Lebanon, Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut's whole Revolutionary War effort was run out of a house and a small office on this town's green.
Jonathan Trumbull was the only colonial governor to take the Patriots' side in the Revolution. He ran Connecticut's war effort from a small building on the Lebanon green and from his own home next door. His Council of Safety, which managed the affairs of the Continental Army, met more than eleven hundred times, mostly in Trumbull's house. He was also one of George Washington's chief quartermasters, paymaster general for the army's Northern Department, and the first comptroller of the new nation's treasury. His family went with him. One son was a colonel in the Continental Army. Another was Washington's secretary. A third served as a soldier and then as Washington's personal aide, and later painted the artwork that appears on the back of the two-dollar bill. Trumbull's son-in-law, William Williams, was born in Lebanon and signed the Declaration of Independence. The town still carries the nickname earned in those years: Heartbeat of the Revolution.
This is the first of 3 parts. The rest runs about 3 minutes and is read to you as you drive past. Hear the whole piece.
Trumbull was the only colonial governor to side with the Patriots during the Revolution.
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