Declaration Signer William Williams & Several Patriots Signed Document

Single page manuscript document signed on laid paper, 7.5" x 12.5" as a Debenture of adjourned Count of Errors October Session 1789. Docketed on verso with the date "November 3, 1789". Near fine.

Listed below the title are the names of 11 individuals, each listed out alongside an accounting. Each person signed below their name. The names include numerous patriots, as well as signer of the Declaration, William Williams. Others include Joseph Cooke, Stephen Mitchell, William Hillhouse, Erastus Wolcott, John Treadwell, John Chester, James Hillhouse and Jedediah Strong. Below are some of the roles these men played in our founding of our Country. Evenly age toned with expected folds, strong contrasting ink.  

William Williams was a merchant, and a delegate for Connecticut to the Continental Congress in 1776, and a signatory of the Declaration of Independence.

Joseph Louis Cook (Akiatonharónkwen) (1740 -1814) Cook was born to a black father and an Abenaki mother in Canada. As a child, all three were captured; Cook and his mother were saved by the Mohawk Nation and lived in the Mohawk village. During the American Revolution, he fought on the side of the colonies. He collaborated with George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and Philip Schuyler. Cook eventually became a Lieutenant Colonel in the Continental Army, the highest rank awarded to any Native American during the Revolution.

William Hillhouse (1760-abt 1847) served in the Revolutionary War from December 1775 to October 1781 from South Carolina as a Captain.

James Hillhouse (son of William Hillhouse), served in the Revolutionary War and in 1779 was captain of the Governor's foot guards when New Haven was invaded by the British; member, State house of representatives 1780-1785; chosen as a delegate to the Continental Congress in 1786 and 1788 but did not attend; member, State council 1789-1790; elected to the Second, Third, and Fourth Congresses and served from March 4, 1791

Erastus Wolcott (1722–1793) was an American politician and a Connecticut state militia commander during the American Revolutionary War. He served in the Connecticut General Assembly for over twenty years and was a justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court from 1789 to 1792.

Jedediah Strong (Jedidiah, in some sources; November 7, 1738 – August 21, 1802) was a member of the Governor's Council, or Upper House of the Connecticut Assembly, and a judge of the predecessor to the Connecticut Supreme Court from 1789 to 1791. During the Revolutionary War he was a Commissary of Supplies for the Continental Army.

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