enclosures, are received. That to Col Champion tion, Copies inclosed of my Letter of the 5th inst, was immediately sent to his house by a safe hand. I have delayed your messenger one day in hopes of seeing the Col-probably he was not at home. In addition to your account of salted provisions, you may set down 100 bbs of Pork, we have directed him to take and forward out of the Stores of this State. We have 2 or 300 more that will not be witheld, where most needed. Beef is bettering every day. Now is the pinching time; The Army, & my Son, feel the effects of the new regulation of the Commissariate; the former in danger for want of supplies that ought to have been made the last season the latter very weak and feeble, principally caused by the treatment he met. hope & trust both will recover the shock. Nothing will be wanting from this State, or those concerned in supplies, to make them adequate - The Troops of this State will come in fast. Heaven hath wrought marvellous things for us. May Please to send by Mr Brown two or three doz. strength and vigor be given to extirpate our cruel of Blanks for Commissions, Instructions and and insidious Enemies. May their vile policy and Bonds for privateer Ships. evil designs be baffled. There can be no solidity in any offers the British Commissioners can make. The plan is evidently to divide and distract our Councils; to unite the opposite parties in England, to bring into Administration, La Chatham and Shel- Honble PRESIDENT LAURENS burne; to declare no war with France; to send over Reinforcements, to wreak their vengeance on America. Our Heavenly Protector, I trust, will spare and defend us. to Maj. General Sullivan, & of my two, of the 18th and 26th inst. to Maj. General Gates;—trust our doings to fill our quota for the Continental Army, for defence of the North River-and proposalls for the State of Rhode Island, will meet approbation. The British King and Parliament continue uniform in their line of conduct towards the Colonies; they mistake our understandings, as at first they did our Resolution. May the supream director of all events give wisdom in Council, Strength and vigour in the Field; cause this new rising Empire to take deep root, to grow, flourish and to become a praise in the I Earth. Sustinet, qui Transtulit. Every branch in the true vine, that beareth not fruit, our heavenly Father taketh away, and every branch that beareth fruit he purgeth, that it may bring forth more fruit. Your Aid, Mr Hughes, was with me, and went Honble Maj' GENERAL Gates. SIR, LEBANON, 29th June 1778. YOUR Letter of the 5th inst, with the inclosure was delivered by Mr Skinner laid before the General Assembly. The Act for regulation of Prices, suspended, until the rising of the Assembly in October next. Your other Letters of the 9th and 10th inst., with the inciosures, are received. A general Embargo, with penalties, was laid by an Act of the General Assembly in the Sessions of May....the powers of Government will be vigorously exercised to carry into effectual execution this most necessary and salutary measure. I am, with sincere Esteem & Regard, Private SIR, LEBANON, 29th June 1778. ON information that my son Joseph Trumbull, late Commissary General, from fatigue beyond his strength, being dangerously ill, Lord's day mornning 14th instant, I left Hartford, and came to Norwich; found him better than my fears. He is in a feeble condition, easily overset. I visited him the 22d instant, and left him on the gaining hand. He prays his best compliments to you, and gratefully acknowledges the receipt of your late letters. Hope he will be able so far to attend his Accounts, as to send his Cash Accounts. Mr. Hoskins, his head clerk, and others employed in his Accounts, are busy on them—not to equal advantage without his assistance. 'Tis easy to conceive that in two years and half supplies of the Army, they are large and extensive. He had reduced his business into method, and got into a good train. From the Fatigues of his business, but chiefly the trouble, sorrow, and grief for the treatment he received after all, broke his Constitution; bro't him next door to death, and renders his recovery Our Delegates transmitted a Resolve of Con- doubtful; -former health and strength never to be gress 13th inst., requesting the States of New Hamp-expected. shire, Massachusetts-Bay and Connecticut, imme- His experience taught him the incongruity and diately to raise their quota of Troops to be under impracticability of the new regulation of the Comthe command of Maj General Sullivan, for relief missariate; After experience teacheth us, he was of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plan- right. The Army feel its bad effects to this day. tations. I beg leave to refer to your Considera- It grieves him to the heart to be