Long, Pierse

Long, Pierse, a Delegate from New Hampshire; born in Portsmouth, N.H., in 1739; completed preparatory studies; engaged in the shipping business; delegate to the Provincial Congress of New Hampshire in 1775; served in the Revolutionary War as colonel of the First New Hampshire Regiment and participated in the engagements at Ticonderoga and points on Lakes George and Champlain; was present at the surrender of General Burgoyne at Saratoga; brevetted a brigadier general; Member of the Continental Congress 1784-1786; State councilor 1786-1789; delegate to the State constitutional convention which ratified the Federal Constitution June 21, 1788; appointed by President Washington customs collector for the port of Portsmouth, N.H., in January 1789, but owing to ill health was unable to assume the duties of the office; died in Portsmouth, N.H., on April 13, 1789; interment in the Proprietors’ Burying Ground.