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.

* John Trumbull ( 1750 – 1831 ), American political satirist and poet, was born in Watertown.

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.

* 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

Some have stated that the secret of concrete was lost for 13 centuries until 1756, when the British engineer John Smeaton pioneered the use of hydraulic lime in concrete, using pebbles and powdered brick as aggregate.

During the sixth and final colonial war, the French and Indian War, the military conflicts in Nova Scotia included: Battle of Fort Beauséjour ; Bay of Fundy Campaign ( 1755 ); the Battle of Petitcodiac ; the Raid on Lunenburg ( 1756 ); the Louisbourg Expedition ( 1757 ); Battle of Bloody Creek ( 1757 ); Siege of Louisbourg ( 1758 ), Petitcodiac River Campaign, Gulf of St. Lawrence Campaign ( 1758 ), St. John River Campaign, and Battle of Restigouche.

Also important was the 1756 rediscovery of concrete ( based on hydraulic lime mortar ) by the British engineer John Smeaton, which had been lost for 1300 years.

* 1836 – John MacAdam, British road builder ( b. 1756 )

* 1756 – John Loudon McAdam, Scottish engineer and road builder ( d. 1836 )

* John Pitt, 2nd Earl of Chatham ( 1756 – 1835 ), who married The Hon.

Joseph was educated at Harrow School from the age of 9, and at Eton College from 1756 ; his fellow students included Constantine John Phipps.

* John Farr Abbott ( 1756 – 1794 ), British barrister

John Loudon McAdam ( 1756 – 1836 ) designed the first modern highways.

In 1756, after the deaths of his uncle and father, John became the fourth Earl of Dunmore, and sat as a Scottish representative peer in the House of Lords from 1761 to 1774 and from 1776 to 1790.

Garrick's play was a huge success, and major productions took place in the United States in 1756 ( with Hannah Pritchard as Catharine ), in 1788 ( with Sarah Siddons and John Philip Kemble ), in 1810 ( again with Kemble and his real life wife, Priscilla Hopkins Brereton ), and in 1842 ( with William Macready as Petruchio ).

* 1756 John Camidge

The county is named for John Campbell, Fourth Earl of Loudoun and Governor of Virginia from 1756 – 59.

* 1756 John Jones

John Tunnicliff purchased of a patent that included the town from David Schuyler and others in 1756, but had to abandon attempts to settle the town until after the French and Indian War.

In 1756, the village was destroyed by John Armstrong, Sr. at the Battle of Kittanning during the French and Indian War.

* 1756 – 1771: John Ponsonby

She was the oldest daughter of John Dandridge ( 1700 – 1756 ), a Virginia planter and English immigrant, and Frances Jones ( 1710 – 1785 ) of English and Welsh descent.

Martha had three brothers and four sisters: John ( 1733 – 1749 ), William ( 1734 – 1776 ), Bartholomew ( 1737 – 1785 ), Anna Marie " Fanny " Dandridge Bassett ( 1739 – 1777 ), Frances ( 1744 – 1757 ), Elizabeth Dandridge Aylet Henley ( 1749 – 1800 ), and Mary Dandridge ( 1756 – 1763 ).

A son and a daughter, Daniel ( 1751 – 1754 ) and Frances ( 1753 – 1757 ), died in childhood, but two other children, John ( Jacky ) Parke Custis ( 1754 – 1781 ) and Martha (" Patsy ") Parke Custis ( 1756 – 1773 ) survived to young adulthood.

John Loudon McAdam ( 1756 – 1836 ) designed the first modern highways, and developed an inexpensive paving material of soil and stone aggregate known as macadam.

His father was the great grandson of John Smith ( a director of both the South Sea Company and the East India Company ), the second son of Abel Smith ( d. 1756 ) the Nottingham Banker.

John Henley ( 3 August 1692 – 13 October 1756 ), English clergyman, commonly known as ' Orator Henley ', was a preacher known for showmanship and eccentricity.

On 25 February 1754 Taylor laid the first stone of the Octagon Chapel, Norwich, opened 12 May 1756, and described by John Wesley ( 23 December 1757 ) as ‘ perhaps the most elegant one in all Europe ,’ and too fine for ‘ the old coarse gospel .’ In his opening sermon, Taylor, who had received ( 6 April ) the diploma ( dated 20 January ) of D. D.