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  The following letter from Oliver Pollock to Captain William Pickles will show with what energy he prosecuted the interests of the Colonies:

 

  New Orleans, 20th January, 1780 Dear Sir:

 

You are now appointed Commander of the sloop West Florida, belonging to the United States of America, all ready dispatched with a sufficiency of provisions on board for sixty days, for your crew, consisting of 58 men, as you will see by the enclosed account.

 

                       In consequence you will make all possible dispatch with the said vessel & crew under your command for Ship Island, where I expect you will meet with Governor Galvez's fleet; for which you have herewith enclosed the signals agreed upon betwixt him & you, at which place you will join him, and proceed against Mobile & Pensacola, and give all the assistance in your power to Governor Galvez, and the commander-in-chief of the Spanish fleet.

 

Your experience and good judgment must govern your entirely respecting your attacking any of the enemy's shops or vessels. Not in the least doubting your care and zeal for the lives of your good officers and men, and the property of the United States, I conclude, wishing you success, and a safe and happy passage.

 

OLIVER POLLOCK (When the Governor of the Spanish Louisiana Province, Bernardo de Galves, left for Mobile attack February 5, 1780, it achieved success March 14, 1780) V.F. POLLOCK

 

  POLLOCK'S COLLECION OF HIS CLAIMS

 

  $90,000  U.S. Cong. Dec.. 1785 received 1791

 

  Received all monies before dying 1823.

 

  "So Vast So Beautiful a Land" Louisiana and the Purchase by Marshjall Sprague. Little, Brown & Co. (Canada)Ltd. 1974) Note p. 354

 

                       Oliver Pollock was not one to be daunted by adversity. After his release from prison in Havana he kept pushing his claims against the Congress and was awarded $90,000 in December, 1785.  He did not receive the money for six years but the award had the effect of restoring his standing as a top trader who knew how to get around the maze of Spanish regulations.

 

                       By the early 1790's he was back in New Orleans on his way to wealth again as agent for the Reed and Forde firm of Philadelphia merchants.

 

                       Before Pollock died in 1823, Congress and the state of Virginia reimbursed him for all the sums that he had advanced on their behalf for supplies during the Revolution.    V.F. POLLOCK

 

  Oliver, Pollock - Biography

 

                       In 1791 or 1792, Pollock returned to Cumberland county, Pa. and purchased the property now known as Silver's

 

  Spring. Here his wife died and was buried and here his son

 

  James was killed.  In 1797 Pollock became a candidate for

 

  Congress, but was defeated by General John Andre Hanna of Dauphin county.

 

  In 1804 he was again an aspirant for Congressional honors in the Congressional district composed of Cumberland, Dauphin, Mifflin, and Huntingdon counties.  He and David

 

  Burd of Huntingdon were against General Hanna of Dauphin, and Robert Whitehill of Cumberland.  Pollock and

 

  Whitehill, 1,514; Burd,3,245; Hanna, 2,931.  The vote of Cumberland county was as follows, showing Pollick's popularity; Pollock,1,367, Whitehill, 614; Burd, 1,168;

 

  Hanna, 462.

 

   In 1806 he was again nominated, but withdrew in favor of Whitehill on the score of friendship, and to avoid a similar vote and non-election of either candidate.

 

  He is recorded in Philadelphia as having taken the oath of allegiance to the State of Pennsylvania, October 10, 1786, as "Oliver Pollock, of this city, gent., arrived here from Havanna near two years." In 1783 he became a member of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, in

 

  Philadelphia, and so became one of the original members of the Hibernian Society in 1791.

 

  He was twice married.  First in New Orleans or in Havana about 1765, to Margaret O'Brien, b. Ireland, 1746, and descended by both parents from O'Brien, of Clare, and Kennedy, of Ormond.  She was the mother of all his children. She d. Carlisle, Pa., Januaray 10, 1799.  He was m. 2d, November 2, 1805, by the Rt. Rec. John Carroll, D. d. , at Baltimore, Maryland, to Mrs. Winifred Deady, widow of Daniel Deady, of Baltimore.

 

  This marriage was neither a suitable nor a happy one.  He moved to Baltimore in 1806, and she d. there of billiuos fever November 17, 1814, aged sixty years, and was buried in the old Cathedral cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland.

 

  At her death Pollock moved to the home of his son-in-law, Dr. Samuel Robinson, at Pinckneyville, Mississippi, where he died at a  very great age, December 17, 1823.  In his later years Mr. Pollock had become so embarrassed by his financial failures that May 30, 1800, he dates one letter from the debtors' prison, Philadelphia.

 

  His New Orleans residence still stands, built of cypress wood, in what was formerly a whole square of ground, ornamented by some very fine old mulberry trees.  It is well preserved, old fashioned, with wide, low roofs, but spacious rooms and galleries.

 

                       By his first marriage he had issue:

 

                          1.  Procopio, J.

 

                          2.  Jaret or Jared: m. Mary Briggs.

 

  3.  Mary Serena; b. 1777, m. Samuel Robinson, M. D.

 

                          4.  Oliver; living 1802

 

                          5.  Christiana; living 1802

 

                          6.  Galvez; living 1802

 

                          7.  James

 

  8.  Lucetta Adelaide; b. 1783. d. Phila. Pa. March

 

                       1804.

 

  Complete biographies of children in file-I-00413 V.F. POLLOAK

 

Complete biography of Oliver Pollock in file. (I-100413) (V.F.POLLOCK)

 

Polman, Johanna Mrs. r 791 2nd., Waveland (Ph 55)

 

Pond, Mrs. Harry S., Lafayette Cem. N.O. 22 May 1945 (CEC)

 

Pons, Mrs. B. of New Orleans, is spending the winter with Mrs. G. Farve.  (SCE/10/08/1892)

 

Ponsetta, Miss - Miss Phelo Monti returned Sunday from a visit to New Orleans accompanied by Miss Ponsetta who is now her guest. (SCE, 2/24/1894)

 

Pooley, Mr.  Was a partner of Asa Hursey and others in a sawmill at Walker Mill, Winchester site, north of Shieldsboro following the Civil War (Booklet VF Hursey)

 

Poolson, C. C., Kiln Rd. (Ph 48 thru 50) Nicholson Ave., Waveland (Ph 55)

 

Poolson, Charles, 214  3rd (Ph 48 thru 50, 55)

 

Chas. Poolson, a girl born July 24, 1929 (SCE 9.20/1929) (FM)

 

Poolson, Chas. Jr. r Austin Ln. (Ph 55)

 

Poolson, Jules A. r Washington (Ph 50)

 

Pope, O. E. r 416 Main (Ph 55)

 

Population - Coast Villages - Shrouded in mystery, somewhat like the moss-hung live oaks there, is the history of the coast region after the French relinquished it.