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	History - Trumbull College
		Jonathan Trumbull was born October 12,1710 in a Lebanon parsonage.
		Jonathan Trumbull was governor of Connecticut from 1769-1784, serving during the tumultuous years of the French and Indian War and the American Revolution.
		Jonathan Trumbull was a friend and counselor of George Washington.
	www.yale.edu /trumbull/history.shtml (775 words)

	Jonathan Trumbull - LoveToKnow 1911
		JONATHAN TRUMBULL (1710-1785), American political leader, was born at Lebanon, Connecticut, on the 12th of October 1710.
		Another son, Joseph (1737-1778), was a member of the first Continental Congress (1774-1775), became commissary-general of stores of the Continental army in July 1775 and commissary-general of purchases in June 1777, resigned in August 1777, and from November 1777 to April 1778 was commissioner for the board of war.
		A grandson of the first Jonathan, Joseph (1782-1861), was a Whig representative in Congress in1834-1835and in 1839-1843, and was governor of Connecticut in 1849-1850.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Jonathan_Trumbull (283 words)

	Jonathan Trumbull Family
		Jonathan Trumbull was the only colonial governor to hold his job for the periods of time before and after the Revolutionary war.
		Although not related to the Trumbull family of Lebanon, it is interesting to note that Connecticut had a fourth "Governor Trumbull." John H. Trumbull, born on March 4, 1873, in Ashford, Connecticut, the son of Irish immigrants, served as governor from 1925 to 1931.
		Trumbull Connecticut should be proud to bear the name of a family that contributed so much to the revolutionary war effort and history of this young country.
	www.trumbullhistory.org /written/jtrumbull.shtml (1601 words)

	Joseph Trumbull (governor)
		Joseph Trumbull (December 7, 1782–August 4, 1861) was a U.S lawyer, banker, and politician from Connecticut.
		Joseph was born to David Trumbull in Lebanon, Connecticut, and was the grandson of Jonathan Trumbull.
		Trumbull served as governor of Connecticut in 1849 and 1850.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/j/jo/joseph_trumbull__governor_.html (219 words)

	Johnathan Trumbull
		Jonathan's experience as a merchant proved to be valuable during the revolution when procurement of supplies for the Continental Army with almost worthless Continental notes required tact and diplomacy.
		Jonathan Trumbull's notoriety in Lebanon as a successful businessman grew and he was elected to the General Assembly.
		Jonathan Trumbull was the only colonial governor to hold his job for the periods of time before and after the Revolutionary War.
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	Jonathan Trumbull - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He was born in Watertown, Connecticut, the son of Joseph Trumbull (1678-1755) and his wife née Hannah Higley.
		He received an honorary LL.D. from Yale University in 1775 and from the University of Edinburgh in 1787; Trumbull College at Yale is named for him as well as the town of Trumbull, Connecticut, just north of Bridgeport.
		Governor Trumbull died in Lebanon, Connecticut and is buried at the Old Cemetery there.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jonathan_Trumbull (443 words)

	Connecticut's Heritage Gateway
		Trumbull, a dismal failure as a merchant but highly esteemed as a governor, was a life-long resident of Lebanon.
		Three years after graduating from Harvard in 1727, he was licensed as a Congregational minister, but the ministry was not to be his vocation.
		In 1766 Trumbull was elected deputy governor and in 1769, governor.
	www.ctheritage.org /encyclopedia/ct1763_1818/trumbull_j.htm (473 words)

	Jonathan Trumbull
		Jonathan Trumbull served as the chief justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court from 1766 to 1769, then as governor from 1769 to 1783.
		Trumbull was one of George Washington's closest advisors.
		JOHN TRUMBULL Born in Lebanon Connecticut, on June 6, 1756, he was the son of Jonathan Trumbull, the only colonial Royal Governor to embrace the patriot cause.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h549.html (331 words)

	Jonathan Trumbull
		Jonathan was graduated at Harvard in 1727, studied theology, and was licensed to preach, but in 1731 resigned the ministry to take the place of an elder brother in his father's store.
		He afterward adopted the profession of law, was a member of the assembly in 1733 and its speaker in 1739, became an assistant in 1740, and was re-elected to that office twenty-two times, he was subsequently judge of the county court, assistant judge of the superior court, and in 1766-'9 chief justice of that body.
		Trumbull's fame rests mainly on the four paintings in the capitol, the "Battle of Bunker Hill," and "Death of Montgomery," which two pictures still stand unexcelled in American historical painting, and on such strong portraits as those of Washington and Alexander Hamilton.
	famousamericans.net /jonathantrumbull (1564 words)

	Jonathan Trumbull, Jr. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Jonathan Trumbull Junior is often overshadowed by his famous father, the Revolutionary War governor.
		At the start of the Revolution in 1775, Jonathan was appointed Paymaster General for the northern department of the Continental Army, and in 1778 he became the first Comptroller of the U.S. Treasury.
		In 1797 Jonathan Trumbull, Junior, was elected governor of Connecticut.
	www.jtrumbulljr.org /jtj.shtml (310 words)

