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States Minister to <span class="nowrap">Spain</span></a> </th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />September 10, 1797 – December 28, 1801</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">President</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/John_Adams" title="John Adams">John Adams</a> <br /> <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson" title="Thomas Jefferson">Thomas Jefferson</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/William_Short_(American_ambassador)" title="William Short (American ambassador)">William Short</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Charles_Pinckney_(governor)" title="Charles Pinckney (governor)">Charles Pinckney</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">1st <a href="/wiki/United_States_Ambassador_to_Portugal" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Ambassador to Portugal">United States Minister to <span class="nowrap">Portugal</span></a> </th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />May 13, 1791 – July 25, 1797</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">President</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/George_Washington" title="George Washington">George Washington</a> <br /> John Adams</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><i>Position established</i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/William_Loughton_Smith" title="William Loughton Smith">William Loughton Smith</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1752-07-10</span>)</span>July 10, 1752<br /><a href="/wiki/Derby,_Connecticut" title="Derby, Connecticut">Derby</a>, <a href="/wiki/Connecticut_Colony" title="Connecticut Colony">Connecticut Colony</a>, <a href="/wiki/British_America" title="British America">British America</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">February 21, 1818<span style="display:none">(1818-02-21)</span> (aged 65)<br /><a href="/wiki/New_Haven,_Connecticut" title="New Haven, Connecticut">New Haven, Connecticut</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Resting place</th><td class="infobox-data label"><a href="/wiki/Grove_Street_Cemetery" title="Grove Street Cemetery">Grove Street Cemetery</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data">Anne Frances Bulkeley</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Education</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Yale_University" title="Yale University">Yale University</a> (<a href="/wiki/Bachelor_of_Arts" title="Bachelor of Arts">B.A.</a>, <a href="/wiki/Master_of_Arts" title="Master of Arts">M.A.</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data">Diplomat, poet, entrepreneur</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Military service</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Allegiance</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Flag_of_the_United_States_%281777%E2%80%931795%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_States_%281777%E2%80%931795%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Flag_of_the_United_States_%281777%E2%80%931795%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_States_%281777%E2%80%931795%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Flag_of_the_United_States_%281777%E2%80%931795%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_United_States_%281777%E2%80%931795%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1235" data-file-height="650" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Branch/service</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States"><img alt="United States" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Flag_of_the_United_States_%281777%E2%80%931795%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_States_%281777%E2%80%931795%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Flag_of_the_United_States_%281777%E2%80%931795%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_States_%281777%E2%80%931795%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Flag_of_the_United_States_%281777%E2%80%931795%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_United_States_%281777%E2%80%931795%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1235" data-file-height="650" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Continental_Army" title="Continental Army">Continental Army</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Years of service</th><td class="infobox-data">1776–1783</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Rank</th><td class="infobox-data">Lieutenant Colonel</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Battles/wars</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1116488514">.mw-parser-output .treeview ul{padding:0;margin:0}.mw-parser-output .treeview li{padding:0;margin:0;list-style-type:none;list-style-image:none}.mw-parser-output .treeview li li{background:url("https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/Treeview-grey-line.png")no-repeat 0 -2981px;padding-left:21px;text-indent:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .treeview li li:last-child{background-position:0 -5971px}.mw-parser-output .treeview li.emptyline>ul>.mw-empty-elt:first-child+.emptyline,.mw-parser-output .treeview li.emptyline>ul>li:first-child{background-position:0 