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Wolcott died on December 1, 1797, in Litchfield, where he is interred at East Cemetery. Historian Ellsworth Grant remembers Wolcott's Revolutionary War efforts in stating that, "It is doubtful if any other official in Connecticut during this period carried so many public duties on his shoulders."
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At the beginning of the Revolution, Congress had made Wolcott a commissioner of Indian affairs to persuade the northern Indian nations to remain neutral. His qualifications for that role came from his early experience on the northern front of the French and Indian War. He was asked, along with
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Early in the growing struggle with Great Britain, Wolcott made it clear that the colonists would not give up their rights and privileges. In February 1776, he stated: "Our difference with Great Britain has become very great. What matters will issue in, I cannot say, but perhaps in a total
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Wolcott saw extensive militia service during the American Revolution. On August 11, 1776, Connecticut officials ordered him to march the Seventeenth Regiment of militia to New York and join
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disseverance from Great Britain." The early support for independence led him to important roles during the war, both as military leader and as member of the Continental Congress.
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The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution: Volume III Ratification of the Constitution by the States Delaware, New Jersey, Georgia and Connecticut
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Grant, Ellsworth. "From Governor to Governor In Three Generations," (The Connecticut Historical Society Bulletin, Volume 39 no.3, Hartford, July 1974), 65—77".
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appointed Wolcott brigadier general in command of all the state's militia regiments in New York. He led 300 to 400 volunteers from his brigade to help General
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He was elected to the Continental Congress in 1775. He became seriously ill in 1776 and did not sign the Declaration of Independence until some time later.
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In May 1779, Wolcott was promoted to major general in command of all Connecticut militia. That summer, he saw combat in protecting the coastline from
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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Errors, of the State of Connecticut, in the years 1805, 1806, and 1807
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Edmund C. Burnett, ed., "Letters of Members of the Continental Congress," vols. 1—3, 5—7 (8 vols., 1921—1936), vol. 1, 163.
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died on January 5, 1796, holding the office until his own death at age 71. He also served as a judge of the
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in northwestern Connecticut to practice and study medicine with his brother Alexander. He then moved to
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Wolcott had two careers during the war years as one of Connecticut's principal delegates to the
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Beyond his postwar diplomatic role, Wolcott aspired to higher office. He was elected
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Wolcott Papers, vol.1, (Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford, Connecticut), 240.
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granted Wolcott a captain's commission to raise a militia company to fight in the
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has an important compilations of pamphlets that were assembled by Oliver Wolcott.
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and also a militia officer. He participated in the American Revolutionary War as
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in 1786 and served in that position for ten years. Wolcott became governor when
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and was an active fortification until 1836; it later became the site of the
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The National Magazine: (Cleveland) a Monthly Journal of American History
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Ellsworth S. Grant, "From Governor to Governor in Three Generations,"
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and became a merchant; he was appointed sheriff of the newly created
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For the Secretary of the Treasury under Washington and Adams, see
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Grant, "From Governor to Governor in Three Generations," 68—69.
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Memorial to the 56 Signers of the Declaration of Independence
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A Guide to the Oliver Wolcott, Sr. Papers, from 1638-1834
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in 1971. In 1798, Fort Washington on Goat Island in
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Index

Oliver Wolcott Jr.
USRC Wolcott

Ralph Earl
Governor of Connecticut
Lieutenant
Samuel Huntington
Jonathan Trumbull Jr.
Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut
Jonathan Trumbull Jr.
Windsor, Connecticut
Litchfield, Connecticut
Litchfield, Connecticut
Federalist
Oliver Wolcott Jr.
Mary Ann Wolcott Goodrich
Roger Wolcott

/ˈwʊlkət/
WUUL-kət
Founding Father
United States Declaration of Independence
Articles of Confederation
Connecticut
governor of Connecticut
Revolutionary War
George Washington

Windsor, Connecticut
Roger Wolcott

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