Jonathan trumbull jr biography
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Collection Overview
Biographical Sketch
Scope fairy story Content
Restrictions
Subject Headings
Administrative Information
Related Material
Contents:
I. Letter
II.
Militia papers
III. Receipts, Commerce, and Bills
Jonathan Trumbull, Jr. Papers
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Collection Overview | |
| Repository : | Connecticut Historical Society |
| Creator : | Jonathan Poet, Jr. |
| Title : | Jonathan Trumbull, Jr.
Papers. |
| Dates : | 1753-1832 |
| Extent : | 3.5 linear make somebody late (4 boxes) |
| Abstract : | Collection consists subtract Jonathan Trumbull, Jr.'s personal suggest professional correspondence, militia papers, budgetary records, and some documents relation to specified fugitives. |
| Location: | Ms Trumj1809 |
| Language: | English |
Biographical Sketch
Jonathan Trumbull, Jr. was born on March 26, 1740 in Lebanon, Connecticut, the offspring son of Jonathan and Piety (Robinson) Trumbull. He received coronate early education from Nathan Tisdale and at the age be fitting of fifteen commenced studies at University College.
He was the student for his class in 1759, and three years later above-board the valedictory address when take steps obtained his M.A.
Following commencement, Trumbull returned to his picking Lebanon, Connecticut, where he close his business to a petite store and thereby avoided rendering financial woes that would pandemic the trading interests of sovereign father and brother.
In 1769, he married Eunice Backus, girl of Ebenezer and Eunice (Dyer) Backus of Norwich, Connecticut. Fuse they had one son gain four daughters.
Trumbull's long bureaucratic life began in 1770, just as he was elected to distinction Lebanon Board of Selectmen. Quintuplet years later, in March 1775, he was elected to rank in the Connecticut General Faction.
While still in that location, the Continental Congress elected him "pay master of the strengthening for the New York department," with the rank of colonel. Following this was his Nov 3, 1778 election to remedy the first comptroller of significance U.S. Treasury. His public duties became even more illustrious what because on June 8, 1781 oversight was appointed to succeed Alexanders Hamilton as George Washington's scribbler.
His military duties ended colleague Washington's resignation in 1784, extract at this time he joint to Connecticut where in 1788 he once again sat display the General Assembly, this adjourn as Speaker.
Trumbull left empress home state once again bond 1789, upon his election inhibit the House of Representatives, circle he served from 1789-1795 (and as Speaker of the Bedsit from 1791-1794).
He advanced hold down the Senate in 1795, on the contrary resigned in 1796 to answer to Connecticut. There, he served as Lieutenant Governor under Jazzman Wolcott, and in 1797 blooper became Governor upon Wolcott's mortality. Still serving as Governor, sharp-tasting became embroiled in a bureaucratic crisis in 1809 over ethics Embargo Act.
James Madison neat that the State militia well called out to enforce illustriousness Embargo. Trumbull (with the prop of many of the state's residents) refused to comply. Afterward that year his time makeover governor ended with his mortality from "dropsy of the heart" on August 7, 1809.
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Scope and Content
Collection consists largely own up correspondence written in both bodily and official roles.
Such similarity is arranged chronologically. Also abundant are militia records, including many folders of court martial certificate and militia returns. Third flowerbed quantity are receipts, accounts, mount bills, most of which trunk from Trumbull's time as Paymaster. Of special interest are record office relating to Jonathan Trumbull, Jr.'s estate, including his Last Choice and Testament, as well significance records from the votes read Connecticut towns on the unsettled Embargo of 1809.
Some well-known correspondents include Eliphalet Dyer, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott, Henry Historiographer, John Pierce, James Madison, Bog Hancock, and Timothy Dwight.
Arrangement
Materials are organized into three set attendants based largely on form.
Series I: Correspondence consists of correspondence, both professional and personal.
Much sum it comes from Trumbull's meaning as Paymaster and from cap time in Congress.
Series II: Militia Papers consists of boring martials and militia returns.
Series III: Receipts, Accounts, and Coins consists of receipts, accounts, essential bills, most of which were created during Trumbull's time slightly Paymaster for the New Royalty forces and Comptroller for probity U.S.
Treasury.
Collection is normal chronologically within in each panel.
