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He was born on May 1, 1753 at Gloucester, Massachussets, United States, the son of Winthrop and Judith (Sanders) Sargent. His ancestor, William, had emigrated from England and received a grant of land in Gloucester in 1678.
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He was born on May 1, 1753 at Gloucester, Massachussets, United States, the son of Winthrop and Judith (Sanders) Sargent. His ancestor, William, had emigrated from England and received a grant of land in Gloucester in 1678.
Winthrop graduated from Harvard College in 1771.
At the outbreak of the Revolution he enlisted in the Continental Army, earning by meritorious service the brevet rank of major.
In 1786 he was surveyor on the Seven Ranges in Ohio and that same year he attended the meeting in Boston at which the Ohio Company was organized. The next year he was elected secretary of this organization, and during the summer rendered valuable assistance to Manasseh Culter in the purchase of the land which the company proposed to settle.
He reached Marietta in July 1788, and took an active part in the planting of the new colony. On Oct. 7, 1787, he was designated by Congress as secretary of the Territory Northwest of the River Ohio. During the frequent and prolonged absences of Gov. Arthur St. Clair, Sargent assumed the executive responsibilities with the same disinterested devotion to public duty that he always manifested. Recent research has cleared him of the criticism formerly made of his course in the organization of Wayne County (Detroit) in 1796.
He was St. Clair's adjutant-general in the expedition of 1791 against the Indians and in the defeat at Fort Recovery, Nov. 4, 1791, he was twice wounded. After this defeat, as acting governor he organized the militia to repel anticipated Indian attacks.
In 1798 Sargent resigned his secretaryship to become the governor of Mississippi Territory. He retired to the plantation.
He died in 1820, on a north-bound steamboat near New Orleans. He contributed to the Memoirs of the American Academy "List of Forest and Other Trees Northwest of the River Ohio" (vol. II, pt. 1, 1793), "Meteorological Observations" (vol. III, pt. 1, 1809), and "An Account of Several Shocks of an Earthquake" (vol. III, pt. 2, 1815); and in 1796 published Papers Relative to Certain American Antiquities, later reprinted in the Transactions of the American Philosophical Society (vol. IV, 1799).
He sucessfully participated in battles of Long Island, White Plains, Trenton, Brandywine, Germantown, and Monmouth, served in the Indian wars of 1794-5 and was promoted to the rank of adjutant general. He was the first governor of Mississippi Territory. His Federalism and his New England training made him unpopular amid the democracy of the frontier and involved him in many unpleasant controversies. He published: "List of Forest and Other Trees Northwest of the River Ohio", "Meteorological Observations", and "An Account of Several Shocks of an Earthquake". A student dormitory at Ohio University (founded in 1804) in Athens, Ohio, is named Sargent Hall in his honor.
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His Federalism, impartial enforcement of law, and unfortunate connection with one of the factions in the territory led to such criticism that President Jefferson refused to reappoint him as governor of Mississippi in 1801.
He had membership in the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Massachusetts Historical Society.
As a public servant he was conscientious, energetic, and patriotic in the discharge of responsibilities placed on him.
On Feb. 9, 1789, he married Rowena Tupper, who died in 1790, shortly after the birth of an infant son who did not long survive. his second wife was formerly Mary (McIntosh) Williams, they had married Oct. 24, 1798. Two sons survived him.
