... Asa Olmstead lived on Belden Hill. Himself and wife were born and brought up on Chestnut Hill, his father owning the present Gorham property on that hill, and her father where the Finch Brothers of 1896 reside. Betty (Mrs. Asa Olmstead), daughter of Simeon and Mary Stuart, repeatedly and distinctly related, during her life time, that when a child she witnessed the burning of Norwalk from her Chestnut Hill home, and that two years before that time (1777) Tryon marched his men, Danbury bound, across their farm. ...