Writ of Execution Debtor's Prison. 1788 Connecticut.

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Writ of Execution to commit John Hoskins of Granby to debtor's prison for a judgment owed to Thomas Seymour. Signature of Sam Wyllys.
Thomas Seymour (1735-1829) of Hartford, Connecticut, served in the American Revolution, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel, was a member of the general assembly from 1774 to 1803, and chief justice of the county court of common pleas from 1798 to 1803. Seymour was Hartford’s first mayor after its incorporation, and remained so until his resignation in 1812. At the time of his death he was “the oldest surviving graduate” of Yale College (Donald Lines Jacobus and others,
A History of the Seymour Family: Descendants of Richard Seymour of Hartford, Connecticut, for Six Generations
[New Haven, 1939], 153-4; Hartford
Connecticut Mirror
, 1 Aug. 1829).
Samuel Wyllys
(January 4, 1739 – June 9, 1823) was an American military officer in the
American Revolution
,
Connecticut
politician, and a member of the
Wyllys–Haynes family
with its roots in the Connecticut Colony.