“ rid er a r o ur a The g sped, Whe e is y f ther, Faith ? (See pag e C OPYR I G H T , 1 903 B Y D . A PPLE T ON A N D ublish d S t P e ep ember, 1 903 P R E FA C E T H E writer has heretofore produced in the vein of o f Miihlbach i fiction , after the manner the nterpretations , several books which were anecdotal narratives of the crises in the lives of public men . While they were fiction , they largely confided to the reader what was truth and what the conveyance o f fiction for the sake o f narrative form . It was the purpose o f such a book t o picture by folk-lore f and local stories the early life o the man . The folk- lore of a period usually interprets the man o f w a the period in a very atmospheric y. Jonathan Trum ’ ” bull, Washington s Brother Jonathan , who had a part in helping to save the American army in nearly every o f. w h o o u crisis the Revolutionary War, and gave the p p lar name to the nation, led a remarkable life, and came to be held by WVashingt o n as among the first of the p a ” - . a l triots The book is fo k lore narrative, with a thread o f k w as fiction , and see s to picture a period that decisive t the o e in American his ory, and h m and neighborhood o f on e of the most delightful characters that America has — ever known the Roger de Coverley o f colonial life and h but al American knight ood ; very human , very noble, V 21 2573 1 V i B R OT H E R JONATHAN ways true ; the fine old American gentleman Brother ” Jonathan . It has been said that a story of the life o f Jonathan Trumbull would furnish material for pen- pictures of the most heroic episodes of the Revolutionary War, and bring o f to light much secret history the times when Lebanon, n o f Con , was in a sense the hidden capital the political and military councils that influenced the greatest events o f the American struggle for liberty. The view is in son o f so part true, and a Governor Trumbull felt that force o f the situation that he painted the scenes o f which ’ in he first gained a knowledge his father s farmhouse, beginning the work in that plain old home o n the sanded floor . ’ From Governor Trumbull s war office, which is still - standing at Lebanon, went the post riders whose secret f f messages determined some o the great events o the war. o f Thence went forth recruits for the army in times peril, as from the forests ; thence supplies for the army in f o . famine, thence droves cattle, through wilderness ways Governor Trumbull was the heart o f every need in o f those terrible days sacrifice . o f His wife, Faith Trumbull, a descendant the Pil o f grim Pastor Robinson Leyden , was a heroic woman to whom the Daughters o f the Revolution should erect a monument . The picture which we present o f her in o f the cloak Rochambeau is historically true . The eminent people who visited the secret town of the war during the great Revolutionary events were many, and their influence had decisive results . PREFACE vii Look at some o f the names o f these visitors : Washing ton J eflerson , Lafayette, Samuel Adams, Putnam, , Frank li lin, Sul van, John Jay, Count Rochambeau, Admiral e o f Castellax Tiern y, Duke Lauzun , Marquis de , and the fi o f of cers Count Rochambeau and many others . ’ The post- riders from Governor Trumbull s plain farm house o n Lebanon Hill (called Lebanon from its cedars) o f represented the secret service the war . When the influence o f this capital among the Co n ’ n ecticut hills became known, Governor Trumbull s person - was in danger . A secret and perhaps self appointed guard watched the wilderness roads to his war office . o f One these, were he living, might interpret events of the hidden history o f the struggle fo r liberty in a very dramatic way. Such an interp reter fo r the purpose o f historic fiction ’ O H a o f we have made in Dennis y, a jolly Irishman a - liberty loving heart . In a brief fiction for young people we can only illustrate how interesting a larger study o f this subject o f the secret service o f the Revolution at this place might be made . We shall be glad if we can so interest the young reader in the topic as to lead him to follow it in solid his toric reading in his maturer years . ! K HE E IA H BUTTERWORTH . CO N T E N T S I —T wo UEE ME N EE . ! R M T — HE J OLL F E OF N H LL H IS FLO K o r II . T Y ARM R WI D AM HI S C SHEEP — HE F OF P O HO E III . T IRST ATRI TS AT M OUT YOU G O IV. V — HE W A R OFF E IN HE CE DA R s—A N N N LE— N . T IC T I DIA TA I CI DEN TS ’ V I — HE E V E DA Y OF O HE J ON A T H A N S L PE . T D CISI BR T R I VIL—W A SH IN GTCN PE K N E W H H N E HE EPUB L S A S A AM IC AM S T R IC . — - E E . B LE A N D EN N IN HE L PO VIII. P T R NIM D IS T A ARM ST X — ” I . A MA N W ITH A CAN E OFF W ITH YOU R HAT XI — . THE SECRET or LAFAYETTE XII — YE . LAFA TTE TELLS H IS SECRET X — HE B U G LE B LOW III . T S XI V —A U G r G . DA HTER o THE PIL RIMS ” XV CORN W ALLIS Is TAKEN 1 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS o r a r a ? Where is y u f the , F ith Fro n tisp iece The surren der o f Burgo yn e “ ’ o r o na an w ar o ffi and nc in ano n Br the J th s ce reside e Leb , The battle o f Bunker Jo nathan Trumbull Madam Faith Trumbull contributing h er scarlet cloak to the so ldiers o f the Revo lutio n B R OT H E R J ON A T H A N CHAPTER I T w o ! UEER ME N MEET ’ DENNIS O HAY, a young Irishman, and a shipwrecked mariner, had been landed at Norwich , Conn . , by a schoon er which had come into the Thames from Long Island - Sound . A lusty, hearty, clear souled sailor was Dennis ; un so the s seemed to shine through him , open to all people w as his free and transparent nature . ” o f The top the morning to everybody, he used to o f say, which feeling universal brotherhood was quite in harmony with the n ew country he had unexpectedly o f found, but which he had heard much at sea. Dennis looked around him for some person to whom he might go for advice in the strange country to which he . n o t had been brought He did have to look far, for the town was not large , but presently a man whose very gait m i r bespoke i portance, came walk ng, o rather marching, down the street . Dennis went up to him . ’ A n is r it somebody in pa ticular you must be , said i “ Denn s . You seem to me like some high o flic er that has - lost his regiment, cornet, horse, drum major, and all ; no, 2 BROTHER JONATHAN — I beg your pardon . I mean well, I mean that you seem to me like one who might be more than yo u are ; I beg your pardon again ; yo u look like a magistrate in these ” n ew parts . u And who are yo with your blundering honesty, my friend ? You are evidently n ew to these parts ? ” And it is an Irishman that I am . The Lord forbid, but I am an Englishman . ” Then we are half brothers . h ? ” The Lord forbid . W at brings you here Storms, storms, and it is a shipwrecked mariner that I am . And I am as poor as a coot, and you have ruf fles o f . , and laces, and buckles, but you have a bit heart ’ flo w I can see that in your face . Your blood don t ” in ? thro“ugh a muscle . Have you been long these parts Longer than I wish to have been . This is the land f - o o u . b“lue laws, as y will find And it is nothing that I kn ow o f the color o f the o r . laws, whether they be blue , or red, white Can you tell me o f some o n e to whom a Shipwrecked sailor could ? go for a roof to Shelter him, and some friendly advice You“may be the very man ? No, no, no .