February 6, 2008

Item of the Day: Jonathan Trumbull’s Letter to General Gage (1775)

Found In: The Gentleman’s Magazine; for June, 1775. [p.262]
 
Copy of a Letter to his Excellency Gen. GAGE from the Hon. JONATHAN TRUMBULL, Esq; governor of his Majesty’s Colony of Connecticut, in behalf of the General Assembly of said Colony.
Hartford, April 28, 1775.
SIR,
THE alarming situation of public affairs in this country, and the late unfortunate transactions [...]