Aaron Olmsted

Captain Aaron Olmsted (May 19, 1753 – September 9, 1806), erroneously spelled Olmstead,[1][2][3][4] 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 share of the $1,200,000 total land deal.

A native of East Hartford, Connecticut, he was born 19 May 1753 as the eighth child of General Jonathan and Hanna (Meakins) Olmsted.

[5] Olmsted served as Adjutant general of the 4th Connecticut Regiment during the American Revolutionary War.

[6] He married Mary Langrel Bigelow on 10 December 1778 and had fourteen children, of which only five lived to adulthood.