When Gideon Noble Olmstead was born on 10 January 1808, in New York, United States, his father, Stephen Richard Olmstead, was 26 and his mother, Cornelia Van Buren, was 23. He married Mary Merrill on 10 September 1829. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Payson, Adams, Illinois, United States in 1850 and Cedar Township, Lucas, Iowa, United States in 1860. He died on 8 February 1884, in Mooresville, Livingston, Missouri, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Mooresville, Livingston, Missouri, United States.
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During the years 1799 to 1827, New York went through a period of gradual emancipation. A Gradual Emancipation Law was passed in 1799 which freed slave children born after July 4, 1799. However, they were indentured until 25 years old for women and 28 years old for men. A law passed 1817 which freed slaves born before 1799, yet delayed their emancipation for ten years. All remaining slaves were freed in New York State on July 4, 1827.
The Black Hawk War was a brief conflict between the United States and Native Americans led by Black Hawk, a Sauk leader. The war erupted soon after Black Hawk and a group of other tribes, known as the "British Band", crossed the Mississippi River, into Illinois, from Iowa Indian Territory in April 1832. Black Hawk's motives were ambiguous, but records show that he was hoping to avoid bloodshed while resettling on tribal land that had been given to the United States in the 1804 Treaty of St. Louis.
English: habitational name from Olmstead Green in Cambridgeshire.
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