page_title: Jeremiah Wadsworth
section_title: During the American Revolution
hierarchical_section_title: Jeremiah Wadsworth / During the American Revolution
caption_attribution_description: English: Plaque on granite outside of the Wadsworth Atheneum dedicated to George Washington and Jeremiah Wadsworth. This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 70000709
context_page_description: Jeremiah Wadsworth was an American sea captain, merchant, and statesman from Hartford, Connecticut who profited from his position as a government official charged with supplying the Continental Army. He represented Connecticut in both the Continental Congress and the United States House of Representatives.
context_section_description: When the war started, Wadsworth was appointed to a committee charged with buying 5,000 pairs of yarn stockings for the army (which had already been sent to Canada). He served on another committee to procure 1,800 pounds of "lawful money in specie" in exchange for bills for use by the army. The Connecticut General Assembly later commissioned him and Col. Jonathan Fitch to find a large number of tin kettles for the army. The next assignment was to buy up as much pork as he could (both to furnish the American army and to keep it out of the hands and stomachs of the British forces).
  Having served effectively in these assignments in Connecticut, Congress elected him Deputy Commissary General of Purchases on June 17, 1777, but he resigned in August. When Congress reorganized the supply system, he became Commissary General in April 1778, resigning in December 1779.
  Reaching the rank of colonel, he became commissary for Comte de Rochambeau's army until the war's end. In the summer of 1783, he went to Paris to report to the French on his activities.
  He is said to have turned a good profit for himself in his transactions for supplies.
  Wadsworth was a good friend of Nathanael Greene and during the time Greene was Quarter-master General they formed some investment partnerships.
caption: Tablet dedicated to George Washington and honoring Jeremiah Wadsworth
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