Captain James Oliver^[1]

- Yes, date unknown

• Name	James Oliver  [2]
  Prefix	Captain
  Gender	Male
  Death	Yes, date unknown
  Person ID	I15564	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	14 Jan 2014

  
  

  Father	Thomas Oliver   d. Yes, date unknown
  Mother	Ann   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F5612	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary Frances Dexter,   b. 1617, England d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F5593	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2013

  
  

• Notes

  James was an eminent merchant of Boston. They had no family but her father came to live with them, and was there in 1677 when he died, and Capt. Oliver was one of the administrators of the estate. Capt. James was admitted freeman 1640, was of the artillery company 1651, was Lieutenant 1653 and Captain 1656 and 1666; was selectman 1653, and for several years inspector of the port. He was Captain of first military company of Boston 1673, was appointed to command of the company in the Narragansett campaign, and was one of the few officers that passed safely through the "great swamp fight." (Warden, p.12)

  
  

• Sources

  [S540] Jon Todd Gibson Case, jontoddgibsoncase. [S2826] William A. Warden and Robert L. Dexter, Genealogy of the Dexter Family in America, (The Blanchard Press, Worcester Mass, 1905 Reproduced by Higginson Book Co., Salem, Mass Order from WWW.Higginsonbooks.com), 9 (Reliability: 3).