Bellows, Benjamin
soldier, legislator, was born Oct. 6, 1740, in Walpole, N. H. He was a member of the colonial and afterward of the state legislature; and was appointed a delegate to the continental congress in 1781, but his business forced him to decline. He was a member of the state convention that ratified the federal constitution in 1788. He presided over the New Hampshire electoral college that voted for Washington in 1788, and was a member of the one that voted for John Adams in 1796. He was active in the colonial and state militia, rising from the rank of corporal to that of brigadier-general, and served during the revolutionary war as a colonel. He died June, 1802, in Walpole, Mass.