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

394 Olmsted Family Genealogy
Mar. 24, 1731; m. before 1752, Benoni Smith, of Ware, Mass. 9079, Prudence;
b. Oct. 28, 1733. 9080, Moses +.
(9070) THANKFUL OLMSTED, b. Feb. 15, 1713; d. Oct. 6, 1743; m.
(Dea.) Timothy Brown, of Ware, Mass.
9081, Anna; b. Apr. 23, 1730. 9082, Mabel +. 9083, Ephraim; b. Feb.
1, 1734-5. 9084, Silence; b. Oct. 9, 1737. 9085, Ruth; b. Dec. 26, 1739.
9086, Timothy; b. Apr. 16, 1742. 9087, Thankful, b. 1743.
Dea. Timothy Brown who m. Thankful Olmsted was captured by the
Indians May 6, 1746, and taken to Canada. He with a soldier named Robert
Moffatt had left the fort at Swanzey to go to Keene when they were set upon
by a party of Indians. Both were soon released and returned, but Deacon
Brown and his family soon removed to Ware, Mass., where he owned a farm
adjoining that of his father-in-law, Capt. Jabez Olmsted. He Hved in Ware
about ten years before he returned to Swanzey to reside.
9088, Jabez +. 9089, Aaron; b. Feb. 11, 1737; d. Oct. 7, 1740. 9090,
Jedediah; b. at Ware, Mass., Feb. 13, 1738. No record of his marriage
has been found though he is known to have reared a large family. He
removed with his parents to West Stockbridge, Mass., about 1756, and
probably remained there until after the close of the Revolutionary War.
Before 1790 he had settled in the town of Hampton, Washington County,
N. Y., a few miles from Poultney, Vt. In 1790 he was living in Hampton
with his wife, two sons, who were grown to manhood, three sons
under 16 years of age and one daughter.
(9071) JEREMIAH OLMSTED, b. at Brookfieid, Mass., Jan. 6, 1715;
m. Dec. 11, 1734, Elizabeth Litten.
In 1733 the General Court granted him 100 acres of land in Ware, Mass.,
adjoining his father's farm and in 1746 he purchased land of his brother Israel
Olmsted in the same town. He sold a part of his land in 1738 and a considerable
part of his estate in 1752. The exact date of his removal to West
Stockbridge is imknown but Nov. 8, 1758, " Jeremiah Olmsted of a place
west of Stockbridge and adjoining to the said township of Stockbridge in the
County of Hampshire; husbandman; for the sum of £15 lawful silver money "
sells to " Noah Gilbert, of Ware River Parish all bis right and interest in the
land of which my late Honored Father, Jabez Olmsted, was possessed at the
time of his decease in Ware River Parish as it lay in common and undivided
among the rest of his heirs."— (Springfield Land Records, Book 2, p. 460.)
At this time his brother Israel sold his right and removed to Warwick, Mass.,
and his brother Moses, then of Sheffield, Mass., also sold his right in his
father's estate.
Jeremiah probably removed to that part of the present town of West
Stockbridge which was later known as " New Canaan," after 1756, as his son
Jabez was a soldier from Ware in the French War in that year.
It is probable that Jeremiah lived some years in that part of West Stockbridge
sometimes called New Canaan as his grandson Aaron Olmsted enlisted
in the Revolutionary War service from there, but in a deed or record at Pittsfield
he calls himself of Stockbridge in 1774. The U. S. Census of 1790 shows
him to have been a resident of the town of Great Barrington in that year;
his family then consisting of two males and two females; probably an unmarried
son and an unmarried daughter. Of his youngest son Gideon nothing further