Line of Descent from Immigrant Henry Wolcott
Grandson Became a Colonial Governor of Connecticut
Nov 5, 2009
Wolcott, age 52, and his wife, the former Elizabeth Saunders, left two daughters and a young son behind to live in comfort among the landed gentry, but took three sons with them. They settled at Windsor, Connecticut, where Wolcott became a leading citizen who served several terms in the colony’s House of Magistrates.
Connecticut Governor Roger Wolcott
Roger Wolcott (1679-1767) was a son of Simon Wolcott and Martha Pitkin, who were wed in 1661 at Windsor, Connecticut, and a grandson of the immigrants, Henry and Elizabeth (Saunders) Wolcott. Roger married Sarah Drake (1686-1748) in 1702. They had 14 children.
Wolcott, a weaver by profession, was first elected to the colony’s Lower House, then in 1714 to its Upper House. Later, he was a judge locally, then on the Colony’s court. He had served in the militia during Queen Anne’s War and in 1745, as Major General, headed the Connecticut troops that joined Sir William Pepperrell’s expedition that captured Louisbourg from the French in Nova Scotia. Wolcott served as Connecticut Colony Governor from 1750 through 1753. He is buried at the Palisado Cemetery located behind the the First Church of Windsor (CT).
Wolcott Son Signs Declaration of Independence
Oliver Wolcott (1726-1797), the 14th child of Roger and Sarah (Drake) Wolcott, graduated from Yale and served as a militia captain in the French and Indian War. He briefly studied medicine, then served in the Revolutionary War as a general of the Connecticut militia.
Wolcott was elected to the Continental Congress in 1775 and was among signers of the Declaration of Independence. He was serving as the State of Connecticut governor when he died in 1797. His son, Oliver Wolcott Jr., was the new nation’s Treasury Secretary under presidents George Washington and John Adams.
Wolcott Line of Descent
This line of descent is through Marianne Wolcott, daughter of Roger and Sarah (Drake) Wolcott.
- Marianne Wolcott in 1758 married Yale graduate Thomas Williams.
- Roger Wolcott Williams (1764-1821) of Brooklyn, Connecticut, married Polly Scarborough in 1794.
- Herbert Williams (1795-1867) was born at Brooklyn, Connecticut, and died at Michigan City, Indiana. He married Lucy Bigelow in 1822.
- Ellen Williams was born in 1837 at Bigelow’s Mills, Indiana and in 1867 married Joseph Clary Haddock of Michigan City, Indiana.
- Frank Dickinson Haddock was born in 1872 at Michigan City, Indiana, and died in 1928 at Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. He married Mabel Mulford in 1899 at Port Huron, Michigan.
- Margaret Haddock was born in 1900 at Holland, Michigan and in 1922 married Forrest Bond Wing at Wellesley, Massachusetts. She was living in South Pasadena, California in 1980 when she submitted this lineage.
Family researchers should only use the above lineage for clues when documenting their own genealogy.
All descendants of Roger Wolcott Sr. are eligible for membership in the Hereditary Order of Descendants of Colonial Governors.
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