Benjamin Wadsworth (February 28, 1670 – March 16, 1737) was an American Congregational clergyman and educator.

[1] General George Washington, with the assistance of his second-in-command Charles Lee, set up his first headquarters in the house.

[3] In 1849, when Jared Sparks decided to stay in his nearby home, Harvard presidents ceased to live in Wadsworth House.

After that time, Wadsworth House took in student boarders (including Ralph Waldo Emerson '21) and visiting preachers, among others.

[4] In 1712, Wadsworth was one of the first to write about abortion in America, saying those involved either directly or indirectly were guilty of, "murder in God's eyes".