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Peleg Wadsworth
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts
In office March 4, 1793 – March 3, 1807
Serving with Henry Dearborn and George Thatcher (4th District-GT)
Preceded by
Theodore Sedgwick
Succeeded by
Daniel Ilsley
Constituency
4th district (1793–95) 13th district (1795–1803) 15th district (1803–07)
Personal details
Born
(1748-05-06)May 6, 1748 Duxbury, Province of Massachusetts Bay, British America (now Duxbury, Massachusetts)
Died
November 12, 1829(1829-11-12) (aged 81) Hiram, Maine, U.S.
Political party
Federalist
Relations
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (grandson)
Children
at least ten,[1] including Zilpha Wadsworth, Henry Wadsworth, Alexander Scammel Wadsworth
Alma mater
Harvard College
Occupation
Merchant
Military service
Allegiance
Massachusetts United States
Branch/service
Massachusetts Militia Continental Army
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 Patriot 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.[2]
Wadsworth was born in Duxbury in the Province of Massachusetts Bay (now 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 – 1825), whom he married in 1772.
^"Longfellow - Peleg and Elizabeth Wadsworth".
^Cutter, William Richard, ed. (1913). "General Peleg Wadsworth". New England families, genealogical and memorial. Vol. 2. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co. p. 735.
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