J. Trumbull Rare Signed Prisoner Parole For "arms against the united States," Penned By Dec. Signer W. Williams!
Jonathan Trumbull, Sr.
Lebanon, CT, March 25, 1778
J. Trumbull Rare Signed Prisoner Parole For "arms against the united States," Penned By Dec. Signer W. Williams!
MDS
Jonathan Trumbull, Sr. (1710-1785). A manuscript document signed, "Jonth Trumbull," as governor of Connecticut, 1p, 8" x 12.25", Lebanon, Connecticut, March 25, 1778. Docketing at verso. Flattened folds with some separation and loss. Creasing, wrinkling, and chipping to edges. A few areas of ink erosion. Age toning and scattered foxing. Ghosting of text at lower portion. In very good condition.
Written in the hand of American Founding Father William Williams (1731-1811). Williams was a merchant, a delegate for Connecticut to the Continental Congress in 1776, a signatory to the United States Declaration of Independence, and the son-in-law of Jonathan Trumbull, Sr.
In full:
"State of Connecticut
By his Excellency the Governor
Mr. John Ireland an Inhabitant of long Island in the State of New York & there taken Prisoner in arms against the united States, & now kept & residing within this State is hereby indulged & permitted to return to said long Island & to New York, for the purpose of procuring necessary Cloathing, transacting & selling some lawful & necessary Belongings, on giving his Parole in comon form, & to return & deliver Himself to the sd Comisa. General of Prisoners in this State within Thirty Days from the Dated of sd Parole.
Given under my Hand at Lebanon in sd State, by & with the advice of the Council of Safety, the 25th Day of March AD 1778
[signed] Jonth Trumbull."
Jonathan Trumbull was an American politician who served as the governor of Connecticut during the American Revolution. He was one of only two men to serve as governor of both a British colony and a U.S. state, and he was the only governor to take up the Patriot cause at the start of the Revolutionary War. Trumbull College at Yale University, the town of Trumbull, Connecticut, and Trumbull County, Ohio, which was originally part of the Connecticut Western Reserve, are all named for him.
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Jonathan Trumbull, Sr.
Lebanon, CT, March 25, 1778
J. Trumbull Rare Signed Prisoner Parole For "arms against the united States," Penned By Dec. Signer W. Williams!
MDS
Jonathan Trumbull, Sr. (1710-1785). A manuscript document signed, "Jonth Trumbull," as governor of Connecticut, 1p, 8" x 12.25", Lebanon, Connecticut, March 25, 1778. Docketing at verso. Flattened folds with some separation and loss. Creasing, wrinkling, and chipping to edges. A few areas of ink erosion. Age toning and scattered foxing. Ghosting of text at lower portion. In very good condition.
Written in the hand of American Founding Father William Williams (1731-1811). Williams was a merchant, a delegate for Connecticut to the Continental Congress in 1776, a signatory to the United States Declaration of Independence, and the son-in-law of Jonathan Trumbull, Sr.
In full:
"State of Connecticut
By his Excellency the Governor
Mr. John Ireland an Inhabitant of long Island in the State of New York & there taken Prisoner in arms against the united States, & now kept & residing within this State is hereby indulged & permitted to return to said long Island & to New York, for the purpose of procuring necessary Cloathing, transacting & selling some lawful & necessary Belongings, on giving his Parole in comon form, & to return & deliver Himself to the sd Comisa. General of Prisoners in this State within Thirty Days from the Dated of sd Parole.
Given under my Hand at Lebanon in sd State, by & with the advice of the Council of Safety, the 25th Day of March AD 1778
[signed] Jonth Trumbull."
Jonathan Trumbull was an American politician who served as the governor of Connecticut during the American Revolution. He was one of only two men to serve as governor of both a British colony and a U.S. state, and he was the only governor to take up the Patriot cause at the start of the Revolutionary War. Trumbull College at Yale University, the town of Trumbull, Connecticut, and Trumbull County, Ohio, which was originally part of the Connecticut Western Reserve, are all named for him.
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