Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-19
AN MLUsTRIoUs FAMILY

I those days: for it is recorded that the
 town appointed him committee to obtain from the General Assembly leave to hold and regulate fairs and
 market days; and they were heid l twice a year in Lebanon town. AS Hine puts it: These streets, now so 1! quiet, were a place of concourse and hustle. of exhibition and traffic. which
 the people of the snfreundihs d lowns from distance, TrurnbuH being en-
 gagged in wide comerce and large bus | mess"
 l After 174a, there was . renowned | school there, which Trurnbull was ac- | tive in establishing. It was controller by twelve proprietors and was kept Nathan TisdaIe. This school became l so Midely known that it had pupils | from the West Indies, from North and as from the more northern colonies At one time 1t had pupils from nine of the thirteen colonies.
 Tisdale was a. genius in his profess sion, says the historian, and carried 1.-the school to the highest stage of prosperity which it ever reached. This helped the intelligence and high
 character, the activity and pecuniary l thrift of the place.
 I As the result of this and other asen- 1 cies, the old town had for many | years some of its sons in courses of 1 liberal education, so that at the date ! when the Rev. Orlo D. Hine, father i of the present brainy and efficient
 secretary of the Connecticut State Board of Publication. Chas. D. Hine, l was pastor of the First church in l Lebanon. the Centennial Year, 1878. there was record that no less than
 122 sons of Lebanon had received | college degrees.
 I The strong interest in education | which long prevailed in the town ac- | counts for the fact that so many of I its sons and daughters have risen to erninence.
 From the first, the town was active, ] too, in military enterprises. While
 menaced by the Indians. the frontier towns and the Colony of Massachu- l setts were; so Lebanon was required l to aid in the common defense. As early as 17o9, Jedediah Strong, | one of tine original settlers, was killed ] in an expedition against the Indians, l near Albany. The Connecticut Col ony sent troops to the defense of the | county of Hampshire Mass, in which, 1 in 17e4. the Deerfeld massacre oc- l cured, and which was exposed to in- l cursions from the French and Indians.
 During 17oe, in an expedition | aganist Canada, in Queen Anns War, l the proportion of troops from Enis 1 colony was 147 and Lebanon's quota 1 eleven.
 1 In the wars in which the mother l country was engaged at this period, 1 the colonies were naturally involveds i in King Georges War; a war with France in 1774, in which Louisburg. on Cape Breton, a very strong place
 termed the Gibraltar of America. was | taken; in the French and Indian War. | which began in 1755 and ended in | 1763 with the conquest of the whole | seas were infested with hostile ships, and the colonists were exposed on | every side.
 The eoionists learned how to raise l troops, to equip and supply them, and i to tax themselves in order to pay | them; hence were in the most practi- | cal and important training for the | great crisis just before them. The l drums used at Bunker Hill were the same which had been used at the cap 1 ture of Louisburg Lebanon, a town was among the l foremost in the Colony in the part it | bore In these enterprises and military testings.
 It was in 173e that Jonathan Trun- Dull, then young, was commissioned Lfeutenant-Coionel of regiment l ada. He was afterwards Colonel and early had experience in recruiting, furnishing and moving troops. The people of the town were patriotic and 1 spirited
 On the surrender of Quebec, in 1759-they observed a general thanks giving, and a jubilant sermon preach ed by Dr. Solomon Williams was pub- l1shed. In it he called upon the people triumphantly to praise Him Who had given such success.
 Naturally, people thus trained, in such a temper, and having such lead CTS Jonathan Trumbu.l William Williams and others, were all ready when the mother country began to en- croach on the liberties of the Colonies, to resist and to maintain their rights. When, in October, 1765. Governor Fitch proposed to take the required oath to enforce the Stamp Act and called upon his Assistants" to ad- minister it to him, Trumbull was among those who resisted and re- The Governor urged that their al- 1 legiance to the king. the oath of office, l the safety of the charter of the Coli 1 ony, and their personal liberty de- manded that they administer the oath | and aid in the execution of the Act. 1
 
 But TrumhuIi was ready witt, the | reply, that the act was in derogation I of the rights of the colony; In viola ton of the common privileges of Eng i fish subjects, that they had also sworn | ito promote the public good and peace 1 of Connecticut, and to maintain all it's I they would treacherously sacrifice by | submitting to the demand now made | upon them.
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