Display Patriot - P-323219 - Oliver WOLCOTT Jr

Oliver WOLCOTT Jr

SAR Patriot #: P-323219

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State of Service: CT Qualifying Service: Private

Birth: 11 Jan 1760 / / CT
Death: 01 Jun 1833 / New York / NY

Qualifying Service Description:

Commissary Dept, 1775
Answered Danbury CT Alarm in 1777, CT
Asst D. QM General, 1780

Additional References:

Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the War of the Revolution, pg 493. Published 1889

Spouse: Elizabeth/Betsy Stoughton
Children: Laura;

Members Who Share This Ancestor

Date Approved	Society	ACN	SAR Member Info	Lineage via Child	View Application Detail
2018-11-16	AZ	83236	Nicolas Kurtz Williams (208062)	Laura
2020-03-06	AZ	90286	Peter Merker Williams (213011)	Laura

Burial:

East Cemetery_(C-0064064)

Location:

Litchfield / Litchfield / CT / USA

Find A Grave Cemetery #:

103308

Grave Plot #:

Grave GPS Coordinates:

41.748028 / -73.181379

Find A Grave Memorial #:

3087

Marker Type:

SAR Grave Dedication Date:

Comments:

photo used with permission of Compatriot Mitchell Anderson, 229001, KYSSAR

Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:

Photo: 1 of 1

Author: Nicolas Kurtz Williams

Oliver Wolcott, Jr. served during the Revolution in the Connecticut Commissary Department in 1775. He answered the Danbury, Connecticut, Alarm in April 1777 and was assistant Department Quarter Master General in 1780. Oliver graduated from Yale in 1778, and was admitted to the Connecticut bar as a lawyer in 1781. Shortly thereafter, he was appointed to a position in the financial department of the state of Connecticut. In 1788, he was appointed Comptroller of Public Accounts, and on adoption of the United States Constitution in 1789, became Auditor of the United States Treasury. In 1791, he was promoted to be Comptroller of the Treasury, and in 1795, he was appointed by George Washington to succeed Alexander Hamilton as Secretary of the Treasury. From 1800-1802, he was a Judge of the Circuit Court, after which he moved to New York City and became President of Merchants Bank. In 1812, he founded and was President of Bank of America, and in 1817, he was elected Governor of Connecticut, where he served for ten years. Oliver and his wife, Elizabeth “Betsy” Stoughton, had seven children.

Service Source: “Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the War of the Revolution," Hartford, Connecticut, 1889, Pg. 495.

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