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The royalist papers also dedicated many inches of space to the story, told from the British perspective. This original article from the “fountain of falsehood, the New York Royal Gazette” was reprinted in the Independent Chronicle and the Universal Advertiser.
lost—mourners placed a headstone over his grave. The stone is topped with a handsome bas relief carving of the Trumbull and bears the epitaph “Anchor’d in the haven of Rest.
In Memory of JABEZ SMITH Junr. Lieut. Of Marines onboard the Continental Ship Trumbull, born in Groton, State of Connecticutt, August 31, 1751, departed this Life in Boston, June 28 1780, Aged 29 Years.”
The weekend I joined the Connecticut Society —under the dome of the capitol in Hartford —my family and I were given the Connecticut Revolutionary tour by Stephen Shaw, who has been a stalwart supporter of my historical discoveries. Among other sites, we visited the house built by the grandfather of my propositus, and the graveyards where Jabez Smith, Jr., and
Jonathan Caulkins lie today. Their graves— 110 miles apart—were decorated with flags marking the resting place of an American veteran. And each had
a second, smaller headstone, prepared as insurance for the day the original slabs are no longer standing.
The Society of the Cincinnati honors us all by keeping alive the values for which these men fought. It’s the least I can do to help them maintain their vigil.
I have been blessed
with the discovery of my relation to this event— doubly so when you add the relationships I’ve made with the men and
the women of the Society and its staff. History indeed comes alive when you can make it personal, and I owe it to Jabez Smith, Jr., to keep his memory in the public eye—and that of all the Cincinnati who represented us in that vast event.
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