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1780 PETER COLT Signed Connecticut Revolutionary War Service Pay Order

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1780 PETER COLT Signed Connecticut Revolutionary War Service Pay Order
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Peter Colt Signed Pay Order for Connecticut Revolutionary War Veteran “Connecticut Line of the Continental Army”
PETER COLT (1744-1824). New Haven, Connecticut Committee of Correspondence 1774; Military Secretary to General Wooster; 1777 Continental Congress appointed Colonel and Eastern Dept. Deputy Commissary General; Treasurer of Conn. (1789-1793); related to the Colt Firearms family.
June 1, 1780-Dated, Revolutionary War, State of Connecticut Pay Order, For Military Service in the Continental Army, Gem Crisp Uncirculated. This original, Partially-Printed, 4” x 8” Revolutionary War Pay Order is payable to Benjamin Cole, “who hath served in the Connecticut Line of the Continental Army.” Cataloged in the reference book “The Price of Liberty” by William Anderson as CT-18, this fiscal document is signed by Peter Colt, and guarantees payment by June 1, 1785. Of the 20,000 certificates issued under this act, only 1,900 were signed by Peter Colt. A marvelous fresh and bright official Revolutionary War Fiscal Document in Mint Condition.
Peter Colt (1744-1824) graduated from Yale University in 1764, and during 1768-1776 was engaged in the West Indies trade with Captain Hezekiah Howe. He was appointed one of the Town of New Haven’s Committee of Correspondence in 1774. The following year, he became Military Secretary to General Wooster.

In 1777 the Continental Congress appointed him Deputy Commissary General of Purchases for the Eastern Department (New England and New York east of the Hudson River), with the rank of Colonel. He served in this post through 1779, then in 1780 assisted Colonel Jeremiah Wadsworth in furnishing supplies to the French Troops under Rochambeau. From 1789 to 1793 he was Treasurer of Connecticut. Peter Colt was related to the Colt Firearms family.