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

Sixth Generation 221
1820; d. July 8, 1841. 4786, Fanny; b. Apr., 1822; m. Lewis J. Curtis.
4787, Samuel Edwin +. 4788, Asa Belden (twin); b. Mar. 25, 1824; d.
at Brockport, Monroe County, N. Y., Mar. 25, 1824.
(4262) SAMUEL OLMSTED, b. May 3, 1772; d. Aug. 18, 1814; m. Mar. 16,
1796, Rachel St. John; b. Nov. 22, 1778; d. Feb. 25, 1861; dau. of John and
Martha (Northrop) St. John, of Wilton, Conn. Mrs. Olmsted m. (2) Abraham
Olmsted (No. 4292).
4789, Marcellus Marcus; b. Oct. 15, 1797; d. Feb. 2, 1865, at New Canaan,
Conn. 4790, Anna; b. Mar. 11, 1799; d. Feb. 30, 1860; m. Nov. 27, 1817,
Harry S. Jones, of Bridgeport, Conn. 4791, Moses De Forest +. 4792,
Eunice; b. May 10, 1803; d. Oct. 4, 1851; m. Nov. 13, 1825, Jesse O.
Smith. 4793, Samuel Smith +.
(4264) JAMES OLMSTED, Wilton, Conn. b. Apr. 4, 1755; d. Jan. 4, 1841;
m. Feb. 8, 1775, Sarah Whitlock; b. 1758; d. 1824. Mrs. Olmsted d. in St.
Armands, Canada.
In May or June, 1776, he enlisted at Norwalk for 6 months, under Capt.
Beach, in Col. Swift's Regt; marched to Skenesboro, now Whitehall, N. Y.,
then to Fort Independence (Ticonderoga), and was discharged in December at
Fort Edward. In the summer of 1777 he was enrolled as a minute man of the
Cavalry for the War, at Norwalk, under Capt. Gregory, which was'organized
for the protection of the frontier, against the incursions of the enemy; and the
tours of duty service would be from one to eight weeks—one of them was to
Stony-Point, immediately after the capture of Major Andre, and another was
to Sing Sing, N. Y.
He was in the engagement which followed the landing of the British at,
and the burning of, Norwalk and Fairfield, and in skirmishes with the notorious
" Cow-boys " who infested and plundered the country between the lines.
He was taken prisoner by the British at the battle of Danbury, or Ridgefield,
AprE 26, 1777, but escaped the same evening.
About 1790 he went on horseback to Elmore, Vt.; thence after a few
years to Cambridge, Vt., where he remained 7 years, thence to Waterville,
Vt., from there to St. Armands, Canada, for 12 years, and thence to
Marcellus, N. Y.
4794, Ira -|-. 4795, James +. 4796, Anna; b. 1781; d. Mar., 1875; m.
John Fay, of Berkshire, Vt. 4797, Phebe; d. Nov. 16, 1846; m. Daniel
Trowbridge, of Berkshire, Vt. 4798, Lewis -|-.
(4266) ISAAC OLMSTED, Wilton, Conn. b. Jan. 23, 1759; d. Dec. 31,
1797; m. (1) Apr. 15, 1779, Mary Parsons; (2) Sept. 25, 1793, Sarah Lyon, of
Greenwich, Conn.; d. Nov. 18, 1852. He enUsted Apr. 1, 1777, under Capt.
Samuel Hoyt in Col. Philip B. Bradley's Conn. Regt., for 3 years.
1st marriage: 4799, Daniel +. 4800, Alden +. 4801, Osborn -|-. 2d
marriage: 4802, John Strickland +.
The following facts were sworn to by Isaac Olmsted's second wife, in
making application for a pension Jan. 6, 1845. She lived at Wilton, Fairfield
County, Conn. At the tihie of making this application she was 83 years of
age. " Isaac Olmsted m. at Rye, Westchester County, N. Y., Sept. 24th or
25th, 1793, Sarah Lyon, of Greenwich, Conn., and d. at Wilton, Conn., Dec.
31, 1797. John S. their only child was living at Wilton, Conn., in 1846."