branded with the opprobrium of distrust. I beg leave to ask why he is left without means to pay the purchasers he employed, to enable them to pay their debts, and settle their accounts with him? Are we not all servants of the public? why should one servant, without apparent reason, distrust another? I beg leave to enclose my Speech to the General Assembly of Connecticut, at last May Sessions. In it you will find my sentiments fully and truly expressed on the subject it con tains. I have the honour to be, with truth and JONth TRUMBULL. SPEECH OF GOV. TRUMBULL. GENTLEMEN of the Council: Mr Speaker: Gentlemen of the house of representatives: It is with deference that I mention the Subject which induceth me to stay you at this time. With gratitude to our Sovereign Lord, Protector & Father, & to you my brethren, I do cordially acknowledge, the Honor, benignity and goodness shewed me in the course of my being one of your number, notwithstanding my weakness and unworthiness. rived therefrom, to each State, whose support, de fence, Security and Asylum, its nature and inst tution forms. At the same time, that it is th fruitful source of decency, decorum, good orde and every terrestrial blessing, especially to the poc and weak who ought to find beneath its shade an protection, a sweet peace and tranquility not to k interrupted or disturbed. An Act of this Assen bly made and passed this time twelve month, o dered the stile of IIis Excellency to be given th Governor of this State. This savouring too muc of High-Titles, and not beneficial, may it not ho orably be repealed? It passed without any pr vious knowledge, expectation, or desire. Askin pardon from you, and from my successors, I d sincerely request its repeal. It is Honor and Happiness enough to meet th approbation of Heaven, of my own Conscienc and of my Brethren. I take this opportunity to add, That the Statut Laws of this State need to be revised, and forme agreeably to our present condition. Is it not be to appoint a Committee for that End? SIR, JON TRUMBull. LEBANON, 10th Decem. 1778. YOUR esteemed favor of the 10th of last mont] is now before me. I feel a pleasure in the est The great end of Government is the Security, mation you express of the services of my late so Wellfare and Peace of the People; that they may the first Commissary General. My own though lead quiet and peaceable lives, in all Godliness and have often turned in the same strain; and Honesty; therefore the great object of Govern- fondly think still, that the disadvantages accruin ment is Piety and Virtue. Honor and Wealth are to the States, in consequence of his being oblige not the objects; the former is productive of many to leave that service, is not overrated by your est evils; the latter, the occasion of Covetousness, Op- mation-but that is passed. He is gone. I no pression, fraud and injustice, with their concomi- only wait for that justice I think is due his Estat tants. Piety towards God, and moral excellence from the public, for those services he actually pe amongst men, are the sure foundations of Holiness formed. I observe, in your letter, a stroke rela & Happiness. High sounding Titles intoxicate the ing to the adjustment of the Accounts. From th mind, ingenerate envy, and breed disorders in ill state of health in which the Commissary Gen a Commonwealth, and ought therefore to be avoided. It is the Lord hath made the Separation of the Colonies from Great Britain, and laid the foundation of these rising United States. It becomes them to put away and avoid every thing incongruous with their great object and tending to their hurt. ral left the Army, from the increase of his diso ders after his retirement, and the long and s vere conflict he endured, with a complication of di eases untill his death, Congress may easily for to themselves an excuse for the accounts not ha ing been adjusted by him. The unavoidable dif culties attending an adjustment by his Administr tor, utterly unacquainted with the accounts, The Amiable and Salutary Constitution of Gov- gentleman, versed in business, can be ignorant c ernment made and ratified in this State from its A delay must therefore now be reasonably e beginning; and I wish to see, or rather hope, simi- pected. I have the pleasure, however, to inform lar Constitutions may be established in all the that his Cash Account is in a fair way to be pro United States of America. Its true grandeur and erly prepared for settlement, and that their a solid Glory do not consist in high Titles, splen- pearance, allowing for times & circumstances i dour, pomp and magnificence, nor in reverence which the business was conducted, is favorable b and exterior honor, paid to their Governors and yond expectation. These accounts, which are sta Rulers, but in the real and solid advantages de-ling