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Nicholas Olmstead

Male 1612 - 1684  (~ 72 years)


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  • Name Nicholas Olmstead 
    Christened 15 Feb 1612  Fairstead, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 31 Aug 1684  Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried Sep 1684  of Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I2374  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Family Sarah Loomis,   b. Abt 1619, of Braintree, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1667, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 48 years) 
    Married 28 Sep 1640  Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F1382  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. The book "The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography," v. 2, p. 298, entry for Frederick Law Olmsted (b. 1822): "...a descendant of James Olmsted, the first of the family in this country, who came over probably from the county of Essex, England, and arrive in Cambridge, Mass., in 1632, accompanied by his wife, Joyce Cornish, and son Nicholas. The latter married Sarah Loomis, (etc.)" The same encyclopedia has 20 or so entries as "Olmsted" and 3 or so as "Olmstead." I use the former.

      2. The following is a biography of Nicholas Olmstead's father James. Citation Information: "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633," Volumes I-III:
      "JAMES OLMSTEAD
      Origin: Fairstead, Essex
      Migration: 1632 on Lyon [Hotten 150] First Residence: Cambridge Removes: Hartford 1636 Church Membership: Admission to church membership prior to 6 November 1632 implied by freemanship, presumably to Watertown, since Cambridge church was not yet organized. Probably joined the church at Cambridge when it was formed in 1633, and remained with this church when it went to Hartford. Freeman: 6 November 1632 [MBCR 1:367]. Education: In his inventory were "3 bibles & 3 other books" (£2 5s.) and "15 quire of paper" (6s. 3d.). Offices: Cambridge constable to pay "James Omsted" 10s. for making the highway by William Butler's pales, 2 June 1634 [CaTR 8]; "James Olmsted" chosen constable of Cambridge for year following 3 November 1634 [CaTR 10]; elected selectman 3 February 1634/5 [CaTR 11]; committee to survey town lands, 3 February 1634/5 [CaTR 12]. Estate: On 5 August 1633 granted one acre cowyard at Cambridge [CaTR 5]; assigned proportional share of five in division of meadows (one of the largest in town), 20 August 1635 [CaTR 13]; granted five acres (as "James Homsted"), 8 February 1635/6 [CaTR 17]; in list of those with houses, 8 February 1635/6 [CaTR 18]. In the Cambridge land inventory, under date of 4 June 1635, "James Olmsteade" was credited with eight parcels of land: half a rood in town with one house and backside; "one house and about one acre" in Cowyard Row; four acres in the Old Field; one acre in Wigwam Neck; twenty-two acres and a half in the Neck; two acres in the Ox Marsh; five acres and a half in the Long Marsh; and nineteen acres in the Great Marsh [CaBOP 8]. Although there is no record of the transaction, most of James Olmsted's land in Cambridge came into the possession of Edward Goffe, and the houselot and cowyard row lot are now part of Harvard Yard [Morison, maps facing pp. 188, 192]. In the Hartford land inventory of February 1639[/40] James Olmstead held thirteen parcels of land in Hartford: two acres with dwelling house, outhouses, yards and gardens; one acre, three roods and thirty perches in the Little Meadow; five acres and twenty-four perches of meadow and swamp in the North Meadow; thirty-two acres, three roods and nine perches of meadow and swamp in the North Meadow; four acres and thirty-two perches on the east side of the Great River; twenty-six acres in the Old Oxpasture; two acres, three roods and eight perches in the Venturers' Field; sixteen acres, three roods and eight perches in the Cowpasture; eight acres and two roods of meadow and swamp in the South Meadow; two acres, three roods and thirty-one perches of meadow and swamp at Hockanum; four acres, two roods and thirty-three perches in the Neck of Land; seven acres, three roods and sixteen perches in the Neck of Land; twenty acres, two roods and twenty-four perches in the Cowpasture [HaBOP 314-17]. In an undated will (attested 28 September 1640) James Olmstead of Hartford divided his estate equally between his two sons Nicholas and Nehemiah (dependent upon a settlement to be made on Nicholas by his father-in-law Joseph Loomis), with small legacies to "my cousin Rebecca Olmstead that now dwelleth with me," and to servant Will[iam] Corby. In a later agreement between the e xecutors and the two sons of James, kinsmen Richard and John Olmstead were given £5 apiece, and the Hartford church £20 [Manwaring 1:28-29; CCCR 1:446-47]. The inventory, taken 28 September 1640, totalled £397 19s. 2d., and included "2 acres of English corn of the ground" and "13 acres of ground broke up," but this certainly did not include all his land [CCCR 1:448-49]. Birth: Baptized at Great Leighs, Essex, 4 December 1580, son of James and Jane (Bristow) Olmstead. Death: Hartford before 28 September 1640 (date of inventory). Marriage: Great Leighs, Essex, 26 October 1605 Joyce Cornish; buried Fairstead, Essex, 21 April 1621. Children (all but first baptized Fairstead, Essex):
      i FAITH, bp. Great Leighs 7 January 1606[/7]; bur. Fairstead 3 March 1627/8.
      ii FRANCES, bur. Fairstead 14 February 1609/10. (This event is published at one point as a burial and at another as a baptism [Olmsted Gen xi, 5], but the transcript has it as a burial.)
      iii MABEL, bp. 30 September 1610; bur. Fairstead 18 February 1621/2.
      iv Nicholas, bp. 15 February 1612/3; m. by about 1645 Sarah Loomis, daughter of Joseph Loomis (eldest known child d. 1646 and next child b. 20 November 1646 [Grant 81; HaVR Barbour 237]; among the "Children of Mr. Joseph Loomis" who received a distribution on 2 December 1658 was "Nicholas Olmsted" [Manwaring 1:135-36]).
      v James, bp. 22 January 1615/6; no further record.
      vi Nehemiah, bp. 10 November 1618; m. by about 1655 Elizabeth Burr, daughter of JEHU BURR, as the first of her three husbands.vii Mary, bp. 18 April 1621; bur. Fairstead 24 April 1621.
      Associations: Three children of Richard Olmstead, nephew of James, came to New England: Richard (bp. 1612), John (bp. 1617) and Rebecca (b. say 1620) [Olmsted Gen 5]. It has been claimed that they came to New England in 1632 with their greatuncle, but there is no evidence to prove this, and they may well have come later.
      Bibliographic Note: The standard genealogy for the Olmstead family is Henry King Olmsted and Geo. K. Ware, "Genealogy of the Olmsted Family in America Embracing the Descendants of James and Richard Olmsted and Covering a Period of Nearly Three Centuries, 1632-1912," (New York 1912) [cited above as Olmsted Gen]. This presents the records obtained as a result of research in England (supervised by Frederick Law Olmsted!), including speculations on earlier generations [x-xv]. The parish register entries above are taken from this work, augmented by examination of a transcript of the register at the Essex Record Office in Chelmsford."

