This is a list of events in the year 1776 in Connecticut.
Events
- April 11th – Jonathan Trumbull is elected the 16th governor.[1]
- July 4th – American Revolution: The United States Declaration of Independence, in which the United States officially declares independence from the British Empire, is approved by the Continental Congress and signed by its president, John Hancock, together with representatives from Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts Bay, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina and Virginia.
- August 2nd – American Revolution: A parchment copy of the Declaration of Independence is signed by 56 members of Congress (not all of whom had been present on July 4).[2]
- October 10th – Jonathan Trumbull is sworn in as the 16th governor of the newly formed state. Matthew Griswold becomes the first Lieutenant Governor.
Births
- January 2 – Jeremiah Chaplin, Reformed Baptist theologian (d. 1841)
- January 21 – Elisha Haley, legislator and politician (d. 1860)[3]
- February 2 – John Marvin, politician (b. 1678)
- February 16 – Nicholas Ware, lawyer, politician and, slave owner (d. 1824)[4]
- March 8 – Samuel Tweedy, legislator and politician (d. 1868)[5]
- March 17 – Joel Abbot, physician and politician (d. 1826)[6]
- March 19 – Philemon Beecher, attorney and legislator (d. 1839)[7][8]
- May 28 – Joseph Lee Smith, lawyer, military officer and judge (d. 1846)
- July 4 – Ethan Allen Brown, politician, seventh governor of Ohio (d. 1852)[9]
- August 31 – Seth Perkins Staples, lawyer and politician (d. 1861)
- September 4 – Stephen Whitney, merchant (d. 1860)
- September 9
- September 14 – Calvin Willey, politician (d. 1858)[13]
- September 30 – Manasseh Leech, militiaman (d. 1828)
- December 1 – Isaac Lacey, politician (d. 1844)
- December 22 – Levi Lovering, drummer and early rudimental drum manual author (d. 1852)[14]
References
- ↑ "Our Campaigns - CT Governor Race - Apr 11, 1776". www.ourcampaigns.com. Retrieved March 20, 2020.
- ↑ U.S. State Department (1911). The Declaration of Independence, 1776. pp. 10–11.
- ↑ "HALEY, Elisha 1776 – 1860". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved October 2, 2024.
- ↑ "WARE, Nicholas 1776 – 1824". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved October 2, 2024.
- ↑ "TWEEDY, Samuel 1776 – 1868". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved October 2, 2024.
- ↑ "ABBOT, Joel 1776 – 1826". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved March 10, 2024.
- ↑ The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Volume 51, page 27
- ↑ "BEECHER, Philemon ca. 1775 – 1839". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved May 1, 2024.
- ↑ "BROWN, Ethan Allen 1776 – 1852". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved May 1, 2024.
- ↑ "ADAMS, Parmenio 1776 – 1832". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved May 1, 2024.
- ↑ "Calvin Pease". The Supreme Court of Ohio & The Ohio Judicial System. Retrieved August 29, 2011.
- ↑ Randall 1912 : 126
- ↑ Calvin Willey at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
- ↑ "Lovering, Levi 1776-1857 [WorldCat Identities]".
- ↑ Johnson, Henry P. (1897). The Battle of Harlem Heights. Columbia University Press. p. 76ff.
