New London August 28th 1776,
Gentlemen
Please to pay Capt Elepkalet Roberts One Hundred Pounds Lawfull Money and place the same to my Acct as paymaster of the Ship of Warr of this State Built at Saybrook (Now call'd the Oliver Cromwell) and You will Oblige [&c.]
William Coit
Gentlemen Comtee the Pay Table of the State of Connecticut Hartford
Gentlemen The Reason of my giving the above Draft without A perticular Order from his Honor the Governor, is, Tomorrow I shall set out for Nantucket and to go all the Way to Lebanon will detain me and so small a sum cannot make any difficulty.
William Coit2
1. Conn. Arch., 1st Series, IX, 120a, ConnSL.
2. Ibid., on August 29, Governor Jonathan Trurnbull sent an order to the Committee of the Pay Table authorizing the payment to Captain Roberts.
