1st Clerk of the Massachusetts Provincial Congress
In office October 7, 1774 – May 31, 1775
Preceded by
office established
Succeeded by
Samuel Freeman
Committee of Safety
In office October 7, 1774 – February 1, 1775
Constituency
At-large (Commissary Officer)
Personal details
Born
(1733-01-24)January 24, 1733 Hingham, Massachusetts Bay, British America
Died
May 9, 1810(1810-05-09) (aged 77) Hingham, Massachusetts, U.S.
Resting place
Old Ship Burying Ground, Hingham
Political party
Federalist
Spouse
Mary Cushing
(m. 1756)
Children
11
Signature
Military service
Allegiance
Great Britain United States
Branch/service
Massachusetts Bay militia Continental Army United States Army
Years of service
Militia (1755–1777) Continental Army (1777–1781)
Rank
Major general
Commands
Massachusetts provincial militia Bound Brook Southern Department
Battles/wars
American Revolutionary War • Boston campaign • Battle of White Plains • Battle of Bound Brook • Second Battle of Saratoga (Bemis Heights) • Siege of Savannah • Siege of Charleston • Yorktown campaign Shays' Rebellion
Benjamin Lincoln (January 24, 1733 (O.S. January 13, 1733)[1] – May 9, 1810) was an American army officer. He served as a major general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. Lincoln was involved in three major surrenders during the war: his participation in the Battles of Saratoga (sustaining a wound shortly afterward) contributed to John Burgoyne's surrender of a British army, he oversaw the largest American surrender of the war at the 1780 siege of Charleston, and, as George Washington's second in command, he formally accepted the British surrender at Yorktown.
Lincoln served from 1781 to 1783 as the first United States Secretary of War. While Secretary of War, Lincoln became an original member of The Society of the Cincinnati of the state of Massachusetts and was elected as the first president of the Massachusetts Society on June 9, 1783. After the war, Lincoln was active in politics in his native Massachusetts, running several times for lieutenant governor but only winning one term in that office. In 1787, Lincoln led a militia army (privately funded by Massachusetts merchants) in the suppression of Shays' Rebellion, and was a strong supporter of the new United States Constitution. He was for many of his later years the politically influential customs collector of the Port of Boston. He has no direct relation to Abraham Lincoln.
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