In 1788, Sargent was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
He was also a member of the Philosophical Society and an original member of the Society of the Cincinnati as a delegate from Massachusetts, and published, with Benjamin B. Smith, Papers Relative to Certain American Antiquities (Philadelphia, 1796), and "Boston," a poem (Boston, 1803).

Being a Federalist, Sargent was dismissed from his position as territorial governor of Mississippi in 1801 by incoming president Thomas Jefferson.
Sargent took up life in the private sector, developing his plantation Gloucester, the earliest such establishment in Natchez.
Sargent was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1813.
In 1788, Sargent was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was also a member of the Philosophical Society and an original member of the Society of the Cincinnati as a delegate from Massachusetts, and published, with Benjamin B. Smith, Papers Relative to Certain American Antiquities (Philadelphia, 1796), and "Boston," a poem (Boston, 1803).
Being a Federalist, Sargent was dismissed from his position as territorial governor of Mississippi in 1801 by incoming president Thomas Jefferson. Sargent took up life in the private sector, developing his plantation Gloucester, the earliest such establishment in Natchez. Sargent was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1813.
Winthrop Sargent