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our Pedigree. We proceed, then, to the line of descent from Simon (i6),
the youngest son of the emigrant Henry Wolcott. This Simon had nine
children by his second wife, Martha Pitkin, of whom five were sons. The
26 line of Sinion'° son of Simon, born in 1666, became extinct on the death
27, 28 of his son James^ in 1748. The Hne of Henry^ son of the first Simon
has been continued to the present time. We need not, however, here
29 speak of any of his children excepting Capt. Gideon.^
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Capt. Gideon Wolcott was born in 171 2; married: first, Abigail
daughter of Samuel Mather of Windsor ;
and,
secondly, Naomi daughter
of Dea. Joseph Olmsted of East Hartford, Conn.; and died June 5, 1761.
He "commanded one of the companies raised by the colonists in 1760
against the French and Indians. We have only this tradition of him that
' his contemporaries and those who knew him best regarded him as one of
nature's noblemen.'
"
One son of Capt. Gideon Wolcott, by his second wife, was Samuel^
married, in 1774, Jerusha daughter of Gen. Erastus,
born in 1751 ; who
and granddaughter of Gov. Roger, Wolcott, his second cousin. He was,
says a contemporary obituary of him.
" 'distinguished for incorruptible integrity, beloved by a numerous acquaintance,
a most judicious counsellor of the many who sought his assistance, and the poor
man's friend.' "
His robust frame and great manly beauty, in his youth, were remarked
31 upon. Of Samuel Wolcott's children one daughter, Naomi,^ born in
32 children :
1777, married James Wadsworth of Geneseo, N. Y., and had, with other
i. Harriet^ who married Martin Brimmer Esq. of Boston, Mass.;
1,1 2. Elizabeth,'^ who married Hon. Charles Augustus Murray, British
Consul-General in Egypt, a son of the Earl of Dunmore ;
and
3. James
34 Samiicl,'^ who left his large patrimonial estates to offer his services to the
Government on the breaking out of the late civil war, was made a Major-
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