Senate Years of Service: 1789-1796
Party: Pro-Administration; Federalist ELLSWORTH Oliver , a Delegate and a Senator from Connecticut; born in Windsor, Conn., April 29, 1745; pursued preparatory…
Landholder XIIIOliver EllsworthMonday, March 24, 1788 The attempt to amend our federal Constitution, which for some time past hath engrossed the public regard, is doubtless become an old…
WOLCOTT, Oliver, a Delegate from Connecticut; born in Windsor, Conn., November 20, 1726; was graduated from Yale College in 1747; commissioned a captain by the Governor of New York in 1747;…
Landholder IIEnergetic GovernmentOliver EllsworthNovember 12, 1787To the Holders and Tillers of Land.Gentlemen, You were told in the late war that peace and Independence would reward your…
Landholder IIIEnergetic GovernmentOliver EllsworthNovember 19, 1787To the Holders and Tillers of Land.Gentlemen, When we rushed to arms for preventing British usurpation, liberty was the…
Landholder VIIOliver EllsworthDecember 17, 1787 Some very worthy persons, who have not had great advantages for information, have objected against that clause in the constitution which…
Landholder IXOliver EllsworthMonday, December 31, 1787To the Hon. Gentlemen Chosen to Serve in the State Convention. [11] Gentlemen, When the deputies of a free people are met to deliberate…
Landholder XIOliver EllsworthMonday, March 10, 1788To the Citizens of New Hampshire. Those who wish to enjoy the blessings of society must be willing to suffer some restraint of personal…
Landholder XIIOliver EllsworthMonday, March 17, 1788To the Rhode Island Friends of Paper Money, Tender Acts and Anti-Federalism. The singular system of policy adopted by your state, no…
There's RosemaryOlive Tilford DarganO love that is not Love, but dear, so dear!
That is not love because it goes full soon,
Like flower born and dead within one moon,
And yet is love, for…
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