Simon Larned

{{Short description|American politician}}

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| name =Simon Larned

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| state =Massachusetts

| 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 Colony, British America

| death_date ={{death date and age|1817|11|16|1753|8|3}}

| death_place =Pittsfield, Massachusetts, U.S

|restingplace =Pittsfield Cemetery

| title2=Sheriff of
Berkshire County, Massachusetts

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| office3 = Member of the
Massachusetts House of Representatives

| term_start3 =1791

| term_end3 =1791

| office4 = Treasurer of
Berkshire County, Massachusetts

| term_start4 =1792

| term_end4 =1812

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| nationality =

| party =Democratic-Republican

| spouse =Ruth Bull, m. 1784

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| children =Charles Larned, (1792–1834);
Sylvester Larned, born Pittsfield, Massachusetts, August 23, 1796.{{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}}

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|branch=Continental Army
United States Army

|rank = 15px Captain
15px Colonel

|allegiance = United States of America

|serviceyears =

|unit = Colonel Shepherd's regiment
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
Siege of Boston
War of 1812
Battle of Plattsburgh

}}Simon Larned (August 3, 1753 – November 16, 1817) was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts.

Born in Thompson in the Connecticut Colony, Larned attended the common schools.

Larned served as Sheriff of Berkshire County.

He served in the Revolutionary War{{Citation |last = Dolliver|first = Louise Pearsons| title = Lineage book, Volume XXIII|page =43 | publisher = Daughters of the American Revolution | location = Washington, DC | year =1907}} as 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.

He engaged in mercantile pursuits in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, in 1784.

He was a Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1791.

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.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.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.{{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}}

Larned was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the 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.