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OLMSTEAD, Captain Nicholas
1612 - 1684 (72 years) 
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Name OLMSTEAD, Nicholas Prefix Captain Birth 15 Feb 1612 Fairstead, Essex, England 
[1, 2] Christening 15 Feb 1612 Fairstead, Essex, England Gender Male Death 31 Aug 1684 Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Burial 31 Aug 1684 WAC 21 Jan 1892 [1, 3, 4, 5] _TAG Reviewed on FS Headstones 
Submit Headstone Photo Person ID I31066 Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith Last Modified 19 Aug 2021
Father OLMSTEAD, James IV , b. 4 Dec 1580, Great Leighs, Essex, England Great Leighs, Essex, Englandd. 10 Sep 1640, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States (Age 59 years) Mother CORNISH, Joyce , b. 29 Sep 1580, Great Leighs, Essex, England Great Leighs, Essex, Englandd. 21 Apr 1621, Fairstead, Essex, England (Age 40 years) Marriage 26 Oct 1605 Great Leighs, Essex, England Notes - _UID49DC230D3AD8D4119DA400B0D02B455CD963MARRIAGE: Also shown as Married 28 Oct 1605 ~SEALING_SPOUSE: Also shown as SealSp 23 Oct 1947, SLAKE.
Family ID F8652 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 LOOMIS, Sarah , b. 1 Apr 1617, Braintree, Essex, England Braintree, Essex, Englandd. 28 Aug 1689, Weathersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States (Age 72 years) Marriage 28 Sep 1640 Fairstead, Essex, England [6] Notes - ~SEALING_SPOUSE: Also shown as SealSp 17 Jan 1951, SLAKE.
Children4 sons and 5 daughters Family ID F14708 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 24 Jan 2022
Family 2 THURSTON, Hannah , b. Abt 1610, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United Statesd. Abt 1689, Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States (Age 79 years) Marriage 28 Oct 1661 Boston, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Family ID F17579 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 24 Jan 2022
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Notes - II. Nicholas OLMSTED, born at Fairsted, County Essex, England, baptized there 15 February 1612, came with his father and brother in the Lyon, in 1632. In his youth he was evidently of a lively and independent disposition, which frequently got him into trouble. Once, notably, was when, because of irregularity of conduct, he was “adjudged” by the “P’ticular Court” to “pay twenty pounds fyne to the county, and to stand upon the Pillery at Hartford the next lecture day, during the time of the lecture. He is to be sett on a lytle before the beginning and to stay thereon a lytle after the end.”[8] His moral delinquency on this occasion is said to have been that he, in company with a Mary Bronson and another young couple or two, absented himself from services on the Lord’s Day, and went fishing instead.
Notwithstanding this grave offense, young Olmsted seems to have become, in his more sedate years, a useful and respected citizen. As early as 1637 he was a soldier, and served[9] in the Pequot War under Captain Mason[10]. In 1646 he was a surveyor of highways. In 1654, 1658, 1667, 1671, 1679, and 1683 he was “townsman,” helping to guide the civic affairs of his community. In 1669 he was “list and rate maker,” i.e., tax assessor, and his name appears as freeman that year. In 1657, he was corporal in a troop of horseman, containing thirty-seven members, organized by Major John Mason, Commander in Chief of the military forces of Connecticut Colony.[11]. He gave constant and faithful service throughout the years of struggle against the Indians. Was lieutenant of the train band in 1673, and appointed captain of militia in 1675, going to the defense of New London and Stonington.[12] He received grants of land for his military services.[13]
In 1672 and 1673 he was deputy to the General Court at Hartford, and in 1674 was one of a commission to view and settle Mattatuck, now Waterbury, Connecticut.[14]. Captain Nicholas Olmsted married (1) 28 September 1640, to Sarah, daughter of Joseph and Mary (White) LOOMIS, of Windsor, who was born in England in 1617, and died in 1667.[15] She was the mother of all his children, and, since his brother Nehemiah left only a daughter, they are ancestors of all the descendants of James Olmsted who bear the family name. Nicholas married (2) the widow of Doctor Thomas LORD, of Wethersfield, called by some historians, Mary[16], but from Doctor Lord’s will, dated 28 October 1661, in which he names his wife Hannah[17], it is believed the marriage record at Boston of Thomas Lord and Hannah Thurston, 28 September 1652[18] identifies the lady, and clears away the doubt. Doctor Lord is said to have been the first physician in Connecticut Colony, and was the son of Thomas Lord, immigrant in 1635, ancestor of Joseph Smith’s wife, Emma Hale.
