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

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Jersey. Casparus Westervelt, father of Jane, was born at Poughkeepsie,
N. Y., 175j»; d. 1836. Silas Olmsted was the first "Olmsted" in the
New York City Directory.
1st marriage: 4978, Lewis Selleck +. 2d marriage: 4979, Jane Ann +•
4980, David; b. Aug. 17, 1811; d. Aug. 2, 1815. 4981, Charles +. 4982,
Silas +. 4983, Ann; b. Aug. 31, 1818; d. June 29, 1887. 4984, Mary; b.
1819; d. in infancy. 4985, Mary Esther +. 4986, Darius; b. July 22,
1823 ; d. Oct. 4, 1842. 4987, Elizabeth + . 4988, Benjamin Franklin +
4989, William Faulkner +.
The ancestry of Nancy Westervelt is as follows:
I. Lubbert Lubbertsen van Westervelt; b. in Holland abt. 1620; d. soon
after 1686; mfe Geesie Roeloffe. Of 6 children:
II. Roelof, 2d chUd of Lubbert; b. Mar. 10, 1659; m. (1) Mar. 25, 1688,
Orsolena Stymets; (2) May 15, 1731, Lea Demarest. Of 9 children:
III. Kasparus, 2d child of Roelof by 1st wife; bap. July 19, 1694; m. May 7,
1715, Aeltie Bogert. Of 11 chUdren:
IV. Benjamin, 7th child of Kasparus; bap. Dec. 3, 1727; m. Aug. 8, 1751,
Elsie Earl; d. Apr. 27, 1822. Of 6 children:
V. Casparus, 1st child of Benjamin; b. at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Sept. 15,
1752; m. (1) Sept. 16, 1772, Nancy Campbell; (2) 1790, Jane Ryder;
d. Jan. 18, 1836, at Bloomingdale, near Patterson, N. J. He rendered
about nine months' actual service in the Revolutionary War
as a private in the N. Y. troops, and was mostly engaged in guard
duty—from June, 1777, at intervals, to Oct., 1782, under Capt.
Barnadoes Swartout, Capt. Hendrick Lenne and Col. A. H. Hays.
Of 16 children:
VI. Nancy Westervelt (Olmsted), 1st child of Casparus by 2d wife. (He
had 6 children by 1st wife.)
(4329) MARY OLMSTED, b. Jan. 12, 1783 ; d. at Deerfield, Portage County,
Ohio, 1864; m. Joshua Betts.
4990, Esther; m. Birdsall. 4991, Darius. 4992, Almira; m. (1)
Haynes, of Dutchess County, N. Y.; d. Feb. 3, 1840; (2)
Heaverley. 4993, JosLm. 4994, George, Nebraska. 4995, Silas. 4996,
Matthew; d. in Burlington, Pa. 4997, Jane; m. Tompkins. 4998,
Charles O.; m. Mrs. Cornelia A. Smith. 4999, Betsey; m. Heaverley.
5000, Ruth; m. Whitehead. 5001, Washington.
(4330) ESTHER OLMSTED, b. June 19, 1785; d. Feb. 15, 1865; m. Hezekiah
Taylor, Norwalk, Conn. ; son of Jonathan and Lois (Cooley) Taylor.
5002, Burr. 5003, Eliphalet. 5004, George; b. in Stamford, Conn.,
Dec. 13, 1817; m. Harriet Smith.
(4331) CHARLES OLMSTED, Norwalk, Conn. b. Nov. 6, 1791; d. Apr.
2, 1846; m. Aug., 1815, Charity Allen; b. Jan. 14, 1798; d. July 19, 1880; dau.
of Samuel and Susan (Jennings) Allen, of Westport, Conn.
5004a, Aaron; b. Nov. 18, 1816; d. Nov. 1, 1898; m. (1) Mar. 10, 1838,
Sarah A. Smith; b. July 15. 1817: d. Feb. 16, 1860; dau. of John and Sarah
Smith; (2) Nov. 18, 1868, Josephine Ericsson; b. July 8, 1839; dau. of David
and Hester (Zimmerman) Ericsson. 5005, Silas +. 5006, Charles
Betts; b. May 30, 1821; d. Oct., 1900; m. Oct. 18, 1849, Maria Olmsted.
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