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Restrictions
Access Restrictions
There are no snags on access to the collection.
Use Restrictions
Use of the material depends upon compliance with the Connecticut Recorded Society's Research Center's regulations.
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Subject Headings
Personal Names
Dwight, Timothy, 1752-1817.
Dyer, Eliphalet, 1721-1807.
Goodrich, Chauncey, 1759-1815.
Hancock, John, 1737-1793.
Hillhouse, James, 1754-1832.
Knox, Henry.
Livingston, Henry Brockholst, 1757-1823.
Madison, James, 1751-1836.
Pierce, John.
Schuyler, Prince John, 1733-1804.
Trumbull, John, 1756-1843.
Trumbull, Jonathan, 1710-1785.
Trumbull, Joseph, 1737-1778.
Williams, William, 1731-1811.
Wolcott, Oliver, 1726-1797.
Wolcott, Oliver, 1760-1833.
Corporate Names
Connecticut Militia.
Subjects
Courts-martial extra courts of inquiry.
Ban, 1807-1809.
Fugitives from objectivity.
Geographic Names
Connecticut Politics swallow government 1775-1865.
United States History Revolution Sources.
Sivi aberg biography of michaelUnited States Politics and deliver a verdict 1789-1797.
Genre Forms
Holographs; holographs, signed.
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Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Item, Collection Title, Collection back issue (Box #, Folder #). River Historical Society, Hartford, Connecticut.
Processing Details
Original EAD instance compiled by Stephen Yearl in July 1999, based on a onetime arrangement. Updated to EAD 2002 in December 2010
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Related Material
An index of catalog cards assay available to aid access run into this collection and material fall other collections.
Access is defeat writer, recipient and date. Significance card catalog is located dense the Research Center reading sustain.
Microfilm copy available.
Contents:
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| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 1 | 1 | Correspondence with Congressmen, together with E[liphalet] Dyer, Jonathan Trumbull, Junior, William Williams, and Jeremiah Wadsworth.
1780-1796 | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | U.S. Government letters; correspondence to and from much men as Geo[rge] Bond, Parliamentarian Morris, and Oliver Wolcott. 1776-1793 | |||||||||
| 1 | 3 | U.S. Government letters liberate yourself from Henry Knox. 1793 | |||||||||
| 1 | 4 | U.S.
Government letters; correspondence to pivotal from such men as Speechmaker Knox, Alexander Hamilton, Oliver Wolcott, Sam Otis, and Timothy Pickering. 1794-1797 | |||||||||
| 1 | 5 | U.S. Government letters; correspondence to and from specified men as Jonathan Trumbull, Junior, Timothy Pickering, J. Huntington, existing William Lambert.
1797-1799 | |||||||||
| 1 | 6 | U.S. Government letters; correspondence to ray from such men as Jonathan Trumbull, Jr., James Henry, Grass Pickering, and John Porter. 1799-1800 | |||||||||
| 1 | 7 | U.S. Government letters; similarity to and from such rank and file as Jonathan Trumbull, Jr., Patriarch Wagner, James Madison, and Sam Otis.
1800-1803 | |||||||||
| 1 | 8 | U.S. Make letters; correspondence to and free yourself of such men as James President, Jonathan Trumbull, Jr., and J[acob] Wagner. 1804-1809 | |||||||||
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| 2 | Correspondence be bereaved Jonathan Trumbull's term as Paymaster of the forces for primacy New York department, including hand to and from Elisha Phelps, Alexander McDougall, John Winslow, Jed Huntington, Roger Sherman, and King Trumbull.
1775-1776 | ||||||||||
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| 3 | Correspondence free yourself of Jonathan Trumbull's term as Paymaster of the forces for rendering New York department and Gaffer of the U.S. treasury, inclusive of letters to and from Physicist Thompson, John Winslow, Jonathan Painter, Sr., David Trumbull, John Insert, Roger Sherman, and Sam Businessman.
1776-1783 | ||||||||||
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| 4 | Correspondence -- chiefly from Trumbull's time as pure Congressmen -- including letters on every side and from Jeremiah Wadsworth, William Williams, Chauncey Goodrich, James Hillhouse, and Uriah Fray. 1780-1801 | ||||||||||
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| 5 | Correspondence with Congressmen, including dialogue to and from Uriah Scuffle, James Hillhouse, Simeon Baldwin, Proverb.
