Seven Republican senators – William Pitt Fessenden, Joseph S. Fowler, John B. Henderson, Lyman Trumbull, Peter G. Van Winkle and notably Senators Grimes and Ross played a decisive role ; purportedly disturbed by how the proceedings had been manipulated to give a one-sided presentation of the evidence, they voted against conviction, in defiance of their party and public opinion.

Contemporary scholars and patriots such as Noah Webster, John Trumbull, and Joel Barlow were instrumental in securing the passage of these statutes.

Image: Alexander Hamilton portrait by John Trumbull 1806. jpg | Alexander Hamilton, Founding Father and the first United States Secretary of the Treasury, Columbia College

* The Anarchiad by David Humphreys, Joel Barlow, John Trumbull, and Lemuel Hopkins ( 1786 – 87 )

General George Washington at Trenton by John Trumbull, Yale University Art Gallery ( 1792 ).

General ( United States ) | General George Washington Resigning His Commission by John Trumbull, Capitol Rotunda ( commissioned 1817 )

John Trumbull ’ s Declaration of Independence had won popular acclaim in 1820.

British general John Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga ( 1777 ), painting by John Trumbull 1822

The paintings on the west side are by John Trumbull: Declaration of Independence, Surrender of General Burgoyne, Surrender of Lord Cornwallis, and General George Washington Resigning His Commission.

A portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull, 1806.

* June 6 – John Trumbull, American painter ( d. 1843 )

John Trumbull had pointed this out as early as 1776, when a shot fired from the fort was able to reach Defiance's summit, and several officers inspecting the hill noted that there were approaches to its summit where gun carriages could be pulled up the sides.

Surrender of Cornwallis to French ( left ) and American ( right ) troops, at the Siege of Yorktown in 1781, by John Trumbull.

In 1662, Stratford selectmen Lt. Joseph Judson, Captain Joseph Hawley and John Minor had secured all the written deeds of transfer from the Golden Hill Paugussett Indian Nation for this vast territory that comprises the present-day towns of Trumbull, Shelton and Monroe.

Trumbull's children were also influential in the war effort: Joseph Trumbull was a colonel in the Continental Army, Jonathan Trumbull, Jr. was secretary to George Washington, and John Trumbull served first as a soldier and then as Washington's personal aide during the war.

* John Trumbull ( 1756 – 1843 ), American neo-classical painter, famous for artwork in the US Capitol, and the artwork on the back of the two dollar bill, Son of Jonathon Trumbull, Sr.

* Museums such as National Packard Museum, the John Stark Edwards House and Museum, the Sutliff Museum and the Trumbull Art Gallery.

The Trumbull's Declaration of Independence | Declaration of Independence by John Trumbull

Alexander Hamilton in a 1792 portrait by John Trumbull

* John Trumbull ( 1969 ), " Signing of the Declaration of Independence " Jan van Eyck

La Fontaine's model was subsequently emulated by England's John Gay ( 1685 – 1732 ); Poland's Ignacy Krasicki ( 1735 – 1801 ); Italy's Lorenzo Pignotti ( 1739 – 1812 ) and Giovanni Gherardo de Rossi ( 1754 – 1827 ); Serbia's Dositej Obradović ( 1742 – 1811 ); Spain's Félix María de Samaniego ( 1745 – 1801 ) and Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa ( 1750 – 1791 ); France's Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian ( 1755 – 94 ); and Russia's Ivan Krylov ( 1769 – 1844 ).

Messengers from John the Baptist | John the Baptist in prison, by Josef Anton Hafner | Hafner, 1750.

* 1750 – John André, English army officer ( d. 1780 )

** John Laurance, American attorney, statesman, and judge ( b. 1750 )

* October 2 – John André, British Army officer of the American Revolutionary War ( executed ) ( b. 1750 )

* October 22 – King John V of Portugal ( d. 1750 )

In 1750, John Michell stated that magnetic poles attract and repel in accordance with an inverse square law.

In 1965 Putnam published John Cleland's 1750 novel Fanny Hill.

* John Venn ( 1750 – 1813 ), Rector of Holy Trinity Church, Clapham

J. C. Calhoun's wife since 1811, Floride Calhoun, ( 1792 – 1866 ), was the daughter of South Carolina United States Senator and lawyer John E. Colhoun, ( 1750 – 1802 ).

* John Connolly ( 1750 – 1825 ), second Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of New York

The county is named for Colonel John Floyd ( 1750 – 1783 ).

* John Henry ( Maryland ) ( 1750 – 1798 ), U. S. Senator from and Governor of Maryland

* John Clarke ( 1750 ): A Preface containing A General Account of the Life, Character, and Writings of the Author, from the 1750 edition of The Religion of Nature Delineated.

In the winter of 1749 – 1750, Adam travelled to London with his friend, the poet John Home.

Paca House ( CE-111 ; circa 1750 ): John Paca, the brother of Governor William Paca a signer of the Declaration of Independence, lived in Charlestown during the mid-1700s.

Its use was described in detail in English in Navigatio Britannica ( 1750 ) by John Barrow, the mathematician and historian.

Among the earliest settlers in the Tazewell area was John Hunt ( 1750 – 1822 ), a militia captain who would later be instrumental in the founding of Huntsville, Alabama.

Dom John V ( Porgueuse: João V, 22 October 1689 – 31 July 1750 ), nicknamed " the Magnanimous ", was King of Portugal and the Algarves.

John V died on 31 July 1750 in Lisbon, and was succeeded by his son Prince Joseph.

* John Bradford ( 1750 – 1805 ) English dissenting minister

* John Rippon ( 1750 – 1836 ), Baptist clergyman, composer of many well known hymns