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Oliver Wales | ||
Born: 27 Feb 1743-44 Windham, Windham, CT
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Source: Barbour Collection | |
Married: 1st 22 Mar 1767 to Elizabeth Lawrence
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Died: 23 Mar 1816 South Brimfield, MA |
FATHER
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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