1756 - 1814

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• Suffix	Captain
  Birth	22 Aug 1756	E. Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut
  Gender	Male
  Died	22 Jan 1814
  Person ID	I102279	Brainard (Brainerd) / Foster / Fish
  Last Modified	29 Mar 2000 00:00:00
  Father	Ichabod OLMSTED, Captain, b. 12 Sep 1725, E. Haddam, Hartford, Conneticut
  Mother	Dorothy BATES, b. 1732
  Family ID	F42370	Group Sheet
  Married	22 Aug 1782
  Family ID	F42347	Group Sheet

• Notes

  Name Suffix: Captain !Served in the Revolutionary War. In 1775 he was with Capt. Thorp at Roxbury for two months during the siege of Boston. In Jan 1777 he was a private in John Wyllys' Co., in Col. Thorp's regiment, for two months at New London, CT. He was Captain or conductor of teams for some four years, to late in 1781. In that year he was in charge of twelve teams from Lebanon,CT that accompanied the French army to Yorktown, and was at the surrender of Lord Cornwallis, and remained through the winter.

• Sources

  [S2170] GEDCom File from Cassandra Olmstead [CassandraO@msn.com], with information from"Genealogy of the Olmsted Family in Americ, 10 Jun 2002.