NEWSLETTER JABEZ OLMSTED OF WARE
Doreen Dolleman's Research [on Aaron Olmstead]
3(2):7, May 2000
... In 1790 he [Aaron the father] was in the Granville census with a probable wife and a young son and daughter. ...
... In 1798 Aaron [the father] was charged with armed robbery along with three male members of the Case family. As this was his last appearance in Washington Co. it is safe to guess that he was either run out of town or ran off on his own. It also is likely that he left his family behind as his son Aaron Jr. appears in Washington Co. records beginning in 1811 and 1812 when he mortgages property near the Hartford / Hebron Twp. line.
By Jan. of 1817 Aaron Jr. is declared insolvent and Jabez Olmstead is appointed assignee. Court records show that Aaron was in a pretty sorry predicament with a wife and two infant children, no property, only $50 worth of personal belongings and outstanding debts owed to 23 different creditors. Some were relatives as the list includes Jabez and Miriam Olmstead and John Wilson.
Aaron Jr. was enumerated in the 1820 Hebron census next to Jabez.
In 1825 he was in Hartford and in 1830, 1835 and 1840 in Hebron.
In the 1850 and 1860 census he was in Dorset, Vermont. Dorset is just a few miles from where Aaron lived in Hebron. ...
... Aaron Jr. was born 14 Oct. 1788 in Alford, MA. He married Elizabeth "Betsey" Wilson in 1812. She was born 12 Feb. 1789, died in 1839, and was the daughter of William and Betsey Wilson. Aaron remarried around 1849 to an Olive Smith who was the widow of Amos Smith of Granville, NY. In 1850 and 1860 Aaron and Olive were living in Dorset Hollow, Vermont on property owned by Olive. Aaron‘s daughter Caroline lived with them. Aaron died on the 26th of Dec. 1862 probably in Vermont as I found no record of him having ever been in Hampshire, IL. Aaron and Betsey's children were: ...
