Third chief justice of the United States (1745-1807) and delegate to the Constitutional Congress who later submitted the amendments which became the Bill of Rights. Revolutionary War-dated ADS, signed “O. Ellsworth,” one page, 8 x 4.25, November 22, 1776. Desirable Connecticut Pay-Table document penned in Ellsworth's hand, issued to Treasurer John Lawrence for payment of wages for a sick soldier. In part: "Please to pay Mr. Moses Willcox Eleven pounds Seventeen Shillings & Six pence for Expence of his son John Willcox, sickness at Roxbury, a soldier in the Colony's service, & after the Reg't came of & for his additional wages untill he was able to return home." Signed at the conclusion by Oliver Ellsworth and Thomas Seymour as members of the committee. In fine condition.
Ellsworth served on Connecticut's Pay-Table Committee during the American Revolution, a board of four members who rotated throughout the conflict with England. Rather than levying heavy taxes, the colonies relied upon wealthy revolutionists and foreign loans to meet their immediate needs, such as wages for soldiers. Connecticut followed the lead of Massachusetts, raising a militia of 'minutemen,' volunteer troops who were prepared to take up arms at a moment's notice.
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