Nicholas Olmsted

Bef 1613 - 1684  (> 71 years)

• Name	Nicholas Olmsted
  Born	Bef 15 Feb 1613  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Baptised	15 Feb 1613	Fairsted, Essex, England
  Died	31 Aug 1684  [2]
  Person ID	I19561	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of DDB
  Last Modified	15 Nov 2020

  
  

  Father	James Olmsted,   b. Bef 4 Dec 1580,   d. Bef 28 Sep 1640, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut  (Age < 59 years)
  Mother	Joyce Cornish,   d. Bef 21 Apr 1621
  Married	26 Oct 1605	Great Leighs, Essex, England   [1, 2]
  Family ID	F11862	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Sarah Loomis,   b. 1617,   d. 1667  (Age 50 years)
  Married	Bef 1645  [1]
  Children	+ 1. Deacon Joseph Olmsted,   b. 1654, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut ,   d. 5 Oct 1726  (Age 72 years)
  Last Modified	8 Dec 2018
  Family ID	F11861	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• 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.

  
  

• 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.