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POLLOCK GENEALOGY
A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF
OLIVER POLLOC K, ESQ .
Of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, United States Commercial Agent At New Orleans And Havana, 1776-1784
With Genealogical Notes Of His Descendants.
Also Genealogical Sketches Of Other Pollock Families Settled In Pennsylvania,
By Rev. Horace Edwin Hayden, Member of the Southern, the Pennsylvania, and various other Historical and Scientific Societies
Editor's Note: This book is being reprinted herein in honor of the 200th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America . The Book is a "Rare Book" and is located in the Special Collections of the Howard Tilton Library at Tulane University.
. OLIVER POLLOCK was one of the principal financiers of the American Revolution and liaison agent between the Spanish Government in Louisiana and the Army of George Washington.
THE POLLOCK FAMILY OF PENNSYLVANIA
Having been engaged for some years in perfecting the genealogy of the HAYDEN family, which descended from William Hayden of Windsor, Connecticut, 1630; and also its collateral branches, with their history, I have thereby become interested in two families of the name of POLLOCK. One, that of the Hon. Thomas Pollock of North Carolina, 1740, which family had one common American ancestor with myse If in the Rev . John War ham, of Exeter, England; who came to New England, 1630, and who was an ordained clergyman of the Church of England, and who organized the first Presbyterian church in America. The other, that of my distinguished kinsman, Hon. Oliver Pollock, of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 1740, and of Revolutionary fame, all of whose descendants now fiving are my blood relations. This is my apology for having undertaken the work of gathering the following data of the Pennsylvania Pollocks when it might have been performed more perfectly by some one of the name.
The Pennsylvania Pollocks are all of Scotch-lrish descent, and are supposed to have had but one origin in "Petrus, son of Fulbert, who succeeded his father and assumed as a surname the name of his hereditary lands of Pollok in Renfrewshire. Hs lived in the reign of Malcolm IV, who d. 1695, ond was a man of great eminence in his time and a benefactor of the monastery of Paisley. This donation was confirmed by JoeiI!ne, Bishop of Glasgow , who d . in 1 199 . Besides his estates in Renfrewshire, he held the barony of Rothes in the county of Aberdeen, which he gave to his daughter, Mauriclo de Pollok, who m. Sir Norman Lesley and was ancestor of the Earls of Rothes." (Burke .) Although the arms differ, the crests of the Scotch and Irish Pollocks are the same: "A boar possant, or and vert, transfixed with a dart, proper."
The North Carolina Pollocks were intimately connected wit h Aaron Burr. Rev. Jonathan Edwards, D . D ., the son of the great Jonathan the Divine of New England, and the great grandson of Rev, John Worhum, hod eleven children:
i. Sarah, b. August 25, 1728; m. Elihu Parsons of
Massachusetts.
ii . Jerusha, b. April 26, 1780; d. February 14,1747.
iii.	Esther, b. February 13, 1732; m. Rev. Aaron
Burr, President of Princeton College;
father of Aaron Burr, Vice President of
U.S.
iv.	Mary, b. April 7, 1 734; m. Timothy Dwight of
Massachusetts .
v.	Lucy, b. August 31, 1736; m. Jahaleel Wood-
bridge of Massachusetts.
vi.	Hon. Timothy, b. July 25, 1738; m. Rhoda
Ogden, of New Jersey.
vii.	Susanna, b. June 20, 1740; m. Eleazer Porter of
Massachusetts.
viii.	Eunice, b. May 9, 1 743; m. 1st. Thomas
Pollock of Newbern, North Carolina;
2d . Robert Hunt of New Jersey .
ix.	Rev. Jonathan, b. May 26, 1745; m. 1st. Mary
Porter; 2d. Mercy Sabin.
x.	Elizabeth, b. May 6, 1747; d. January 1, 1762.
xi. Hon. Pierpont, b. April 8, 1750; rn. Frances
Ogden of New Jersey.
GEORGE POLLOCK, son of Thomas Pollock ond Eunice Edwards, was an intimate friend of Aaron Burr, his first cousin. He lived in Philadelphia at 172 Chestnut Street, near Sixth, from 1800 to 1806. Burr wos his guest when he visited Philadelphia. (See life of Blennerhusset.) Whence Thomas Pollock of North Carolino emigrated is not known. It is however certainly known that four men of the name of Pollock were among the early settlers of Cumberland county, Pennsylvania.
1 . JAMES POLLOCK, of East Pennsboro.
2.	OLIVER POLLOCK, of Carlisle, brother of James (1 .)
3.	JAMES POLLOCK, of Hopewell township, whose will, dated May 25, 1773, mentions six children, viz:
i.	Jo hn .
ii . Jean, m. Mr . Hinchman.
iii.	Martha, m. Mr. Dobson.
iv.	James.
v	. Wi I liam .
vi.	Robert.
4.	JOHN POLLOCK, of Carlisle, of whom hereafter.
The descendants of James and Oliver Pollock, of Carlisle, Pa., comprising family names of Alger, Bradford, Briggs, Dougherty, Dady, Foley, Gibson, Morrison, McKoy, O'Brien, Pharis, Penniman, ond Robinson, are herewith given:
JAMES and^QLIVER POLLOCK,, brothers, emigrated from Ireland to America, and located at or nedr Carlisle,
Pa., before 1760. The private papers,miniatures, coat of arms of Oliver Pollock, including all his official documents, commissions from, and correspondence with the Continental Congress, &c ., were destroyed during the Civil War ? partly at Vicksburg, Miss., and partly by the U.S. gunboat Essex, when it shelled Bayou Sara, La., in 1863. Family tradition, and the fact that Oliver was a charter member of the Hibernian Society, of Philadelphia, and in 1783, a member of the Friendly Sons of St Patrick, of the same city,