Source:
History of Litchfield County, Connecticut with Illustrations and 
Biographical Sketches of its Prominent Men and Pioneers……
Published: Philadelphia: J.W. Lewis & Co.,  1881.


HON. DANIEL N. BRINSMADE,  of Washington, the son of Rev. 
Daniel Brinsmade, second pastor of the Congregational Church in 
Washington, was born in 1750, graduated at Yale College in 1772, read 
law in Sharon, and practiced his profession in his native place until his 
death, in 1826.  In 1787 he was a delegate to the convention at Hartford 
which ratified the Constitution of the United States.  He was justice of 
the quorum, and assistant judge of the County Court for sixteen years, 
ten of which he sat on the bench.  He represented his town in the 
Legislature during forty-three sessions, and was at one time clerk of the 
House of Representatives.


Submitted by:  Linda Pingel  (LPingel@worldnet.att.net)