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JOHN TRUMBULL (1750-1831)

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 324 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN See also:TRUMBULL (1750-1831)  , See also:American poet, was See also:born in what is now See also:Watertown, See also:Connecticut, where his See also:father was a Congregational preacher, on the 24th of See also:April 1750 . At the See also:age of seven he passed his entrance See also:examinations at Yale, but did not enter until 1763; he graduated in 1767, studied See also:law there, and in 1771-1773 was a See also:tutor . In 1773 he was admitted to the See also:bar, in 1773-1774 practised law in See also:Boston, working in the law-See also:office of See also:John See also:Adams, and after 1774 practised in New Haven . He was See also:state See also:attorney in 1789, a member of the Connecticut See also:Assembly in 1792 and 1800, and a See also:judge of the See also:Superior See also:Court in 1801-1819 . The last six years of his See also:life were spent in See also:Detroit, See also:Michigan, where he died on the loth of May 1831 . While studying at Yale he had contributed in 1769-1770 ten essays, called " The Meddler," imitating The Spectator, to the Boston See also:Chronicle, and in 1770 similar essays, signed " The Correspondent " to the Connecticut See also:Journal and New Haven See also:Post Boy . While a tutor he wrote his first See also:satire in See also:verse, The Progress of Dulness (1772-1773), an attack in three poems on educational methods of his See also:time . His See also:great poem, which ranks him with See also:Philip Freneau and See also:Francis See also:Hopkinson as an American See also:political satirist of the See also:period of the See also:War of See also:Independence, was McFingal, of which the first See also:canto, " The See also:Town-See also:Meeting," appeared in 1776 (dated 1775) . This canto, about 1500 lines, contains some verses from " See also:Gage's See also:Proclamation," published in the Connecticut Courant for the 7th and the 14th of See also:August 1775; it portrays a Scotch Loyalist, McFingal, and his Whig opponent, See also:Honorius, evidently a portrait of John Adams . This first canto was divided into two, and with a third and a See also:fourth canto was published in 1782 . After the war See also:Trumbull was a rigid Federalist, and with the " See also:Hartford Wits " See also:David See also:Humphreys, See also:Joel See also:Barlow and Lemuel See also:Hopkins, wrote the Anarchiad, a poem directed against the enemies of a See also:firm central See also:government . See the memoir in the Hartford edition of Trumbull's Poetical See also:Works (2 vols., 1820) ; See also:James See also:Hammond Trumbull's The Origin of McFingal" (Morrisania, New See also:York, 1868) ; and the estimate in M .

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Tyler's See also:Literary See also:History of the American Revolution (New York, 1897) .

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