(Updated June 24, 2025)
Oliver Wolcott (1726-1797) was an American Founder who signed the Declaration of Independence, and voted in favor of the Constitution as part of the Connecticut Convention.
Letters
Oliver Wolcott, To Laura Wolcott (April 10, 1776)1
They [Americans] are sensible that things must soon make an absolute crisis and they are now making their last struggles, but they will be ineffectual. It is most evident that this Land is under the Protection of the Almighty, and that We shall be saved, not by our wisdom nor by our might, but by the Lord of Host[s] who is wonderful in Council and Almighty in all his operations.
Speeches
Oliver Wolcott, Speech in Connecticut Ratifying Convention (January 9, 1788)2
The Constitution enjoins an oath upon all the officers of the United States. This is a direct appeal to that God Who is the avenger of perjury. Such an appeal to Him is a full acknowledgement of His being and providence.
Footnotes
- Paul H. Smith, ed., Letters of Delegates to Congress, 1774-1789: January 1-May 15, 1776 (Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1978), 503. ↩︎
- Jonathan Elliot, ed., The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution, Vol. II (Washington: Printed for the Editor, 1836), 202. ↩︎