      3. The book "The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut, 1647 - 1697" by John M. Taylor, pp. 96-100, 151, 156. Nicholas Olmstead served on a jury in which Nathaniel and Rebecca Greensmith of Hartford in 1662-63 were accused and executed as witches in Hartford, CT.

      4. Website of Stephen M. Lawson (Email:sml@kinnexions.com) <http://kinnexion.com/smlawson/olmsted.htm#NOlmsted>: "Nicholas Olmsted - bap. Feb. 15, 1612, Fairsted, Essex, England; d. Aug. 31, 1684, Hartford, CT (will dated Aug. 20, 1683 and proved Nov. 25, 1684). Son of James Olmsted and Joyce Cornish. To Boston and Hartford with father. Served in Pequot War. Surveyor of highways, 1646; townsman for North side betwen 1653 and 1683; Corporal 1658; freeman 1669; deputy to General Court 1672 and 1673. Served in King Philip's War and made Capt. Aug. 26, 1675. Married first Sep. 28, 1640, Hartford, CT Sarah Loomis (b. 1617, Essex, England; d. 1667, Hartford, CT), daughter of Joseph Loomis and Mary White. Sarah was the mother of all children of Nicholas, except his youngest. Nicholas married second about 1667/8." Second wife: "Mary - Possibly surnamed Thurston and/or she was perhaps the widow Mary Lord. She was not the widow of Dr. Thomas Lord whose widow married Gregory Wolterton as his third wife. Mary was the mother of Nicholas' youngest child." For children of marriages with brief descriptive biography of each see website.

