February 5th, 1782 Connecticut Pay-Table £15 Note - Very Fine Fr. 1284 25c - Massachusetts (Silver)

25c - Massachusetts (Silver)

Each $3 contains

fifty cent in center

large S-C at sides

This is an evenly worn specimen with an overdate that remains easily visible

February 5th, 1782 Connecticut Pay-Table £15 Note - Very Fine Fr. 1284 25c - Massachusetts (Silver)This 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