ROGER SHERMAN CONNECTICUT JUDICIAL AND TREASURY DOCUMENT: From the original 1994 Early American Numismatics Auction catalog: ''Showing the payment to the major judges within the State for their service as Judges for 2 months being signed by each of the judges noting their payment. Document states ''The Colony of Connecticut to the Judges of the Superior Court of Holding Said Court by Adjournment in the Counties on New Haven, Hartford and Windham, in December 1770 and January 1771''. This 12'' x 7 1/2'' document is fully notated listing the following judges payments due and having their signatures and showing the cash being received by each. Justices include: Matthew Griswold, Robert Walker, Eli Hale Dyer, Roger Sherman (signer of the Declaration of Independence for Connecticut and the U.S. Constitution), and William Pitkin. The bottom of the document has instructions dated at Windham January 25, 1771 ''to the Treasurer of the Colony of Connecticut, Sir - Pay the Judges of the Supreme Court their sums to them respectively due agreeable to the above debenture''. On heavy laid paper with clean appearance and bold brown signatures.'' Sherman was one of the ''Committee of Five'' who drafted the Declaration of Independence and a Founding Father. He was the only person to sign all four great state papers of the U.S.: the Continental Association, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution.
CONDITION: Toning, laid down.