Oliver Wales


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Oliver Wales    

Born: 27 Feb 1743-44 Windham, Windham, CT

 

  Source: Barbour Collection
Married:

1st 22 Mar 1767 to Elizabeth Lawrence

 

   
Died: 23 Mar 1816 South Brimfield, MA    

FATHER

Ebenezer Wales

MOTHER

Deborah Ward

WIFE

1st Elizabeth Lawrence
b. 27 Oct 1751

2nd Martha Hyde

CHILDREN with Elizabeth Lawrence

1. Elizabeth Wales b. 03 Sep 1768

2. James Lawrence Wales b. 03 Feb 1770

3. Sally Wales b. 1771

4. Royal Wales b. 30 Sep 1773

5. Irene Wales b. 20 Aug 1775

6. Esther Wales b. 01 Aug 1777

7. Oliver Wales b. 08 Aug 1779

8. Roswell Wales b. 18 Jun 1781

9. Vine Wales b. 20 Feb 1784

10 Orrin Wales b. 09 May 1785

CHILDREN with Martha Hyde

1. Ozam Wales b. 30 Sep 1792

2. Orrin Wales b. 20 Nov 1793

3. Roxanna Wales b. 04 Aug 1795

4. Loren Wales b. 26 Nov 1797

5. Ira Wales b. 11 Jul 1803

6. Ephraim Wales b. 07 Feb 1808

 

Source: Wade,Wales, Cashman, Ike, Cowen by Helen Wales   GenCircles  http://www.gencircles.com/users/hwales/1/data/1416

From "The Wales Family: A Genealogy" by Charles P. Wales

"He left Union, Ct and came to South Brimfield, MA in 1766. In 1778 he exchanged farms wit h his brother Elijah in Union, and went back to Union again."
"He was in the militia in Union, and was called a private Oct. 2, 1780 and May 5, 1783. He was among the persons taking the Oath of Fidelity April 9, 1781 in Union. At a town meeting May 7, 1781 Nathaniel Abbott and Oliver Wales were chosen a Committee to Provide Provisions for the soldiers' families in the Continental Army, and on April 22, 1782 Oliver Wales was chosen a Collector for the State Man (?) in Esq. Wales class for the present year. In 1787 Oliver and his brother Elijah again exchanged farms and Oliver Wales returned to South Brimfield. The following from the History of Wales describes him in the unusually florid and highly opinionated style of this book.
"'His homestead, which is made the subject of reference with much frequentness in this record , bearing the appelation of Oliver Wales Tavern Stand, was in the central village, west side of the main street, and mostly upon the south side of, and contiguously to the road leading west from the central part of said street. He there kept a tavern nearly all the time of his living here: and in that, and his agriculture pursuits interlarded, he secured an amassment of a large estate for a small place like this. His old tavern house still stands, weather-tinted and fast dilapidating, whereby we are reminded of the many hogsheads, pipes and tuns of liquor there consumed in bygone times, and made to think of the high-filled heaps of dollars which that liquor did in turn consume, the evanescent, half bewildering delights sometimes, the crazed, disenthroned intellects at other times, by that liquor caused in the sequel! But enough of this.
"'He was a good tavern-keeper for his time, and excellent farmer. No moonshine about his intellect, sound judgment, and in his day a very prominent personage in the town.
"'Though much of the land of this "stand" had long before the time of Mr. Wales been disrobed of its timber, and much cleared of its stumpy rooty annoyances, and its fallow-grown sown, reaped and mown, yet he was first in signalizing it as a farm-stead. He made it very rewardally productive. It has since degenerated from the ineffaciousness and deteriority of its late-year's culture.'
"Oliver Wales was town treasurer 1790-1792 and 1797-1798. He was town clerk 1791-1803, Selectman 1799, 1804 and Representative 1801 and 1801. He may have been postmaster of the town about 1800."

 

 

 

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