Wadsworth, James

James Wadsworth served on a number of committees related to Indian affairs, including the committee in the Mohegan case and the committee on sequestered lands of the Mohegans at New London. In Oct. 1716, he and John Hall were appointed overseers of the Mohegans, a position Wadsworth held for the next 28 years. He also served as agent for the colony in the Mohegan case (1742-43). Henry Augustus Baker, History of Montville, Connecticut, Formerly the North Parish of New London from 1640 to 1896 (Hartford, Conn: Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company, 1896), 87; Duane Hamilton Hurd, History of New London County, Connecticut: With Biographical Sketches of Many of its Pioneers and Prominent Men (Philadelphia: J.W. Lewis & Company, 1882), 569.