9px}</style><div class="treeview"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" title="American Revolutionary War">American Revolutionary War</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Ridgefield" title="Battle of Ridgefield">Battle of Ridgefield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Sag_Harbor" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Sag Harbor">Battle of Sag Harbor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yorktown_campaign" title="Yorktown campaign">Yorktown campaign</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>David Humphreys</b> (July 10, 1752 – February 21, 1818) was an <a href="/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" title="American Revolutionary War">American Revolutionary War</a> colonel and <a href="/wiki/Washington%27s_aides-de-camp" title="Washington's aides-de-camp">aide de camp to George Washington</a>, a secretary and <a href="/wiki/Intelligence_agent" class="mw-redirect" title="Intelligence agent">intelligence agent</a> for <a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin" title="Benjamin Franklin">Benjamin Franklin</a> in Paris, <a href="/wiki/United_States_Ambassador_to_Portugal" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Ambassador to Portugal">American minister to Portugal</a> and then to <a href="/wiki/United_States_Ambassador_to_Spain" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Ambassador to Spain">Spain</a>, entrepreneur who brought <a href="/wiki/Merino_sheep" class="mw-redirect" title="Merino sheep">Merino sheep</a> to America, and member of the <a href="/wiki/Connecticut" title="Connecticut">Connecticut</a> state legislature. He also was a prolific poet and author and a member of the <a href="/wiki/Hartford_Wits" title="Hartford Wits">Hartford Wits</a>. As secretary and <a href="/wiki/Speechwriter" title="Speechwriter">speechwriter</a> to <a href="/wiki/George_Washington" title="George Washington">George Washington</a> during <a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_George_Washington" title="Presidency of George Washington">his administration</a>, Humphreys was the nation's first <a href="/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" title="President of the United States">U.S. presidential</a> speechwriter. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Humphreys_(soldier)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/David_Humphreys_House" title="David Humphreys House">David Humphreys House</a></div> <p>Humphreys was born in what was then <a href="/wiki/Derby,_Connecticut" title="Derby, Connecticut">Derby, Connecticut</a> but is present-day <a href="/wiki/Ansonia,_Connecticut" title="Ansonia, Connecticut">Ansonia, Connecticut</a> in a spacious two-story house at 37 Elm Street. The house of his birth, now called the <a href="/wiki/David_Humphreys_House" title="David Humphreys House">David Humphreys House</a>, is a historic museum in recognition of his birth there. Humphreys was the youngest of five children, including four sons and a daughter. His parents were Daniel and Sarah Riggs Bowers Humphreys.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Humphreys' father Daniel served as <a href="/wiki/Parson" title="Parson">parson</a> of the town's <a href="/wiki/Congregational_church" class="mw-redirect" title="Congregational church">Congregational church</a> for 54 years from 1733, the year after he graduated from <a href="/wiki/Yale_College" title="Yale College">Yale</a>, until 1787. Daniel Humphreys was the second husband of Sarah Riggs Bowers, known in <a href="/wiki/Connecticut" title="Connecticut">Connecticut</a> as "Lady Humphreys" in tribute to her "dignity and refinement of character," according to biographer Leo T. Molloy.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As a boy, Humphreys was passionately fond of books. His father prepared him and his brother, Daniel, to attend his own <i>alma mater,</i> Yale College, and both of them entered there. David was 15 years old when he entered the school and 19 when he graduated in 1771 with distinguished honors. While at Yale, he founded <a href="/wiki/Brothers_in_Unity" title="Brothers in Unity">Brothers in Unity</a>, a debating society that came to prominence in the 1800s. Among his college friends at Yale were <a href="/wiki/Timothy_Dwight_IV" title="Timothy Dwight IV">Timothy Dwight IV</a>, who later became one of Yale's great presidents; <a href="/wiki/John_Trumbull_(poet)" title="John Trumbull (poet)">John Trumbull</a>, a poet and lawyer and cousin of the painter of the <a href="/wiki/John_Trumbull" title="John Trumbull">same name</a>; and <a href="/wiki/Joel_Barlow" title="Joel Barlow">Joel Barlow</a>, a poet and diplomat.