#3095 • Revolutionary War Connecticut Bond Document

Part of Fine and Decorative Arts | September 12, 2024 at 10:00 AM (live auction by Alderfer Auction)

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Copy document dated July 15, 1790 for payment of a Connecticut bond issued at Hartford, Connecticut. Document measures 8.5" x 8" and exhibits a Britania watermark. Bond was issued to Colonel Abraham Tyler and Mr. James Smith. Colonel Abraham Tyler was born in New Haven, Connecticut in 1734 and died in Middlesex, Connecticut in 1804. He commanded a company in Col. Jedediah Huntington’s 17th Continental Regiment until the end of 1776 when he left the army. Tyler later became a major and eventually a lieutenant colonel in the Connecticut militia.