Death dissolves the nearest and dearest Relations, and the closest Connexions between Men. A Sermon Occasioned by the Much Lamented Death of Col. Joseph Trumbull, Esq. Who Departed this Life July the 23rd, 1778, and Delivered in the First Society in Lebanon, At His Interment, July the 24th

Hartford: Printed by Watson and Goodwin, 1779. Wraps. Very good. Stitched wraps. Approx. 7.5" x 5". 17 pages, [1] blank. Untrimmed with a thin light blue strip on the spine. Trumbull (brother of Jonathan Trumbull, Jr.) was a Harvard graduate. He was elected to the Continental Congress in 1774 (but did not attend). He served in the Continental Army as commissary general with the rank of Colonel from July 19, 1775, to August 2, 1777. He resigned from the army in 1778 due to poor health. He died in Lebanon, Connecticut.

Evans 16680. Hannah Watson was Connecticut's first woman printer and one of the America's first woman printers. She was the publisher of the Connecticut Courant from 1777-1779 publishing several Patriotic articles. (Inventory #: 12432)