      5. Per 9 Feb 2002 email of Ellen Baker : Sarah Loomis(b. in 1617, m. Capt. Nicholas Olmsted/Olmstead, served in the Pequot War in 1637, Captain (King Philip's War) 1675, a Townsman of Northside Hartford for 9 years between 1653 and 1683. He was Corporal of the Hartford Troop of Horse in 1658, Freeman and Rate Maker in 1669, and Deputy to the General Court in 1672 and 1673, had 9 children, Sarah (m. George Gates, a "chimneyviewer," equivalent to a fire commissioner), Elizabeth (m. Samuel Butler, was both a Deacon and an Ensign. He was the Town school master for Haddam, CT and a founder of the city. His name appears on the founding fathers plaque in the city), Mary (died in infancy), Rebecca (m.
      John Bigelow), John (died young), Samuel (m.Mary Lord), Joseph (farmer & first Deacon in the Church at East Hartford, fence viewer, surveyor and selectman, m. Elizabeth Butler), Thomas (m. Hannah Mix) and Mabel (m. #1 Daniel Butler, Sergeant; m. #2 Michael Taintor)).

      6. The book "Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut," Lucius Barnes Barbour, 1982 ed.: "Capt. Nathaniel Olmsted, son of James and Joyce (Cornish) bp. Feb. 15, 1612, Eng, d. Aug. 31, 1684, mar/1 bef 1640 Sarah Loomis dau. of Joseph Loomis and Mary White. Mar/2 Mary or Hannah (), widow of Thomas Lord. Children:
      Mary, b. Nov. 20, 1646 (HTR), d. 1646.
      Rebecca, b. Mch 12, 1647-8 (HTR) m. John Bigelow.
      John, bp Feb 3, 1649-50 (HTR), died young.
      Sarah, b. 1641, m. George Gates.
      Mabel, m/1 Daniel Butler, m/2 Michael Taintor.
      Joseph, b. 1654 (E. Hfd) m. Elizabeth Butler.
      Samuel, b. 1653, m. Mary Lord dau. of William (see Hfd Times, Oct 19 or 29, 1903).
      Thomas, m/1 Hannah Mix, m/2 Martha Begelow.
      Elizabeth, m/1, m/2 Samuel Butler as 2nd wife.
      Served in the Pequot War 1637; surveyor of highways 1647; townsman 1654-8-67; list and rate maker 1669; freeman 1669; deputy 1672-3; Lieut. 1673; townsman 1671-9-83; appointed Captain of a company sent to New London in 1675; was in active service in King Philip's War. (See Hfd Times Nov 16, 1903)."

