Third Chief Justice of the United States and delegate to the Constitutional Congress (1777–84) who later submitted the amendments which became the Bill of Rights. As a member of the Committee of the Pay Table, Ellsworth was one of the five men who supervised Connecticut’s war expenditures. DS, signed “O. Ellsworth,” one page, 8 x 6.5, July 5, 1776. A pay order on behalf of Capt. Jabez Botsford “as Paymaster of his own company now raising for the Continental Service in Canada” in the amount of £852. Faint show-through from docket on reverse, otherwise very fine, bright condition. A date of exceptional historical interest—mere hours after Hancock put his name to the most pivotal document in American history! R&R COA.
