Oliver Bronson (1743-1811) |
| Relationship to the Speculation Lands: |
| Peter Stephen DuPonceau, as an appointed trustee for the estate of
Tench Coxe, assigned the
Augustus
Sacket mortgage, known as the 'Speculation Lands,' to a group of
investors on July 12, 1825. Included among
the investors were Arthur Bronson's father,
Isaac
Bronson, a wealthy banker and land speculator
from New York, Gould Hoyt, another banker, James Thompson, and
James B. Murray. The investors
remained in New York, and sent Jacob Hyatt and
Joshua
Forman to western North Carolina in 1825 and 1829 to manage and
oversee the lands. |
| Biography: |
| The sixth child of Isaac and Anna Olcott
Bronson, Oliver was born October 3rd, 1799 in Greenfield Connecticut. He
married Joanna Donalson and had four children. |
| Bibliography: |
| Bronson, Henry Bronson, M.D., History of Waterbury. (Bronson
Brothers: 1858)
|