This post offers just a glimpse into some of the people close to Jabez during his lifetime. There are so many it will be impossible to write about them all. Merchants, ministers, enslaved workers, politicians, ship captains, kin, cousins. The list goes on. Half-size, full-length portrait of Major General Jabez HUNTINGTON by John Trumbull (1756-1843). Reportedly first commissioned portrait done by Trumbull (in 1777). Jabez had just been made sole Major General of Connecticut m