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After graduating from Yale, Humphreys became principal at the public school in <a href="/wiki/Wethersfield,_Connecticut" title="Wethersfield, Connecticut">Wethersfield, Connecticut</a> for two years. He then worked as a tutor for the youngest of the 11 children of Col. Frederick Philipse at the <a href="/wiki/Philipse_Manor_Hall_State_Historic_Site" title="Philipse Manor Hall State Historic Site">Philipse Manor</a> house in what is now <a href="/wiki/Yonkers,_New_York" title="Yonkers, New York">Yonkers, New York</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Molloy,_pp._7-8_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Molloy,_pp._7-8-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Philipse Manor was a prominent and outspoken <a href="/wiki/Toryism" class="mw-redirect" title="Toryism">Tory</a> academic institution, which only roused Humphrey's <a href="/wiki/Patriot_(American_Revolution)" title="Patriot (American Revolution)">Patriot</a> leanings. In 1774, Humphreys returned to <a href="/wiki/New_Haven,_Connecticut" title="New Haven, Connecticut">New Haven</a> and received a master of arts degree from Yale. He was offered a position as a Yale instructor, which he refused and instead taught part-time at a New Haven private school run by his brother, Daniel.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Two of Humphreys' contemporaries, <a href="/wiki/John_Adams" title="John Adams">John Adams</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nathan_Hale" title="Nathan Hale">Nathan Hale</a>, also taught in the early part of their lives. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="American_Revolutionary_War">American Revolutionary War</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Humphreys_(soldier)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: American Revolutionary War"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:General_George_Washington_Resigning_his_Commission.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/General_George_Washington_Resigning_his_Commission.jpg/260px-General_George_Washington_Resigning_his_Commission.jpg" decoding="async" width="260" height="170" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/General_George_Washington_Resigning_his_Commission.jpg/390px-General_George_Washington_Resigning_his_Commission.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/General_George_Washington_Resigning_his_Commission.jpg/520px-General_George_Washington_Resigning_his_Commission.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3000" data-file-height="1962" /></a><figcaption>Humphreys standing immediately behind <a href="/wiki/George_Washington" title="George Washington">George Washington</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/General_George_Washington_Resigning_His_Commission" title="General George Washington Resigning His Commission">General George Washington Resigning His Commission</a></i>, an 1824 <a href="/wiki/John_Trumbull" title="John Trumbull">John Trumbull</a> portrait now housed in the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Capitol_rotunda" title="United States Capitol rotunda">United States Capitol rotunda</a> in <a href="/wiki/Washington,_D.C." title="Washington, D.C.">Washington, D.C.</a><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>In July 1776, Humphreys enlisted in the <a href="/wiki/Continental_Army" title="Continental Army">Continental Army</a> as a volunteer adjutant in the <a href="/wiki/2nd_Connecticut_Regiment" title="2nd Connecticut Regiment">2nd Connecticut Regiment</a> and was stationed in <a href="/wiki/New_York_(state)" title="New York (state)">New York state</a>. The regiment consisted of several companies of men from Humphreys hometown of <a href="/wiki/Wethersfield,_Connecticut" title="Wethersfield, Connecticut">Derby, Connecticut</a>. He later was engaged in military action in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Ridgefield" title="Battle of Ridgefield">Battle of Ridgefield</a> following the burning of <a href="/wiki/Danbury,_Connecticut" title="Danbury, Connecticut">Danbury, Connecticut</a> and in <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Sag_Harbor" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Sag Harbor">a later raid</a> on <a href="/wiki/Sag_Harbor,_New_York" title="Sag Harbor, New York">Sag Harbor, New York</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Molloy,_pp._7-8_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Molloy,_pp._7-8-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the Sag Harbor raid, the Continental Army captured 90 prisoners, destroyed 12 enemy brigs and sloops, an armed vessel and an enormous quantity of stores, and returned to <a href="/wiki/Connecticut" title="Connecticut">Connecticut</a> without the loss of a single soldier. Humphreys traveled to <a href="/wiki/New_Jersey" title="New Jersey">New Jersey</a> to meet directly with <a href="/wiki/George_Washington" title="George Washington">General George Washington</a> to brief Washington on the battle's success. Their meeting in New Jersey was probably the first between the two.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Humphreys was promoted to captain and major and served on the staffs of Continental Army Generals <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Holden_Parsons" title="Samuel Holden Parsons">Parsons</a>, <a href="/wiki/Israel_Putnam" title="Israel Putnam">Israel Putnam</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Nathanael_Greene" title="Nathanael Greene">Nathanael Greene</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Hubbard,_Robert_Ernest_pp._3-4_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hubbard,_Robert_Ernest_pp._3-4-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On June 23, 1780, Humphreys was appointed <i>aide-de-camp</i> at Washington's headquarters <a href="/wiki/Washington%27s_Aides-de-Camp" class="mw-redirect" title="Washington's Aides-de-Camp">staff</a>, and he became a confidential friend and adviser to the general.