Rev. John Oliver

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Rev. John Oliver, Sr.

Also Known As: "graduate of Harvard 1645"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Thorpe Achurch, Northamptonshire, England
Death: April 12, 1646 (32-33)
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Immediate Family:

Son of Dr. Thomas Oliver, “Elder” and Agnes Oliver
Husband of Elizabeth Jackson
Father of John Oliver; Elizabeth Penelope Wiswell; Hannah Oliver; John Oliver, Jr. and Capt., Dea. Thomas Oliver, Esq.
Brother of Elizabeth Woodfull; Thomas Oliver; Jonathan Oliver; Anne Oliver and Peter Oliver, Sr.
Half brother of Capt. James Oliver of Boston; Nathaniel Oliver; Abigail Johnson; Samuel Oliver; Daniel Oliver and 3 others

Occupation: Minister, Reverend, Arrived 1632
Managed by: Mary Kay Stephens
Last Updated:

About Rev. John Oliver

Admitted as Freeman, Boston, May 1634; married (by 1638) to Elizabeth Newgate; Harvard Class of 1645; died 1646, shortly after becoming minister.



WILLIAM AND FRANCIS, Captain...... Thomas, Master. She left London 1632 March 9 and arrived June 5, 'with about sixty passengers.'

  • THOMAS OLIVER Boston
  • 'Mrs. Anne Oliver
  • John Oliver
  • James Oliver
  • Peter Oliver
  • ...... Oliver
  • ...... Oliver

See article by Leslie Mahler, JAN. 2003, 157 New England Hist. Gen. Register, pp. 34-36, indicating that Thomas Oliver had four wives: (1) Agnes, (2) Elizabeth (d. 1624), (3) Anne (d. 1635), (4) Anne Squire Purchase (d. 1662).

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Rev. John Oliver's Timeline

1613
1613
Thorpe Achurch, Northamptonshire, England
1638
July 29, 1638
Boston, Suffolk Co, MA
1639
February 28, 1639
Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Colonial America
1641
January 3, 1641
Boston, Suffolk, MA
1644
February 12, 1644
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
1645
December 12, 1645
"Little Cambridge" now Brighton, Mass.
1646
April 12, 1646
Age 33
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
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Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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St. Stephan's, London, London, England