Colonel Henry Sherburne (1748-1824) was an officer in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.

He commanded Sherburne's Additional Continental Regiment from 1777 to 1781, and served as the General Treasurer of Rhode Island from 1792 to 1807.

He was noted for his heroism at the Battle of Trenton in December 1776, where he led a successful bayonet charge.

On January 1, 1777, he became the major of the 1st Rhode Island Regiment, commanded by Colonel James Varnum.

The regiment was at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, during the winter of 1777 to 1778 and was engaged at the Battle of Rhode Island in August 1778.

In 1779 the regiment was stationed at West Point, New York where its soldiers built Sherburne's Redoubt, a small fortification covering the land approaches to Fort Clinton.

[3] In January 1790, shortly before Rhode Island ratified the U.S. Constitution, he wrote to President Washington asking to be appointed collector of the port of Newport.

[3] On January 6, 1800, he was one of six pall bearers at a mock funeral held in Newport to honor the passing of President Washington.