Ancestry of
Jonathan Trumbull
16th Governor of Connecticut
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- 1st Generation
- Ahnentafel No:
- 1
- Father:
- Joseph Trumbull
- Mother:
- Hannah Higley
- Birth Date:
- 12 Oct 1710
- Birth Location:
- Lebanon, New London, Connecticut
- Christening Date:
- Christening Location:
- Death Date:
- 17 Aug 1785
- Death Location:
- Lebanon, New London, Connecticut
- Burial Date:
- Burial Location:
- Trumbull Cemetery, Lebanon, New London, Connecticut
- Notes:
16th Governor of Connecticut.
Governor of the Colony of Connecticut, 1769-1776, Governor of Connecticut, 1776-1784
Prior to Uncle Sam there was the term Brother Jonathan which was originally a mildly derisive term used to describe American patriots. A myth is that the term originally referred to Jonathan Trumbull, but this is currently believed not to be true.
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Marriages for Jonathan Trumbull
- Spouse:
- Faith Robinson
- Marriage Date:
- 9 Dec 1735
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Sources for Jonathan Trumbull
- 1 Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Lebanon, p. 168, Birth record for son Jonathan Trumbull.
- 2 Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A116490.
- 3 Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 20 AUG 2012).
- 4 New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1903, Vol. 57, p. 270.
- 5 Alcott, Amos Bronson, New Connecticut: An Autobiographical Poem, Boston: Privately Printed (1881), 79.
- 6 Johnson, Mary Coffin, The Higleys and their Ancestry: An Old Colonial Family, New York: D. Appleton and Company (1896), 110.
- 7 Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#58 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: Elizabeth Boyd Roberts: A Genealogical Tribute with 50 New . . .", (accessed 07/06/2017).
- 8 Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 28.
- 9 Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 243, 770.
- 10 Trumbull, Jonathan, Jonathan Trumbull, Governor of Connecticut, 1769-1784, Boston: Little, Brown and Company (1919).
- 11 Wikipedia, "Jonathan Trumbull", (accessed 20 AUG 2012).
- 12 Williams, Alicia Crane, ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 16, Part 1, Family of John Alden, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (1999), 214.