Deacon Joseph Olmsted

1674 - 1762  (88 years)

• Name	Deacon Joseph Olmsted  [1]
  Birth	1674	of East Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut   [2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	25 Feb 1762  [4]
  Person ID	I18121	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of DDB
  Last Modified	8 Dec 2018

  
  

  Father	Deacon Joseph Olmsted,   b. 1654, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut d. 5 Oct 1726 (Age 72 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Butler,   b. Abt 1654   d. 28 Apr 1729 (Age ~ 75 years)
  Marriage	Bef 1674  [5]
  Family ID	F11858	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Hannah Marsh,   b. Bef 10 Apr 1681   d. 22 Aug 1760 (Age > 79 years)
  Children	+ 1. Naomi Olmsted,   b. 1 Mar 1721, East Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut d. 7 Nov 1775, South Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut (Age 54 years)
  Family ID	F11074	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	25 Nov 2018

  
  

• Notes

  Joseph Olmsted (1674-1762) = Hannah Marsh (1681-1760) Jonathan Olmsted (1706-1770) = Hannah Meakins (1717-1806) Benjamin Olmsted (b. 1751) = Content Pitkin (1752-1839) John Olmsted (1791-1873) = Charlotte Hull (1800-1826) Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) -- -- Landscape architect, journalist, social critic, and public administrator. With Calvert Vaux he designed Central Park in Manhattan and Prospect Park in Brooklyn, among many other public spaces he designed solo or in collaboration with others. Third cousin five times removed to DDB.

  
  

• Sources

  [S2420] Wolcott Immigrants and Their Early Descendants (The First Six Generations) by John Benjamin Wolcott and Charles V. Waid. Society of Descendants of Henry Wolcott, 2002. [S2545] Marsh Genealogy: Giving Several Thousand Descendants of John Marsh of Hartford, Ct., 1636-1895 by Dwight Whitney Marsh. Amherst, Massachusetts: Press of Carpenter & Morehouse, 1895. [S2419] Wolcott Genealogy: The Family of Henry Wolcott, One of the First Settlers of Windsor, Connecticut by Chandler Wolcott. Rochester, New York: The Genesee Press, 1912., place only. [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. [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.