James Hammond Trumbull was born in Stonington, Con-necticut, December 20, 1821, the son of Hon. Gurdon and Sarah A. (Swan) Trumbull. His grandfather was John Trumbull, a kinsman of the first Governor Jonathan Trum-bull, on whose invitation he removed from Massachusetts to Norwich, in the summer of 1773, to establish a weekly news-paper which should be the organ of the Sons of Liberty in the eastern part of the State. He edited and published the Nor-wich Packet from 1773 until the close of his life, in T802. After his death his son Gurdon, with an elder brother, Henry,removed to Stonington, whither another brother, Samuel, had preceded him in 1798. The latter soon after began the issue of a newspaper with the title The Journal of the Times, which was changed later to The Impartial Journal. Henry was the author of a small volume giving an account of the settlement of the country and the conflicts with the Indians, and of some biographical narratives. Less