      7. Per 12 Feb 2002 email from Dave Francis :
      a. Nicholas Olmstead came to New England at the age of 20 with his father. The Pequots had become very insolent, and had committed numerous outrages, and threatened the extermination of the whites. Therefore on May 1, 1637, when Hartford was but a year old, and there were but 800 souls in the Colony, the General Court of Connecticut declared open war upon them, and on the 9th of May 90 men were drafted to prosecute it. I have never seen a list of the names, nor do I know how many participated. Frequently it is stated that it was 70 who destroyed the Pequot Fort. Nicholas Olmstead was of the force which was led by Capt. Mason, and was especially mentioned in the Captain's report as one of them who kindled the fire that burned it. The kindling of a fire in that day, be it remembered, was no simple striking of a match. (But I have learned that the fire was started in a still simpler manner, with a brand from the Indian's own campfire.) He next comes into prominence when he was appointed on a committee named by the General Court, along with Lieut. Thomas Bull (205-11) and Robert Webster (219-12c) to view, lay out, and settle Mattatuck, now Waterbury, and later was appointed to have active management of the undertaking. He served as townsman, selectman, for the north side of the town of Hartford for nine years between 1653 and 1683. He was 'list and rate maker', probably equivalent to assessor, in 1669. His name frequently occurs in the records as appraiser or overseer of estates. In 1658 he was corporal of the Hartford troop of horse. He was appointed Lieut. of a company of 160 men raised 14 Aug. 1673 for service against an expected attack by the Dutch from New Amsterdam. As Lieut. he served during the term of King Philip's War, which began 20 June 1675. In July of that year he was in command of troops sent to New London and Huntington on occasion of alarms. In August, 1673, he was made Captain of the troop. My notes have accumulated over a long term of years, and I have been careless at times - most of the time - about crediting their source. The Olmstead Genealogy, 1912 edition, contains the large majority of the data concerning each generation, although most of my material was gathered before that period.
      b. Will: "In the Name of God Amen I Nicholas Olmsted of Harttford in the Colony of Coneticut do make this my last will and Testament reuoking and annulling all other wills foremerly made by word or deede: being in health of body and of perfeckt remembrance yet not knowing how soone my sollem change may come: allso knowing itt is my duty to set my house in order before I dye: I do therefore giue my spirret unto God that gaue itt mee and my body to comely buriall: and as for that part of my estate God hath graciously giune mee in this worlde I do after my just depts being payed and funerall expences discharged dispose of as followeth: I giue unto my louing wife fiue pounds a yeare during her widdow hood after mee: and fouer pounds the yeare after her marraige during her naturall life: to be payed her yearely by my son Samuell forty shillings by my son Joseph forty shillings and by my son Thomas twenty shillings: and by the same rate of proportion if itt bee fouer pounds p annum: I giue unto my louing wife one cow as her owne proper estate and two swine and sum poultry and order my son Samuell and my son Thomas to keepe her one cow as long as shee remayns my widdow. - and do giue her free liberty to keepe two swine and sum poultry in my yardes: I do furder giue unto my louing wife all her fyer wood as long as shee remains my widdow to bee
      prouided for her one third partt by my son Tho and two parts by my son Samuell: I giue my wife the use of my parlor and the chamber ouer the parlor with what sellerage shee may want allso the use of my ouens and the well: with the use of any of my housall goods shee wanteth whilst shee remayns my widdow and liueth in my house: but if she marry or remoue from my house my will is that these housall goods bee retrned to my son Thomas... I giue unto my louing son Samuell Olmsted my dwelling house in Harttford after my desease onely the use of sum part of itt vnto his mother as is aboue exprest: and do furder giue unto my son Samuell halfe my barne and all that part of my home lott not giune to my son Tho: I giue the other halfe of the barne to my son Tho and I giue my barne yard eaqually to my son Samuell and to my son Thomas with my well in the same: I giue my son Thomas that part of my home lott nixt Mr Haynes and Mr Hookers home lotts: to bee diuided from my son Samuells partt of my home lott as followeth from the barne to the Highway to bee deuided by the fence that fences in the barne yards: and aboue the barne from the midle of the barne flower uppon a just bredgth up to Jerremyah Addams Home lott: the remainder of my home lott I giue unto my son Samuell and His Heires foreuer:... I giue unto my son Thomas my meadow lott in the long meadow lying betwene Decon Butlers and Lt Joseph Wadsworths land: I giue unto my son Thomas my upland lott in the west diuision in Harttford on the west side the great riuer to him and his Heirs foreuer... I giue unto my son Samuell all the rest of my meadow lands and uplands on the west side the great riuer in Harttford and to his Heires foreuer... I giue unto my son Joseph Olmsted and his Heirs foreuer all that diuision of up land and the swamp lands belonging to the same uppon which he hath bult on the east side the great riuer... I giue unto my son Joseph all my meadow lands on the east side the great riuer att my desease hee paying twenty shillings vnto his sister Gates and forty shillings p annum to his mother... I giue my farme of land lying in the woods ajoyning to Jerremyah Addams land in the roade to New London unto my son Samuell and my son Thomas to bee equally deuided betwene them... I giue to my daughter Sarah Gates twenty shillings to bee payed her within three yeares after my desease: I giue all my right and title to that lands purchased of Joshua son of Vncas by the towne of Harttford on the east side the great riuer to my son Samll Butler my daughter Rebecah Biglo and to my daughter Mabell Butler to bee equally deuided betwene them: ... I giue unto my son Samll my son Joseph and my son Thomas all my right in a parcell of lands giune by Joshua son of Vncas in his last will and Testament to bee diuided amongst seuerall persons in Harttford1... I giue unto my daughter Biglo forty shillings in stock or housall goods after my desease... I giue unto my daughter Butler three pounds in stock or housall goods after my desease... I do make my son Thomas Olmsted executor of this my last will and Testament giuing him my seruant lad if his time be not expired and all the remainder of my stock housall goods and moueable estate whatsoeuer not otherwayes disposed of by this my last will and testament: I do order all my sons Samuell Joseph and Thomas carefully to performe what I haue respecktiuely giune vnto my louing wife as itt is aboue expressed: and do furder order all my estate giune vnto my son Samuell be improued by my son Thomas vntill my son Samll come to liue att Harttford the said Tho paying what Samll should do to his mother vntill Samuell doeth injoy the same I do request ordaine and appoynt my louing freinds Mr William Pitkin and Caleb Stanly to bee my ouerseers to see this my last will and Testament be performed: In witness whereof I haue set my hand and seale this 20e of August in the yeare of or Lorde One Thousand Six Hundred Eighty and Three: Signed sealed and declared to be my last will and Testament in presence & witnes of us Caleb Stanly, Timothy Cowles, Nocho: Olmstead [Seal]" Note: The house lot, and house built by him, was on Front St., now Nos. 30-32 and 34 near the Little or Park River. The house was taken down in or about 1835. (Genealogy of the Olmstead Family In America).

