1785 dated Pay Order signed by Hezekiah Rogers and Geo. Pitkin - American Revolutionary War Autograph
Inv# CT1368
Autograph
Handwritten Pay Order to John Lawrence for court costs for the crime of forgery signed by Hezekiah Rogers. Note the state attorney, Jedediah Elderkin was in the Continental Congress. From the frequency with which cases of forgery come up it seems that counterfeiting the Continental Currency was a major national pastime.
Hezekiah Rogers (1753 – September 4, 1811) was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from Norwalk in the sessions of May 1786, and October 1787. He was a delegate to the convention in Connecticut to ratify the United States Constitution in 1788. He later served as chief clerk in the War Office in Washington, D. C. Rogers was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from Norwalk in the sessions of May 1786, and October 1787.
On November 12, 1787, the inhabitants of the town of Norwalk had a town meeting with Colonel Colonel Thomas Fitch as moderator. Rogers and Samuel Silliman were chosen as delegates to meet in a convention at Hartford, the following January to ratify the United States Constitution. Connecticut ratified the Constitution on January 8, 1788 making it the fifth state to do so.
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