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4. An act to enable PETER W. GALLAUDET of the state of Connecticut to sell
and convey one moiety of a plantation, messuage and lot.
Whereas PETATIAH WEBSTER, late of the city of Philadelphia, dec., was
seized of a plantation, messuage and lot of ground, situate on the river
Schuylkill, Passyunk twp., Philadelphia county, containing about 24 acres,
and Pelatiah by his last will and testament, devised the same to his two
grand daughters, MARIA PERIT and REBECCA HUNT PERIT, in equal moieties,
and whereas Rebecca Hunt Perit, a minor under the age of 16, resides in the
state of Connecticut, and the property is unproductive, for want of repairs,
which the personal estate of Rebecca is incompetent to make, and her guardian
Peter W. Gallaudet, of Connecticut, wishes to sell and convey the moiety
belonging to the minor, therefore, it shall be lawful for Peter W. Gallaudet,
to sell all the right and title of Rebecca Hunt Perit, in the undivided moiety
of the plantation, messuage and lot of ground and convey the same to the
purchaser, and put the money in a productive bond in her name. 12 Jan 1807.

Bios: Surnames O - Q: History of Luzerne County, by H.C. Bradsby, 1893

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>From History of Luzerne County, Pa., by H.C. Bradsby, 1893
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Hester Gallaudet, Daughter of Dr. Pierre Elisee and Jane Gallaudet of Mauze, France