and collecting by my son, Mr Jonathan Trun enclosures, are received. That to Col' Champion | tion, Copies inclosed of my Letter of the 5th inst, was immediately sent to his house by a safe hand. to Maj. General Sullivan, & of my two, of the 18th I have delayed your messenger one day in hopes and 26th inst. to Maj. General Gates;-trust our of seeing the Col'— probably he was not at home. doings to fill our quota for the Continental Army, In addition to your account of salted provisions, for defence of the North River-and proposalls for you may set down 100 bbs of Pork, we have di- the State of Rhode Island, will meet approbation. rected him to take and forward out of the Stores The British King and Parliament continue uniof this State. We have 2 or 300 bls more that will form in their line of conduct towards the Colonies; not be witheld, where most needed. Beef is bet- they mistake our understandings, as at first they tering every day. Now is the pinching time; The did our Resolution. Army, & my Son, feel the effects of the new regu- May the supream director of all events give lation of the Commissariate; the former in danger wisdom in Council, Strength and vigour in the for want of supplies that ought to have been made Field; cause this new rising Empire to take deep the last season - the latter very weak and feeble, root, to grow, flourish and to become a praise in the principally caused by the treatment he met. I Earth. Sustinet, qui Transtulit. Every branch hope & trust both will recover the shock. Noth- in the true vine, that beareth not fruit, our heavening will be wanting from this State, or those con- ly Father taketh away, and every branch that cerned in supplies, to make them adequate · The beareth fruit he purgeth, that it may bring forth Troops of this State will come in fast. Heaven more fruit. I am, with sincere Esteem & Regard, hath wrought marvellous things for us. May Please to send by Mr Brown two or three doz. strength and vigor be given to extirpate our cruel of Blanks for Commissions, Instructions and and insidious Enemies. May their vile policy and Bonds for privateer Ships. evil designs be baffled. There can be no solidity in any offers the British Commissioners can make. The plan is evidently to divide and distract our Councils; to unite the opposite parties in England, to bring into Administration, La Chatham and Shel- Honble PRESIDENT Laurens burne; to declare no war with France; to send over Reinforcements, to wreak their vengeance on America. Our Heavenly Protector, I trust, will spare and defend us. YOUR Letter of the 5th inst, with the inclosure was delivered by Mr Skinner — laid before the General Assembly. The Act for regulation of Prices, suspended, until the rising of the Assembly in October next. Your other Letters of the 9th and 10th inst., with the inclosures, are received. A general Embargo, with penalties, was laid by an Act of the General Assembly in the Sessions of May....the powers of Government will be vigorously exercised to carry into effectual execution this most necessary and salutary measure. Private SIR, JON TRUMBULL. LEBANON, 29th June 1778. ON information that my son Joseph Trumbull, late Commissary General, from fatigue beyond his strength, being dangerously ill, Lord's day mornning 14th instant, I left Hartford, and came to Norwich; found him better than my fears. He is in a feeble condition, easily overset. I visited him the 22d instant, and left him on the gaining hand. He prays his best compliments to you, and gratefully acknowledges the receipt of your late letters. Hope he will be able so far to attend his Accounts, as to send his Cash Accounts. Mr. Hoskins, his head clerk, and others employed in his Accounts, are busy on them—not to equal advantage without his assistance. 'Tis easy to conceive that in two years and half supplies of the Army, they are large and extensive. He had reduced his business into method, and got into a good train. From the Fatigues of his business, but chiefly the trouble, sorrow, and grief for the treatment he received after all, broke his Constitution; bro't him next door to death, and renders his recovery doubtful; —former health and strength never to be Our Delegates transmitted a Resolve of Congress 13th inst., requesting the States of New Hamp-expected. shire, Massachusetts-Bay and Connecticut, imme- His experience taught him the incongruity and diately to raise their quota of Troops to be under impracticability of the new regulation of the Comthe command of Maj General Sullivan, for relief missariate; After experience teacheth us, he was of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plan- right. The Army feel its bad effects to this day. tations. I beg leave to refer to your Considera- It grieves him to the heart to be branded with the opprobrium