Peleg Wadsworth

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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.