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Wadsworth, Peleg 1748-1829

Military officer; born in Duxbury, Mass., May 6, 1748; graduated at Harvard College in 1769. As captain of minute-men, he joined the army gathering around Boston in the spring of 1775; became aide to General Ward; and afterwards adjutant-general for Massachusetts. He was in the battle of Long Island: and in 1777 was made brigadiergeneral of militia, serving, in 1779, as second in command in the Penobscot expedition, where he was taken prisoner. In February, 1781, he was captured and confined in the fort at Castine, whence he escaped in June. After the war he engaged in business in Portland and in surveying, and in 1792 he was elected a State Senator. From 1792 to 1806 he was a member of Congress. He died in Hiram, Me., Nov. 18, 1829.

Harper and Brothers Publishers. . New York. 1902.

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