Home › S › Smith, William Stephens

Smith, William Stephens

soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born in 1755 in New York city. He was aid to General Sullivan in 1776; was lieutenantcolonel of the thirteenth Massachusetts regiment from 1778 to 1779; and was several times wounded. He was then, for a short time, attached to the staff of Steuben, but left in 1781 to become aid-decamp to Washington. He was secretary of legation under John Adams in England in 1785; was surveyor of the port of New York; and served three years as a member of the New York assembly. He was president of the New York Cincinnati society in 1804; and was a representative in congress from 1813 to 1816. He died June 10, 1816, in Lebanon, N. Y.