1726 - 1797

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• Birth	20 Nov 1726
  Gender	Male
  Died	1 Dec 1797	Litchfield
  Person ID	I86985	Brainard (Brainerd) / Foster / Fish
  Last Modified	23 May 2005 00:00:00
  Father	Roger WOLCOTT, Governor, b. 4 Jan 1679, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut
  Mother	Sarah DRAKE
  Family ID	F36553	Group Sheet

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  Governor of Connecticut Signer of the Declaration of Independence Signed the Declaration of Independence as a member of Continental Congress. Carried the broken lead statue of George III home from Bowling Green, Broadway, NYC in 1776 where he melted it down and his children made make bullets in the backyard. Three children cast 26, 104 bullets. With Major General against Burgoyne in 1779. Governor of CT 1796-1797. In front of St. Anthony's R. C. Church, is the Connecticut Sycamore the last of the 13 trees set out by Oliver Wolcott. Jr., after the Revolution to represent the original States. The *Older Oliver Wolcott House the oldest in the borough, dates from 1753. Oliver, after serving in the French war, where he reached the rank of major general, studied medicine under his brother Alexander, and began practice in Goshen. He was appointed sheriff of the new Litchfield county in 1751 and moved to Litchfield. He was a signer of the Declaration of Independence, took a leading part in the Revolution. The house has a central chimney, a slight overhang in the attic story, and a graceful porch with 2 slender columns supporting an open gable. There are pediments over the 1st-story windows. The wing and the bay window on the north are later additions. Washington and Lafayette were entertained here. In the orchard to the rear, the leaden statue of King George III, torn down from Bowling Green in New York in 1776 and brought to Litchfield in a cart, was melted into bullets. In the Historical Society is the bullet mold from the Wolcott orchard.