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See also:WOLCOTT, See also:ROGER (1679-1767) , See also:American See also:administrator, was See also:born in See also:Windsor, See also:Connecticut, on the 4th of See also:January 1679, the son of See also:Simon Wolcott (d. 1687). He was a See also:grandson of See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
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, FRANCIS (1799—1874)
- MASON, GEORGE (1725—1792)
- MASON, GEORGE HEMMING (1818–1872)
- MASON, JAMES MURRAY (1798-1871)
- MASON, JOHN (1586-1635)
- MASON, JOHN YOUNG (1799-1859)
- MASON, LOWELL (1792—1872)
- MASON, SIR JOHN (1503–1566)
- MASON, SIR JOSIAH (1795-1881)
- MASON, WILLIAM (1725—1797)
Mason and others to found Windsor, See also:Conn., in 1635, and was a member of the first See also:General See also:Assembly of Connecticut in 1637 and of the See also:House of Magistrates from 1643 to his See also:death.' Roger Wolcott was See also: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 See also:Bench of Justices in 1710, See also:commissary of the Connecticut forces in the expedition of 1711 against See also:Canada, a member of the See also:Council in 1714, See also:judge of the See also:county See also:court in 1721 and of the See also:superior court in 1732, and See also:deputy-See also:governor and See also:chief-See also:justice of the superior court in 1741. He was second in command to See also:Sir See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Pepperrell, with See also:rank of See also:major-general in the expedition (1745) against Louisbourg, and was governor of Connecticut in 1751-1754. He died in what is now See also:East Windsor, on the 17th of May 1767.
He wrote Poetical Meditations (1725), an.epic on Tji Agency of the See also:Honourable John See also:Winthrop in the Court of See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King Chary the Second (printed in pp. 262-298 of vol. Iv., See also:series i, Collections of See also:Massachusetts See also:Historical Society), and a pamphlet to prove that " the New England Congregational churches are and always have been consociated churches." His See also:Journal at the See also:Siege of Louisbourg is printed in pp 131-161 of vol. i. (186o) of the Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society.
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 See also:militia in the See also:War of See also:Independence, and afterwards a judge of the Superior Court of Connecticut.
Another son, See also:OLIVER WOLCOTT (1726-1797), graduated at Yale in 1747 and studied See also:medicine with his See also:brother See also:Alexander (1712-1795). 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. He was a member of the Council in 1774-1786 and of the See also:Continental See also:Congress in 1775-1776, 1778 and 178o-1784. Congress made him a See also:commissioner of See also:Indian affairs for the See also:Northern See also:Department in 1775, and during the early years of the War of Independence he was active in raising militia in Connecticut. He was one of the signers of the See also:Declaration of Independence; commanded Connecticut militia that helped to defend New See also:York See also: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 See also:Burgoyne; and in 1779 commanded the militia during the See also:British invasion of Connecticut. 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.
' Henry Wolcott the younger (d. 168o) was one of the patentees of Connecticut under the See also:charter of 1662.
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 See also:Huntington, and
served until his death on the 1st of See also:December 1797.
See the See also:sketch by his son Oliver in See also:Sanderson's See also:Biography of the
Signers of the Declaration of Independence (See also:Philadelphia, 1820-1827).
Oliver's son, OLIVER WOLCOTT, jun. (176o-1833), graduated
at Yale in 1778, studied law in Litchfield under Judge Tapping See also:Reeve, and was admitted to the See also:bar in 1781. With Oliver See also:Ellsworth he was appointed (May 1784) a commissioner to adjust the claims of Connecticut against the See also:United States. 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
- HAMILTON (GRAND or ASHUANIPI)
- HAMILTON, ALEXANDER (1757-1804)
- HAMILTON, ANTHONY, or ANTOINE (1646-1720)
- HAMILTON, ELIZABETH (1758–1816)
- HAMILTON, EMMA, LADY (c. 1765-1815)
- HAMILTON, JAMES (1769-1831)
- HAMILTON, JAMES HAMILTON, 1ST DUKE OF (1606-1649)
- HAMILTON, JOHN (c. 1511–1571)
- HAMILTON, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
- HAMILTON, PATRICK (1504-1528)
- HAMILTON, ROBERT (1743-1829)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM (1730-1803)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM ROWAN (1805-1865)
- HAMILTON, THOMAS (1789-1842)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM (1704-1754)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM GERARD (1729-1796)
Hamilton as Secretary of the Treasury. At the end of 1800 he resigned after a See also:bitter attack by the Democratic-Republican See also:press, against which he defended himself in an Address to the See also:People of the United States. In 1801-1802 he was judge of the See also: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 See also: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. With a brother he then founded factories at Wolcottville (near Litchfield). He re-entered politics as a See also:leader of the " See also:Toleration Republicans," attempting to oust the Congregational See also:clergy from See also:power by adopting a more liberal constitution in See also: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. He died in New York City on the 1st of
June 1833.
His grandson, See also:George See also:Gibbs (1815-1873), in 1846 edited See also:Memoirs of the See also:Administration of See also:Washington and John See also:- ADAMS
- ADAMS, ANDREW LEITH (1827-1882)
- ADAMS, CHARLES FRANCIS (1807-1886)
- ADAMS, HENRY (1838— )
- ADAMS, HENRY CARTER (1852— )
- ADAMS, HERBERT (i858— )
- ADAMS, HERBERT BAXTER (1850—1901)
- ADAMS, JOHN (1735–1826)
- ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY (1767-1848)
- ADAMS, SAMUEL (1722-1803)
- ADAMS, THOMAS (d. c. 1655)
- ADAMS, WILLIAM (d. 162o)
Adams . . . from the Papers of Oliver Wolcott, Secretary of the Treasury. Wolcott wrote British See also:Influence on the Affairs of the United States Proved and Explained (1804).
End of Article: WOLCOTT, ROGER (1679-1767)
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