(4111) (Lieut.) EBENEZER OLMSTED, ... m. Jan. 17, 1779, Esther Ingersoll; b. Aug. 10, 1760; d. Jan. 14, 1847; dau. of (Rev.) Jonathan and Dorcas (Moss) Ingersoll, of Ridgefield, Conn. Esther Ingersoll was sister of Abigail, wife of Col. David Olmsted. ...
War Record of Ebenezer Olmsted
From a declaration made by Esther Olmsted on the 11th day of Aug., 1838, when applying for the benefit of the act of Congress of July 4, 1836, in favor of the Widows of the Soldiers of the Revolution.
"That She is the widow of Ebenezer Olmsted who enlisted as Sergeant in the company of Captain Mead, in Col. Waterbury's Regiment in the Spring of the year 1775, on which occasion he marched immediately to the North against Ticonderoga — that in the ensuing year he served as Ensign in the company of Captain Gamaliel Northrop, and in the year following, namely, 1777, he served as Lieutenant in the Connecticut line in Col. Philip B. Bradley's Regiment; that at the period of his entering the service in 1775 said
Ebenezer Olmsted resided in Ridgefield in the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, that he entered as a volunteer as a Sergeant and acted as clerk of the Company; that during his continuance in the service of his Country, in addition to the affair of Ticonderoga above stated, he fought in the battles of Long Island, White Plains, Ridgefield and Germantown. At Germantown he was wounded; that he was encamped with the Army at Valley Forge, and that in the month of January, 1779, he lay encamped with that part of the army which lay at Redding, Conn., distant from Ridgefield where the declarant then resided about 8 miles; that said Olmsted came over from the army at Redding and was married to this declarant on Sunday, on the 17th day of January aforesaid, and returned back to the army on the following morning and continued to serve in the army until the following Spring, when he returned to Ridgefield, and there continued to reside and keep house until his death which occurred in 1801, turning out on every alarm which took place. Declarant cannot positively swear as to the date of said Olmsted's resigning his commission.
Declarant further stated that she is the daughter of the Rev. Jonathan Ingersoll, who was minister at Ridgefield for 37 years; that her bro. Jonathan Ingersoll was Lt. Gov. of the State of Conn."