BRIGADIER-GENERAL PAUL AMBROSE (4) OLIVER (Paul A. (3) Thomas (2) Reuben
(1)), (U.S.A. 1861-65), of Oliver's Mills, Luzerne county, Pa., is a son of
Capt. Paul Ambrose (3) Oliver, who was born in Philadelphia, April 28,
1796; died at Fort Hamilton, L.I., June, 1848. Capt. Oliver was trained on
shipboard by his father, Capt. Thomas (2) Oliver, of the big "Nancy and
Kate," who was lost at sea in the great storm off the coast of Spain,
December 14, 1812. His son Paul (3), then but sixteen years of age,
brought his vessel safely into port. He was for many years successively in
command of his own ships: the "Tiber," "Superior," "Trenton" and
"Louisiana," vessels as notable in his day as the Cunard steamships of
to-day. He served in the battle of Lake Erie in the war of 1812, taking
several officers prisoners in an expedition in which he commanded a boat.
He was commissioned sailing master in the U.S. navy, April 15, 1814. He
was married, July 28, 1819, by Rt. Rev. William White, D.D., to Mary,
daughter of Matthew Van Dusen, ship builder of Kensington, Philadelphia,
who in 1795 purchased the famour "Fairman Mansion" in which William Penn
lived until the Letitia House was built, and near which stood the "Treaty
Tree," under which Penn made his treaty with the Indians, May, 1662. A
scion of this tree Gen. Oliver transplanted in 1892, from Fort Hamilton to
Oliver's Mills, where it now stands. Capt. Thomas Oliver, father of Capt.
Paul A. Oliver, was born in Delaware, May 23, 1770; married, 1791, Sarah
Ambrose, of Virginia. One of his sons, Thomas, of Mauch Chunk, Pa., was
the father of Col. William S. Oliver - U.S.A. 1861-65 - specially mentioned
by Gen. U.S. Grant in his Memoirs, and of Lieut. Howard Oliver, and Richard
Paul Oliver - U.S.A. 1861-65. His daughter, Elizabeth, married Dr. Samuel
Bryce Flower, surgeon C.S.A. 1861-65. Capt. Thomas Oliver was the son of
Reuben Oliver, of Delaware - 1730-74 - and his wife, Hester Gallaudet,
daughter of Dr. Pierre Elisee and Jane Gallaudet of Mauze, France, both
families of distinguished in Hugnenot history. A sketch of these families
was published in the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 1888.
Gen. Paul A. Oliver was born July 18, 1831, on board the ship "Louisiana,"
in the English channel, latitude 49 19 N. longitude under the United States
flag. This vessel was built by his grandfather, Matthew Van Dusen, owned
and commanded by his father, Capt. Paul A. Oliver. Gen. Oliver was
educated in Altona, Germany, came to New York and engaged in the shipping
business, later in the cotton trade with his brother George W., in New York
and New Orleans. He lived at Fort Hamilton, N.Y., and when in 1856 the
yellow fever broke out there, he organized the Fort Hamilton Relief
Society, of which he was made president. By means of this Society the sick
were cared for, and the disease confined to that locality and prevented
from spreading to the city of Brooklyn. Gen. Oliver enlisted, February,
27, 1862, in the Twelfth New York Volunteers as second lieutenant, Company
E; made first lieutenant May 17, 1862, and captain April 13, 1864, ranking
from January 1, 1864. He commanded his company at Gaines'Mills, June 27,
1862, and Fredericksburg December 13, 1862. In 1864 he received the
commission of major, lieutenant-colonel and colonel of the Fifth New York
Volunteers, but declined. He was appointed and served as aide to Maj-Gen.
Butterfield, Fifth Corps, army of the Potomac, December, 1862, to June,
1863; on the personal staff of Gen. George G. Meade, commanding army of the
Potomac, June, 1863, to September, 1863; staff of Gen. Joe Hooker, Eleventh
and Twelfth Corps, army of the Cumberland, October, 1863, to March, 1864,
received the medal of honor from Congress for distinguished services at
Resaca, May 15, 1862. He was made chief of staff, Gen. Butterfield
commanding the Third Division Twentieth Corps, army of the Cumberland, May
to June, 1864, and was in the battle of Lookout Mountain, and the campaigns
to Atlanta. Transferred subsequently, at his own request, to the army of
the Potomac, he was assigned to duty at headquarters Fifth Corps, the
Twelfth New York Regiment, having been consolidated with the Fifth New York
volunteers July, 1864; was acting provost-marshal Fifth Corps of staff of
Gen. Warren until December, 1864. Assigned to duty with Gen. M.R. Patrick,
headquarters armies of the U.S., by order of Gen. U.S. Grant, January 4,
1865, made brevet brigadier-general March 8, 1865. Detailed April 11,
1865, to assist in paroling the army of Northern Virginia, C.S. of A., at
Appomattox, with Gen. George H. Sharpe, assistant provost-marshal, who took
the original paroles to the War Department at Washington, and the duplicate
paroles of that army were delivered in person at Gen. Lee's headquarters by
Gen. Oliver to Col. Taylor, Gen. Lee's adjutant-general. Gen. Oliver left
the service, being honorably discharged May, 1865. He was in the siege of
Yorktown and the battles of Hanover C.H., Gaines' Mills, Second Bull Run,
Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Wauhatchie, Lookout
Mountain, Missionary Ridge, Ringgold, Resaca, Cassville, Dallas, New Hope
Church, Pine Knob, Kulp House, Marietta, Six Mile House, Weldon Railroad,
Poplar Grove Church, Boynton Plank Road and Hatcher's Run.
Gen. Oliver received honorable mention in Butterfield's official report of
the Seven Days battles June-July, 1862; in official report of Capt. Huson,
Twelfth New York Volunteers of Second Bull Run; in Hooker's official report
of the Chattanooga campaign (official record U.S. Armies, volume XIII, page
321; volume XVI, page 477; volume LV, page 325, etc.). After the war Gen.
Oliver entered for a short time into the coal business with his
brother-in-law, the late Mr. Samuel Bonnell, Jr. In 1869 he came to
Wilkes-Barre and established a small powder-mill, which caught fire,
whereby his men were killed and he himself badly burned. He then organized
the Luzerne Powder Company, erected works which were burned, and rebuilt.
These blew up shortly afterward, destroying the works and killing two men.
He then bought out the old company, and established himself at Laurel Run
(now Oliver's Mills), where he has since been engaged in the manufacture of
powder. He uses machinery of his own invention, consisting principally of
devices by which powder can be made in small quantities at any time and in
any place, thus doing away with the danger of violent explosion, and
reducing the risk to a minimum. Gen. Oliver is a member of the American
Institute of Mining Engineers; the Loyal Legion; the Society of the Army of
the Potomac; the Hugnenot Society; the Society of the War of 1812, and the
Netherland Society of Philadelphia. He is a communicant of the Protestant
Episcopal Church, and has erected at his place, Oliver's Mills, a unique
and beautiful log chapel for the use of his men, in which continued
services have been held each Sunday for thirteen years.