Ezekiel Cornell was born in 1732 in either Dartmouth, Massachusetts or Scituate, Rhode Island. He attended the public schools and was employed as a mechanic. Cornell served as Scituate's town meeting moderator in 1768, 1781 and 1785 and as a Deputy (Representative) from Scituate to the General Assembly in 1772, 1774 and 1775. During the American Revolution Cornell was appointed lieutenant colonel in Hitchcock’s Rhode Island Regiment in 1775 and was present at the siege of Boston. The unit was taken into the Continental Army, from which Cornell resigned in December 1776.
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