Genealogy of the Olmsted family in America : embracing the ...

42 Olmsted Family Genealogy
The above contains all the particulars of his service, with dates and places
as mentioned in the pension. There was filed, with the widow's application for
a pension a family record alleged to be in the handwriting of Selah Norton.
(260) STEPHEN OLMSTED, b. 1742; d. Sept. 9, 1776; m. Jane Olmsted
(No. 196). Mr. Olmsted d. at Westchester, N. Y., in the army. "A man of
worth." He marched for the relief of Fort William Henry in Aug., 1757,
and enlisted Mar. 19, 1762, for the expedition against "Crown Point."
666, Lucy +. 667, Stephen +•
(261) LUCY OLMSTED, b. 1743; d. Jan. 5, 1796; m. (Lieut.) John Hurlbut;
b. July 1, 1742; son of John and Mabel (Loomis) Hurlbut, of East Hartford,
Conn. He accompanied the expedition against Ticonderoga under General
Amherst in 1759. He is believed to have moved with part of his family to
Waterford, Pa.
668, Lucy, bap. May 11, 1766; m. Eliakim Cook. 669, Aurelia; bap. Jan.
10, 1768; d. Nov., 1795. 670, Sophia; bap. Sept. 3, 1769; d. Dec, 1795.
671, John; bap. May 30, 1773; d. Dec, 1795. 672, Giles +. 673, Philena;
bap. Oct. 24, 1774; m. Jan. 2, 1802, George Washington Reed; son
of (Col.) Seth and Hannah (Harwood) Reed. 674, Chauncey; bap. Oct. 7,
1781; d. Dec, 1795.
The Girnal of John Hurlbut, Juner
Hartford, May 9th. Then I marched from their to Albany whare we
encamped.
Albany, May 20th, 1759. Then we encamped their. May 29th. Then
was old Haince shot to death at Albany, 1759.
June 14th, 1759. Then we encamped their and June 17th, the flag of
truse came in their at Half Way Brook between Fort Edward and the Lake.
Halfway Brook, June 26th. We have bult a small picket fort here.
June 30th, 1759. Their was a froast heare and as cold as at Indian
Harvest time and their was two men came in that has been prisners amongst
the Indians, one taken 1756 and the other, 1758, and they were 27 days passag.
July 2, 1759. There was seven garse men killed at the Lake and five
taken prissoners by the Indians and 3 wounded.
July 3, 1759. The cannon went from Fort Edward to the Lake.
July 14, then we marched to the lake and encamped their.
July 16th, 1759. Captain Shelding came in at the lake with his Company
of new recruts.
July 17th, 1759.
July 21st, 1759.
' A flag of truse came in at Lake Gorge.
Lake Gorge. We embarked and July 22nd, we land
without any resistence. July 23, we marched up to Tiantarog write into their
intrenchment. July 27th, we are making a fasen batary insid of the brest
work and droughing up the cannon and morter peices. July 27, about midnight
the French marched out of fort and our men marched in. The French
sot the fort on fier when they marched out and destroyed all they cold. We
never fiered one gun but they fiered cannon and flung bums. When they
marched from the fort, Rogers fell upon them and killed a great many of
them and took a hundred of them.
Cabag is very plenty and all sorts of greens which they got in the French
garden. They had a fine garden—larg a nuf to give the hoi army a mes.