58. SETTLING CONNECTICUT REVOLUTIONARY WAR DEBT A fascinating archive of approximately fifty manuscript documents dating between 1788 and 1799, most concerning outstanding accounts with the State of Connecticut in relation to the payment of pensions and in some relation to the Assumption Act of 1790, (or Compromise of 1790) in which the federal government assumed the debts of the several states. The group includes numerous letters from State Comptroller RALPH POMEROY to Governor Huntington concerning all manner of debts incurred by the State. The subjects are quite complex and we can only begin to scratch the surface of the content in this archive. We excerpt several letters here to provide an idea of the overall content: RALPH POMEROY A.L.S., 1p. legal folio, Hartford, Dec. 1, 1789 to Governor Huntington: "...I have the honour to transmit the Statements of this State's debt and funds required by Mr Treasurer Hamilton. The Estimates are made with as much Certainty as could be collected from the Books and papers in this office...in future investigation any Mistake should be found or evidences should appear which render them less accurate, I shall take the Liberty to advise your Excellency...". OLIVER WOLCOTT, JR. A.L.S. 2pp. 4to., Philadelphia, July 12, 1791 to Andrew Kingsbury, Comptroller of Accounts at Hartford sending "by the hands of Ralph Pomeroy Junr viz Two Volumes of records of settlements made with the Connecticut Line. Six volumes in which the balances due to individuals are credited. Six volumes of the Journals of the Committee of Pay Table...". RALPH POMEROY, A.L.S. 1p. legal folio, Hartford, Dec. 1, 1789, to Gov. Huntington: "I have at last in the best manner I could compleated the Return for Genl. Knox which with the papers for Mr Treasurer Hamilton have now the honour to send to you...". RALPH POMEROY, A.L.S. 2pp. 4to., Hartford, Apr. 20, 1791 to Oliver Wolcott, Jr., "...inclosed [are] the Claims of the State of Connecticut against the United States on account of Invalid Pensions; agreeably to the forms you was pleased to transmit...". JOSEPH HOWELL, JR., Manuscript D.S. 3pp. legal folio, [n.p., n.d.] a "Return of Errors in the accounts of the State Troops & Militia of Connecticut for 1779 & part of 1780". Col. EDWARD RUSSELL, A.L.S. 2pp. legal folio, Branford, Jan. 21, 1788, discussing the issue of confiscated loyalist estates: "When I saw your Advertisement in the New Haven Paper not long since, requesting the Judges of Probate & other Persons legally Impowered to sell Confiscated Estates &c. I intended to make a Settlement...but upon Inquiring into the matter found it impossible; In this District, the Estate of Watson & Murray, Nathaniel Marston, William Bayard, Thomas Buchanan & Miles Sherbrook were Adjudged forfeited...". Other correspondents include ELIJAH HUBBARD, STEPHEN KNOWLTON, WILLIAM EDMUND, JOSIAH MIX, AZIL WASHBURN, JOSEPH TALCOTT, ELIJAH ABEL, JOHN PALMER, JOHN SHERMAN, THOMAS WILLIAMS and many others writing on a variety of subjects related to Revolutionary War finances. Worthy of much further research. Overall condition is very good.$800-1,200