20. SAMUEL HUNTINGTON (1731-1796) Signer of the Declaration of Independence, president of the Continental Congress, and Governor of Connecticut. Fine content D.S. "Sam'l Huntington", 1p. 4to., Hartford, March, 1782, Huntington's approval of an expense for the transport of prisoners to notorious Newgate Prison, America's first federal prison. The document is in the hand of and signed in the text by EZEKIEL WILLIAMS (1729-1818), Sheriff of Hartford for 22 years and head of Newgate. He lists "Sundry Expenses Transporting Prisoners to Newgate...", lists the prisoners by name and adds his expenses for "my own time & trouble providing Guards, Levying & Copying Executions & Endorsing, &c..." Verso bears a signed endorsement and pay order by GEORGE PITKIN (1709-1806), a Revolutionary War colonel who commanded the 4th Reg. of Connecticut Minutemen on a march to Boston following the Lexington Alarm. Folds, an endorsing signature touching two letters in Huntington's signature, else very good. $500-700