Pay Table Document Issued to and Signed by Peter Colt - 1788 dated Connecticut Revolutionary War Bonds

Payment Order issued to and signed by Peter Colt on back. Front and back shown.

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."