Nicholas Olmsted died 31 August 1684, and in his will[19], exhibited in court 25 November 1684, mentions sons Samuel, Joseph, and Thomas, daughters Sarah Gates, Mabel Butler, and Rebekah Bigelow, and son Samuel Butler. It is interesting to note that five days after the death of Nicholas Olmsted, his relative, Richard Olmsted, wrote a will in which he leave a “legacy of love unto my Cousen Nicholas Olmsted of Hartford, the sum of 20 shillings.”[20] This was done at Fairfield, Connecticut, abut fifty-five miles southwest of Hartford, on Long Island Sound. In these days of telegraph, telephone, and wireless, that would hardly have happened.
CHILDREN (Nicholas and Sarah):[21]
Sarah, born at Hartford, 1641; married George GATES.
Mary, born 20 November 1646; “died 1646,” says the Olmsted Genealogy; “married Samuel Butler,” says the Genealogy of the Loomis Family: Female Branches (1:15).
Rebecca, born 12 March 1647; married John, born 27 October 1643, son of John and Mary (Warren) Bigelow, of Watertown, Massachusetts. They were residents of Hartford, their home being in Cooper’s Lane, now Lafeyette Street.
John, baptized 3 February 1649; died young.
Samuel, born 1653; died at East Haddam, 13 January 1726. He married Mary, born in East Haddam, 1649; died 14 September 1736, daughter of William Lord, of Saybrook. William Lord was an ancestor of Emma Hale, and a brother of Doctor Thomas Lord whose widow married, as his second wife, Captain Nicholas Olmsted, the father of Samuel. Samuel and Mary are both buried in the Cone Cemetery, at East Haddam. Records of land transfers at Lyme, Connecticut, bearing name of Samuel Olmsted, mention the sons of William Lord as “brothers.”
Joseph, born 1654, died 5 October 1726, at East Hartford. He married Elizabeth Butler, born 1643; died 28 April 1729. She was the daughter of Deacon Richard and Elizabeth (Bigelow) among the first settlers of Hartford. Joseph Olmsted was a deacon, a farmer by occupation, a man of influence, and frequently elected representative to the General Court. Among their numerous descendants are many men of prominence, such as the Honorable John Olmsted, of Hartford, and Professor Denison Olmsted, of Yale College.[22]
Thomas; died before 28 May 1741; married 26 June 1691, Hannah, born 30 June 1666, daughter of Thomas and Rebecca (Turner) Mix, and granddaughter of Captain Nathaniel Turner whose sword is in the Historical Collections at Hartford. Thomas Olmsted settled in the west division of Hartford, and was one of the organizing members of the Second Church there, formed in 1712.
Mabel; married (1) Sergeant Daniel Butler[23], son of Deacon Richard and Elizabeth (Bigelow) Butler, of Hartford and Wethersfield. He was a brother to Elizabeth who married Joseph Olmsted, and Samuel who married Elizabeth Olmsted. He died 28 March 1692, and she married (2) August 1697, Michael Taintor, of Colchester, Connecticut, born October 1652; died February 1730.[24]
- II. Nicholas OLMSTED, born at Fairsted, County Essex, England, baptized there 15 February 1612, came with his father and brother in the Lyon, in 1632. In his youth he was evidently of a lively and independent disposition, which frequently got him into trouble. Once, notably, was when, because of irregularity of conduct, he was “adjudged” by the “P’ticular Court” to “pay twenty pounds fyne to the county, and to stand upon the Pillery at Hartford the next lecture day, during the time of the lecture. He is to be sett on a lytle before the beginning and to stay thereon a lytle after the end.”[8] His moral delinquency on this occasion is said to have been that he, in company with a Mary Bronson and another young couple or two, absented himself from services on the Lord’s Day, and went fishing instead.
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Sources - [S989] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, International Genealogical Index(R), citing microfilm 184602, reference number 13512, downloaded 31 Oct 2009 (Reliability: 3).
- [S989] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, International Genealogical Index(R), citing microfilm 457240, downloaded 31 Oct 2009 (Reliability: 3).
- [S989] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, International Genealogical Index(R), citing microfilm 184767, downloaded 31 Oct 2009 (Reliability: 3).
- [S989] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, International Genealogical Index(R), citing microfilm 1553257 for batch 8823903, sheet 45, downloaded 31 Oct 2009 (Reliability: 3).
- [S989] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, International Genealogical Index(R), citing microfilm 0184791, downloaded 31 Oct 2009 (Reliability: 3).
- [S989] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, International Genealogical Index(R), downloaded 31 Oct 2009 (Reliability: 3).
- [S989] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, International Genealogical Index(R), citing microfilm 184602, reference number 13512, downloaded 31 Oct 2009 (Reliability: 3).
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