Peter Olcott

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Peter Olcott

Peter Olcott (born April 25, 1733 in Bolton , Colony of Connecticut , † September 12, 1808 in Hanover , Grafton County , New Hampshire ) was a Vermont civil servant and military officer. He served as Brigadier General in the colonial militias and was the sixth lieutenant governor of Vermont.

Life

Born in Bolton, Connecticut, Olcott moved to Norwich in the early 1770s and served in various capacities as a civil servant. Among other things as an overseer of the poor , registrar and as a judge at the court of the county.

On October 11, 1759, he married Sarah Mills. They had nine children together.

Olcott was active during the American Revolution. He served as Loyalist Real Estate Sequestration Commissioner in 1777 and was a member of the Vermont House of Representatives in 1778. As Colonel , he served in the Vermont Militia and his regiment participated in the Battles of Bennington and Saratoga . From 1781 to 1788, Olcott commanded the Third Brigade of the Militia with the rank of Brigadier General.

Olcott was a member of the Board of Governors in 1779 and again from 1781 to 1790. He served as a judge on the Vermont Supreme Court from 1782 to 1784. From 1790 to 1794 he was Vice Governor of Vermont and a member of the House of Representatives for Vermont, again in the Year 1801. Olcott was a trustee of Dartmouth College from 1788 until his death.

Olcott died on September 12, 1808 in Hanover, New Hampshire. His grave is in Meeting House Hill Cemetery in Norwich, Windsor County, Vermont.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A History of Norwich, Vermont , by Henry Villiers Partridge, 1905, pp. 229-231
  2. ^ Early History of Vermont , by LaFayette Wilbur, Issue 2, 1900, pages 374-375
  3. ^ Nathaniel Goodwin: Descendants of Thomas Olcott: One of the First Settlers of Hartford, Connecticut . Press of Case, Tiffany & Burnham, 1845, p. 39, (Accessed June 24, 2014).
  4. ^ Men of Vermont: An Illustrated Biographical History of Vermonters and Sons of Vermont , compiled by Jacob G. Ullery, 1894, 174
  5. ^ Records of the Governor and Council of the State of Vermont , edited by EP Walton, Montpelier, Issue 1, 1873, p. 241
  6. ^ Vermont: The Green Mountain State , by Walter Hill Crockett, Volume 2, 1921, p. 222
  7. ^ A History of Dartmouth College and the Town of Hanover, New Hampshire , by Frederick Chase, Volume 1, 1891, 447
  8. ^ The New Hampshire Repository , printed by Alfred Prescott, Issues 1-2, 1845, p. 270
  9. ^ Descendants of Thomas Olcott , by Nathaniel Goodwin (1845), 28
personal data
SURNAME Olcott, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American military and statesman
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1733
PLACE OF BIRTH Bolton , Connecticut
DATE OF DEATH September 12, 1808
Place of death Hanover , New Hampshire