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		Jonathan Trumbull's experience and logisitcal skills were invaluable assets when the American Revolution broke out and General Washington called upon him to supply the Continental Army.
		It is through the efforts of Governor Trumbull and his aides in the Commissary Department that Connecticut became known as "The Provision State".
		Trumbull actively opposed Parliment's moves to tax the colonies at the end of the French and Indian War in 1763.
	geocities.com /govtrumbullmuseum/gov (355 words)

	Governor Jonathan Trumbull House Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Jonathan Trumbull was born in Lebanon in 1710.
		Jonathan Trumbull’s experience and logistical skills were invaluable assets when the American Revolution broke out and General Washington called upon Brother Jonathan” to supply the Continental Army.
		Trumbull actively opposed Parliament’s moves to tax the colonies at the end of the French and Indian War in 1763.
	www.jtrumbulljr.org /museums/governor.shtml (745 words)

	Jonathan Trumbull
		Born October 12, 1710, the son of a prosperous farmer and merchant, Jonathan Trumbull graduated from Harvard College in 1727.
		Jonathan Trumbull was the only colonial governor to support the Revolution.
		Trumbull died on August 17, 1785, and is buried in Lebanon, Connecticut.
	www.aoc.gov /cc/art/nsh/trumbull.cfm?RenderForPrint=1 (167 words)

	Trumbull College
		Jonathan Trumbull, His Majesty's Assistant for the Colony of Connecticut, rules that Negroes Cato, Newport and Adam are to be publicly whipped on the naked body for nightwalking after nine in the evening without an order from their masters.
		Trumbull became the governor of the Connecticut colony in 1769.
		As the spirit of independence began to sweep the country, Governor Trumbull was increasingly confronted by the contradictions between the institution of slavery and the principles of democracy (29).
	www.yaleslavery.org /WhoYaleHonors/trumbull.html (666 words)

	Jonathan Trumbull
		Trumbull was arrested on November 18, l780, and threatened with hanging as an American spy, in retaliation for the hanging of Major Andre, the British spy who conspired with Benedict arnold.
		Trumbull's ambition, tempered as it was by Wests influence, finally crystallized into a determination to become the painter of the American Revolution, and several of his historical paintings were begun and two finished in West's studio, the Battle of Bunkers Hill being completed there in 1786.
		Trumbull tells us, in his Reminiscences, the pathetic story of how, when funds began to diminish, he was forced to sell "scraps of furniture, fragments of plate, etc.," and of how many pictures remained on his hands unsold, and to all appearance unsaleable.
	www.americanrevolution.org /trumbio.html (2003 words)

	Jonathan Trumbull
		Born in Lebanon, Connecticut, the son of Joseph and Hannah (Higley) Trumble, Jonathan Trumbull (who changed the spelling of his surname in 1765) was the first Connecticut governor to be born in the eighteenth century.
		Trumbull's ability to negotiate and mediate his way through difficult issues was also evidenced in his remaining on good terms with both the "New Lights" and "Old Lights" during the religious revival known as the Great Awakening.
		Jonathan Trumbull is buried in a tomb in Lebanon's Trumbull Cemetery.
	www.cslib.org /gov/trumbullj.htm (2163 words)

	AmericanHeritage.com / Revolutionary Village
		Jonathan was plucked willy-nilly from the rarefied air of theology and dropped into the commercial tumult of Trumbull and Son.
		Jonathan Trumbull became the principal merchant in the booming town, and in 1733 he was elected to the Connecticut General Assembly.
		Trumbull, it is said, rose from her pew and strode to the altar, where she handed over a magnificent scarlet cloak that had been a gift to her from Rochambeau.
	www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/ah/1989/3/1989_3_80.shtml (3395 words)

	Jonathan Trumbull - People of Connecticut
		Jonathan's father Joseph instilled rigid work ethics on both Jonathan and Jonathan's older brother, Joseph Jr., as they managed both the family farm and a trade business.
		Jonathan and his brother apparently had little say in their futures as their plans were laid out by their father.
		In 1766, Jonathan Trumbull served as an assistant to the Governor of the Connecticut colony, and then in 1769 he himself became Governor.
	www.netstate.com /states/peop/people/ct_jt.htm (400 words)

	Trumbull, Jonathan - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Trumbull, Jonathan 1710-85, colonial governor of Connecticut, b.
		There is a tradition that the name Brother Jonathan, for an American, arose from a remark of Washington about Trumbull.
		Artist of the American Revolution: both soldier and artist, John Trumbull saw the war for independence firsthand and was moved to memorialize the historic events on canvas.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-trumbullj1n.html (300 words)

	American Biographies
		Jonathan Trumbull was the younger son of Governor Jonathan Trumbull, of Connecticut.
		His brother, Colonel John Trumbull was a well known artist and called "The Chronicler of the American Revolution".
		Jonathan was named Paymaster General of the Northern Department by Congress in 1775.
	www.nps.gov /archive/colo/Ythanout/Trumbullbio.htm (126 words)