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After the <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Yorktown" title="Siege of Yorktown">Battle of Yorktown</a>, Washington entrusted the surrendered British colors, along with the general's report on the battle, to Humphreys and <a href="/wiki/Tench_Tilghman" title="Tench Tilghman">Tench Tilghman</a>, a fellow aide who also delivered word of the Patriot victory to Congress. A painting of Humphreys arriving with them, <i>The Delivery of the Standards' to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia, November, 1781</i>, is now displayed the <a href="/wiki/New_Haven_Museum_and_Historical_Society" title="New Haven Museum and Historical Society">New Haven Museum and Historical Society</a>, which also has a ceremonial sword that Congress voted be presented to Humphreys. The sword was presented in 1786 by Gen. <a href="/wiki/Henry_Knox" title="Henry Knox">Henry Knox</a>. Humphreys was commissioned a lieutenant-colonel with his commission backdated to his appointment as an aide to Washington.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>When <a href="/wiki/George_Washington%27s_resignation_as_commander-in-chief" title="George Washington's resignation as commander-in-chief">Washington resigned his commission</a> and presented himself before Congress, Humphreys was one of two aides who accompanied him into the chamber; the other was <a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Walker_(New_York_soldier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Benjamin Walker (New York soldier)">Benjamin Walker</a>. Humphreys then traveled with Washington and his wife <a href="/wiki/Martha_Washington" title="Martha Washington">Martha</a> back to <a href="/wiki/Mount_Vernon" title="Mount Vernon">Mount Vernon</a>. Washington later recommended to Congress that it appoint Humphreys secretary of foreign affairs, but Congress appointed <a href="/wiki/John_Jay" title="John Jay">John Jay</a> instead.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After the Revolutionary War, Humphreys became an original member of Connecticut's <a href="/wiki/Society_of_the_Cincinnati" title="Society of the Cincinnati">Society of the Cincinnati</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Public_service">Public service</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Humphreys_(soldier)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Public service"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Humphreys was appointed to a commission to negotiate treaties of commerce with European nations. Other members of the commission included <a href="/wiki/John_Adams" title="John Adams">John Adams</a>, <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson" title="Thomas Jefferson">Thomas Jefferson</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin" title="Benjamin Franklin">Benjamin Franklin</a>. Humphreys became Franklin's secretary in 1784 in Paris, where he also served as a U.S. intelligence agent, and continued as a secretary to the legation under Thomas Jefferson upon his appointment as <a href="/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_State" title="United States Secretary of State">U.S. Secretary of State</a> under <a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_George_Washington" title="Presidency of George Washington">George Washington</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In a letter of introduction to Franklin, Washington described Humphreys, writing: "This gentleman was several years in my family as aide-de-camp -- his zeal in the cause of his country -- his good sense, prudence and attachment to me, rendered him dear to me; and I persuade myself you will find no confidence which you may think proper to repose in him, misplaced. He possesses an excellent heart, good natural and acquired abilities and -- sterling integrity -- to which may be added sobriety and an obliging disposition."<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1786, Humphreys was elected to the October session of the <a href="/wiki/Connecticut_General_Assembly" title="Connecticut General Assembly">Connecticut General Assembly</a>. He was appointed head of Connecticut's state militia and marched to <a href="/wiki/West_Springfield,_Massachusetts" title="West Springfield, Massachusetts">West Springfield, Massachusetts</a> to help deal with the civil strife and tumult of <a href="/wiki/Shays%27_Rebellion" class="mw-redirect" title="Shays' Rebellion">Shays' Rebellion</a>, but by the time he had arrived, Massachusetts authorities had already subdued it.<sup id="cite_ref-Molloy,_p._16_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Molloy,_p._16-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Humphreys' mother died on July 27, 1787, and his father died a few weeks later, on September 2. At Washington's invitation, Humphreys stayed at <a href="/wiki/Mount_Vernon" title="Mount Vernon">Mount Vernon</a> during the 1780s, acting as the general's private secretary and managing his correspondence. When Washington took the oath of office in <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> after being <a href="/wiki/1792_United_States_presidential_election" title="1792 United States presidential election">elected the nation's first president</a> in 1792, Humphreys accompanied him on the trip from Mount Vernon and stood beside him during the ceremony.