GLOVER, JOHN (1732-97). An American soldier, prominent in the Revolutionary War, born in Salem, Mass. He removed to Marblehead when very young, was a shoemaker for a time, and afterwards engaged in the fishing business. In February, 1773, he was chosen colonel of a militia regiment which upon the outbreak of the Revolution became a part of the Continental Army, as the Fourteenth Regiment, better known as the 'Marine Regiment.' On October 4, 1775, he was placed in charge, with Stephen Moylan, of the equipment and manning of armed vessels and cruisers designed for service against the British, and until July, 1776, was stationed at Beverly, Mass. He then was ordered to New York, and on the night of August 28th-29th. after the battle of Long Island, conducted the transfer of the American army from Long Island to New York.
He was placed in command of General Clinton's brigade on September 4th, took part in the bat tle of White Plains, and on December 25th manned the boats in which Washington and his army effected the passage of the Delaware before the attack upon Trenton. On February 21, 1777,
he was appointed brigadier-general by the Conti nental Congress, and afterwards took an active part in the campaign against Burgoyne; was placed in charge of the British prisoners on their march from Saratoga to Cambridge; took part in General Sullivan's Rhode island expedition in July and August, 1778; was a member of the court which tried Major Andre, and was officer of the day when Andre was executed; and in July, 1782, was retired on half pay. Subsequent ly until his death he lived at Marblehead, and in 1788 was a member of the Massachusetts con vention which ratified the Federal Constitution. His orderly books and a letter-book containing his Revolutionary correspondence are in the possession of the Essex Institute at Salem, Mass. Consult Upham, A Memoir of General John Glover of Marblehead (Salem, 1863).