      8. Henry R. Stiles, "The History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut," 1892, v. 2, p. 538: "...Hon. Nicholas Olmstead, who was representative at Hartford and served in the Pequot war.. and wife Sarah Loomis..."

      9. From the book "The Descendants (by the Female Branches) of Joseph Loomis, who Came from Braintree, England, in the Year 1638 and Settled in Windsor, CT, in 1639," by Elias Loomis (Yale Professor), 1880, v. 1, p. 15:
      "A daughter of Joseph Loomis, whose Christian name is believed to have been Sarah, married Capt. Nicholas Olmsted of Hartford, in 1640. He married for his second wife Mrs. Mary Lord. He was a military officer and died Aug. 31, 1684. Children:
      A. Sarah, b. ___, m. Capt. George Gates 1662. Haddam.
      B. Mary, b. 20 Nov 1646, m. Samuel Butler.
      C. Rebecca, b. 12 Mar 1647-8, m. John Bigelow. He d. 1721, ae. 78.
      D. John, bap. 3 Feb 1649-50. d. young.
      E. Samuel, b. 1653, m. Mary ___. He d. 13 Jan 1726, ae. 73. East Haddam. She d. Oct 1739.
      F. Deac. Joseph, b. 1654, m. Elizabeth Butler. He d. 5 Oct 1726. East Hartford.
      G. Thomas, b. ___, m. Hannah Mix 25 Jun 1691. He d. 1741. West Hartford.
      H. Mabel, b. ___, m. 1st Daniel Butler, who d. 28 Mar 1692; m. 2d, Michael Taintor Aug 1697.

