... were at the middle Elbe, around Dresden, also some at the Wesser - and probably Turingia too. Brandenburg, for instance, was a desertic forest that was only colonized with the Baalberge culture (first Indoeuropeans in the area probably) . ..... They were in great part men of the professional and middle class; some of them men of large landed estate.""Of the latter class was our honored relative, James Olmsted, who, together with two sons, Nicholas and Nehemiah, ...