Mary Ann Wolcott Goodrich
(1765-1805)
BIRTH
1765
PLACE
NAME
Mary Ann Wolcott
DEATH
1805
PLACE
FAMILY
FATHER
Oliver Wolcott
(1726-1797)
MOTHER
Laura Collins Wolcott
(1731-1794)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Mary Ann Wolcott Goodrich (1765–1805) grew up in Litchfield, Connecticut, as Oliver Wolcott and Laura Collins’s daughter. She married lawyer Chauncey Goodrich in 1789 and joined the social circles of New York, Philadelphia and Washington during his congressional service. Her family letters preserve lively observations and sarcasm, describing dancing and courtship. Ralph Earl painted her portrait in 1789. She died aged forty, before his Senate career.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Mary Ann Wolcott Goodrich’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Mary Ann Wolcott Goodrich is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Mary Ann Wolcott Goodrich died in 1805. Mary Ann Wolcott Goodrich grew up in Litchfield, Connecticut, as Oliver Wolcott and Laura Collins’s daughter. She married lawyer Chauncey Goodrich in 1789 and joined the social circles of New York, Philadelphia and Washington during his congressional service. Her family letters preserve lively observations and sarcasm, describing dancing and courtship. Ralph Earl painted her portrait in 1789. She died aged forty, before his Senate career. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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