<sup id="cite_ref-Molloy,_p._16_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Molloy,_p._16-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Humphreys served as Washington's <a href="/wiki/Speechwriter" title="Speechwriter">speechwriter</a> and helped add flourish to his speeches and correspondences before and during his presidency.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1791, Humphreys had the distinction of being the first minister appointed to a foreign country under the <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_the_United_States" title="Constitution of the United States">Constitution</a> when he was appointed <a href="/wiki/United_States_Ambassador_to_Portugal" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Ambassador to Portugal">minister to Portugal</a>, the first neutral country to recognize the United States. In that post, Humphreys negotiated the ransomed release of American prisoners from the <a href="/wiki/Dey" title="Dey">Dey</a> of <a href="/wiki/Tripoli,_Libya" title="Tripoli, Libya">Tripoli, Libya</a>. </p><p>In 1796, he was appointed as minister to <a href="/wiki/Spain" title="Spain">Spain</a>, which then controlled the <a href="/wiki/Mississippi_River" title="Mississippi River">Mississippi River</a> and all of <a href="/wiki/Latin_America" title="Latin America">Latin America</a> except <a href="/wiki/Brazil" title="Brazil">Brazil</a>. <a href="/wiki/John_Quincy_Adams" title="John Quincy Adams">John Quincy Adams</a> succeeded him as U.S. minister in <a href="/wiki/Lisbon" title="Lisbon">Lisbon</a>. He remained minister to Spain until 1801, and during his stay there met and married Anne Frances Bulkeley, a cultured and wealthy English woman, whose father, John Bulkeley, was a banker, merchant, and trader.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1804, Humphreys was elected as a member to the <a href="/wiki/American_Philosophical_Society" title="American Philosophical Society">American Philosophical Society</a> in <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia" title="Philadelphia">Philadelphia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He served again as a member of the <a href="/wiki/Connecticut_House_of_Representatives" title="Connecticut House of Representatives">Connecticut House of Representatives</a> from 1812 to 1814, and was elected a <a href="/wiki/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society" title="Fellow of the Royal Society">Fellow of the Royal Society</a> of London in June 1807.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1813, Humphreys was also elected a member of the <a href="/wiki/American_Antiquarian_Society" title="American Antiquarian Society">American Antiquarian Society</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Entrepreneur">Entrepreneur</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Humphreys_(soldier)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Entrepreneur"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The couple moved to <a href="/wiki/Boston" title="Boston">Boston</a>, where they bought a home on Chestnut Street on <a href="/wiki/Beacon_Hill,_Boston" title="Beacon Hill, Boston">Beacon Hill</a> and "entertained lavishly." But Humphreys bought a farm in <a href="/wiki/Derby,_Connecticut" title="Derby, Connecticut">Derby, Connecticut</a>, and the couple also managed to spend considerable time there. He also bought a factory and house, now known as the <a href="/wiki/Sanford-Humphreys_House" title="Sanford-Humphreys House">Sanford-Humphreys House</a> in what is present-day <a href="/wiki/Seymour,_Connecticut" title="Seymour, Connecticut">Seymour, Connecticut</a> that produced scythes and other iron tools. For a time, the community was called "Humphreysville." </p><p>Having seen poor conditions in mills in England, he was determined to avoid a similar situation in his plant in Seymour. He took in many employees to <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> for training, educating, and clothing. Humphreys established evening and Sunday schools for his employees and organized them into a uniformed military company, which he drilled personally.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>"It was largely through his efforts that the state inaugurated its efforts at factory inspection," according to biographer Leo Molloy.<sup id="cite_ref-Molloy,_p._20_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Molloy,_p._20-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As a farmer, Humphreys was actively interested in agricultural improvements, and his farm became an experimental station. He helped found the Agriculture Society of Connecticut and became its first president.