This is a list of events in the year 1776 in Connecticut .
April 11th – Jonathan Trumbull is elected the 16th governor.[ 1] July 4th – American Revolution: The United States Declaration of Independence , in which the United States officially declares independence from the British Empire , is approved by the Continental Congress and signed by its president, John Hancock , together with representatives from Connecticut , Delaware , Georgia , Maryland , Massachusetts Bay , New Hampshire , New Jersey , New York , North Carolina , Pennsylvania , Rhode Island , South Carolina and Virginia .August 2nd – American Revolution: A parchment copy of the Declaration of Independence is signed by 56 members of Congress (not all of whom had been present on July 4).[ 2] October 10th – Jonathan Trumbull is sworn in as the 16th governor of the newly formed state. Matthew Griswold becomes the first Lieutenant Governor.
January 2 – Jeremiah Chaplin , Reformed Baptist theologian (d. 1841)January 21 – Elisha Haley , legislator and politician (d. 1860)[ 3] February 2 – John Marvin , politician (b. 1678)February 16 – Nicholas Ware , lawyer, politician and, slave owner (d. 1824)[ 4] March 8 – Samuel Tweedy , legislator and politician (d. 1868)[ 5] March 17 – Joel Abbot , physician and politician (d. 1826)[ 6] March 19 – Philemon Beecher , attorney and legislator (d. 1839)[ 7] [ 8] May 28 – Joseph Lee Smith , lawyer, military officer and judge (d. 1846)July 4 – Ethan Allen Brown , politician, seventh governor of Ohio (d. 1852)[ 9] August 31 – Seth Perkins Staples , lawyer and politician (d. 1861)September 4 – Stephen Whitney , merchant (d. 1860)September 9
September 14 – Calvin Willey , politician (d. 1858)[ 13] September 30 – Manasseh Leech , militiaman (d. 1828)December 1 – Isaac Lacey , politician (d. 1844)December 22 – Levi Lovering , drummer and early rudimental drum manual author (d. 1852)[ 14]
^ "Our Campaigns - CT Governor Race - Apr 11, 1776" . www.ourcampaigns.com . Retrieved 2020-03-20 .^ U.S. State Department (1911). The Declaration of Independence, 1776 . pp. 10–11. ^ "HALEY, Elisha 1776 – 1860" . Biographical Directory of the United States Congress . Retrieved 2 October 2024 .^ "WARE, Nicholas 1776 – 1824" . Biographical Directory of the United States Congress . Retrieved 2 October 2024 .^ "TWEEDY, Samuel 1776 – 1868" . Biographical Directory of the United States Congress . Retrieved 2 October 2024 .^ "ABBOT, Joel 1776 – 1826" . Biographical Directory of the United States Congress . Retrieved 10 March 2024 .^ The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Volume 51, page 27 ^ "BEECHER, Philemon ca. 1775 – 1839" . Biographical Directory of the United States Congress . Retrieved 1 May 2024 .^ "BROWN, Ethan Allen 1776 – 1852" . Biographical Directory of the United States Congress . Retrieved 1 May 2024 .^ "ADAMS, Parmenio 1776 – 1832" . Biographical Directory of the United States Congress . Retrieved 1 May 2024 .^ "Calvin Pease" . The Supreme Court of Ohio & The Ohio Judicial System. Retrieved 2011-08-29 .^ Randall 1912 : 126^ Calvin Willey at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress .^ "Lovering, Levi 1776-1857 [WorldCat Identities]" .^ Johnson, Henry P. (1897). The Battle of Harlem Heights
