December 13-15, 2022 Collectible Firearms & Militaria
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 12/14/2022
Lot consists of 4 documents relating to supplies for the continental army. (A) Pay table for the Town of Farmington listing individuals contributing blankets for the use of soldiers with names of donors and appraised values. Docketed on reverse for pay by state treasurer Hartford July 16, 1781. CONDITION: Very good, minor folds, edge losses. (B) December 1780 return of rum rations issued in the 7th Connecticut. Full list of recipients grouped by company, 142 NCOs and privates. Some soldiers are given extra rations for "wife and child" or "family." Receipted on back by Quartermaster as received from the State Commissary "one hundred forty two half pints of Newingland (sic) Rum for the use of the 7th Regiment for which they are to pay the stated price..." CONDITION: Excellent. (C) 6 ledger pages by Commissary William Little June 1778 to April 1779 recording shirts, shoes, stockings, overalls, frocks, etc. with cost. Last 2 pages list receipts made at Middletown, one signed by Little "for the use of Connecticut troops in Genl. Huntington's Brigade.." CONDITION: Excellent. (D) 1781 invoice/account of Colonel Joshua Huntington with Tracy and Coit, a Norwich mercanitle firm established in 1780. Covers various fabrics, linen, calico, silk, shalloon, needles and thread, etc. CONDITION: Excellent. Collector pencil notation.