James Olmsted

Bef 1580 - Bef 1640  (< 59 years)

• Name	James Olmsted
  Birth	Bef 4 Dec 1580  [1, 2]
  Baptism	4 Dec 1580	Great Leighs, Essex, England   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Bef 28 Sep 1640	Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut   [1]
  Person ID	I19564	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of DDB
  Last Modified	15 Nov 2020

  
  

  Father	James Olmsted,   b. Abt 1550
  Mother	Jane Bristow
  Family ID	F11863	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Joyce Cornish   d. Bef 21 Apr 1621
  Marriage	26 Oct 1605	Great Leighs, Essex, England   [1, 2]
  Children	+ 1. Nicholas Olmsted,   b. Bef 15 Feb 1613   d. 31 Aug 1684 (Age > 71 years)
  Family ID	F11862	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	8 Dec 2018

  
  

• 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.

  
  

• Sources

  [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011. [S2544] Genealogy of the Olmsted Family in America by Henry King Olmsted. New York: A. T. de la Mare Printing and Publishing Company, Ltd., 1912.