James Wadsworth III (July 8, 1730 – September 22, 1816) was an American lawyer from Durham, Connecticut.

After graduating from Yale College in 1748, he became clerk of Durham from 1756 to 1786.Initially a brigadier general of the Connecticut militia during the Revolutionary War, after the death of David Wooster in 1777 he became the major general of militia and the second-highest ranked militia officer in the state. After the war, he became a justice of the New Haven County Court of Common Pleas. 

He served as a delegate to the Continental Congress from 1783 to 1786, Speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives from 1784 to 1785, a member of the Connecticut Executive Council from 1785 to 1790, and as a judge of the Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors from 1787 to 1788.

Benjamin Sutliff joined the 1st Connecticut on 1 May 1775 and served there as a Private until 28 November 1775. He is recorded as having served in Douglas' Connecticut State Regiment from June to December 1776; and appears as a Sergeant in the 6th Connecticut on 21st May, 1777.

Under the congressional reorganization effective 1 January 1781, Connecticut was required to reduce its Continental Line from eight regiments to five, selecting officers by seniority and perceived necessity. Ensign Benjamin Sutliff, then serving in the 6th Connecticut, was among those retained. Rather than being rendered supernumerary, he was transferred into the newly arranged 4th Connecticut Regiment. Benjamin Sutliff died on 22 April 1789.