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See also: American See also: administrator, was See also: born in Windsor, See also: Connecticut, on the 4th of See also: January 1679, the son of See also: Simon See also: Wolcott (d
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1687)
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He was a See also: grandson of See also: Henry Wolcott (1578-1655) of Galdon
See also: Manor, Tolland, See also: Somerset, who emigrated to New See also: England in 1628, assisted See also: John
See also: Mason and others to found Windsor, See also: Conn., in 1635, and was a member of the first General See also: Assembly of Connecticut in 1637 and of the See also: House of Magistrates from 1643 to his See also: death.' See also: Roger Wolcott was early apprenticed to a See also: weaver and throve at this See also: trade; he was a member of the Connecticut General Assembly in 1709, one of the Bench of Justices in 1710, commissary of the Connecticut forces in the expedition of 1711 against See also: Canada, a member of the Council in 1714, See also: judge of the county See also: court in 1721 and of the See also: superior court in 1732, and deputy-governor and chief-See also: justice of the superior court in 1741
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He was second in command to See also: Sir See also: William
See also: Pepperrell, with See also: rank of major-general in the expedition (1745) against Louisbourg, and was governor of Connecticut in 1751-1754
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He died in what is now See also: East Windsor, on the 17th of May 1767
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He wrote Poetical Meditations (1725), an.epic on Tji Agency of the Honourable John See also: Winthrop in the Court of See also: King Chary the Second (printed in pp
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262-298 of vol
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Iv., series i, Collections of Massachusetts
See also: Historical Society), and a pamphlet to prove that " the New England Congregational churches are and always have been consociated churches." His Journal at the Siege of Louisbourg is printed in pp 131-161 of vol. i
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(186o) of the Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society
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His son, See also: ERASTUS WOLCOTT (1722-1793) was a member of the Connecticut General Assembly and its See also: speaker; he was a brigadier-general of Connecticut militia in the War of Independence, and afterwards a judge of the Superior Court of Connecticut
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Another son, OLIVER WOLCOTT (1726-1797), graduated at Yale in 1747 and studied See also: medicine with his See also: brother See also: Alexander (1712-1795)
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In 1751 he was made
See also: sheriff of the newly established See also: Litchfield county and settled in Litchfield, where he practised See also: law
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He was a member of the Council in 1774-1786 and of the See also: Continental Congress in 1775-1776, 1778 and 178o-1784
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Congress made him a See also: commissioner of See also: Indian affairs for the See also: Northern Department in 1775, and during the early years of the War of Independence he was active in raising militia in Connecticut
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He was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence; commanded Connecticut militia that helped to defend New See also: York City in See also: August 1776; in 1777 organized more Connecticut See also: volunteers and took See also: part in the last few days of the See also: campaign against General John Burgoyne; and in 1779 commanded the militia during the See also: British invasion of Connecticut
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In 1784, as one of the commissioners of Indian affairs for the Northern Department, he negotiated the treaty of Fort Stanwix (22nd Oct.) settling the boundaries of the Six Nations
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' Henry Wolcott the younger (d
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168o) was one of the patentees of Connecticut under the charter of 1662
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In 1786-1796 he was See also: lieutenant-governor of Connecticut, and in See also: November 1787 was a member of the Connecticut See also: Convention which ratified the Federal Constitution; he became governor in 1796 upon the death (15th See also: Jan.) of See also: Samuel Huntington, and
served until his death on the 1st of See also: December 1797
.
See the sketch by his son Oliver in See also: Sanderson's Biography of the
Signers of the Declaration of Independence (See also: Philadelphia, 1820-1827)
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Oliver's son, OLIVER WOLCOTT, jun
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(176o-1833), graduated
at Yale in 1778, studied law in Litchfield under Judge Tapping Reeve, and was admitted to the See also: bar in 1781
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With Oliver Ellsworth he was appointed (May 1784) a commissioner to adjust the claims of Connecticut against the See also: United States
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In 1788 he was made See also: comptroller of public accounts of Connecticut; in the next See also: year was appointed auditor of the Federal See also: Treasury; in See also: June 1791 became comptroller of the Treasury, and in See also: February 1795 succeeded Alexander See also: Hamilton as Secretary of the Treasury
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At the end of 1800 he resigned after a bitter attack by the Democratic-RepublicanSee also: press, against which he defended himself in an Address to the See also: People of the United States
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In 1801-1802 he was judge of the Circuit Court of the Second See also: District (Connecticut, See also: Vermont and New York), and then entered business in New York City, where he was president of the See also: short-lived Merchants' See also: Bank (1803) and president (1812-1814) of the Bank of See also: North See also: America
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With a brother he then founded factories at Wolcottville (near Litchfield)
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He re-entered politics as a See also: leader of the " Toleration Republicans," attempting to oust the Congregational See also: clergy from power by adopting a more liberal constitution in place of the charter; he was defeated for governor in 1815, but in 1817 presided over the See also: state convention which adopted a new constitution, and in the same year was elected governor, serving until 1827
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He died in New York City on the 1st of
June 1833
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His grandson, See also: George Gibbs (1815-1873), in 1846 edited See also: Memoirs of the Administration of See also: Washington and John See also: Adams
.
. . from the Papers of Oliver Wolcott, Secretary of the Treasury
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Wolcott wrote British Influence on the Affairs of the United States Proved and Explained (1804)
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