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He has edited "Colonial Records of Connecticut" and "The Memorial History of Hartford County, Connecticut" (1886). Trumbull, John. Born at Westbury (the pres ent Water town), Conn., April 24, 1750: died at Detroit, Mich., May 10, 1831. An American lawyer and poet. He wrote the burlesque epic "McFinTimes" (1774), etc., and collaborated with Barlow and (1775) imitation of "Hudibras," "Elegy on others on the "Anarchiad." Trumbull, John. Born at Lebanon, Conn., June 6, 1756: died at New York city, Nov. 10, 1843. An American painter, son of Jonathan Trum bull. He served in the Revolutionary War, attaining the rank of colonel and deputy adjutant-general; studied in London under West, and on the Continent; and settled as a portrait-painter in New York in 1804. He gave a large collection of his paintings to Yale College. Among his works are portraits of Washington, Adams. Jefferson, and others, "Battle of Bunker Hill," "Death of Montgomery," four pictures in the rotunda of the Capitol at Washington "The Declaration of Independence," "The Surrender of Burgoyne," "The Surrender of Cornwall is," "The Resignation of Washington"), etc. Trumbull, Jonathan. Born at Lebanon, Conn., Oct. 12, 1710: died there, Aug. 17, 1785. An American magistrate and patriot. He was a Whig leader in New England during the Revolutionary period, and was governor of Connecticut 1769-83. He was a friend and adviser of Washington, and is said to have been the original "Brother Jonathan," that being Washington's familiar name for him. Trumbull, Jonathan. Born at Lebanon, Conn., March 26, 1740: died there, Aug. 7, 1809. An