Dated “New Haven Oct. 20^th 1785.”  12.5” X 7.75. Exhibits fold-marks, w/slight chipping at fold-marks on the margins w/small strip of archival tape on reverse. Else VG.

In this document Lemuel Hotchkiss claim a one-pound bounty under a Connecticut statute instituted to promoted for the making of raw silk in Connecticut. Having planted 230 silk producing Mulberry bushes and shrubs and having tended them for a year, and harvested the silk producing leaves, Hotchkiss claims the bounty and receives it. Signed by “Henry Daggett, Jus of Peace”—forwarded “To Mr. Franc Forbes Collector of the State Taxes for N. Haven.”

Interesting 18^th century New Haven, Connecticut collectible.  [jp] [ph:L]

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