Career
He became the owner of thousands of acres from his $30,000 share of the $1,200,000 total land deal. Olmsted traveled west on horseback to visit the land in 1795, but never settled there. A native of East Hartford, Connecticut, he was born 19 May 1753 as the eighth child of General Jonathan and Hanna (Meakins) Olmsted.
Olmsted served as Adjutant general of the 4th Connecticut Regiment during the American Revolutionary War.
He died 9 September 1806 in East Hartford.
