Joseph Trumbull (commissary general)

He graduated from Harvard in 1756, the same year his brother, artist John Trumbull, was born, and worked in his father's mercantile business.

At Boston, General George Washington was impressed with Trumbull's efforts, and recommended him for the same job in the newly created Continental Army.

On 19 July 1775, Congress appointed Trumbull as Commissary General of Stores and Provisions, with the rank of colonel.

Trumbull was charged with corruption but an official inquiry cleared him of wrongdoing in December 1775.

Congress then appointed him to the Board of War, and he served from August 1777 until his resignation in April 1778 due to sickness.