Peleg Wadsworth
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts's 15th district |
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In office March 4, 1803 – March 3, 1807 |
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| Preceded by | District created |
| Succeeded by | Daniel Ilsley |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts's 13th district |
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In office March 4, 1795 – March 3, 1803 |
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| Preceded by | District created |
| Succeeded by | Ebenezer Seaver |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts's 4th district |
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In office March 4, 1793 – March 3, 1795 Serving with Henry Dearborn and George Thatcher (General ticket) |
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| Preceded by | Theodore Sedgwick |
| Succeeded by | Dwight Foster |
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May 6, 1748 Duxbury, Massachusetts |
| Died | November 12, 1829 (aged 81) Hiram, Maine |
| Political party | Federalist |
| Relations | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (grandson) |
| Alma mater | Harvard College |
| Occupation | Merchant |
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| Allegiance | United States |
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 Continental Army
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| Rank | Brigadier general |
| Battles/wars |
American Revolutionary War Battle of Long Island Penobscot Expedition |
Peleg Wadsworth (May 6, 1748 – November 12, 1829) was an American officer during the American Revolutionary War and a Congressman from Massachusetts representing the District of Maine. He was also grandfather of noted American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Wadsworth was born in Duxbury, Massachusetts, to Peleg and Susanna (Sampson) Wadsworth. He graduated from Harvard College with an A.B. (1769) and an A.M. (1772), and taught school for several years in Plymouth, Massachusetts, with his former classmate Alexander Scammel. There he met Elizabeth Bartlett (1753 to 1825), whom he married in 1772.
The Wadsworths lived in Kingston, Massachusetts, until 1775, when Wadsworth recruited a company of minutemen, of which he was chosen captain. His company mustered in response to the alarms generated by the Battle of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775. The Plymouth County battalion, commanded by Col. Theophilus Cotton marched to Marshfield, Massachusetts to attack a garrison of British troops there. The attack was delayed for two days, allowing the British time to escape Marshfield by sea. During that time, Capt. Wadsworth, frustrated with the delay, advanced his company to within firing range of the British encampment, nearly instigating combat.
Wadsworth served as aide to Gen. Artemas Ward in March 1776, and as an engineer under Gen. John Thomas in 1776, assisting in laying out the defenses of Roxbury, Massachusetts. He was present at the Battle of Long Island on August 1, 1776. He was made brigadier general of militia in 1777 and Adjutant General of Massachusetts in 1778.
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