Dr. Alexander Wolcott, Sr.

A Patriot of the American Revolution for CONNECTICUT with the rank of STAFF OFFICER. DAR Ancestor # A127397

Dr. Alexander Wolcott, b. 1712 Windsor CT, d. 1795 Winsor CT. He graduated from Yale College in 1731 and accompanied his father as a surgeon on the expedition to Louisburg, Chairman of the Windsor CT Committee of Safety, Chairman of a comission to examine applicants for surgeons in the Continental Army, he and Oliver Wolcott were given land grants at Montgomery, Franklin Co. NH in 1780 for their service in the Revolutionary war; settled at Windsor as a physician, trained his slave, Primus, in the practice of medicine and freed him to start his own medical practice, Justice of the Peace, Representative to the CT General Assembly, ; m. (1) Lydia Roswell Atwater 1732 New Haven CT, divorced 1740, m. (2) Mary Mansfield, widow of Fitzjohn Allyn 1739, m. (3) Mary Richards of New London 1745 Wallingford CT
"King George's War. Surg. Mate. Gen. Wolcott's Regt. AE 83"

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