Lanslet Oliver was born around 1703-1704 in the north of Ireland...maybe Antrim. His first wife was named Mary. The first known record of them is found in 1729 at Malden, Middlesex County, Massachusetts which is near Boston. The town constable "warned" Mary Oliver, wife of Lanslet Oliver, to take her children and depart.
In 1738 their son Robert Oliver was born. He is said to have been born near Boston, Massachusetts. Mary Oliver died shortly after his birth.
Lanslet Oliver then married a Mary Walker, a sister to William Walker. In 1748 Lanslet Oliver owned a house in Worcester Township, Worcester County, Massachusetts "on the road to Holden." In 1749 he bought land in Rutland (later called Barre), Massachusetts. He lived here for over thirty years. He was a farmer.
Lanslet Oliver died in 1781 and is buried in the Caldwell Cemetery in Barre, Massachusetts, next to two of his sons who died in their teens. His second wife, Mary, died in 1788 and is buried in Chester Center near James and Isabella Quigley.
CHILDREN OF LANSLET OLIVER:
William Oliver, born about 1730.
He married Elizabeth McIntire on April 26, 1755.
Margaret Oliver, born about 1733.
She married William Galloway on March 19, 1753.
Robert Oliver, born in 1738 and died Aug. 7, 1811.
He married Mary Walker on Oct. 13, 1763.
Lanslet Oliver, born about 1739 and died in 1750.
Katherine Oliver
She married William Kimpland on March 8, 1764.
James Oliver born Oct. 13, 1741 and died in 1784.
He married Margaret Hamilton on Nov. 6, 1766.
Alexander Oliver, born Nov. 20, 1744 and died about 1828.
He married Mary Warner on Feb. 4, 1770.
David Oliver, born in 1747 and died March 3, 1821.
He married (1) Elizabeth Boyd.
He married (2) Hannah Moser on Dec. 24, 1810.
John Oliver, born in 1755 and died in 1770.
The information above came from Jack Ross, an Oliver family genealogist.