	JOHN TRUMBULL - BIOGRAPHY
		Unfortunately Trumbull’s talents as a painter seem to have begun to decline in the mid 1790s, the bold handling of paint being replaced with a more limited palette, smoother handling, and overuse of fl.
		Trumbull established a studio in New York City, working predominately as a portraitist over the next four years until 1808, before returning to Connecticut.
		Trumbull later turned down the opportunity to merge the two academies and, within six years of his resignation, the American Academy closed.
	www.europeanpaintings.com /exhibits/xviiicent/trumbio.htm (1272 words)

	John Trumbull
		American artist, was born at Lebanon, Connecticut, on the 6th of June 1756, the son of Jonathan Trumbull (1710-1785), governor of Connecticut.
		In 1785 Trumbull went to Paris, where he made portrait sketches of French officers for "The Surrender of Cornwallis," and began, with the assistance of Jefferson, "The Signing of the Declaration of Independence," well-known from the engraving by Asher B. Durand.
		In 1794 Trumbull acted as secretary to John Jay in London during the negotiation of the treaty with Great Britain, and in 1796 he was appointed by the commissioners sent by the two countries the fifth commissioner to carry out the seventh article of the treaty.
	www.nndb.com /people/175/000025100 (298 words)

	info: Jonathan_Trumbull (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Jonathan TrumbullAbout the statue of Jonathan Trumbull, given by Connecticut to the National Statuary Hall Collection...
		Jonathan TrumbullJonathan Trumbull Governor of the Colony of Connecticut, 1769-1776.
		Jonathan TrumbullJonathan Trumbull served as the chief justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court from 1766 to 1769, then as governor from 1769 to 1783.
	www.napoli-pizza.net /Jonathan_Trumbull.html (315 words)

	Trumbull - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Trumbull College, a residential college of Yale University
		Douglas Trumbull (born 1942) - American film director
		Joseph Trumbull (1782-1861) - American lawyer, grandson of Jonathan, (1710-85)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Trumbull (117 words)

	Rediscovering George Washington . Letter to Jonathan Trumbull, August 20, 1792 \| PBS
		Letter to Jonathan Trumbull, August 20, 1792
		Autograph letter signed: Mount Vernon, to Jonathan Trumbull, 1792 Aug. 20.
		Every thing that my powers and means will enable me to do consistent with justice & policy shall not be wanting to the relief of these unfortunate captives - and I would fein hope they will not be ineffectually employed.
	www.pbs.org /georgewashington/collection/pres_1792aug20.html (92 words)

	Amazon.com: "Jonathan Trumbull": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Jonathan Trumbull (1710-1785), Joseph's son, greatly expanded the family business, carrying on an extensive overseas trade.
		Jonathan Trumbull of Lebanon, was now judge of the County Court; Shubael Conant, John Dyer, Jabez Fitch, and Joshua West, associates; Samuel...
		SS Jonathan Trumbull 137 Items -- Get the SS Jonathan Trumbull custom embroidered on a sweatshirt, cap or other item - and treasure her for years to come.
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	The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Trumbull
		Trumbull, John — Superior court judge in Connecticut, 1801-19.
		Son of Jonathan Trumbull; brother of Jonathan Trumbull, Jr.
		Grandson of Jonathan Trumbull; nephew of Joseph Trumbull (1737-1778) and
	politicalgraveyard.com /bio/trumbull.html (324 words)

	Jonathan Trumbull (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		From 1733-1740 he was a delegate the general assembly and in 1739-40 was of the House.
		He received an honorary LL.D. from Yale in 1775 and from the University of Edinburgh in 1787; Trumbull College at Yale is named for him.
		I find Cork in CA a very lucky man. I bought this Jonathan Edwards CD because I was looking for a particular version of "Shanty".
	www.freeglossary.com /Jonathan_Trumbull%2C_Sr. (546 words)

	TRUMBULL, Jonathan, Governor [1710-1785] -- American statesman
		Jonathan was graduated from Harvard in 1727; studied theology under the Rev. Solomon Williams at Lebanon, and was licensed to preach at Colchester, Conn.
		During the Revolutionary war, he was ex-officio chairman of the council of safety; did much toward raising troops for the prosecution of the cause, and was a staunch friend and adviser of General Washington, early assuring him of the loyal support of Connecticut to the cause of American independence, and upholding him throughout the war.
		The honorary degree of LL.D. was conferred upon Governor Trumbull by Yale, in 1775, and by the University of Edinburgh, in 1787.
	freepages.history.rootsweb.com /~dav4is/people/TRUM1.htm (578 words)

	John Trumbull Summary
		Artists and historians since the mid nineteenth century have acknowledged John Trumbull as the United States' premier "patriot-artist" of the early national period and have recognized his artistic contributions to that era and to modern perceptions of it...
		John Trumbull (1756-1843) was the first American painter to produce a series of history paintings; they depict scenes of the Revolutionary War.
		John Trumbull, the son of a Connecticut lawyer who became governor of the colony, was born on June 6, 1756.
	www.bookrags.com /John_Trumbull (197 words)

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