James Ewing (August 3, 1736 – March 1, 1806) was a Pennsylvania soldier, statesman, and politician of the Colonial, Revolutionary and post-Revolutionary eras.
Historian David Hackett Fischer characterized Ewing as a "hard-driving Scotch-Irish border chieftain".
Positioned directly across from Trenton, Ewing and his troops were unable to cross the Delaware because of ice.
Washington did not blame Ewing, writing that, "the Quantity of Ice was so great, that tho' he did every thing in his power to effect it, he could not get over.
Following Independence Ewing aligned himself with wealthy business interests, as a Republican and Anti-Constitutionalist (the latter movement being opposed to the unicameral legislature of Pennsylvania’s 1776 Constitution), and later as a Federalist.