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Assembly, and also Speaker of the Lower House, Justice of the Peace,
Judge of Probate, Judge and Chief Judge of the County Court, Repre-
sentative in Congress and Judge of the Superior Court ;" and in a funeral-
sermon preached on his decease in 1 793 ^ we read :
" ' He
possessed a strong and penetrating mind, a quick discernment and solid
judgment, beyond what is common to men. And these gifts of the Universal Parent
were united to great integrity.' "
He was familiarly known as "Old Long-Head." In 1790 Yale
College conferred on him the honorary degree of Master of Arts.
Midway between the birth-years of Erastus and Oliver Wolcott,
in 1724, was born the youngest daughter of Gov. Roger, his thirteenth
52 child, Ursula ; ^ who married, November 10, 1 743, Gov. Matthew Griswold,
her second cousin's son (see ^trf!SiU)Oltr)»
By this marriage the descend-
ants of Gov. Matthew Griswold became trebly Wolcotts, he himself
having been a Wolcott by descent from Matthew and Anna (Wolcott)
Griswold, and his wife having been a Wolcott on her mother's side, as
stated above, as well as on her father's.
Ohver (51) Wolcott, so named, it appears, for the great English
Protector, was born in 1726, and graduated at Yale College in 1747. We
abridge for our record a sketch of the principal particulars of his public
life copied from family-documents.
" ' On
leaving College he received a commission as Captain in the
Army, from Gov. George Clinton, and .
. . marched
to the defence
of the Northern Frontiers,' " where he served till the peace of Aix-la-
Chapelle. When the county of Litchfield was organized, in 1 751, he was
appointed the first Sheriff, and he thenceforth made Litchfield his home,
which town he represented in the General Assembly. From 1774 to
1786 he was annually elected a Member of the Council, discharging, at
the same time, the office of Chief Judge of the Court of Common Pleas.
" By Rev. Dr. David M'=Clure of South Windsor, Conn.
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