Oliver Ellsworth was born on April 29, 1745 in Windsor, Connecticut. He attended Yale in 1762, but transferred to the College of New Jersey which is now known as Princeton University. In 1771, Oliver Ellsworth was admitted to the Connecticut bar and became a lawyer. A year later he married Abigale Wolcott and had six kids with her. In 1777, Oliver became Connecticut’s state attorney for Hartford County, later that year he was chosen as one of Connecticut’s representatives in the Continental Congress. He was one of the five men who supervised Connecticut’s war expenditures because he was a member of the Committee of the Pay Table. In 1779, he became member of the counsel of safety in 1779, which helped control the state’s military. He was also