Genealogy of the Olmsted family in America : embracing the ...

Sixth Generation 41
1st marriage: 650, Chloe Butler; b. Feb. 20, 1771; d. Nov. 7, 1837; m.
Daniel Pitkin; b. May 24, 1769; d. Sept. 4, 1851 ; son of Daniel and Susannah
(Stanley) Pitkin. 651, Selah; b. May 19, 1772; d. Mar. 14, 1773. 652,
William; b. June 20, 1774; d. Aug. 9, 1775. 653, Job (M. D.); b. Aug.,
1776; d. Aug. 19, 1855. 2d marriage: 654, Anne; b. Sept. 17, 1778; d. Oct.
10, 1778. 655, Anne; b. Sept. 11, 1779; d. Sept. 21, 1779. 656, Elizabeth;
b. Aug. 10, 1780; d. Apr. 9, 1781. 657, Anne Porter; b. May 29, 1782;
d. May 13, 1855; m. Cotton Mather, b. Mar. 4, 1779; d. May 14, 1854; son
of Benjamin Mather. 658, Elizabeth; b. June 13, 1784; m. E. Little
(M. D.). 659, Susannah; b. June 9, 1786; m. Obadiah Smith. 660,
Harriet; b. July 16, 1789; d. about 1865. 661, Selah; b. Oct. 23, 1790;
d. May 13, 1791. 662, William; b. July 28, 1792; m. Mills. 663,
Edwin; b. July 7, 1795; d. Mar., 1830; m. Minerva Smedley. 664, Emily
(twin); b. July 7, 1795; d. Feb. 23, 1874; m. Jan. 11, 1819, Osmyn Pitkin;
b. Jan. 7, 1797; d. May 16, 1833. 665, Julian; b. Mar. 19, 1799.
War record of Capt. Selah Norton, from the records of the U. S. Pension
Office:
"He belonged to a troop of Light Horse which was attached to a regiment
of Infantry, and according to 'Connecticut men in the Revolution,' he turned
out as ensign for eight days on the alarm of hostilities at Lexington, Mass.,
but it is probable the Light Horse did not continue in service as such. Norton,
early in May, 1775, accepted the position as Clerk and Orderly Sergeant in a
Company of Foot in Lt. Col. George Pitkin's regt. and was stationed at Roxbury
for the siege of Boston. He was discharged there late in Dec, 1775.
During his service there, about August 1, 1775, he received intelligence of
dangerous sickness in his family and went home, leaving as his substitute
Aaron Olmsted, who was an officer. It is proper to state that the files in this
office show instances of officers volunteering short tours of duty as privates.
Olmsted was or had been adjutant of the regiment and was of East Hartford,
Conn.
"Norton was appointed at the May session, 1775, of the Legislature,
cornet in the 19th Regt. and lieutenant in January, 1778, and captain in
April, 1779. The Light Horse was composed of members from East Hartford,
East Windsor, and it is probable from some of the other adjoining towns.
He is alluded to as in the 4th Company and 2d Regt. by witnesses testifying
to portions of his services.
"He served 2 or 3 months in 1776, as cornet in the Light Horse in N. Y.
•City, and when the place was evacuated, Sept. 15, 1776, he retreated with the
army under Gen. Washington to White Plains, Westchester Co. Early in
1777 he, with the Light Horse, was ordered for duty in Rhode Island, and in
Aug., 1777, under Capt. Joel Loomis and Lt. Augustus Fitch, he marched to
oppose the advance of Gen. Burgoyne, at or near Saratoga, N. Y. In the same
year, or in 1778, he was on duty at Horse Neck in Greenwich, Fairfield Co.,
Conn. In August and September, 1781, as capt. of the Light Horse, he was
•escort to Gov. Trumbull, going to the headquarters of Gen. Washington with a
large sum of money to pay the troops of the State. One of these trips was
in August early, and another trip in September with only money for the
Conn. Troops.
"He was on escort duty in the latter part of February to March 12, 1782,
conveying a large sum of money to the army to pay Conn. Troops, as capt.
of Light Horse."