the position of governor. He was re-elected annually to that position through 1753. Shortly after he retired as governor, his son, Roger Wolcott, Sr., attended negotiations with six other British colonies and around 200 members of various Indian nations at the Albany Congress in June and July 1754. During his administration, a disabled Spanish ship, the St. Joseph and St. Helena, with a cargo valued at 400,000 Spanish dollars, ran aground near New London. Wolcott ordered the ship seized and the cargo impounded in order to allow time to resolve conflicting claims between the vessel's captain and the salvage crew. While in the colony's custody, a large portion of the ship's cargo mysteriously disappeared. Tainted with the scandal surrounding the Spanish Ship case, he was defeated for re-election in 1754. All previous governors had died in office. Following his defeat, Wolcott generally withdrew from public life to study and follow literary pursuits. In 1759, Wolcott authored a short history of the Connecticut colony titled, Roger Wolcott's Memoir Relating to the History of Connecticut. Death Wolcott died at home in Windsor at the age of 88, and is interred at the Old Burying Ground (Palisado Cemetery) there. References External links The Poems of Roger Wolcott, Esq., 1725 1679 births 1767 deaths British military personnel of Queen Anne's War British Army personnel of the War of the Austrian Succession Colonial governors of Connecticut People from Windsor, Connecticut Members of the Connecticut House of Representatives Members of the Connecticut General Assembly Council of Assistants (1662–1818) Chief Justices of the Connecticut Supreme Court