Alexander Oliver

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Colonel Alexander Oliver (30 November 1744 - 2 September 1828) fought in the American Revolutionary War for the patriots.

Contents 1 Background and the American Revolution 2 Ohio River Expedition 3 Moving to Ohio 4 Children 5 Further reading 6 See also 7 References 8 External links 9 Ancestry

[edit] Background and the American Revolution

Oliver was born in Sherborn, Massachusetts, United States to Launcelot Oliver and Mary Walker. Before the war he married Mary Warner third cousin of Seth Warner and seventh cousin of George Washington. His decision to fight against the British was very much disliked by part of his family, mainly because his second cousin was Andrew Oliver, a Massachusetts politician who was commissioned to enforce the Stamp Act in Massachusetts. He was made a Corporal of Samuel Brewer's Massachusetts Regimental, then Regimental Quartermaster of Jeduthan Baldwin's Artillery Artificer Regiment, then an Ensign, then a Lieutenant, and then a Colonel for Massachusetts. Alexander Oliver was in charge of recruiting men to fight all around Massachusetts.

He was also the third great grandson of Thomas Oliver one of the first Olivers in the Colonies and a Ruling Elder of the Church of Boston. He is also the sixth great grandfather of Randall Timothy Oliver.

[edit] Ohio River Expedition

Oliver and Major Nathan Goodale were sent with an exploring committee down the Ohio River into the Kanawha River for about six weeks to find out as much information as possible on the area, traveling through present day West Virginia, Virginia, and North Carolina on the way.

[edit] Moving to Ohio

After arriving in Ohio Oliver helped found Belpre, Ohio along with thirteen other Revolutionary War veterens. After leaving Belpre he moved to Point Pleasant, Ohio where he later died.

[edit] Children

Oliver had eight children with Mary Warner: James, John, William, Thomas, Alexander, Andrew, Samuel and Mary Margaret.

[edit] Further reading

• Daughters of the American Revolution's "Lineage Book Volume 41" (1928) Pg. 244
• Gerald Faulkner Shepard's "The Shepard Families of New England" (1973) Pg. 125
• Thomas Wallcut's "Journal of Thomas Wallcut in 1790" (2006) Pg. 7-8
• Egbert Cleave's "Cleave's Biographical Cyclopaedia of Homeopathic Physicians and Surgeons" (1873) Pg. 345
• William Thomas Roberts Saffell's "Records of the Revolutionary War: Containing the Military and Financial Correspondence of Distinguished Officers" (1894) Pg. 429
• Samuel Crocker Cobb's "An Historical Address Delivered on the Occasion of the Centennial Celebration at Boston, Massachusetts" (1883) Pg. 45
• Cornelius Evarts Dickinson and Samuel Prescott Hildreth's "A History of Belpre, Washington County, Ohio" (1920) Pg. 191

[edit] See also

• Andrew Oliver
• Thomas Oliver
• American Revolutionary War
• Seth Warner

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Wing Family of America, descendants

[edit] Ancestry

v • d • e Ancestors of Alexander Oliver

16. John Oliver               8. John Oliver                       17. Elizabeth Newgate               4. John Oliver                             18. John Sweets               9. Susannah Sweet                       19. Susannah ?               2. Launcelot Oliver                                   20. Thomas Hammond               10. Thomas Hammond                       21. Elizabeth Cason               5. Sarah Hammond                             22. Isaac Stedman               11. Elizabeth Stedman                       23. Alice ?               1. Alexander Oliver                                         24. Thomas Walker               12. Thomas Walker                       25. Anne ?               6. William Walker                             26. Daniel Stone'               13. Mary Stone                       27. Mary Howes               3. Mary Walker                                   28. Edmund Goodenow               14. John Goodenow                       29. Anne Barry               7. Sarah Goodenow                             30. Thomas Axtell               15. Mary Axtell                       31. Mary Starr