DEATH CHOSEN RATHER THAN LIFE: OR, THE UPRIGHT HAPPY IN DEATH. A SERMON, PREACHED IN WATERTOWN, DECEMBER 14, 1787. AT THE FUNERAL OF THE REV. JOHN TRUMBULL, SENIOR PASTOR OF THE CHURCH IN WESTBURY, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE DECEMBER 13TH, 1787. IN THE 73D YEAR OF HIS AGE, AND 48TH OF HIS MINISTRY. BY SIMON WATERMAN, A.M., PASTOR OF THE 2D CHURCH OF CHRIST IN WATERTOWN.
Hartford: Hudson and Goodwin, 1788. 32pp. Disbound and lacking the half title. Good+.
Reverend Trumbull, an orderly and considerate man, "nominated the preacher at his funeral, and directed what neighbouring ministers should be desired to attend on that occasion; and who should insert in the public papers the account of his death: he also desired some of his particular friends, and leading members of his church, to take care that his funeral was conducted with propriety and christian decency. He also ordered the joiner to prepare him a decent, but plain unornamented coffin."
The Reverend's "nephew was Connecticut's Governor Jonathan Trumbull, the only colonial governor to support the war for independence. Gov. Trumbull's son was the artist John Trumbull, whose paintings of the Revolutionary War, including the signing of the Declaration of Independence, are on view in the Rotunda of the United States Capitol building." Trumbull also owned a few slaves. ["Rev. John Trumbull," Waterbury's Slave Owners, Fortune's Story Website of the Mattatuck Historical Society, accessed February 4, 2019.]
Evans 21574. Trumbull 1568. Item #33060
Price: $275.00