of distrust. I beg leave to ask why he rived therefrom, to each State, whose support, de is left without means to pay the purchasers he em- fence, Security and Asylum, its nature and inst ployed, to enable them to pay their debts, and set-tution forms. At the same time, that it is th tle their accounts with him? fruitful source of decency, decorum, good orde Are we not all servants of the public? why and every terrestrial blessing, especially to the poo should one servant, without apparent reason, dis- and weak who ought to find beneath its shade an trust another? I beg leave to enclose my Speech protection, a sweet peace and tranquility not to b to the General Assembly of Connecticut, at last interrupted or disturbed. An Act of this Assen May Sessions. In it you will find my sentiments bly made and passed this time twelve month, of fully and truly expressed on the subject it con- dered the stile of His Excellency to be given th Governor of this State. This savouring too muc of High-Titles, and not beneficial, may it not ho orably be repealed? It passed without any pr vious knowledge, expectation, or desire. Askin pardon from you, and from my successors, I d sincerely request its repeal. tains. I have the honour to be, with truth and JONth TRUMBULL. Honble HENRY LAURENS Esquire. SPEECH OF GOV. TRUMBULL. GENTLEMEN of the Council: Mr Speaker: Gentlemen of the house of representatives: It is with deference that I mention the Subject which induceth me to stay you at this time. It is Honor and Happiness enough to meet th approbation of Heaven, of my own Conscienc and of my Brethren. I take this opportunity to add, That the Statut Laws of this State need to be revised, and forme agreeably to our present condition. Is it not be to appoint a Committee for that End? SIR, JON TRUMBULL. LEBANON, 10th Decem. 1778. With gratitude to our Sovereign Lord, Protector & Father, & to you my brethren, I do cordially acknowledge, the Honor, benignity and goodness shewed me in the course of my being one of your number, notwithstanding my weakness and YOUR esteemed favor of the 10th of last mont] unworthiness. is now before me. I feel a pleasure in the est The great end of Government is the Security, mation you express of the services of my late so Wellfare and Peace of the People; that they may the first Commissary General. My own though lead quiet and peaceable lives, in all Godliness and have often turned in the same strain; and Honesty; therefore the great object of Govern- fondly think still, that the disadvantages accruin ment is Piety and Virtue. Honor and Wealth are to the States, in consequence of his being oblige not the objects; the former is productive of many to leave that service, is not overrated by your est evils; the latter, the occasion of Covetousness, Op-mation-but that is passed. He is gone. pression, fraud and injustice, with their concomi- only wait for that justice I think is due his Estat tants. Piety towards God, and moral excellence from the public, for those services he actually pe amongst men, are the sure foundations of Holiness formed. I observe, in your letter, a stroke rela & Happiness. High sounding Titles intoxicate the ing to the adjustment of the Accounts. From th mind, ingenerate envy, and breed disorders in ill state of health in which the Commissary Gen a Commonwealth, and ought therefore to be avoided. It is the Lord hath made the Separation of the Colonies from Great Britain, and laid the foundation of these rising United States. It becomes them to put away and avoid every thing incongruous with their great object and tending to their hurt. I no ral left the Army, from the increase of his diso ders after his retirement, and the long and s vere conflict he endured, with a complication of di eases untill his death, Congress may easily for to themselves an excuse for the accounts not ha ing been adjusted by him. The unavoidable dif culties attending an adjustment by his Administr tor, utterly unacquainted with the accounts, r The Amiable and Salutary Constitution of Gov- gentleman, versed in business, can be ignorant c ernment made and ratified in this State from its A delay must therefore now be reasonably e beginning; and I wish to see, or rather hope, simi- pected. I have the pleasure, however, to inform lar Constitutions may be established in all the that his Cash Account is in a fair way to be pro United States of America. Its true grandeur and erly prepared for settlement, and that their a solid Glory do not consist in high Titles, splen- pearance, allowing for times & circumstances i dour, pomp and magnificence, nor in reverence which the business was conducted, is favorable b and exterior honor, paid to their Governors and yond expectation. These accounts, which are sta Rulers, but in the real and solid advantages