Simon Larned (August 3, 1753 – November 16, 1817) was a

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from

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. Born in Thompson in the

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, Larned attended the common schools. Larned served as Sheriff of Berkshire County. He served in the Revolutionary War as Adjutant and Captain in Colonel William Shepard's regiment from January 1, 1777, to December 31, 1780, being aide-de-camp to General Glover, from October 1, 1779. He engaged in mercantile pursuits in

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, in 1784. He was a Member of the

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in 1791. County treasurer 1792–1812. He served as colonel of the Ninth United States Infantry in the

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and was engaged in action at Plattsburg, along the Mohawk River. Larned was admitted as an original member of The

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in the state of Massachusetts when it was established in 1783. Larned was elected as a

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to the Eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Thomson J. Skinner and served from November 5, 1804, to March 3, 1805. He served as president of the

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. He died in

, on November 16, 1817. He was interred in the Pittsfield Cemetery.

References

External links

The Society of the Cincinnati

The American Revolution Institute

Bibliography

* Dolliver, Louise Pearsons (1907), Lineage book, Volume XXIII, Washington, DC:

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, p. 43. * Wiley, Edgar J. (1917), Catalogue of Officers and Students of

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and Others Who Have Received Degrees 1800-1915, Middlebury, VT:

, p. 27. {{DEFAULTSORT:Larned, Simon 1753 births 1817 deaths Massachusetts sheriffs Members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives Continental Army officers from Massachusetts Politicians from Pittsfield, Massachusetts Democratic-Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts County treasurers in Massachusetts 19th-century members of the United States House of Representatives