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

Sixth Generation 43
We have not lost one man nor had one man wounded in our regement. In
the hoi los of men was sixteen killed, one Colonel, one Ensign, belonging to the
Seventeenth Regement and fifty wounded in the Sieg of Ticontaroga. They
had in the fort a fine stabel of horses over their magazean which they blew
up and killed about fifty. They burnt up a great many guns and they left
sixteen cannon and six morter peices. Ticontaroga Fort is a very strong
fort, stronger than Fort Edward.
July 30. Captain Shelding died at the mils at Ticontaroga.
August 1st, 1759. The French blew up Crown Point and went of.
Ticontarog, August 3. Their was a man hanged hear for desarting.
August 4, 1759. Our army marched up to Crown Point.
August 14th. Captain Hul died at Ticontaroga.
Ticontaroga, August 23. Their is about a hundred men to work at
the fort and has been ever senc we have ben hear.
Sept. 1, Ticonteroga. They built a sloo here in about 16 or 18 days,
so that they lanched hur and she will carry upward of 2 hundred tun.
Sept. 14, 1759, Ticunderoga, they are a building another sloope here.
The other is allmost fit to sail. The men are yet to worke at the fort, our
regement and Col. Worster's, all accept aknuf to gard.
Sept. 16 (?), ,1759. They fiered the guns on board the brig twice round
and the next day lanched the soop and fiered ten guns more on board the brig.
Oct. 10, 1759, Ticonteroga, the sloop sailed for Crown Point and went
about two miles and fired two guns. She carris sixteen guns.
Oct. 20. General Amhars went to Sandy Crick and then took one sloop
and sunk two and returned back to Crown Point.
Oct. 20, 1759. Then it snowed hear at Ticontaroga, Oct. 30th, then the
brig came down from Crown Point, the Rodow. Our men took one slope of
eight guns and four swifels and brought her in at Crown Point.
Ticontaroga, Nov. 2, the Boston men ris and went of from the mils.
General Lyman and his regement went down the south Bay to stop them but
they did nut go that way. Twenty Boston men went from Fort Edward as
fur as Fort Miller and four regulars stoped them and brought them back
again.
The Rodow came down from Crown Point here and took sixteen hundred
berrels of provision and went back again.
Nov. 10. There was twenty four cannon fired her, because it was the
King's birthday.
Nov. 25, Ticondaroga, then we marched over the lake and encamped
their.
Dec. 2, 1759, we came in to number four. 4th, we marched to Mager
Bellowses, 5 to Talus, at the River, 6 to Mountaco and 7 to Hadley New.
Dec. 8th, 1759. I came home from Ticondaroga.
(262) ISAAC OLMSTED, b. 1745; d. Mar. 27. 1825; m. Rebecca Forbes;
b. 1744; d. Aug. 22, 1800; dau. of David and Mary (Hills) Forbes.
He served in the Revolutionary War, and the following are the records
shown by the War Department: Isaac Olmsted served as a private in Colonel
G. S. Silliman's Reg't., Conn. Militia. The dates of his enlistment and discharge
are not of record, his name appearing only on a muster roll which shows
that the company was organized by Capt. Gamaliel Northrop, Jr., of Ridgefield,
Fairfield Co., Conn. The records also show that he served as a private