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David Humphreys (1752-1818) was a Revolutionary War colonel and aide de camp to George Washington, American minister to Portugal and then to Spain, entrepreneur who brought Merino sheep to America and member of the Connecticut state legislature. A poet and author, he was one of the "Hartford Wits." (the others were Joel Barlow, Timothy Dwight IV, John Trumbull and Lemuel Hopkins).  In 1802, he wrote an anti-slavery poem entitled "A Poem on the Industry of the United States of America."

Humphreys enjoyed writing and had a voluminous correspondence with Washington, now in the Library of Congress. He also wrote for the public and was the author of a "Life of General Israel Putnam," whose staff he served on.