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

30 Olmsted Family Genealogy
Aug. 17, 1781; m. Aug. 16, 1764, (Capt.) DanielBulkeley;b.May 13, 1744; d.
July 20, 1810; son of Gersham and Abigail (Robbins) Bulkeley.
385, Daneel +. 386, Ichabod; b. Sept. 23, 1769. 387, Eunice; b. Apr.
14, 1772; d. Jan. 12, 1846; m. May 26, 1780, Roger Foote; d. June 10, 1823;
son of Asa and Jerusha (Carter) Foote, of Colchester, Conn. 388, Dorothy;
b. Oct. 8, 1774; d. Nov. 17, 1776. 389, Oliver; b. Jan. 24, 1776;
d. Dec. 23, 1827; m. Nov. 2, 1797, Sophia Foote. 390, Joshua; b. June 5,
1778; m. Harriet Olmsted (No. 404). 391, Dorothy; b. July 11, 1780.
(144) ASHBEL OLMSTED, b. at E. Haddam, Conn., Dec. 18, 1750; d.
Dec. 24, 1832; m. Ruth Cone; b. July 28, 1745; d. June 6, 1814; dau. of Jared
and Ruth (Smith) Cone.
392, Statira; b. 1774; d. May 22, 1844. 393, Dorothy; b. 1784; d. June
26, 1858. 394, Samuel +. 395, Elizabeth; m. Mar. 16, 1808, John
Willey; b. Jan. 9, 1778; d. at Hamilton, N. Y., 1834; son of Aaron and
Rebecca WUley.
(147) OLIVER OLMSTED, b. at E. Haddam, Conn., Aug. 22, 1756; d.
Jan. 22, 1814; m. Aug. 22, 1782, Mercy Gardner; b. 1766; d. Sept. 17, 1843.
396, Child; b. 1783; d. Aug. 19, 1787. 397, Ann E., b. 1784; d. Feb. 10,
1865. 398, William; b. 1788; d. Oct. 9, 1793. 399, Oliver C; b. 1796.
He was living in E. Windsor, Conn., in 1852.
Oliver Olmsted served in the Revolutionary War. In 1775 he was with
Capt. Thorp at Roxbury for two months during the siege of Boston, Mass.
In Jan., 1777, he was a private in John Wyllys' Co., in Col. Thorp's regiment,
for two months at New London, Conn. He was Captain or conductor of teams
for some four years, to late in 1781. In that year he was in charge of twelve
teams from Lebanon, Conn., that accompanied the French army to Yorktown,
and was at the surrender of Lord Cornwallis, and remained through the
winter.
(148) AZUBAH OLMSTED, b. at E. Haddam, Conn., Nov. 9, 1758; d.
Jan. 14, 1835; m. Apr. 23, 1775, William Cone; b. Mar. 14, 1753; d. Jan. 18,
1827; son of William and Elizabeth (Bailey) Cone.
400, Elizabeth; b. July 2, 1778; d. Apr. 5, 1781. 401, Elizabeth; b.
Aug. 30, 1784; d. Apr. 28, 1850. 402, Azubah Louisa; b. Jan. 14, 1788;
d. Dec. 9, 1859; m. May 30, 1810, (Captain) Nathan Lanesford Foster; b.
at New Salem, Mass., Dec. 8, 1787; d. at Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 9, 1861;
son of (Rev.) Joel and Priscilla (Foster) Foster. He was Capt. of Volunteer
Co. from E. Haddam, Conn., in 1776. Lived at E. Haddam from 1809 imtil
1840, when he moved to Philadelphia. He was Town Clerk at E. Haddam
covering a period of more than twenty years. He taught a select school
at Hartford for a term of years, then returning to E. Haddam settled at a
locality to which he gave the classic name, " Mt. Parnassus," which still
bears that name. He was a lineal descendant of Myles Standish, his great
grandmother, Hannah Standish, wife of Nathan Foster, of Stafford, Conn.,
being a great granddaughter of Capt. Myles Standish. 403, Dorothy; b.
Oct. 15, 1792; d. July 12, 1867; m. Dec. 22, 1813, Michael Chauncey of
Hartford, Conn.; b. about 1789; d. June 28, 1865.
(150) JOHN BATES OLMSTED, MiUington, Conn. b. at E. Haddam
Conn., 1762; d. Apr. 30, 1819; m. Dec. 11, 1783, Theodosia Lewis; b. July 8,