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1776 Payment For Escort Of Captured Tory Govs

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1776 Payment For Escort Of Captured Tory Govs
<Our item number 104890><B>1776 Payment For the Escort Of Captured Tory Governors.</B> Pay Order to &#40;Connecticut&#41; Treasurer John Lawrence, signed by committee member T. Seymour, 4¾x8¼&#34;, n.p., 30 Sept. 1776. &#34;<I>Pay to Capt. John Skinner the Sum of Thirty pounds in Bills to defray the Expence of himself & Escort to Governors Brown & Skene & Order Governor & Council of Safety - & Charge the State. Sept 30th 1776</I>…&#34; Skinner signed on the verso that he received the money. <BR><BR>New York Tory governor Philip Skene was later exchanged for James Lovell, who had been arrested as a dissident in Boston by Gen. William Howe after the Battle of Bunker Hill. The Records of the Continental Congress note: &#34;Resolved That General Washington be impowered to agree to the exchange of Governor Skene for Mr. James Lovell.&#34; Governor Brown &#40;of the Bahamas&#41; was captured on 2 Mar. 1775 by Capt. Esek Hopkins, in command of the first American Navy. Brown was later part of an exchang e for generals Stirling and Sullivan. John Skinner rode off to the Lexington Alarm in April of 1775 and served as a captain in the Connecticut Militia Light Horse under Thomas Seymour. His regiment of Light Horse accompanied Washington on his retreat through New Jersey in December of 1776. He later became a captain in Sheldon&#39;s Regiment of Light Horse &#40;2nd Continental Light Dragoons.&#41;. <BR>Estimated Value &#36;700-900. <BR><BR>Our item number 104890<BR><IMAGES><P ALIGN=CENTER"><IMG SRC="http://www.goldbergcoins.net/liveauction/38jpegs/104890.jpg"> </P></IMAGES> "