Morning journal and courier., 1890-05-21

ed-1777-than he began recruiting Q com pauy under the following conditions, the original draft of which is still preserved among his papers,
 We whose names are underwritten enlist ourselves as volunteers for the service of the country in the present emergency for the term of ten days, or three weeks, if our ser vices shall be wanted SO long, to serve under such officers as shall be chosen by the com- pany of volunteers to which we join.
 January IS, 1777.
 To this regiment sixty mon of Mt. Carmel and North Haven affixed their names (for those of the latter town see No. Al and chose Mir. Trumbull captain and Joel Brad ley and John Gilbert of Mt. Carmel lieuten- ants. The little company was battalion in itself and 1t marched at once for the threat- ened point ''to assist in making an effort to destroy the enemy"
 We have no account of any collision be- tween the forces. The North Haven men under Lieutenant Gilbert were sent forward | to Mamaroneck, N. Y., while the balance of
 the company remained at Rye. They return ed home in . scattering manner according to
 the pay roll, and were discharged in the months of February and March.
 Two years of study and pastoral labor now ] followed. In July; 177o, General Tryon ap. | peared on the coast, and grasping his musket | the old veteran hurried to New Haven on
 horseback ready for the fray. Professor | Silliman relates that he took an active part in resisting the British generals advance, and it is traditionary that with his parishioner. Eliada Sanford, they tore up Neck bridge to prevent the snsmy's raid into the country.
 For the succeeding thirty years or more Dr. Trumbull closely followed his profession. In this interval he did his best work in study
 and pulpit. The war of 1872 came on and again the old fires of patriotism famed up
 within him. Says the Columbia Register of | n.k4I in. cv1ae h- ing of the building of tho fort on Beacon Hill:
 con Thursday one hundred men from the
 town of North Haven, under the direction of their Rev. Pastor Dr. Trumbull, the vener-
 able historian of Connecticut, 80 years of
 age, volunteered their services and spent the
 day in the same patriotic work. This aged
 minister addressed the throne of grace and
 implored the divine blessing on their under
 taking"
 A writer in the New York Evening Post of April go, 1889, in speaking of this distin-
 guished divine, cites an instance of ms de-
 scending from the pulpit on certain Lord'a
 day early in 1775 and turning up the ieaf oi
 the communion table invited his parlsnion
 CTS to enlist for the defense of their country.
 Forty six responded, 50 the story goes, and
 marched away to the northward. Such ar
 occurrence may have happened later in the
 war. either at the enlistment for the Rye campaign or at the volunteering to assist 1T
 the building of. the fort on frospecb niii
 but 1t is very doubtful if 30 large force ol {: North Haven men engaged thus early iu th' ; struggle. There is no mention in the Con
 necticut Record which would lead us to sup 7 pose such was the case.
 For the thousand incidents and anecdotes 3 real and traditfonary, concerning the hels seevice of the old doctor, these column 3 have no room. He was the leading spirit O 3 the parish, and the overwhelming enlist t ment of it's citizens was due to his enthu r asm and influence. In all, more than seven . ty inhabitants of the parish at one time ant another took up arms in defense of the colo
 nies, larger number in proportion to tn t population than any town in the county, na 8 in the state, has yet discovered on it's mus ! ter rolls 8 A writer in Sprsgue's Annals thus worthil sums up Dr. Trumbull's connection with th l American revolution: "From it's commence ) ment to its close he took the deepest interes and during much of the time an active par . in the struggle. And when the war was ter 3 minated he labored to fix on an endurin | basis and transmit to posterity what had bee
 so dearly acquired"
 l Note 1.-The names of Levi Ray and Thoms . Cooper should be added to Captain Trumbull 2PPThe name of Clement Futile in paper 4 should be stricken from the list as not North H' 8 ven man. ,,..- r, - :, Bakeslee and Isaac Dayton served in the arm. but the writer so far has been unable to find an 3 ! veriacation of the claim.
 a SHELDON B. THORPE.