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

FiETH Generation 209
22, 1831; spn of Ezra and Elizabeth (Benedict) Pickett, of Norwalk, Conn.
4423, Sarah; b. Feb. 10, 1781; d. 1867; m. (1) Reuben Bennett, of Wayne,
Mich.; (2) abt. 1847, Jonathan Jackson. 4424, Seth +. 2d marriage:
4425, Esther +. 4426, Catherine; b. Mar. 11, 1790; m. Benjamin
Northrop, of Jonesville, N. Y. 4427, Jonathan +. 4428, Cyrus; b.
Dec. 14, 1795; d. June 12, 1796. 4429, Betsey; b. Mar. 2, 1798; m. Oct.
16, 1816, Curtis Betts; b. Apr. 15, 1797.
(4111) (Lieut.) EBENEZER OLMSTED, bap. 1748; d. July 19, 1801; 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. Ebenezer Olmsted
served in the Revolutionary War at Ticonderoga, L. Island, Germantown,
and Valley Forge. He enlisted Jan. 24, 1775, and was discharged Nov. 29,
1775. He was in Capt. Mead's Co., Col. Waterbury's Regt. ; was Ensign in
Capt. S. Northrop's Co. in Ridgefield, in 1776; appointed 2d Lieut, in Col.
Bradley's Regt., Mar. 11, 1777. He was a U. S. pensioner.
4430, Moss +. 4431, Russell +. 4432, Nancy; b. Sept. 30, 1781. 4433,
Henry +. 4434, Oliver; m. Molineaux. 4435, Edward. He was
a Midshipman in the U. S. Navy; Commission dated Dec. 17, 1810; was on
the Essex with Capt. Porter. His name appeared the last time in the Naval
Register in 1815. A tradition in the fanuly is that he sailed on a ship of
war, in the War of 1812, and the ship was never heard from. 4436, Benjamin;
lived in Alabama. His children were with his brother Russell.
4437, Fanny; m. (Rev.) Thomas Eustace, of Paris, Monroe County, Missouri.
4438, Maria; m. Bennett, of New Orleans, La. 4439, Ira;
d. in Liverpool. 4440, Louisa; m. Halsey, of West Almond, Allegheny
County, N. Y. 4441, Harriet; m. Shaw, of Goldsborough,
Maine.
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. Brad-
ley'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