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FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR – TRUMBULL, Jonathan (1710-1785). Autograph document signed (“Jonth Trumbule Colo of ye 12th Regiment”) Lebanon, [Conn.], 12 August 1757.
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FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR – TRUMBULL, Jonathan (1710-1785). Autograph document signed (“Jonth Trumbule Colo of ye 12th Regiment”) Lebanon, [Conn.], 12 August 1757.
One page, 312 x 190 mm. Minor chips along right and bottom margins affecting a few words of text.
Responding to the fall of Fort William Henry – immortalized in Cooper’s Last of the Mohicans – Jonathan Trumbull issues an urgent call to mobilize the Connecticut militia against the French.
An impassioned plea by the future governor of Connecticut, then a colonel in the Connecticut militia, responding to a panicked call for reinforcements by General Daniel Webb, commanding Fort Edward. Trumbull sounds the alarm to raise the Connecticut militia: “By Advices from General Webb, Communicated by the Honble James Delancey Esqr. Lt Govr of new York & from David Witney Colo— from Connecticut; Fort Wm henry surrendered from the Enemy the 9th— of August instant, & the Night following Fort Edward was Attacked; & that This Loss & further Attempt rendered it Absolutely Necessary that all The Assistance that Can be Spared be dispatched from the Neighbouring Governments for the Preservation of the Country & to Prevent ... Devastation being spread over it & desiring with the Greatest Speed, so great a Number of the Militia as can be sent from this Colony; Every man besides his Arms & Ammunition bringing with him, as much provisions as he can Conveniently Carry... “ After ordering a litany of specific orders, Trumbull “exhorted” the militia “to be in all possible Readiness to Act & Exert themselves in the Defence of Their Country & to Go for the relief Succour & Assistance of his Majesty’s Subjects...”
The reaction to the report was swift. Nearly a quarter of Connecticut’s militia, some 5,000 men, responded to the alarm. Massachusetts mobilized nearly 7,000. By the time Trumbull issued this order, nearly 5,000 New Englanders were already encamped outside Fort Edward’s palisades awaiting the anticipated French advance, and more would follow in subsequent days. The alarm would soon pass as intelligence indicated that Montcalm, lacking sufficient provisions, was destroying Fort William Henry and withdrawing northward. While the alarm proved expensive—consuming approximately a third of the military expenditures for the year—the New England colonies “had demonstrated a capacity to respond to a military emergency without parallel in the English-speaking world.” (Anderson, Crucible of War, p.201).
One page, 312 x 190 mm. Minor chips along right and bottom margins affecting a few words of text.
Responding to the fall of Fort William Henry – immortalized in Cooper’s Last of the Mohicans – Jonathan Trumbull issues an urgent call to mobilize the Connecticut militia against the French.
An impassioned plea by the future governor of Connecticut, then a colonel in the Connecticut militia, responding to a panicked call for reinforcements by General Daniel Webb, commanding Fort Edward. Trumbull sounds the alarm to raise the Connecticut militia: “By Advices from General Webb, Communicated by the Honble James Delancey Esqr. Lt Govr of new York & from David Witney Colo— from Connecticut; Fort Wm henry surrendered from the Enemy the 9th— of August instant, & the Night following Fort Edward was Attacked; & that This Loss & further Attempt rendered it Absolutely Necessary that all The Assistance that Can be Spared be dispatched from the Neighbouring Governments for the Preservation of the Country & to Prevent ... Devastation being spread over it & desiring with the Greatest Speed, so great a Number of the Militia as can be sent from this Colony; Every man besides his Arms & Ammunition bringing with him, as much provisions as he can Conveniently Carry... “ After ordering a litany of specific orders, Trumbull “exhorted” the militia “to be in all possible Readiness to Act & Exert themselves in the Defence of Their Country & to Go for the relief Succour & Assistance of his Majesty’s Subjects...”
The reaction to the report was swift. Nearly a quarter of Connecticut’s militia, some 5,000 men, responded to the alarm. Massachusetts mobilized nearly 7,000. By the time Trumbull issued this order, nearly 5,000 New Englanders were already encamped outside Fort Edward’s palisades awaiting the anticipated French advance, and more would follow in subsequent days. The alarm would soon pass as intelligence indicated that Montcalm, lacking sufficient provisions, was destroying Fort William Henry and withdrawing northward. While the alarm proved expensive—consuming approximately a third of the military expenditures for the year—the New England colonies “had demonstrated a capacity to respond to a military emergency without parallel in the English-speaking world.” (Anderson, Crucible of War, p.201).