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. Manuscript DS, signed “O. Ellsworth,” 8.25 x 5.25, March 26, 1777. A pay order which reads, in part: “Pay to Saml. A. Barker Adjt. of Col. Wm. Douglass Regt. Fourteen pounds fourteen shillings for his Losses of Cloathing & Charge the State.” Accompanied by a nineteenth-century portrait engraving. In fine condition. R&R COA.
