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" The records show that WilHam Pitkin was annually elected Governor
from May 1766 to the time of his death, which took place October i"',
1 769, when he had reached the age of seventy-six, and that during that
period Jonathan Trumbull was chosen Lieut. Governor. The Assembly
which met in October, soon after the death of Governor Pitkin, chose
Trumbull Governor for the remainder of the year; and in May 1770 he
was elected Governor by the freemen, and was afterwards annually chosen
to the same office until 1 783, when he publicly declined a re-election.
"The wife of Gov. William Pitkin died in 1766, by whom he had the
following children, viz :
" lVi//mm,^^^ born in 1724-5 ; died in 1789, aged sixty-five.
''Timothy}^^'^ born January 15 [Jan. 13—A. P. P.], 1727; died July
8, 18 1 2, aged eighty-five.
"George}-'^'^ born in 1729; died April 8 [April 18—A. P. P.], 1806,
aged seventy-seven.
"Epap/iras,^^^ born in 1733 ;
"Ashbel}'^^ born in 1735 ;
died
died
in 1801, aged sixty-eight.
in 1802, aged sixty-seven."
A private letter from Miss Talcott enables us to add to this record
that the fourth William (23) Pitkin was "appointed, in 1758, Major of
the Connecticut forces raised for the expedition to Canada under Gen.
Abercrombie ; was a Judge of the Superior Court [from 1769], and a
member of the Council of Safety during the Revolutionary War." He
was also a Judge of the Supreme Court of Connecticut in 1 784-85, as James
Griswold Esq. of Lyme informs us. See List of Judges of the Supreme
Court of Errors, in Baldwin's "Connecticut Digest," Vol. I. p. ix. William
Pitkin the fourth "was Col. in the militar3^ Sheriff of the County, and
Assistant, and Judge of the Superior Court "—so writes Prof. S. E. Baldwin
of New Plaven, from a record by his mother Mrs. Gov. Baldwin. Fie
^ held the office of Sheriff from 1749 to 1767, and that of Judge of the
Superior Court from 1769 until his death in 1789. See "Connecticut
Reports," Vol. 53, pp. 595, 611.