Janet
EGLER, 2415 Sherwood, Trenton, MI 48183,
sent the following query: Jedadiah (9090), son of Jeremiah and Elisabeth
(LITTEN) OLMSTED, married Mahitable, last name unknown. (Morman Church Records,
baptism for the dead, Nauvoo, Illinois, Reel # 0183379). What was her maiden
name?
Mr.
Clare A OLMSTED, 620 West. High Street, Hastings, MI 49058-1124, noted there is
an OLMSTED Place, a well known historical site, near Ellensburg, WA. It was the
homestead of Samuel Benient OLMSTED, a Union veteran, who settled there in
1875. Mr. OLMSTED wants to ask if Samuel OLMSTED is a Jabez descendant.
Sharon
RAUWORTHh, 123 E. Milner, DeKalb, IL 60115, is seeking the ancestry of Miriam
OLMSTED, who married Benjamin Matteson, Jr., 1819, at Manchester, VT. She believes
that Miriam may be the granddaughter of Jabez OLMSTED (9088) and Miriam HUSSE,
or perhaps the granddaughter of Aaron OLMSTED (9144), Jabez’s son. (See Doreen
Dolleman’s article in this issue.)
Mrs.
Helen Herman, 2153 Cascade Ridge Drive, Jackson, MI 49203, posed several
interesting questions about Capt. Jabez’s children:
What was the marriage date and place
of marriage of Timothy BROWN and Thankful OLMSTED?
What was the death date and place of
death of Jeremiah OLMSTED?
What was the death date and place of
death of Israel OLMSTED?
What was the death date and place of
death of Hannah MARSH?
What was the death date and place of
death of Dorcas WOLCOT?
What was the marriage date and place
of marriage of Silance OLMSTED and Ephraim BROWM?
What was the death date and place of
death of Silance OLMSTED?
What was the marriage date and place
of marriage of Abigail OLMSTED and Benoni SMITH?
What was the death date and place of
death of Abigail SMITH?
What was the marriage date and place
of marriage of Prudence OLMSTED, and who did she marry?
What was the death date and place of
death of Prudence OLMSTED?
What was the marriage date and place
of marriage of Moses OLMSTED and Abigail ELWELL?
What was the death date and place of
death of Moses OLMSTED and Abigail ELWELL?
I
can offer answers to some of Helen’s questions:
Thankful
OLMSTED and Timothy BROWN were married about 1729 (Timothy Brown of Brookfield and Ware, Massachusetts, and Swanzey, New
Hampshire, A Descendant of William White of the Mayflower, by Robert S.
Wakefield, F.A.S.G., American Genealogist, Vol. 71, No. 3 (July 1996)
pp. 155-157), either in Brookfield, where they both lived, or perhaps in
Ware. Since the marriage was not
recorded in Brookfield, Ware is more likely, as Ware was then not organized
even as a parish. However, their first child, Anna, was born April 23, 1730, in
Brookfield (Brookfield VR). Timothy was married second to Keziah Cooley GOSS at
Brookfield on April 18, 1744 (Brookfield VR). Capt. Jabez’s will left 5s to the
children of his daughter, Abigail BROWN, deceased (Hampshire Co. Mass,
Probates, 8:26). He married, third, Hanna WRIGHT at Lower Ashuelot in 1745
(Hist. Swanzey, 302, as cited in Mayflower
Families Through Five Generations, first editiom, Plymouyh 1975). It is
interesting that they named their first daughter Thankful (Brookfield VR).
The
GOFA shows Isreal’s death took place in about 1806, probably in Lyman (now
Monroe), NH.
Hannah
MARSH (“Old Mrs. MARSH”) died in Ware,
September 20, 1793 (Ware VR). The VRs have a picture of her tombstone.
Abigail
OLMSTED and Benoni SMITH were married before the death of Capt. Jabez., as she
was mentioned in his will under her married name (Hampshire Co. Mass, Probates, 8:26). The death of their child,
Prudence, was noted in the Ware VR as September 15, 1759.
The
marriage date and place of marriage of Moses Olmsted and Abigail Euwell was June 4, 1759, in Hardwick, MA (Ware VR).