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Sargent Winthrop

" Sargent Winthrop was a native of Massachusetts and graduated at Harvard College in 1771. With all the circumstances of his life before him, the historian could present him to the admiring reader in a blaze of glory. Thousands of the noble actors on the stage of the Revolution have passed away without a place on the historic page. From the commencement to the close of the long and sanguinary struggle for Independence he was actively and honorably engaged in the military field. In 1786, he was appointed Surveyor of the North Western Territory and in 1787, he was Secretary of that government. He was adjutant-general of the Army of General St. Clair in his disastrous expedition against the Indians and of the Army of General Wayne when he conquered the same red men who had defeated St. Clair. He was subsequently Governor of Mississippi. In all the duties of public and private life he acquitted himself nobly and fulfilled the design of his creation. He died in 1820."

Source: The Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution by L. Carroll Judson