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SIGNERS, CONNECTICUT, RHODE ISLAND]. WILLIAMS, William ( Connecticut ). Autograph document signed ("Wm Williams Judge Probate"), Lebanon, 24 June 1783. 1 page, small 4to, 192 x 155mm (7.11/16 x 66in.) . A CONTINENTAL SOLDIER'S ESTATE. A document to certify "Mr. Amariah Rockwell of Coventry [as] sole administrator on the Estate of his son Daniel Rockwell...a soldier in the Connecticut line of the Continental Army Deceased, & has given Bonds according to Law." Williams was judge of probate for thirty-four years (1775-1809). Fine. -- HOPKINS, Stephen ( Rhode Island ). Autograph letter signed ("Stephn Hopkins") to Anne Smith, Newport, 2 September 1754. 1 page, 4to, 200 x 163mm (7.7/8 x 66in.), autograph address panel, neatly inlaid . An affectionate letter to his future second wife: "While I am here employed in the drudgery of following vice and fraud through the lurking places of craft and design, you are peacefully purifying the paths of peace and comtemplating the laws and designs of heaven; go on ever in those happy courses...your prayers will endeavour to preserve me from the...station I am placed in. Mine shall attend you in your journey..." RARE. -- HUNTINGTON, Samuel ( Connecticut ). Autograph letter signed ("Saml. Huntington") to Andrew Huntington, Hartford, 24 January 1778. 1 page, folio, 345 x 209mm (13½ x 8¼in.), autograph address panel, small hole affecting one word, clear marginal tear. . Huntington writes "Sometime past I conversed with Commissary [Joseph] Trumbull, & he told me I need give myself no trouble about the barrel of pork which I received...by your consent, but only pay the money therefore to you...but it escaped my mind through hurry of business... Mrs. Huntington...will pay the money..." Trumbull was commissary general of the Continental Army (1775-77). -- ELLERY, William ( Rhode Island ). Autograph letter signed ("Wm Ellery") to Ray Greene,"District Attorney," Newport, 17 October 1795. 2 full pages, 4to, 212 x 161mm (86 x 6½in.), stain and repair to seal damage affecting a few letters text in several lines, address leaf inlaid . Ellery, collector of customs in Newport, gives a lengthy explanation of the case against the owner of a vessel, the Brig Rising Sun : "...The ground of the suit is Sheffield's having disposed of the Register of the Rising Sun with the Vessel at Teneriffe instead of keeping the Register and delivering it to the Collector of the District in the United States...I conceive the Ques probandi will lie on the Defendant; for it will be out of the power of any Collector to produce positive proof that a deliquent did not deliver up his Register." (4)