EARLY OLMSTED DEEDS
Doreen
Dolleman has been collecting early Olmsted deeds and land records from Western
Massachusetts towns. Following are summaries of various ones she has found. We
invite other readers to supplement this list.
1744, from John Popnehonnukwoh and Jehoiakim Yokum
of Stockbridge, Hampshire County, Province of Massachusetts Bay in New England
Gentleman and Indian Claimers of a
certain tract of land lying between Stockbridge ... and ...Spencer-town, ....
to Jeremiah Olmsted, ......, Jabez Olmsted ... by paying us the sum of Sixty
Pounds, New York Currency....
1749, TO ALL PEOPLE TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL
(illegible) , Greetings, Know ye that I Jabez Olmstead living at Ware River on
the Road from Hadley to (illegible) Brookfield
in the County of Hampshire and province of Massachusetts Bay in New
England Husbandman for and in consideration of the sum of One Hundred and
Twenty (illegible) Pounds Lawful Money ....paid by Robert Joyner and W. Joyner
of Cornwell in the Colony of Connecticut ...have given, granted, ... a certain
Tract or parcel of Land containing two Hundred Acres granted to me by the
General court of this Province 26 Janr. 1736....
1761, Jeremiah Olmsted of a place called the County
Land west of Stockbridge in the county of Hampshire and Province of
Massachusetts Bay in New England yoeman in consideration of one hundred and ten
Pounds Lawful Money ... to Philip Case of Sheffield.
1760, KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS that for the
consideration of six pounds lawful money I Jerediah Olmstead living West of
Stockbridge on the province Land do give (etc) ..... unto John George Jenkins
....I quitclaim to him .... the one half of a Right of Land being in the tract
of Land commonly called olmstead Town West of Stockbridge in the province of
Massachusetts Bay ....
1766, SURVEY BILL. Gore of Land West of Stockbridge
in the County of Berkshire ....Surveyed, and laid out to John Georg Jacquin One
Hundred Acres of Land on Jedediah Olmsteds Right of Land in the said Gore ....
1766, Survey Bill. Surveyed and laid out to Jabez
Olmstead Seventy Acres of Second Division of Joseph Flemings Right of Land in
the Gore West of Stockbridge in the County of Berkshire...