{{Short description|American politician}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2020}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Simon Larned | image = | state = [[Massachusetts]] | district = [[Massachusetts's 12th congressional district|12th]] | term_start = November 5, 1804 | term_end = March 3, 1805 | preceded = [[Thomson J. Skinner]] | succeeded = [[Barnabas Bidwell]] | birth_date = {{birth date|1753|8|3}} | birth_place = [[Thompson, Connecticut|Thompson]], [[Connecticut Colony]], [[British America]] | death_date = {{death date and age|1817|11|16|1753|8|3}} | death_place = [[Pittsfield, Massachusetts|Pittsfield]], [[Massachusetts]], [[United States|U.S]] | resting_place = Pittsfield Cemetery | title2 = Sheriff of <br>[[Berkshire County, Massachusetts]] | term_start2 = | term_end2 = | predecessor2 = | successor2 = | office3 = Member of the<br>[[Massachusetts House of Representatives]] | term_start3 = 1791 | term_end3 = 1791 | office4 = Treasurer of <br>[[Berkshire County, Massachusetts]] | term_start4 = 1792 | term_end4 = 1812 | predecessor4 = | successor4 = | party = [[Democratic-Republican]] | spouse = Ruth Bull,<ref name="Wileyp27"/><ref name="DARVol23"/> m. 1784<ref name="DARVol23"/> | relations = | children = [[Charles Larned]], (1792–1834);<ref name="DARVol23"/><br>Sylvester Larned, born [[Pittsfield, Massachusetts]], August 23, 1796.<ref name="Wileyp27">{{Citation |last = Wiley|first = Edgar J.| title = Catalogue of Officers and Students of Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont and Others Who Have Received Degrees 1800-1915|page =27 | publisher = Middlebury College | location = Middlebury, VT | year =1917}}</ref> | alma_mater = | occupation = | profession = | signature = | website = | footnotes = | branch = [[Continental Army]]<br>[[United States Army]] | rank = [[File:US-O3 insignia.svg|15px]] [[Captain (U.S. Army)|Captain]]<br>[[File:US-O5 insignia.svg|15px]] [[Colonel (United States)|Colonel]] | allegiance = [[United States of America]] | service_years = | unit = Colonel Shepherd's regiment<br>Ninth United States Infantry | commands = Adjutant and Captain in Colonel William Shepard's regiment from January 1, 1777, to December 31, 1780, being aide-de-camp to General Glover, from October 1, 1779. | battles = [[American Revolutionary War]]<br>[[Siege of Boston]]<ref name="DARVol23"/><br>[[War of 1812]]<br>[[Battle of Plattsburgh]] }}<!-- This article was automatically created by [[User:polbot]] from http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000097. The prose may be stilted, and there may be grammatical and Wikification errors. Please improve in any way you see fit. --> '''Simon Larned''' (August 3, 1753 – November 16, 1817) was a [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. representative]] from [[Massachusetts]].

Born in [[Thompson, Connecticut|Thompson]] in the [[Connecticut Colony]], Larned attended the common schools. <!-- A grammar fix may be needed here. -->Larned served as Sheriff of Berkshire County. He served in the [[American Revolutionary War|Revolutionary War]]<ref name="DARVol23">{{Citation |last = Dolliver|first = Louise Pearsons| title = Lineage book, Volume XXIII|page =43 | publisher = Daughters of the American Revolution | location = Washington, DC | year =1907}}</ref> as Adjutant and Captain in Colonel [[William Shepard|William Shepard's]] regiment from January 1, 1777, to December 31, 1780, being aide-de-camp to General Glover, from October 1, 1779. He engaged in mercantile pursuits in [[Pittsfield, Massachusetts]], in 1784. He was a member of the [[Massachusetts House of Representatives]] in 1791. <!-- A grammar fix may be needed here. -->County treasurer 1792–1812. He served as colonel of the Ninth United States Infantry in the [[War of 1812]] and was engaged in action at Plattsburg, along the Mohawk River.

Larned was admitted as an original member of the [[Society of the Cincinnati]] in the state of Massachusetts when it was established in 1783.<ref name="DARVol23"/><ref>Thomas, William Sturgis (1929). ''Members of the [[Society of the Cincinnati]], Original, Hereditary and Honorary; With a Brief Account of the Society's History and Aims'' New York: T.A. Wright, p. 91.</ref><ref>Metcalf, Bryce (1938). ''Original Members and Other Officers Eligible to the [[Society of the Cincinnati]], 1783-1938: With the Institution, Rules of Admission, and Lists of the Officers of the General and State Societies'' Strasburg, VA: Shenandoah Publishing House, Inc., p. 191.</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Officers Represented in the Society of the Cincinnati |url=https://www.americanrevolutioninstitute.org/soldiers-and-sailors-of-the-revolutionary-war/officers-represented-in-the-society-of-the-cincinnati/ |website=The American Revolution Institute of the Society of the Cincinnati |access-date=15 March 2021}}</ref>

Larned was elected as a [[Democratic-Republican]] to the [[8th United States Congress|Eighth Congress]] to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of [[Thomson J. Skinner]] and served from November 5, 1804, to March 3, 1805. He served as president of the [[Berkshire Bank]]. He died in [[Pittsfield, Massachusetts]], on November 16, 1817. He was interred in the Pittsfield Cemetery.

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==External links== * [https://www.societyofthecincinnati.org The Society of the Cincinnati] * [https://www.americanrevolutioninstitute.org The American Revolution Institute]

==Bibliography== * Dolliver, Louise Pearsons (1907), Lineage book, Volume XXIII, Washington, DC: [[Daughters of the American Revolution]], p.&nbsp;43. * Wiley, Edgar J. (1917), Catalogue of Officers and Students of [[Middlebury College]] in [[Middlebury, Vermont]] and Others Who Have Received Degrees 1800-1915, Middlebury, VT: [[Middlebury College]], p.&nbsp;27. {{CongBio|L000097}} {{s-start}} {{s-par|us-hs}} {{US House succession box |state=Massachusetts |district=12 |before=[[Thomson J. Skinner]] |after=[[Barnabas Bidwell]] |years=November 5, 1804 &ndash; March 3, 1805 }} {{s-end}}

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