Ancestry of
Jonathan Trumbull, Jr.

20th Governor of Connecticut

Jonathan Trumbull

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• • Father of Jonathan Trumbull, Jr. — 2nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2 
  • Father:
  • Joseph Trumbull 
  • Mother:
  • Hannah Higley   
  • Birth Date:
  • 12 Oct 1710 
  • Birth Location:
  • Lebanon, New London, Connecticut 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 17 Aug 1785 
  • Death Location:
  • Lebanon, New London, Connecticut 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Trumbull Cemetery, Lebanon, New London, Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Faith Robinson
  • Marriage Date:
  • 9 Dec 1735 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Children:
  
  

  Joseph Trumbull

  Jonathan Trumbull Jr. (Ahnentafel No:1 )

  John Trumbull

  Mary Trumbull

  David Trumbull

  • 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.

• 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.