MORE ON JEDEDIAH OLMSTED

            In an earlier issue of the Newsletter, (Vol. 4, Issue, 2, November, 2000) Doreen Dolleman had an article on Jeremiah’s third son, Jedediah. She had found nothing about him between his birth record in 1739, in Brookfield, and the sale, in 1760, of a part of the land that his grandfather and father had purchased from the Stockbridge Indians. We have found some information to fill the gap, not that it is to his credit. However, we feel that we should report everything we find.

            The Knurow Collection, Vol. 12, p. 238 has an article that says: “Jedediah OMSTED enlisted in Capt. Burbank’s Co. of Major Robert Rogers’ Rangers, in a list of deserters since July 13, 1759, dated camp at Crown Point, 31 Aug. 1759. His residence was given as Sheffield, Mass. (Boston Newsletter, Thur. Sept 20, 1759)".

            The Knurow Collection is a several volume collection of articles, clippings, notes, in the Pittsfield, MA, Athenaeum. It is computer indexed.

            Note that Sheffield, Mass was the town in which Doreen found the marriage record of Jedediah’s brother, Jabez Sr. and Mariam Husse.  See Volume 1, Issue 2, March 1998.