      10. Elias Loomis "Descendants of Joseph Loomis in America," update of 1875 edition published by Elisha S. Loomis, Berea, Ohio, third (1908) edition, chapter: "The Descendants of Joseph Loomis (1590-1658) in America," subchapter "First Generation, children of Joseph Loomis of Windsor, CT.," pp. 126-128:
      "Sarah, b. 1617; m. Sep. 28, 1640, Capt. Nicholas, d. Aug. 1684, son of James and Joyce (Cornish) Olmsted of Hartford, who came in the 'Lion', arriving at Boston, Sept. 16th, 1633. He was Capt. in the Pequod war, 1675. The Olmstead's old family seat in Fairsted, Co. Essex, Eng., still exists. James Olmsted, 'first settler,' Hartford, Conn., was bapt. at Great Leighs (or Lees Magna), Co. Essex, Eng., Dec. 4, 1580 (parish register.) The name of his wife was Joyce Cornish, m. at Great Leighs, Oct. 26, 1605, bur. Eng. Apr. 21, 1621. James was the son of James, b. 1550, d. Dec. 2, 1595, who m. Aug. 12, 1676, Jane Bristow, he being son of Thomas, b. 1521, who was son of James, b. 1496, the son of John, b. 1470, and Alice Hankley, b. 1473, d. 1533. See Frederick Law Olmstead (sen.) in his 'Walks and Talks of an American Farmer in Eng.,' chap. LII. Ch'n: 1. Sarah, 2. Mary, 3. Rebecca, 4. John, 5. Samuel, 6. Deac. Joseph, ancestor of Frederick E. Church, b. May 4, 1826, a distinguished landscape painter, N.Y. City, also ancestor of Gen. James S. Wadsworth, b. Oct 30, 1807, Maj. Gen. U.S. Army; also ancestor of Norman White, b. Aug 8, 1857, Vice-Pres. of Am. Bible Society, N.Y. City; also ancestor of Dr. Aaron L. Chapin, b. Feb. 6, 1817, Pres. Beloit Coll., for more than 20 years; and also ancestor of Denison Olmsted, b. June 18, 1791, who executed the first state geological survey in this country, and who was a noted meteorologist, a voluminous author and Prof. Nat. Phil., Yale College. 7. Thomas, 8. Mabel. He m. 2nd, Mrs. Mary Lord; he was a military officer and d. Aug. 31, 1684."

      11. FHL book 929.273 F597g "Genealogical Notes on the Founding of New England…," by Ernest Flagg (Hartford, 1926), p. 278:
      "Sarah [Loomis], about 1617; d. 1667; m. Sept. 28, 1640, as his first wife, Capt. Nicholas Olmstead, grandson of James and Jane (BristowB) OlmsteadB, and who served in the Pequot War."

      12. The book "Dorset Pilgrims," 1989:
      pp. 120-1: In regards to the Mystic Fort battle of the Pequot War in which Capt. Mason and his troop burn down the wigwams in the Indians' Mystic Fort: "All this took place in the space of a few minutes. Mason then turned round and marched back up the alley … he now realized that the space between the wigwams was too constricted for swordplay let alone the cumbersome business of loading and firing matchlock muskets. In any case the English were heavily outnumbered. So on the spur of the moment he decided, We must burn them. Stepping back into the same wigwam he went to its fireplace, seized a firebrand and with the help of Lieut. Bull and Nicholas Olmstead of Hartford set alight the thatch with which the wigwams were covered … In no time the fort was blazing. It burnt down within half an hour. The effect on the Indians were catastrophic … Perhaps four hundred were killed, in the space of an hour … The holocaust was caused by Mason's decision that the only way to save his outnumbered English force was to fire the fort. It had been a desperate venture from the start..."
      pp. 188-90: In a section of the book talking about the creation of a troop of horse in March 1658, which was the first for Connecticut: "In New England's earliest days, horses were too scarce and the country too unfamiliar for a cavalry arm to be practicable; but in time the possibilities of fast movement against Indians and no doubt the example of Cromwell's cavalry made the institution of the troop of horse a more attractive proposition … The troop of thirty-seven men, seventeen from Windsor, fourteen from Hartford, six from Wethersfield, was only about half the strength of a cavalry troop of the day, for the settlements could still boast only a limited number of able-bodied men with the means to support the horse, armour and accoutrements of a trooper … It is the social significance of these volunteers that is for the moment our principal concern, for the relationships reveal much about the social structure of Windsor and the colony. The horse, like the foot, had its roots in the English shires, but, by a long-standing tradition which can be traced back to the Middle Ages, recruits came from the gentry and superior yeomanry, with an obligation and the means to provide their own mounts, accoutrements and weapons. They were thus set apart from the foot by being socially select volunteers … Most of those thirty-seven troopers were men of good family with intimate connections in the Great River neighbourhood … The official connections were impressive … George Phelp's brother was a magistrate and founding commissioner … Corporal Nicholas Olmstead was married to one of the Loomis girls, sister to troopers Nathaniel and Thomas … Most of the troop were sons of the first settlers, up-and-coming young men of a second generation."

