![Item #44757 [Signed Court Payment Order] Fine Owed to Tapping Reeve, Connecticut State Attorney, for Counterfeited New York Bills of Credit. George Pitkin, Oliver Wolcott Jr, Samuel Wyllys.](https://kaaterskillbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/44757.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1699972079)
[Signed Court Payment Order] Fine Owed to Tapping Reeve, Connecticut State Attorney, for Counterfeited New York Bills of Credit.
Litchfield, CT: 1787. 1 sheet. 6.25 x 4 inches. Very good, worn along edges and folds, minor soiling, contents clean. Item #44757
Signed by four important Connecticut figures. Payment Order issued August 11th, 1787, for the sum of 24 shillings, taxed by the Supreme Court, against Joseph French for counterfeit bills of credit of the state of New York. Order written & signed by George Pitkin, clerk, with vertical signature of Samuel Wyllys. Verso signed by Oliver Wolcott, Jr, July 16th, 1788, and most likely, Tapping Reeve .
George Pitkin (1709– 1806) from East Hartford was a clerk of the superior from 1756 to 1798, and Clerk for Hartford County from 1798 until 1806. He became a captain of the militia in 1768, lieutenant-colonel in 1774, colonel in 1775, He march to Boston commanding the 4th regiment of minutemen after the battles of Concord and Lexington.
Samuel Wyllys (1739-1823) was an American military officer in the American Revolution,. appointed lieutenant colonel in Colonel Joseph Spencer's 2nd Connecticut Regiment., promoted to Colonel of the 22nd Continental Regiment, serving in the Siege of Boston, and marched with George Washington to New York where in the Battle of Long Island. He was a representative in the Connecticut General Assembly and town clerk of Hartford and succeeded his father, George Wyllys, as the Secretary of the State of Connecticut.
Oliver Wolcott Jr. (1760-1833) was the second United States Secretary of the Treasury, a judge of the United States Circuit Court for the Second Circuit, and the 24th Governor of Connecticut. He was a commissioner to settle claims of Connecticut against the United States from 1784 to 1788 and Comptroller of Public Accounts for Connecticut from 1788 to 1789.
Tapping Reeve (1744-1823) was an lawyer & judge; in 1784 he opened the Litchfield Law School, the first law school in the United States, and served as State Attorney for Connecticut at the time of this document.
We could not locate court records for Joseph French.
Price: $400.00