JONATHAN TRUMBULL

Address to the Advanced Scholars of the Public Schools at Hartford, December 3, 1897After giving up his ministerial profession, into which he had been licensed, and in which a call had been extended to him by the Colchester church, he devoted himself to gen eral literature, and especially to the study of history and jurisprudence. When but twenty-three years old he was sent to the legislature by his fellow-citizens of Lebanon, and later was sent to the assembly for four years in suc cession and in the last of these years, 1739, he was chosen speaker of the House. In 1740 he was chosen an assistant, an office corresponding somewhat to our modern State sen ator, although of much larger sphere of duty and power. Such distinguished honors to so young a man, in a period when reverence for age was cultivated to a higher degree than it is to-day, is significant of the universal esteem in which he was held in the colony.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.