de-ling and collecting by my son, Mr Jonathan Trun enclosures, are received. That to Col Champion | tion, Copies inclosed of my Letter of the 5th inst, was immediately sent to his house by a safe hand. to Maj. General Sullivan, & of my two, of the 18th I have delayed your messenger one day in hopes and 26th inst. to Maj. General Gates;- trust our of seeing the Col-probably he was not at home. doings to fill our quota for the Continental Army, In addition to your account of salted provisions, for defence of the North River-and proposalls for you may set down 100 bbs of Pork, we have di- the State of Rhode Island, will meet approbation. rected him to take and forward out of the Stores The British King and Parliament continue uniof this State. We have 2 or 300 bls more that will form in their line of conduct towards the Colonies; not be witheld, where most needed. Beef is bet- they mistake our understandings, as at first they tering every day. Now is the pinching time; The did our Resolution. Army, & my Son, feel the effects of the new regu- May the supream director of all events give lation of the Commissariate; the former in danger wisdom in Council, Strength and vigour in the for want of supplies that ought to have been made Field; cause this new rising Empire to take deep the last season the latter very weak and feeble, root, to grow, flourish and to become a praise in the principally caused by the treatment he met. I Earth. Sustinet, qui Transtulit. Every branch hope & trust both will recover the shock. Noth- in the true vine, that beareth not fruit, our heavening will be wanting from this State, or those con- ly Father taketh away, and every branch that cerned in supplies, to make them adequate The beareth fruit he purgeth, that it may bring forth Troops of this State will come in fast. Heaven more fruit. I am, with sincere Esteem & Regard, hath wrought marvellous things for us. May Please to send by Mr Brown two or three doz. strength and vigor be given to extirpate our cruel of Blanks for Commissions, Instructions and and insidious Enemies. May their vile policy and Bonds for privateer Ships. evil designs be baffled. There can be no solidity in any offers the British Commissioners can make. The plan is evidently to divide and distract our Councils; to unite the opposite parties in England, to bring into Administration, La Chatham and Shel- Honble PRESIDENT LAURENS burne; to declare no war with France; to send over Reinforcements, to wreak their vengeance on America. Our Heavenly Protector, I trust, will spare and defend us. YOUR Letter of the 5th inst, with the inclosure was delivered by Mr Skinner laid before the General Assembly. The Act for regulation of Prices, suspended, until the rising of the Assembly in October next. Your other Letters of the 9th and 10th inst., with the inclosures, are received. A general Embargo, with penalties, was laid by an Act of the General Assembly in the Sessions of May....the powers of Government will be vigorously exercised to carry into effectual execution this most necessary and salutary measure. Private SIR, JONth TRUMBULL. LEBANON, 29th June 1778. ON information that my son Joseph Trumbull, late Commissary General, from fatigue beyond his strength, being dangerously ill, Lord's day mornning 14th instant, I left Hartford, and came to Norwich; found him better than my fears. He is in a feeble condition, easily overset. I visited him the 22d instant, and left him on the gaining hand. He prays his best compliments to you, and gratefully acknowledges the receipt of your late letters. Hope he will be able so far to attend his Accounts, as to send his Cash Accounts. Mr. Hoskins, his head clerk, and others employed in his Accounts, are busy on them—not to equal advantage without his assistance. 'Tis easy to conceive that in two years and half supplies of the Army, they are large and extensive. He had reduced his business into method, and got into a good train. From the Fatigues of his business, but chiefly the trouble, sorrow, and grief for the treatment he received after all, broke his Constitution; bro't him next door to death, and renders his recovery doubtful;-former health and strength never to be expected. Our Delegates transmitted a Resolve of Congress 13th inst., requesting the States of New Hampshire, Massachusetts-Bay and Connecticut, imme- His experience taught him the incongruity and diately to raise their quota of Troops to be under impracticability of the new regulation of the Comthe command of Maj General Sullivan, for relief missariate; After experience teacheth us, he was of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plan- right. The Army feel its bad effects to this day. tations. I beg leave to refer to your Considera- It grieves him to the heart to be branded with the |