Deacon Joseph Olmsted

Deacon married Elizabeth Butler before 1674. Elizabeth (daughter of Deacon Richard Butler and Elizabeth) was born about 1654; died on 28 Apr 1729. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Deacon Joseph Olmsted was born in 1674 in of East Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut; died on 25 Feb 1762.

Notes:

Came in 1632 on the Lyon with his father James Olmstead and his brother Nehemiah. First at Cambridge, then Hartford in 1636. His name is on the Founders Monument in downtown Hartford. He served in the Pequot War, 1637, and as a captain in King Philip's War, 1675.

Nicholas married Sarah Loomis before 1645. Sarah (daughter of Joseph Loomis and Mary White) was born in 1617; died in 1667. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Came in 1632 on the Lyon. First at Cambridge, then to Hartford in 1636. An original proprietor of Hartford, he was among the "Adventurers Party" of twenty-five men led by John Steele who scouted area that would become Hartford in October 1635, before the Rev. Hooker's party departed Cambridge in May 1636. His name is on the Founders Monument in downtown Hartford.

The research into his English origins that was published in Genealogy of the Olmsted Family in America (citation details below) was supervised by his descendant Frederick Law Olmsted.

James married Joyce Cornish on 26 Oct 1605 in Great Leighs, Essex, England. Joyce died before 21 Apr 1621; was buried on 21 Apr 1621 in Fairsted, Essex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 25 Nov 1658, Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut

Notes:

He was a woolen-draper. One of the founders of Windsor, Connecticut.

That he was from Braintree in Essex is established by a deposition dated 30 Jul 1639, the original of which is still extant, by Joseph Hills of Charlestown (Massachusetts), who says that he, Joseph Hills, came to New England in 1638 on the Susan & Ellen and that the ship also contained various goods and commodities belonging to Joseph Loomis "late of Brayntree in the County of Essex, Woolen-draper." (Loomis and his family were in fact also on the Susan & Ellen, but their presence was not germane to Joseph Hills' deposition.) In addition, the will of Joseph Loomis's father-in-law, Robert White, 27 May 1617, includes a bequest to "my daughter Marie the wife of Joseph Lummis of Branetree".

Probably spent their first year at Dorchester, then removed overland to Windsor, Connecticut.

"According to [Mormon Pioneer Genealogy Library] projections, the largest family in America today is the posterity of Robert White (b. ca. 1560) & Bridget Allgar, with a Mormon posterity of 430,000 and an American posterity of 29 million. The next five families are Edward Griswold and Margaret, Joseph Loomis and Mary White (daughter of Robert and Bridget above), Gerard Spencer and Alice Whitbread, Thomas Ford and Elizabeth Charde, and Thomas Bliss and Margaret Hulins, each with a Mormon posterity of 270,000 and an American posterity of 18 million." [Michel L. Call and Gary Boyd Roberts, "Mormon Pioneer Genealogy Library Acquired by NEHGS"]

Joseph Loomis (~1590-1658) = Mary White (1590-1652)
John Loomis (~1622-1688) = Elizabeth Scott (1625-1696)
Elizabeth Loomis (1671-1722) = John Brown (1669-1729)
John Brown (1700-1790) = Mary Eggleston (1702-1787)
Capt. John Brown (1728-1776) = Hannah Owen (1740-1831)
Owen Brown (1771-1856) = Ruth Mills (1771-1808)
John Brown, abolitionist (1800-1859)

Joseph Loomis (~1590-1658) = Mary White (1590-1652)
Sarah Loomis (~1617-1689) = Capt. Nicholas Olmstead (1612-1684)
Sarah Olmstead (1641-1709) = Capt. George Gates (1624-1724)
Daniel Gates (1680-1761) = Rebecca Dutton (1686-1749)
Daniel Gates (1706-1775) = Lydia Fuller (1709-1778)
Lydia Gates (1732-1817) = Solomon Mack (1732-1820)
Lucy Mack (1775-1856) = Joseph Smith, Sr. (1771-1840)
Joseph Smith (1805-1844)

Joseph married Mary White on 30 Jun 1614 in Shalford, Essex, England. Mary (daughter of Robert White and Bridget Allgar) was born before 24 Aug 1590 in Shalford, Essex, England; was christened on 24 Aug 1590 in Shalford, Essex, England; died on 23 Aug 1652 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut; was buried in Loomis Homestead, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

James married Jane Bristow. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Or Lumace.

John married Agnes Linwood about 1589. Agnes (daughter of John Lingwood and Jane Marler) was born about 1565. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"According to [Mormon Pioneer Genealogy Library] projections, the largest family in America today is the posterity of Robert White (b. ca. 1560) & Bridget Allgar, with a Mormon posterity of 430,000 and an American posterity of 29 million. The next five families are Edward Griswold and Margaret, Joseph Loomis and Mary White (daughter of Robert and Bridget above), Gerard Spencer and Alice Whitbread, Thomas Ford and Elizabeth Charde, and Thomas Bliss and Margaret Hulins, each with a Mormon posterity of 270,000 and an American posterity of 18 million." [Michel L. Call and Gary Boyd Roberts, "Mormon Pioneer Genealogy Library Acquired by NEHGS," 1985.]

"ROBERT WHITE of Messing, Essex, England who married Bridget Allgar and whose descendants immigrate to Connecticut. His parentage remains unknown. Best research remains: The Ancestry of Thomas Chalmers Brainerd by Thomas C. Brainerd; edited by Donald Lines Jacobus (Montreal, 1948); Mary Walton Ferris, Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines, 2 vols. (n.p., 1943 and 1931); Genealogical Notes on the Founding of New England by Ernest Flagg (1926, reprint 1973), and 'The Children of Robert White of Messing,' NEHGR 55 (1901):22-31." [Martin Hollick, The Slovak Yankee, "Bogus Royal Lines For Gateway Ancestors From Whom I Descend."]

Robert married Bridget Allgar on 24 Jun 1585 in Shalford, Essex, England. Bridget (daughter of William Allgar) was born on 11 Mar 1562 in Shalford, Essex, England; died after Jun 1617. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]