Jonathan trumbull sr biography of christopher columbus

  • Background and Early Life.

    • Historic Sites & Cemeteries

    Lebanon Green


    Old farm houses line the highways leading to Lebanon in eastern Connecticut between Norwich and Willimantic, where the town center resembles many picturesque New England villages with a library, churches and town hall clustered around the historic Green, a center of activity during the Revolutionary War. Read More... 

    Jonathan Trumbull Jr. House Museum

    Jonathan Trumbull Jr. (1740-1809), son of Connecticut's Revolutionary War Governor, served as General George Washington's secretary during the American Revolution and was later governor of Connecticut from 1797-1809. His elegant home with its hand-carved paneling and corner fireplaces is the house where Washington spent the night of March 4, 1781. The house (ca. 1769) is located in the Lebanon Green National Register District, at 780 Trumbull Highway (Route 87), Lebanon, Connecticut. The museum is owned and operated by the Lebanon Historical Society. Read More...

    Colonial Cemeteries

    There are close to two dozen cemeteries in Lebanon, many dating back to the pre-Revolution Era. These include the Trumbull, Exeter, and Goshen Cemeteries. Among the famous individuals buried here are Gov. Jonathan Trumbull and Declaration of Independence signatory William Williams. The gravestones themselves are also noteworthy, providing incredible examples of the colonial stone carving tradition unique to Eastern Connecticut. Read More... 

    Gov. Jonathan Trumbull House & Wadsworth Stable


    Gov. Jonathan Trumbull House


    Wadsworth Stable

    These buildings, located on the West Town Street side of the Lebanon Green, are significant for their roles in the Revolutionary War. The home was owned by Revolution-era governor of Connecticut Jonathan Trumbull and was the site of many important meetings. The stable was once used to board George Washington’s horses. Read More... 

    The War Office

    This small, red building may seem unassuming from the outside

    Christopher Columbus’ Marian Mission

    We all know Christopher Columbus discovered America in 1492, but have we ever heard about the connection the explorer had with the Blessed Mother?

    As we celebrate her memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary on Oct. 7 and Columbus Day on Oct. 12, the connection has monumental implications for our country.

    In 1992, Jesuit Father John Hardon gave a series of exceptional talks on Columbus for the 500th anniversary of the Catholic discovery of America. He brought to light many vital facts overlooked or ignored by secular historians.

    “The underlying motive of Columbus’ historic voyage was the conversion of those who did not know Christ as the living Son of God and son of Mary,” stressed Father Hardon. “Throughout the log, Columbus makes it clear he and his men are sailing across the Atlantic to spread the good news of salvation and convert the natives to Christianity.”

    Columbus was deeply devoted to Our Lady. His writings disclose childlike dependence on her. He named his flagship the Santa Maria — Holy Mary. A favorite prayer was “May Jesus with Mary be with us on the way.” For safety in a storm he promised his first act of thanksgiving on returning home would be a pilgrimage to the shrine of Santa María de Guadalupe in southern Spain.

    In his major work on Columbus, Admiral of the Ocean Sea (Little, Brown & Co., 1991), Samuel Eliot Morison describes all hands on Columbus’ ships praying together daily, closing the day singing the Salve Regina (Hail, Holy Queen).

    Nor is this just interesting but irrelevant trivia, Father Hardon insisted in his talks on Columbus. “No less than the America discovered by Columbus had to be evangelized, America today has to be re-evangelized,” he said. “It is our God-given obligation, as believing and practicing Catholics in America to not only commemorate the discovery of the New World. We are to cooperate with God in the spiritual rebuilding of our country.”

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    Trumbull County was always the county just to the north of Youngstown. What many of us didn’t know was that for nearly the first fifty years of Youngstown’s existence, until 1846, Youngstown was part of Trumbull County. Trumbull County was created in 1800, and at one time was the county of the Western Reserve with its county seat in Warren. In reading Joseph Lambert, Jr’s The Political Transformation of David Tod, I discovered that David Tod, who we so often associate with either Brier Hill or the Governor’s Mansion, spent the first half of his adult life in Warren as lawyer, councilman, mayor, and state senator.

    Eventually a number of counties were formed out of Trumbull County, including Mahoning County, in 1846. Canfield was the county seat until it was moved to Youngstown after a court battle, in 1876. But where did the Trumbull name come from?

    Jonathan Trumbull, Jr. Strictly speaking, the county was named after the governor of Connecticut at the time the county was formed. He was governor of Connecticut from 1797 until his death in 1809. He was General Washington’s aide de camp with the rank of Lt. Colonel during the Revolutionary War. He was in the House of Representatives from 1789-1796, serving as the second Speaker of the House, and a US Senator the following year.

    Jonathan Trumbull, Sr. The father of Jonathan Trumbull, Jr., he was Governor of the Connecticut Colony from 1769 to 1776. He refused General Gage’s request for assistance at Lexington and Concord, throwing his support behind General Washington. He continued as governor until 1784, dying of a stroke the following year. He played an important role in asserting the state’s claims to its western territories, forming the County of Westmoreland in what is now Pennsylvania in 1776. Then on November 15, 1783, Governor Trumbull issued a proclamation protecting Connecticut’s rights to “all lands by virtue of the charter granted by King Charles”.

  • Columbus was deeply devoted to

    • The Society of the Cincinnati in the State of Connecticut

    History

    In 1783 at their encampment near Newburgh, New York, the officers of the Continental Army formed an association which, despite their stated intentions, they probably did not believe would last for two hundred years. 1983 marks the bicentennial of the founding of the Society of the Cincinnati an organization of male descendants of the men who served as commissioned officers of the Continental Army in the American Revolution. Today, it is considered the senior hereditary and patriotic society in the United States. Founded at a critical period in the history of America, the Society was to be the center of controversy for much of its early history. Its critics believed, primarily because of the provision for the admittance of descendants of original members, that it was a scheme to create a class of hereditary nobility in the Republic. The controversy was so intense in many states, including Connecticut, that some societies were forced to disband and were not re-activated until late in the nineteenth century. Connecticut was reactivated in 1895.

    An article on this subject from the pen of Catherine T. Manning appeared in the Winter 1978 issue of MY COUNTRY… (updated in 2024)

    The Society of the Cincinnati was formed in response to several concerns expressed by officers of the Continental Army quartered at the cantonment at New Windsor, New York, in the Spring of 1783. The initiator of the Society was General Henry Knox. chief of artillery for the army. There is some evidence that General Knox had long had in mind the formation of some sort of organization for officers of the Continental Army which would continue after the cessation of the conflict and the disbanding of the armed forces. Thomas Jefferson noted in his diary for March 16, 1788, “Knox in conversation with John Adams as early as 1776 expressed a wish for some ribbon to wear in his hat or button-hole to transmit to his desc