Person:John Olmstead (48)

Research notes

• Caution - not sure if mother is first or second wife of John Olmstead. More research needed.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} 4024, 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)
   195, 201.

   (4024) JOHN OLMSTED, Easton, Conn. bap. at Greenfield, Conn., Oct. 10, 1731; d. Mar., 1809; m. May 6, 1764, at Norfield, Conn., Abigail Lyon; ...
   
   He resided in Easton, Conn.; served in the Revolutionary War as Ensign, in the 4th Regt., Col. Samuel Whitney, in Fairfield and Stratford, Conn.; enlisted Mar. 23 and was discharged Apr. 22, 1777; was taken prisoner by the British in the raid on Fairfield and Danbury, Conn.; taken to New York, and kept for some time on the old Prison Ship, and suffered great hardships. He d. in Easton, Conn.

2. ↑ RECORDS OF THE GREENFIELD HILL CHURCH, FAIRFIELD, CONN., in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society)
   69:43, Jan 1915.

   John Olmstead Born ___ Baptd oct. 10. 1731