Jesse Root, the Glossary
Jesse Root (December 28, 1736 – March 29, 1822) was an American minister and lawyer from Coventry, Connecticut.[1]
Table of Contents
7 relations: American Revolution, Committee of safety (American Revolution), Connecticut, Connecticut House of Representatives, Connecticut Supreme Court, Continental Congress, Coventry, Connecticut.
- 18th-century Connecticut politicians
- Chief Justices of the Connecticut Supreme Court
- Connecticut militiamen in the American Revolution
- Continental Congressmen from Connecticut
American Revolution
The American Revolution was a rebellion and political movement in the Thirteen Colonies which peaked when colonists initiated an ultimately successful war for independence against the Kingdom of Great Britain.
See Jesse Root and American Revolution
Committee of safety (American Revolution)
In the American Revolution, committees of correspondence, committees of inspection, also known as committees of observation and committees of safety, were different local committees of Patriots that became a shadow government; they took control of the Thirteen Colonies away from royal officials, who became increasingly helpless.
See Jesse Root and Committee of safety (American Revolution)
Connecticut
Connecticut is the southernmost state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.
See Jesse Root and Connecticut
Connecticut House of Representatives
The Connecticut State House of Representatives is the lower house in the Connecticut General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Connecticut.
See Jesse Root and Connecticut House of Representatives
Connecticut Supreme Court
The Connecticut Supreme Court, formerly known as the Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors, is the highest court in the U.S. state of Connecticut.
See Jesse Root and Connecticut Supreme Court
Continental Congress
The Continental Congress was a series of legislative bodies, with some executive function, for the Thirteen Colonies of Great Britain in North America, and the newly declared United States before, during, and after the American Revolutionary War.
See Jesse Root and Continental Congress
Coventry, Connecticut
Coventry is a town in Tolland County and in the Capitol Planning Region, Connecticut, United States.
See Jesse Root and Coventry, Connecticut
See also
18th-century Connecticut politicians
- Abraham Davenport
- Andrew Adams (politician)
- Benjamin Huntington
- Clapp Raymond
- Eliphalet Dyer
- Erastus Wolcott
- Gideon Granger
- Increase Moseley
- Jabez Huntington (colonist)
- James Davenport (Connecticut politician)
- James Hillhouse
- James Wadsworth (lawyer)
- Jeremiah Wadsworth
- Jesse Root
- Jonathan Sturges
- Joseph Platt Cooke
- Joseph Spencer
- Joseph Trumbull (commissary general)
- Matthew Griswold (governor)
- Moses Comstock
- Phineas Lyman
- Pierpont Edwards
- Richard Law (judge)
- Samuel Cook Silliman
- Samuel Fitch
- Samuel Huntington (Connecticut politician)
- Silas Deane
- Stephen St. John
- Theophilus Yale
- Thomas Fitch V
- Titus Hosmer
- William Williams (Connecticut politician)
Chief Justices of the Connecticut Supreme Court
- Allyn L. Brown
- Andrew Adams (politician)
- Charles B. Andrews
- Chase T. Rogers
- David Daggett
- David Torrance (judge)
- Ellen Ash Peters
- Ernest A. Inglis
- George W. Wheeler
- Henry Matson Waite (judge)
- Howard W. Alcorn
- Jesse Root
- Joel Hinman
- John Duane Park
- Origen S. Seymour
- Raymond E. Baldwin
- Richard A. Robinson
- Richard Law (judge)
- Robert J. Callahan
- Samuel Church
- Samuel Huntington (Connecticut politician)
- Samuel O. Prentice
- Simeon E. Baldwin
- Stephen Hosmer
- Stephen Mix Mitchell
- Tapping Reeve
- Thomas B. Butler
- Thomas Scott Williams
- William L. Storrs
- William M. Maltbie
- Zephaniah Swift
Connecticut militiamen in the American Revolution
- Andrew Adams (politician)
- Benedict Arnold
- Cato Mead
- Clapp Raymond
- Daniel Bissell (general)
- Elihu Yale (captain)
- Elijah Boardman
- Eliphalet Lockwood
- Erastus Wolcott
- Jabez Huntington (colonist)
- James Hillhouse
- James Morris III
- James Richards (politician)
- James Wadsworth (lawyer)
- Jesse Root
- Job Bartram
- John Chester (Connecticut soldier)
- Joseph Platt Cooke
- Lambert Latham
- Levi Wells
- Matthew Mead (politician)
- Nathaniel Saltonstall (American Revolution)
- Noah Phelps
- Oliver Wolcott
- Reuben Humphrey
- Richard Douglass
- Samuel Cook Silliman
- Stanley Griswold
- Stephen St. John
- Titus Kent
- William Colfax
- William Ledyard
Continental Congressmen from Connecticut
- Andrew Adams (politician)
- Benjamin Huntington
- Eliphalet Dyer
- James Wadsworth (lawyer)
- Jeremiah Wadsworth
- Jesse Root
- Jonathan Sturges
- Joseph Platt Cooke
- Joseph Spencer
- Oliver Ellsworth
- Oliver Wolcott
- Pierpont Edwards
- Richard Law (judge)
- Roger Sherman
- Samuel Huntington (Connecticut politician)
- Silas Deane
- Stephen Mix Mitchell
- Titus Hosmer
- William Samuel Johnson
- William Williams (Connecticut politician)