Person:Gideon Olmsted (2)

Working timeline

1797 - Gideon Olmstead signs a document to the President of the province of Upper Canada reciting that his brother Jonas Olmstead is settled on lot 11 in the sixth concession at Oxford ^{Citation needed}

1801 - 20 May the Crown grants Gideon Olmstead lot 20, Village of Boston, Townsend Twp., part of lot 13, conc. 3, province of Ontario ^{Citation needed}

1804, Gideon is shown as of Haldimand, District of Niagara, ON, in a transaction selling land ^{Citation needed}

1805 - further land sales by Gideon Olmstead, covering lands in Townsend, Norfolk County, ON ^{Citation needed}

1821 - Pontiac, Oakland County, Michigan - first Thursday of Sep, election is held to elect a member to congress and both Gideon Olmstead and Moses Olmstead are listed as voters ^{Citation needed}

1823 - 24 Jan 1823, Gideon Olmstead and Moses Olmstead both named on a petition for ??? ^{Citation needed}

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 9128, in Olmsted, Henry King (1824-1896), and George Kemp Ward (1848-1937). Genealogy of the Olmsted Family in America: Embracing the Descendants of James and Richard Olmstead and Covering a Period of Nearly Three Centuries, 1632-1912. (New York: A. T. DeLaMare, 1912)
   396, 399.

   (9128) GIDEON OLMSTED, b. 1757; d. at Hope, Hamilton County, N. Y.; m. ___
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   [Note: Last known record of Gideon Olmstead is his signature on an 1823 petition with son Moses in Oakland County, MI. It is considered unlikely that he died in Hamilton County, NY.]

2. ↑ United States. 1790 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M637).

   1790 census Pittsford, Rutland Co., Vermont.
   Gideon Olmstead listed with wife, two sons under 16 years of age, one daughter.