February 5th, 1782 Connecticut Pay-Table £15 Note - Very Fine KM.20a3 Pair of Vintage Gorham Sterling

Pair of Vintage Gorham Sterling Silver Salt & Pepper Shakers

Contains 1 troy ounce

9802 oz AGW Diameter 37 mm Edge Description ERENYEEN Description Obverse Stnading right

235 - Uncircualted

and black inks were used for this piece

February 5th, 1782 Connecticut Pay-Table £15 Note - Very Fine KM.20a3 Pair of Vintage Gorham SterlingThis is a military payment note in the amount of 15 Pounds payed to Captain Adam Shopley. Captain Shopley had an interesting brush with history when in 1871 Bennedict Arnold's expedition against Connecticut landed in the harbor of New London. Their only defense was the, still incomplete, Fort Trumbull occupied by Shopley's 25 30 state militia. Arnold's forces vastly outnumbered Shopley's and they were forced to retreat to Fort Griswold after disabling