[1][2][3] Erastus Wolcott served in the Connecticut General Assembly in 1758 to 1762, returning as representative of the newly formed town of East Windsor in 1768.
In May 1773 he was named to the colony's committee of correspondence, which selected him as a delegate to the First Continental Congress in 1774, though he refused to serve outside Connecticut.
[1][4] In October 1789 Wolcott accepted appointment to the Connecticut Supreme Court, resigning due to ill health in 1792.
From April to June 1777 he personally commanded a detachment stationed on the Hudson River in Peekskill, New York.
[2][3] He resigned his commission in January 1781 in protest over Governor Jonathan Trumbull's direction of the war effort.