Olin was a delegate to the Windsor Convention in 1777, which enacted the constitution that formed the Vermont Republic.
[1] During the American Revolutionary War, Olin was appointed Major in the Second Regiment under Colonels Samuel Herrick and Ebenezer Walbridge, and served on the frontier.
[2] After the war, he served as an assistant judge of the Bennington County Court from 1781 to 1798.
He was a delegate to the state constitutional convention in 1791 and 1793, and a member of the Governor’s council from 1793 to 1798.
[4] He served as chief justice of the Bennington county court from 1807 to 1811,[5] and was a founder of the University of Vermont.