Cornell, Ezekiel, c. 1732-1800

CORNELL, Ezekiel, a Delegate from Rhode Island; born in Scituate, R.I., in 1732; attended the public schools; employed as a mechanic; appointed lieutenant colonel in Hitchcock's Rhode Island Regiment in 1775; was present at the siege of Boston; became deputy adjutant general on October 1, 1776; appointed brigadier general of State troops in 1776 and served until March 16, 1780; Member of the Continental Congress 1780-1782; retired to his farm at Scituate; died in Milford, Mass., April 25, 1800.

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<li>12/31/1781 RI Continental Congress Won 100.00% (+100.00%)</li>
<li>12/31/1780 RI Continental Congress Won 100.00% (+100.00%)</li>
<li>12/31/1779 RI Continental Congress Won 100.00% (+100.00%)</li>
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<p>Ezekiel Cornell (1732/33 – April 25, 1800) was a Revolutionary War general who represented Rhode Island in the U.S. Continental Congress from 1780 to 1782.</p>

<p>Ezekiel Cornell was born in on March 27, 1732/33 in either Dartmouth, Massachusetts or Scituate, Rhode Island to Richard Cornell and Content Brownell. He was a descendant of Thomas Cornell. Ezekiel Cornell married Rachel Wood of Little Compton on March 25, 1760 and they had two surviving children, Ezra and Rhoda. Cornell attended the public schools and was employed as a mechanic. Cornell served as Scituate's town meeting moderator in 1768, 1781 and 1785 and as a Deputy (Representative) from Scituate to the General Assembly in 1772, 1774 and 1775.</p>

<p>In August 1774 he was commissioned as the colonel of the 3rd Providence County Regiment of the Rhode Island Militia.</p>