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... [Father] Jeremiah probably removed to that part of the present town of West Stockbridge which was later known as "New Canaan," after 1756, as his son Jabez was a soldier from Ware in the French War in that year. ...
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[cos1776 note: Jabez 9088 is not listed with other children of Jeremiah 9071, although he is mentioned with his father as cited. He is mistakenly listed as a child of Timothy Brown and Thankful 9070 Olmsted on p 394.]
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(9088) JABEZ OLMSTED, Stockbridge, Mass. b. at Ware [Brookfield per town record], Mass., July 29, 1735; d. at Valley Forge, Dec, 1777; m. Elizabeth.
He was a soldier in the French War from Ware, Mass., in 1756. His name, with that of his uncle Moses Olmsted, appears on a Muster Roll of Capt. Ingersoll's Co., Col. Wm. Worthington's South Regt. of Hampshire County in that year. In a deed on record at Pittsfield his residence is given as Stockbridge in 1768, and he was a resident of Williamstown at the time of his enlistment in 1775.
The Revolutionary War services of Jabez and his son Jabez are both given in "Mass. Soldiers and Sailors in the Revolution," but there is no means of identifying the service of the father or the son. He enlisted first. May 1, 1775, in Capt. Abrather Angell's Co., Col. David Brewer's Regt. (9th Mass.), and served until Aug. 1, 1775. He then enlisted in Capt. John Wright's Co., same regt., and served until Oct., 1775, when the Company was transferred to Col. Rufus Putnam's Regt. which was stationed at Roxbury. He probably served in this Company and regt. through most of the year 1776. Dec. 16, 1776, he enlisted in Capt. William Douglass's Co. , Col. Benjamin Simond's detachment of Berkshire Co. Militia which marched to Ticonderoga. He was discharged Mar. 22, 1777, after 96 days' service. He again enlisted for one year in Capt. Jeremiah Miller's Co., Col. Joseph Vose's Regt., May 1, 1777, was promoted to Sergeant, and reported deceased at Valley Forge, Dec, 1777.
A complete list of his children has not been found as the records are very incomplete in Berkshire County. He probably married about 1756-57. ...