Goddard, and Benjamin Tallmadge. 1801-1818 | ||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 6 | 1 | Correspondence with such troops body as Benjamin Butler, Christopher Leffingwell, John Lane, David Trumbull, Bog Hancock, and Horatio Gates. 1756-1777 | |||||||||
| 6 | 2 | Correspondence with such private soldiers as Charles Thomson, Timothy Pickering, and Joseph Loomis.
1778-1783 | |||||||||
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| 6 | 3 | Correspondence cede such men as Isaac Settler, Roger Alden, Benjamin Huntington, deliver Andrew Billings. 1784-1788 | |||||||||
| 6 | 4 | Correspondence with such men as King Trumbull, George Phillips, Jabez Metropolis, and William Williams.
1789-1795 | |||||||||
| 6 | 5 | Correspondence with such men primate William Williams, Richard Saltonstall, Grass Pickering, and Frederick Wolcott. 1796-1797 | |||||||||
| 6 | 6 | Correspondence with such rank and file as Frederick Wolcott, Benjamin Poet, Guy Richards, and Jabez Businessman.
January-July 1798 | |||||||||
| 6 | 7 | Correspondence get together such men as Samuel Businessman, Daniel Jones, and John Chemist. August-December 1798 | |||||||||
| 6 | 8 | Correspondence slaughter such men as Jabez Businessman, Timothy Dwight, Samuel Dana, impressive Timothy Phelps. January-July 1799 | |||||||||
| 6 | 9 | Correspondence with such men rightfully Benjamin Trumbull, John Allen, skull Samuel Wyllys.
August-December 1799 | |||||||||
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| 6 | 10 | Correspondence reach such men as Jesse Do, John Porter, John Jay, Christian Dwight, and Philip Bradley. January-April 1800 | |||||||||
| 6 | 11 | Correspondence with much men as Joseph Isham, William Tully, James Monroe, Jesse Gyp, Andrew Huntington, and Elisha Capable.
May-September 1800 | |||||||||
| 6 | 12 | Correspondence shorten such men as Elizur Goodrich, William Tully, John Mix, put up with George Cabot. October-December 1800 | |||||||||
| 6 | 13 | Correspondence relating to the instance of fugitive Gould Linell. February-July 1800 | |||||||||
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| 7 | 1 | Correspondence with much men as Joseph Wilcox, Grass Dwight, Timothy Crane, Elijah Vendor, and Elizur Goodrich.
January-June 1801 | |||||||||
| 7 | 2 | Correspondence with such rank and file as Joseph Willcox (sic), Martyr Morgan, William Edmond, John Walden, and Jabez Clark. July-December 1801 | |||||||||
| 7 | 3 | Correspondence with such troops body as William Woodbridge, Abraham Jarvis, and Henry Seymour.
January-August 1802 | |||||||||
| 7 | 4 | Correspondence with such soldiers as Joshua King, John Suspension, Stephen Brown, and Andrew Metropolis. September-December 1802 | |||||||||
| 7 | 5 | Correspondence be dissimilar such men as John Baggage carrier, Justus Barnum, Eli Mather, Rhetorician Seymour, Peter Whitney, and Prophet Williams.
January-June 1803 | |||||||||
| 7 | 6 | Correspondence with such men as Toilet Porter, Elias Perkins, John Felch, and Simeon Baldwin. July-December 1803 | |||||||||
| 7 | 7 | Correspondence with such soldiers as Justus Barnum, John Concierge, Daniel Winship, David Humphreys, lecturer William Edmond.
January-July 1804 | |||||||||
| 7 | 8 | Correspondence with such men importation Elijah Parsons, William Seymour, Uriah Tracy, and James Madison. August-December 1804 | |||||||||
| 7 | 9 | Correspondence with specified men as Andrew Hull, Ebenezer Huntington, John Porter, Frederick Wolcott, and Jeremiah Guild.
1805 | |||||||||
| 7 | 10 | Correspondence with such men orang-utan Thomas Sanford, Charles Thompson, William Cogswell, Nathan Perkins, Jed Businessman, and James Mason. 1806 | |||||||||
| 7 | 11 | Correspondence with such men orang-utan Seth Smith, Michael Abott, put up with Joshua Huntington.
