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List of events
This is a list of events in the year 1776 in Connecticut .
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.
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]
^ "Our Campaigns - CT Governor Race - Apr 11, 1776" . www.ourcampaigns.com . Retrieved 2020-03-20 .
^ 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 2 October 2024 .
^ "WARE, Nicholas 1776 – 1824" . Biographical Directory of the United States Congress . Retrieved 2 October 2024 .
^ "TWEEDY, Samuel 1776 – 1868" . Biographical Directory of the United States Congress . Retrieved 2 October 2024 .
^ "ABBOT, Joel 1776 – 1826" . Biographical Directory of the United States Congress . Retrieved 10 March 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 1 May 2024 .
^ "BROWN, Ethan Allen 1776 – 1852" . Biographical Directory of the United States Congress . Retrieved 1 May 2024 .
^ "ADAMS, Parmenio 1776 – 1832" . Biographical Directory of the United States Congress . Retrieved 1 May 2024 .
^ "Calvin Pease" . The Supreme Court of Ohio & The Ohio Judicial System. Retrieved 2011-08-29 .
^ 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.