Capt. Aaron Olmsted, Rev. War Vet.

A Patriot of the American Revolution for CONNECTICUT with the rank of Major. DAR Ancestor # A086257

Rank: Major (American Revolutionary War)

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Capt Aaron Olmsted BIRTH 19 May 1753 East Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA DEATH 9 Sep 1806 (aged 53) BURIAL Center Cemetery East Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA Add to Map MEMORIAL ID 39246386 · View Source

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Son of Jonathan & Hannah (Meakins) Olmsted; husband of Mary Langley Bigelow; He marched with the E. Hartford Co for the relief of Boston in April 1775

(No. 192) Page 36 CAPTAIN AARON OLMSTED All through his life Capt. Olmsted showed remarkable business ability. Following the sea from a boy he carefully saved his wages and profits from trading, and, as tradition has it, bringing his savings home and putting them in a bee-hive for safe-keeping. The bee-hive he afterward adopted as his coat of arms. He was one of the first to go into the China trade, and was captain of his own ship. He early became a member of the Masonic order, and brought home many beautiful things emblematic of the Order from different parts of the world, among them two white lambskin aprons elaborately decorated with Masonic emblems done in silk. One of them he presented to President Washington, a brother Mason. There are several of these emblems still kept in the family. In 1794 he made the journey on horseback through the almost wilderness to the immediate vicinity of Cleveland, Ohio, then known as the Connecticut Western Reserve, buying 20,000 acres of land. This tract of land is a part to-day of Cuyahoga County, and practically a suburb of Cleveland. There have been built up several thriving cities and towns on the land he formerly owned; among them are Berea, North Olmsted and Olmsted Falls. The certificates of purchase are now in the family, dated September 5, 1795, and signed by Jonathan Bruce, J. M. Morgan and John Caldwell, trustees for the Company. Of his descendants, some are scattered, living in different States, but a majority still live in Hartford and East Hartford. He died comparatively in the prime of his life, leaving a very large estate as reckoned over one hundred years ago, being largely in real estate located in Hartford and East Hartford.

Spouse Mary Langrell Bigelow Olmsted, 1758–1826

Children Aaron Franklin Olmsted, unknown–1825 Horace Bigelow Olmsted, 1781–1817 Harriet Olmsted Howell, 1787–1811 Charles Hyde Olmsted, 1798–1878

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Captian Arnold Olmstead (or Olmsted) was a wealthy sea captain in the China trade out of New England, and one of 49 investors who formed the Connecticut Land Company in 1795 to purchase a major part of the Western Reserve from the U.S. state of Connecticut. He became the owner of thousands of acres from his 30,000 shares of the 1,200,000 total land deal. The land encompassed the areas known as North, Olmsted, OH, Olmsted Falls, OH and Olmsted Township, OH originally known as Lenox in what is now Cuyahoga County as well as Franklin Township, named after his son Aaron Franklin Olmsted, and most the city of Kent, OH in what is now Portage County. Olmsted traveled west on horseback to visit the land in 1795 but never settled there.

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