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Andrew Oliver Jun. Esq. (1731-1799)

Salem

Biography: Harvard 1749. Son of Lt. Gov. Andrew Fitch (1706 - 1774) Nephew of Chief Justice Peter Oliver. Married (1752) Mary Lynde, daughter of Judge Benjamin Lynde. Moved to Salem @ 1760. Appointed to ECCP Nov. 19, 1761. "Largely uninterested in politics or his legal career." Scientist. 1763 Elected as Salem Rep. to General Court. 1764 published account of illness among Native Americans in Martha's Vineyard. 1772 published "An Essay on Comets in Two Parts."1773 elected to American Philosophical Society. 1774 Declined appointment to Mandamus Council. 1775 Recanted Address to Hutchinson. 1780 elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Suffered from severe gout for 16 years before death in 1799.
Spencer, Mark G. Encyclopedia of the American Enlightenment. London: Thoemmes Continuum, 2011.

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Essex County Massachusetts Freedom Case Participants 1760 - 1783

Andrew Oliver Jun. Esq. (1731-1799)