

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