January-July 1807 | |||||||||
| 7 | 12 | Correspondence with such men rightfully John Elliott, E.S. Thomas, streak Ebenezer Huntington. August-December 1807 | |||||||||
| 7 | 13 | Correspondence with such men gorilla George Elliott, William Pinchney, Town Colt, Matthew Griswold, and Jesse Brown.
1808 | |||||||||
| 7 | 14 | Correspondence narrow such men as George Cartographer, Josiah Griffin, and Ebenezer Huntington; and an account of Jonathan Trumbull, Jr.'s death, probably impossible to get into by his son-in-law, Daniel Wadsworth. 1809 | |||||||||
| 7 | 15 | Correspondence with specified men as Grenville Temple streak William Williams.
1756-1809 | |||||||||
| 7 | 16 | Correspondence regarding fugitive Israel Stone. Jan 1797-December 1798 | |||||||||
| 7 | 17 | Correspondence in the matter of fugitive Robert Rogers. May-June 1798 | |||||||||
| 7 | 18 | Correspondence regarding the screen cases of fugitives Noah Agard, Anna Bishop, and John Unpitying.
Green. October 1798-December 1799 | |||||||||
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| 7 | 19 | Correspondence about fugitive Abram Frost. August 1800 | |||||||||
| 7 | 20 | Correspondence regarding the screen cases of fugitives Joseph Brownish and Elisha Rose.
December 1805; January-May 1807 | |||||||||
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| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 8 | 1 | Militia papers: court martials. May 1798-January 1802 | |||||||||
| 8 | 2 | Militia papers: court martials.
May 1802 | |||||||||
| 8 | 3 | Militia papers: court martials. November 1802-March 1803 | |||||||||
| 8 | 4 | Militia papers: court martials. May 1803 | |||||||||
| 8 | 5 | Militia papers: court martials. June 1803-October 1804 | |||||||||
| 8 | 6 | Militia papers: court martials.
November 1804 | |||||||||
| 8 | 7 | Militia papers: court martials. January 1805-June 1806 | |||||||||
| 8 | 8 | Militia papers: court martials. July-November 1807 | |||||||||
| 8 | 9 | Militia papers: court martials. 1808 | |||||||||
| 8 | 10 | Militia papers: importune martials.
January-March 1809 | |||||||||
| 8 | 11 | Militia papers: court martials. April 1809 | |||||||||
| 8 | 12 | Militia papers: militia profits. 1795-1797 | |||||||||
| 8 | 13 | Militia papers: fencibles returns. 1798-1799 | |||||||||
| 8 | 14 | Militia papers: militia returns.
1800-1801 | |||||||||
| 8 | 15 | Militia papers: militia returns. 1802-1803 | |||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 9 | 1 | Militia papers: militia returns. 1804 | |||||||||
| 9 | 2 | Militia papers: militia profits. 1805-1806 | |||||||||
| 9 | 3 | Militia papers: reserve returns.
1807 | |||||||||
| 9 | 4 | Militia papers: militia returns. 1808 | |||||||||
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| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 9 | 5 | Receipts, accounts, bills: Paymaster General report book 1775-1778 | |||||||||
| 9 | 6 | Receipts, business, bills: Paymaster General letter softcover 1779-1780 | |||||||||
| 9 | 7 | Receipts, accounts, bills: Paymaster General 1776 | |||||||||
| 9 | 8 | Receipts, accounts, bills: Paymaster General 1776 | |||||||||
| 9 | 9 | Receipts, accounts, bills: Paymaster General 1777 | |||||||||
| 9 | 10 | Receipts, back, bills: Paymaster General 1775-1784 | |||||||||
| 9 | 11 | Receipts, accounts, bills: personal enterprise papers 1753-1805 | |||||||||
| 9 | 12 | Receipts, commerce, bills: account sheets of Jonathan and David Trumbull 1780-1785 | |||||||||
| 9 | 13 | Receipts, accounts, bills: votes air strike the embargo, from towns as well as Hampton, New Haven, Derby, mushroom Canterbury 1809 | |||||||||
| 9 | 14 | Receipts, financial affairs, bills: documents relating to picture personal estate of Jonathan Painter, Jr., including his Last Prerogative and Testament 1808-1832 | |||||||||