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HISTORY OF JOURNALISM
| Bartholomew Green, the Emigrant, arrived 1632. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Samuel, came with father; printed the Indian Bible; d. 1702 aged 88; Cambridge. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Samuel, b. 1648, d. 1690 Boston | Bartholomew, d. 1732 Boston | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Timothy, b. 1679, Boston; removed to New London, 1714; d. 1757 | Bartholomew Jr. Boston 1751 removed to Nova Scotia | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Timothy, Boston; removed in, 1752 to New London | John Boston; d. 1787 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Samuel, d. 1752; with his father; his three sons were printers in Connecticut | Nathaniel, New London | Jonas, Philadelphia and Annapolis[1] | |||||||||||||||||||
Courant that ranks as one of the leading papers of the country to-day. In conjunction with Samuel Green, the proprietor of the Hartford paper brought out the Connecticut Journal and New Haven Post Boy in October, 1767. In this paper appeared the earlier essays of John Trumbull, one of the first of America's poets. Not the least interesting point in Trumbull's many-sided career appears in a news item in the Connecticut Gazette for September 24, 1757. This states that, at the age of seven, he passed the entrance examination to Yale, a feat which necessitated his being able to write Latin prose and to read Cicero and Virgil, as well as the four Gospels in Greek. While taking the examination, he was held in the
- ↑ Memorial History of Boston, ii, 406.