<sup id="cite_ref-Molloy,_p._20_23-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Molloy,_p._20-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Merino_sheep">Merino sheep</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Humphreys_(soldier)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Merino sheep"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1802, Humphreys bought a herd of <a href="/wiki/Merino_sheep" class="mw-redirect" title="Merino sheep">merino sheep</a> in <a href="/wiki/Spain" title="Spain">Spain</a> and had them imported directly to <a href="/wiki/Derby,_Connecticut" title="Derby, Connecticut">Derby</a>. Out of 25 rams and 75 ewes, five rams and two ewes died in the passage. They attracted a good deal of attention in town. "Humphreys considered their fleece of a superior quality and believed that their mixture with American sheep would eventually result in the production, through manufacture, of finer fabrics in America," his biographer wrote. </p><p>He sold some of the sheep, which then were resold in a flurry of speculation. He set up the first successful woolen mill factory in the U.S., and it quickly achieved the reputation as the best producer of broadcloth in the nation. Coats made from the "golden fleece" were worn by President <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson" title="Thomas Jefferson">Thomas Jefferson</a>, <a href="/wiki/James_Madison" title="James Madison">James Madison</a>, and Captain <a href="/wiki/Isaac_Hull" title="Isaac Hull">Isaac Hull</a>. Humphreys is regarded as the founder of the woolen industry in the U.S.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Poet_and_author">Poet and author</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Humphreys_(soldier)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Poet and author"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Humphreys composed the first American sonnet in 1776, titled "Addressed to my Friends at Yale College, on my Leaving them to join the Army",<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and his most popular work, <i>Happiness of America,</i> written in 1785, was published in ten 10 print editions between 1786 and 1804.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup><sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Humphreys enjoyed writing and had a voluminous correspondence with <a href="/wiki/George_Washington" title="George Washington">Washington</a>, now housed in the <a href="/wiki/Library_of_Congress" title="Library of Congress">Library of Congress</a> in <a href="/wiki/Washington,_D.C." title="Washington, D.C.">Washington, D.C.</a> He also wrote for the public and was the author of a "Life of General <a href="/wiki/Israel_Putnam" title="Israel Putnam">Israel Putnam</a>," whose staff he served on.<sup id="cite_ref-Hubbard,_Robert_Ernest_pp._3-4_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hubbard,_Robert_Ernest_pp._3-4-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was one of the writers in the <a href="/wiki/Hartford_Wits" title="Hartford Wits">Hartford Wits</a>; other members included <a href="/wiki/Joel_Barlow" title="Joel Barlow">Joel Barlow</a>, <a href="/wiki/Timothy_Dwight_IV" title="Timothy Dwight IV">Timothy Dwight IV</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_Trumbull_(poet)" title="John Trumbull (poet)">John Trumbull</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Lemuel_Hopkins" title="Lemuel Hopkins">Lemuel Hopkins</a>. He co-authored <i><a href="/wiki/The_Anarchiad" title="The Anarchiad">The Anarchiad</a></i>, a satirical poem that reflected Humphreys' <a href="/wiki/Federalist_Party" title="Federalist Party">Federalist Party</a> bent.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1802, he wrote an anti-slavery poem, "A Poem on the Industry of the United States of America". He was elected a Fellow of the <a href="/wiki/American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences" title="American Academy of Arts and Sciences">American Academy of Arts and Sciences</a> in 1804.<sup id="cite_ref-AAAS_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AAAS-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1786, Humphreys wrote an account of <a href="/wiki/Asgill_Affair" title="Asgill Affair">the confinement and proposed execution</a> of British Captain <a href="/wiki/Sir_Charles_Asgill,_2nd_Baronet" title="Sir Charles Asgill, 2nd Baronet">Charles Asgill</a> for the <i>New-Haven Gazette</i>. The article, now included in Washington's official papers on the affair, was published posthumously in 1859 as a book, <i>The conduct of General Washington : respecting the confinement of Capt. Asgill, placed in its true point of light</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Humphreys' play <i>The Yankey in England</i> (c. 1814) was influential in forging the stage character of the <a href="/wiki/Yankee" title="Yankee">Yankee</a>, often singing "<a href="/wiki/Yankee_Doodle" title="Yankee Doodle">Yankee Doodle</a>", that came to dominate American and English comedies in the period up to 1850, and comes with a seven-page glossary of the peculiar idiom and pronunciation of Americanisms, which is an important source for American historical <a href="/wiki/Dialectology" title="Dialectology">dialectology</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Death">Death</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Humphreys_(soldier)&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Humphreys died in his room at Butler's Tavern in <a href="/wiki/New_Haven,_Connecticut" title="New Haven, Connecticut">New Haven, Connecticut</a>, where he stayed when he was attending to affairs in Derby, and was interred at <a href="/wiki/Grove_Street_Cemetery" title="Grove Street Cemetery">Grove Street Cemetery</a> in New Haven. