Ebenezer Huntington

Ebenezer Huntington (December 26, 1754 – June 17, 1834) was an officer in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, and afterwards United States Representative from Connecticut.

Ebenezer was born on December 26, 1754, in Norwich in the Connecticut Colony to Jabez and Hannah (Williams) Huntington.

After leaving Yale, Ebenezer arrived in Boston, where he received an appointment as a first lieutenant in Captain Chester's Company of General Joseph's 2nd Connecticut Regiment.

Now a lieutenant colonel, he was given command of a light infantry regiment and marched with Washington to Yorktown, where he witnessed the surrender of Cornwallis.

He remained on duty with his troops until the unit was disbanded in May 1783 and was admitted shortly thereafter as an original member of The Society of the Cincinnati in the state of Connecticut.

On July 19, 1798, he was commissioned a brigadier general in the United States Army when it was expanded during the Quasi War with France.

His first tenure was for less than five months when he filled the vacancy created when Samuel W. Dana was appointed to the United States Senate to complete the term of James Hillhouse who had resigned.

Ebenezer Huntington is depicted as one of the officers of General Washington's Army in John Trumbull 's Surrender of Lord Cornwallis