Pay voucher signed by Samuel Huntington

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Rare Books, Autographs & Maps

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Nov 25, 2025

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HUNTINGTON, SAMUEL Partially printed State of Connecticut pay voucher. Partially printed document for the Pay-Table Office, dated September 19th, 1781, authorizing payment of nineteen pounds, sixteen shillings and eightpence to Captain Selah Norton. 5 x 6 1/8 inches (12.75 x 15.5 cm); completed in manuscript and signed by John Wadsworth and countersigned across the face by Samuel Huntington as President of the United States in Congress Assembled; the verso docketed with details of the payment, and signed by the recipient. Usual folds, expected toning, a nice example overall. Samuel Huntington was a Signer of the Declaration of Independence and the first President of the Continental Congress. In this capacity, he is sometimes claimed as the first President of the United States. Here, he endorses a State of Connecticut pay voucher for a payment to Captain Selah Norton. Norton, who was from East Hartford, Connecticut, had turned out as an ensign for eight days during the Lexington Alarm in 1775. Early in May 1775 he accepted the position of the Clerk and Orderly Sergeant in the Company of Foot in Lt. Col. George Pitkin's regiment and participated in the Siege of Boston. About August 1, 1775, he received word of "dangerous sickness" in his family and went home, leaving as his substitute Aaron Olmstead, who was an officer (this practice was common during the Revolutionary War). Norton returned to the Light Horse division of his regiment, as Cornet (the carrier of the colors in a cavalry troop) in New York City. He retreated with the Army under General Washington. Early in 1777, his unit was ordered for duty in Rhode Island and in August 1777, under Captain Joel Loomis and Lt. August Fitch, he marched to oppose British General Burgoyne near Saratoga NY. He went on to become a Lieutenant in January 1778 and Captain in April 1779. The present payment is his pay and expenses for guarding Connecticut Governor Jonathan Trumbull as he carried a large sum of money to pay troops to the headquarters of General Washington.

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