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Humphreys_(soldier)&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/David_Humphreys_House" title="David Humphreys House">David Humphreys House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_the_oldest_buildings_in_Connecticut" title="List of the oldest buildings in Connecticut">List of the oldest buildings in Connecticut</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sources">Sources</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Humphreys_(soldier)&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Sources"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output 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Invariant be in New England folk speech: Colonial and postcolonial evidence. American Speech. 82. 10.1215/00031283-2007-006.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Humphreys_(soldier)&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://derbyhistorical.org/humphrey.htm">Humphreys House</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080509093113/http://www.derbyhistorical.org/humphrey.htm">Archived</a> 2008-05-09 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, now a museum</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.societyofthecincinnati.org">Society of the Cincinnati</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.americanrevolutioninstitute.org">The American Revolution Institute</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Gallery">Gallery</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Humphreys_(soldier)&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Gallery"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:DavidHumphreysHouse.jpeg" class="mw-file-description" title="The David Humphreys home, built in 1698, is now maintained by the Derby Historical Society. It is located at 37 Elm Street, Ansonia, CT."><img alt="The David Humphreys home, built in 1698, is now maintained by the Derby Historical Society. It is located at 37 Elm Street, Ansonia, CT." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/DavidHumphreysHouse.jpeg/120px-DavidHumphreysHouse.jpeg" decoding="async" width="120" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/DavidHumphreysHouse.jpeg/180px-DavidHumphreysHouse.jpeg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/DavidHumphreysHouse.jpeg/240px-DavidHumphreysHouse.jpeg 2x" data-file-width="3264" data-file-height="2448" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">The David Humphreys home, built in 1698, is now maintained by the Derby Historical Society. It is located at 37 Elm Street, Ansonia, CT.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:HumphreysDavidEngraving.gif" class="mw-file-description" title="Engraving of David Humphreys"><img alt="Engraving of David Humphreys" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4c/HumphreysDavidEngraving.gif/120px-HumphreysDavidEngraving.gif" decoding="async" width="120" height="104" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4c/HumphreysDavidEngraving.gif/180px-HumphreysDavidEngraving.gif 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4c/HumphreysDavidEngraving.gif/240px-HumphreysDavidEngraving.gif 2x" data-file-width="932" data-file-height="804" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Engraving of David Humphreys</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:DavidHumphreys.jpeg" class="mw-file-description" title="Signpost for the David Humphreys home at 37 Elm St., Ansonia, CT."><img alt="Signpost for the David Humphreys home at 37 Elm St., Ansonia, CT." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/DavidHumphreys.jpeg/120px-DavidHumphreys.jpeg" decoding="async" width="120" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/DavidHumphreys.jpeg/180px-DavidHumphreys.jpeg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/DavidHumphreys.jpeg/240px-DavidHumphreys.jpeg 2x" data-file-width="3264" data-file-height="2448" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Signpost for the David Humphreys home at 37 Elm St., Ansonia, CT.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:HumphreysMonument.gif" class="mw-file-description" title="Humphreys' monument, Grove Street Cemetery"><img alt="Humphreys' monument, Grove Street Cemetery" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f3/HumphreysMonument.gif/86px-HumphreysMonument.gif" decoding="async" width="86" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f3/HumphreysMonument.gif/129px-HumphreysMonument.gif 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f3/HumphreysMonument.gif/172px-HumphreysMonument.gif 2x" data-file-width="418" data-file-height="584" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Humphreys' monument, Grove Street Cemetery</div> </li> </ul> <table class="wikitable succession-box noprint" style="margin:0.5em auto; font-size:small;clear:both;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="3" style="border-top: 5px solid #FACEFF;">Diplomatic posts </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/William_Short_(American_ambassador)" 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