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 Smallwood,
WILLIAM, military officer; born in Kent county, Md., in
1732; became a colonel in the
Maryland line in 1776, and his battalion, which joined
George Washington, at
New York, before the
battle of Long Island, was
composed of men belonging to the best families of his native State.
These suffered in that battle, at which Smallwood was not present.
He was in the action at White Plains, about two months later; and
when, late in the summer of 1777, the British, under the Howes,
appeared in Chesapeake Bay, he was sent to gather the militia on the
western shore of Maryland. With about 1,000 of these he joined
Washington after the battle of Brandywine. He was in the
battle of Germantown
with his militia. While with
Gates, in the
South, he was promoted major-general (September 15, 1780), and soon
afterwards he returned to the North. Smallwood refused to serve
under Baron de Steuben, who was his senior officer, and demanded
that his own commission should be dated two years before his
appointment. He was a member of Congress in 1785, and governor of
Maryland in 1785-88. He died in Prince George county, Md., February
14, 1792. |
