The Biographical Dictionary of America/Badlam, Ezra

BADLAM, Ezra, soldier, was born at Milton, Mass., May 25, 1746; brother of Stephen Badlam, a general in the revolutionary war. He served as a captain of artillery at the siege of Boston, fought at Trenton and Princeton, and fell into the hands of the British at White Plains in 1780. He was afterwards released and promoted to the rank of colonel at the end of the war. He took an active part in putting down Shays' rebellion. He died in Dorchester, Mass., April 5, 1788.