Jesse Root (December 28, 1736 – March 29, 1822) was an American minister and lawyer from

Coventry, Connecticut Coventry ( ) is a town in Tolland County, Connecticut. The population was 12,235 at the 2020 census. The birthplace of Captain Nathan Hale, Coventry is home to the Nathan Hale Homestead, which is now a museum open to the public. Coventry was i ...

. During the

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he served on the Connecticut

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and in the Connecticut militia. Originally appointed as a lieutenant colonel in Peekskill in 1777, he rose to the rank of Adjutant-General of the Connecticut Line. He was a delegate to the Continental Congress for

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from 1778 until 1782, and sat as chief justice of the

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from 1796 to 1807 as well as a state court judge. He served in the

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and served in the Connecticut Constitutional Convention. He was also a member of the First Company, Governor's Foot Guard, serving as its commandant between May 1798 and October 1802. His grandson was Austin Cornelius Dunham.http://mssa.library.yale.edu/obituary_record/1859_1924/1917-18.pdf

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A short text on the origin of Connecticut's laws by Root (1798)
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