Humphreys, David
soldier, statesman, author, poet, was born July 10, 1752, in Derby, Conn. In 1780 he became a colonel and aid-decamp to Washington, with whom he resided for a considerable time. In 1786 he was elected to the legislature of Connecticut; was minister to Portugal in 1791; to Algiers in 1793, and to Spain in 1796. He commanded two Connecticut regiments in the war of 1812; and acquired considerable fame as a writer, especially of poetry, and a collection of his writings was published in New York in 1804; and he also published a Life of General Putnam. He died Feb. 21, 1818, in New Haven, Conn.