1780 Handwritten Revolutionary War Major Roger Hooker Pay Table Finn Wadsworth

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Manuscript payment voucher instructing [Connecticut] Treasurer John Lawrence to make payment to Major Roger Hooker signed by Finn Wadsworth and Samuel Lyman
Sir,
Pay Major Roger Hooker twenty four pounds thirteen shillings and four pence in bills out of the State and charge the State Pay Table Office. September 1, 1780
Signed by Finn Wadsworth, John Lawrence Treasurer and Samuel Lyman [American War of Independence, Connecticut Pay Table]
Major Roger Hooker
(1751-1830) was a son of Roger Hooker (1710-1775) and Anna Kellogg Hooker (1720-1797) of Connecticut.
He made eleven voyages to the West Indies before the Revolutionary War. At the first call for troops upon the Lexington alarm, he joined the company of one hundred and eleven men raised by his cousin Capt. Noadiah Hooker, the first men from Farmington for the war, and the first from Connecticut to reach the army collecting before Boston. He was made a sergeant of that company when formed, but was soon afterward appointed an ensign, and when Washington took command of the army Roger Hooker was commissioned a second lieutenant of the Regular Continental Line, and he eventually became a major of the Line.
In 1776, he fitted out the fire ships at New York, with which Gen. Washington endeavored to destroy the British ships. As a brigade major he had charge of the correspondence of the generals upon whose staff he served.
He was sent with the flag of truce to communicate to the British general commanding New York, information of the surrender of Gen. Burgoyne, and throughout the war was held in high esteem by Gen. Washington, and was frequently entrusted with responsible and important duties. After the war he was for a number of years Sheriff of the County and was an active Justice of the Peace until he was 70 years old.
Previous to his death, having no children and his wife being dead he disposed of his estate to his brother-in-law, retaining possession during his life. He was a member of the Society of the Cincinnati, and he is the Roger Hooker referred to in the account of the "Hooker House" and the "Hooker Elm."
(From
Descendants of Rev Thomas Hooker by Edward Hooker)
In 1776
Finn Wadsworth
, who born in Farmington Connecticut, was appointed major of brigade to General James Wadsworth and served in that capacity until 1779.
He was a member of the state’s Pay Table Committee which was responsible for military expenditures during the Revolutionary War.
Samuel Lyman
was born in Goshen Connecticut in 1749 and graduated from Yale in 1770. He later moved to Massachusetts and was a justice of the court if common pleas and elected as a Federalist in the US House of Representatives from 1795-1800.
John Lawrence (1719-1802) was Treasurer for the State of Connecticut from 1769-1789. He was a son of Capt John Lawrence and Marian Beauchamp of Boston.
Condition
Measures about 8 1/2” by 6 1/2”
Minor edge wear as pictured
Age toned
Creased
Entire document shown as part of condition report
(Value converts to roughly ,500)