State of Connecticut Pay Order Signed by Peter Colt - 1791 and 1792 dated Connecticut Revolutionary War Bonds

Handwritten Payment Order signed by Peter Colt. All are related to payment for raw silk balls or cocoons.

Peter Colt (1744-1824) was a Connecticut manufacturer and investor. Colt was a paymaster during the Revolutionary War. Colt, who attended the state ratifying convention for the US Constitution, was Connecticut State Treasurer (1790-1794), and later managed the first cotton mill in New Jersey. He was the grandfather of firearms manufacturer Samuel Colt. He was co-creator of the Hartford textile mill which produced the suits worn by George Washington, John Adams and many members of Congress at the first Presidential Inauguration (1789). The brown cloth from which the suits were cut became known as "Congress brown."