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Wolcott, Roger

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Wolcott, Roger (1679–1767), after serving in the French and Indian Wars became prominent in the politics of his native Connecticut and served as its governor (1751–54). His Poetical Meditations (1725) contains A Brief Account of the Agency of the Honourable John Winthrop (in obtaining the Connecticut charter), a rugged attempt at an epic which is an interesting link between earlier New England elegies and the American epics of the Connecticut Wits. Wolcott's prose pamphlets were concerned with religious controversies.

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Roger Wolcott

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Roger Wolcott 1679–1767, American colonial governor of Connecticut, b. Windsor, Conn. A member of an influential Connecticut family, he became a judge and was prominent in the colonial assembly and the executive council before becoming governor (1750–54). He was second-in-command of the expedition that captured (1745) Louisburg in King George's War. Wolcott wrote Poetical Meditations (1725), the first book of verse published in Connecticut. He was the father of Oliver Wolcott.

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