      13. The book "Ancestors and Descendants of Thomas Rice Lyon and his wife Harriet Wade Rice with related families," by Patty Barthell Myers (2003), pp. 448-51:
      "SARAH Loomis, b. Eng., c1617; m. 1640 CAPT. NICHOLAS OLMSTEAD of Hartford, s/o James Olmstead and Joyce Cornish of Hartford. He d. 31 Aug 1684. Children (OLDMSTEAD): Sarah b. 1641 m. George Gates (Torrey); Mabel b. 20 Nov 1646, m/1 Daniel Butler, m/2 Michael Taintor (Torrey); Rebecca b. Mar 1648, m. John Bigelow (Torrey); John b. 3 Feb 1650; Joseph; Samuel; Thomas prob. m. Hannah Mix. (Savage sv Nicholas Olmstead.)
      (William Richard Cutter, New England Family History, p. 985; (Elias Loomis, Desc. of Joseph Loomis)"

      14. The book "Emerson-Benson Saga …," by Edmund K. Swigart (Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc., 1994), pp. 351-53:
      "JOSEPH1 LOOMIS (JOHNA LUMACE, JOHNB LUMMYS, THOMASC) was born by 1590, perhaps in Braintree, county Lincoln, England, and died 25 November 1658 at Windsor, CT. He was the son of JOHNA LUMACE, a tailor of Thaxted and Braintree and AGNESA LINGWOOD and JANE MARLAN?, daughter of WILLIAMB and MARGARETA (PERYE) MARLAN? of Braintree. He was also the grandson of JOHNB LUMMYS, a carpenter of Thaxted, and Kryster [sic: Krysten] (Christian (___). JOSEPH1 married 30 June 1616 at Messing, county Essex, England, MARY1 WHITE, daughter of ROBERTA, a wealthy yeoman, and BRIDGETA (ALLGAR) WHITE of Shalford, county Essex. MARY1 was baptized 24 August 1590 at Shalford and died 23 August 1652 at Windsor. MARY1's younger sister, ANNA1, married ancestor JOHN1 PORTER.
      United States President Ulysses Simpson Grant (18th Chief Executive), Stephen Grover Cleveland (22nd and 24th), and Gerald Rudolph Ford, (38th), were descendants of MARY1's parents and Millard Fillmore (13th President), of her and her parents.
      JOSEPH1 was a woolen draper, He and his wife lived in Braintree until 1628. They moved to London and from there sailed with their eight children 11 April 1638 aboard the "Susan and Ellen", the same ship that ancestor Rev. PETER1 BULKELEY had taken in 1635. The LOOMIS family arrived in Boston 11 July 1638, they may have spent their first year in Dorchester, MA, but moved by land in the summer of 1639 to Windsor, CT, "Probably in the company of Reverend Ephraim Huet who arrived there August 17, 1639" (ref. 3). "On 2 Feb. 1640 he had granted to him 21 acres on the west side of the Connecticut River adjoining the Farmington River" (ref. 6). JOSEPH1 continued to acquire land and served on juries in 1642 and in 1644 with Nathaniel1 Foote, brother of ancestor MARYA FOOTE. "On 6 January 1650, he was sued by" [ancestor WILLIAM1 BUELL] "for trespass and for damage to the extent of seven bushels of corn; one may infer that his stock got away from him" (ref. 3).
