1788 (WILLIAM ELLERY), Unlisted Rhode Island Continental Loan-Officer, Certificates Receipt Form

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1788 "RECEIVED OF WILLIAM ELLERY," Unlisted Continental Loan-Officer for Rhode Island Receipt Form
February 9, 1788-Dated Federal Period, Unlisted, Partially-Printed Document, a typeset Rhode Island Continental (Congress) Loan Receipt Form, completed in manuscript, from the office of WILLIAM ELLERY, as the Continental Loan-Officer for Rhode Island (not signed by Ellery).
This Document is headed: "No. 30 - RECEIVED OF WILLIAM ELLERY, Continental Loan-Officer, in the State of Rhode-Island & Providence-Plantations."
This Treasury Loan Receipt Form for payment of Interest on United States Debt. This certificate is Number "30", from the State of Rhode Island, for $312, Choice Crisp Near Uncirculated. Stating, "Specie value, to 31 December 1786, for which I have signed two Receipts of this tenor and date." An Unlisted, Previously Unknown Receipt Forms headed, "WILLIAM ELLERY, Continental Loan-Officer."
This official receipt form is for the payment of interest by Ellery, (Not signed by Ellery). It measures about 8" x 3.5" with its left side stub attached and full intact. A partial left side stub from the prior certificate remains attached, a remainder from the prior clipped receipt also No. 30 as indicated as a duplicate made made, this the duplicate retained Treasury Receipt. It is made for Three Hundred and Twelve Dollars for Interest, on "Two thousand six hundred Dollars" total, for Eight Continental "Loan Office Certificates" then presented for this interest payment, having been held by a Mary Channing.
This custom Receipt Form is the "Continental Loan-Officer, In The State Of Rhode-Island & Providence-Plantations" in choice condition. It is printed in rich black on fine quality watermarked laid period paper that is remarkably fresh, crisp and clean. Made by the office of William Ellery, a 1776 Signer of the Declaration of Independence, this special Receipt Form is Hand-Signed in Mary Channing's name by "Walter Channing," (her brother), at the bottom right.
William Ellery (1727-1820), Printed Document's header, not signed by Ellery, was 6a Signer of the Declaration of Independence for Rhode Island, a "Son of Liberty," 1776 Delegate to the Continental Congress from Rhode Island and on its Marine Committee, Naval Officer for the Colony of, and appointed as Continental Congress Loan-Office Commissioner for the State of Rhode Island, etc. This Continental Congress Loan-Office Receipt Form is certainly also something of an extended "family affair." William Channing was a brother of Mary (recipient of the interest) and Walter. William was married to Lucy Ellery Channing, a daughter of William Ellery (here the acting Continental Loan-Officer, and in 1776 a Signer of the Declaration of Independence).
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William Channing and Mary Channing child, William Ellery Channing (April 7, 1780 " October 2, 1842) was the foremost Unitarian Preacher in the United States in the early nineteenth century and, along with Andrews Norton (1786"1853), one of the Unitarianism's leading theologians.
Channing was known for his articulate and impassioned sermons and public speeches, and as a prominent thinker in the liberal theology of the day. His religion and thought were among the chief influences on the New England Transcendentalists although he never countenanced their views, which he saw as extreme.
He espoused, especially in his "Baltimore Sermon" of May 5, 1819, given at the ordination of the theologian and educator Jared Sparks (1789"1866) as the first minister of the newly organized First Independent Church of Baltimore. He spoke of the principles and tenets of the developing philosophy and theology of Unitarianism, leading to the organization in 1825 of the first Unitarian denomination in America (American Unitarian Association). With later developments and mergers between Unitarians and Universalists, resulting finally in the "Unitarian Universalist Association of America" in 1961.
Channing, the son of William Channing and Lucy Ellery, was born April 7, 1780, in Newport, Rhode Island. He was a grandson of William Ellery (1727"1820), a Signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, Deputy Governor of Rhode Island, Chief Justice, and influential citizen.
As a child, he was cared for by the formerly enslaved woman Duchess Quamino, who later influenced his views on abolitionism. He became a New England liberal, rejecting the Calvinist doctrines of total depravity and divine election.
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Revolutionary War, Fiscal Heritage, Revolutionary War, Colonial America, Historic financial document, Rare Treasury Loan form, Printed Document, American Financial History
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