Reference: History of Northville, NY, accessed at http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyfulton/history/northhist.html.

Reference: Biography of Daniel and Caleb Lobdell accessed at http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyfulton/Military/Lobdell.html.

Reference: Olmsted Genealogy, generation #9, accessed at http://www.angelfire.com/ny3/cady/olmstead3.html.

In 1788, SAMUEL OLMSTEAD of Danbury, Connecticut was the first to travel north up the Sacandaga river. There in an area of the present Village of Northville, he was soon joined by others, among them Zadoc Sherwood, Daniel Lobdell, Thomas Foster, Daniel and Timothy Resseguie, Caleb Lobdell, Abram Van Arnam, Nathen Hull, John McNeil, Calvin Young, Garrett Van Ness, Robert Palmer, and John Dennison.

Caleb Lobedell married in Westchester County, NY, Patience Broughton. In 1790 they traveled to Northville, then named Old Ford and still a part of Montgomery County, NY. They joined their relatives SAMUEL OLMSTEAD and Zadock Sherwood who had preceded them.

Their children were: Jerusha, Lucy, Daniel, Caleb, Noble, John Boughton, Ruth, Lanie, Jacob, Elias, Melinda, Samuel, Abigail, George, Rodney, and Pliny. Caleb and his brother Daniel were the sons of John and Ruth (Sherwood) Lobdell.

• Married: ABT 1793

1. Ormond Bradley Olmstead b: 14 APR 1794 in Northville, Montgomery Co., New York
2. William Riley Olmstead b: 1799 in Northville, Montgomery Co., New York
3. Samuel L. Olmstead b: 11 DEC 1816 in Northville, Montgomery Co., New York