      JOSEPH1 apparently left no will. His estate was valued at 178 pounds 10 shillings, with "a 'debt in England'" (ref. 3) of 12 pounds 14 shillings 6 pence against it. On December 1658, his wife having predeceased him, his five sons and three daughters (two represented by their husbands) signed an agreement in place of a will to divide JOSEPH's estate equitably among them.
      The children of JOSEPH1 and MARY1 (WHITE) LOOMIS, all probably born in Braintree, county Lancaster, England, and probably not all listed in the correct order of birth, were.
      I Joseph2, b. 1615, ca. 1616; d. 26 Jun 1687 at Windsor, CT; m. 1/wf 17 Sep 1646, Sarah2 Hill 2/wf 28 Jun 1659, Mary Sherwood.
      II Sarah2, b. ca. 1617-8?; d. 1667, 1687, perh. at Hartford, CT; m. by 28 Sep 1640, Nicholas Olmstead.
      III. ELIZABETH2, b. ca. 1620?; d. aft. 1665, prob. of Killingworth, CT; m by 20 May 1640-1 at Windsor, CT, JOSIAH2 HULL (see HULL).
      IV Mary2, b. 1620?; d. 19 Aug. 1680, prob. at Windsor, CT: m. 1/hs by 1637-8, by 1633, John Skinner, m. 2/hs 13 Nov 1651, prob. at Windsor, Owen Tudor.
      V John2, b. ca. 1622?, 1620; d. 2 Sep 1688 at Windsor, CT; m. 3, 6? Feb 1648-9 Elizabeth2 Scott (Thomas1).
      VI Thomas2, b. ca. 1624?; 2 Aug 1689, prob. at Windsor, CT; m. 1/wf 1 Nov 1653 Hannah Fox/Fowkes who d. 1662, prob. at Windsor; m. 2/wf 1 Jan 1562-3, Mary2 Judd (Thomas1).
      VII Nathaniel2, b. ca 1626?; d. 19 Aug 1688, prob. at Windsor, CT; m. as 1/hs 24 Nov 1653-4, Elizabeth2 Moore (John1) who m. 2/hs aft. 3 Nov 1991, John Case.
      VIII Samuel2, b. 1628?; d. 1 Oct 1689, prob. at Westfield, MA; m. 27, 29? Dec 1653, Elizabeth2 Judd (Thomas1), sis. of Mary2 who m. Samuel2's older? bro., Thomas2 as 2/wf.
      REFERENCES
      1) Brainerd, Dwight, "Ancestry of Thomas Chalmers Brainerd," [Portland, ME, Anthoensen Press, 1948], [hereinafter Brainerd, D.], 301-2.
      2) Colket, M. B., op. cit., 196.
      3) Ferris, M. W., op. cit., Dawes-Gates, II:453-62; 567-72.
      4) Parke, N. G., op. cit., 78.
      5) Pierce, R. Andrew, personal correspondence, research and material on the Hull and Loomis lines, 25 May 1993, MAT, Swigart, E. K., Washington, CT.
      6) Pitman, H. M., op. cit., 391-2, 396.
      7) Roberts, G. B., op cit., 182.
      8) Roberts, Gary B., review of the Emerson-Benson ancestral lines and material on the Lingwood, Loomis and White lines, NEHGS Library, Boston, MA, 19 May 1993 with Swigart, E. K., MAT, Swigart, E. K., Washington, CT.
      9) Savage, J., op. cit. II:494; III:112-3.
      10) Torrey, C. A., op. cit., 139, 401, 472, 545, 677, 757."

      CHRISTENING:
      1. LDS IGI FHL fillm 0820789, source 0962701 Item 4, batch P020501, sht. 00, extracted record: Nic Holmested, son of James Holmested, ch. 15 Feb 1612 at Fairsted, Essex, England.

      SOURCES_MISC:
      1. The book "The Genealogy of the Olmsted Family" by Henry King Olmsted, et al, 1912.