Talk:Jonathan Trumbull

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Do we have a source for the early "Trumble" name? That would perhaps clarify why he was born under one name and then changed it. - Pernambuco 00:13, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

I am a Trumbull and I have searched for YEARS on the meaning of my name and why it was changed and i have came up with nothing. At the same time there are a few lines of Trumbulls. The spellings are Trumbull, Trumble, and I have yet to be able to link the family trees together

Perhaps "Trumble" was an intermediate misspelling (possibly an attempt to "correct" it to match words like "rumble" and "humble")? This is based on the fact that the shield of Yale's Trumbull College consists of three bull heads. If the "bull" weren't an original part of the name's meaning, then it seems unlikely (though I suppose it's possible) that the shield would have been created to portray bulls just because the name sounds like "bull." Bgwwlm 05:01, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

It's probably better not to overthink it -- at that time, variations in the spellings of personal names were relatively common. It wasn't quite as chaotic as in Shakespeare's day, when the name "Shakespeare" was encountered in 47 different spelings (or whatever), but there was not necessarily a strict concern with absolute spelling consistency. AnonMoos (talk) 09:09, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Historical importance of Trumbull life

This article is lacking a lot of important information. Very little is included in this article about Trumbull's participation in the Revolution, ie: his relationship to Washington, and other pro-British governors. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Nowax (talk • contribs) 18:32, 26 April 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Date discrepancy

Boxes say start of term was 1776, text says 1769... AnonMoos (talk) 08:58, 3 March 2008 (UTC)