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1789-90 dated Jedediah Huntington signed Treasury Office Exchange of Notes - Connecticut - American Revolutionary War

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1789-90 dated Jedediah Huntington signed Treasury Office Exchange of Notes - Connecticut - American Revolutionary War
Years: 1789 or 1790
Treasury Office Document dated 1789 showing exchange of various Revolutionary War Army Notes that were presented in exchange of "Certificates in pursuance of an Act of the General Assembly passed in May 1789." Boldly signed by (Revolutionary War General) Jedediah Huntington as Treasurer. Exceptionally Choice Condition.

Jedediah (or Jedidiah) Huntington (4 August 1743 – 25 September 1818), was an American general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. After the war, he served in numerous civilian posts. Huntington was born in Norwich, Connecticut, the son of Jabez and Elizabeth (Backus) Huntington. Huntington graduated from Harvard in 1763 and received a master's degree from Yale University in 1770. He was engaged in commercial pursuits with his father, was an active member of the Sons of Liberty, and of the Committee of Correspondence established at Norwich on 6 June 1774. He was a slightly built man: "His greatness was rather intellectual and moral than physical, as there is in existence a memorandum of the weighing of several revolutionary officers at West Point, August 19, 1788; when Gen. Washington weighed 209 pounds, Gen. Lincoln, 224, Gen. Knox, 280, and Gen. Huntington, 132."

As the war approached, Huntington became an active officer in the Norwich militia. He was appointed ensign of the first Norwich militia company in October 1769, became a lieutenant in 1771, and a captain in May 1774. In October 1774, Huntington was made Colonel of the 20th Regiment of Connecticut Militia. When Israel Bissell brought the Lexington Alarm to Norwich on April 20, 1775, he personally delivered it to Colonel Huntington, who immediately got his men ready to march. On April 26 they arrived in Wrentham, Massachusetts, and a few days later they were in Roxbury and became part of the Siege of Boston. Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jedediah_Huntington

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