Genealogy of the Olmsted family in America : embracing the ...

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Finally it is my will that all other my goods not before distributed &
mentioned as disposed in this my will; all my chattells, chattel; horse, neat,
sheep, swine, comonage of lands, I say it is my will (all just debts, legacyes,
funerall charges being first discharged) that all the forementioned goods, bee
equally divided betweene my two sons James & John; by the help of my ouer-
seer: It is also my will & I do hereby constitute & appoint my two sons,
James & John to bee sole & joint executors & administrators of this my last
will & testament. And I do will & appoint, ord' & request, my trustee &
beloved friend, Sergeant John Piatt, to bee the ouerseer of this my will, to
advise according to his wisdome, in the distributions specifyed. And it is my
will that hee should recieue rationall satisfaction from the executors & administrators
for his pains and helpfuUnes therin. In confirmation of the p'mises,
& that this is my last will & testament ; I have Interchangeably sett to my hand
& seale, this fifth day of September in the yeare of o' Lord, One Thousand,
Six Hundred, Eighty and Foure.
Sighned & Sealed in the J Thomas Hanford. Rich. Olmsted
p'sence of j Hannah Hanford. [Seal]
REBECCA OLMSTED (sister of Richard and John), m. Thomas Newell,
of Farmington, Conn., (Freeman 1669; d. Sept. 13, 1689). His estate of /700
was divided in 1689. She came with her uncle, James Olmsted, to America,
and was a member of his family until after his death in 1640; was enrolled
member of the Farmington Church, July 12, 1663. She was a legatee
of Dr. John Olmsted's widow. She died Feb. 24, 1698.
3972, Rebecca; b. prob. 1643. 3973, May; b. prob. 1645. 3974, John;
b. prob. 1647. 3975, Thomas; b. prob. 1650. 3976, Esther; b. prob.
1652. 3977, Sarah; b. prob. 1655; bap. Feb. 18, 1655. 3978, Hannah
and, 3978a, Martha (twins); b. prob. 1658; bap. Apr. 11, 1658; d. young.
3979, Samuel; bap. Dec. 5, 1660. 3980, Joseph; bap. Apr. 20, 1664; d.
before Nov., 1689.
(Dr.) JOHN OLMSTED, Hartford, Conn., (brother of Richard and Rebecca).
He came with the family to America in 1632, and was doubtless a member of
his uncle James Olmsted's family at Newtown, Mass., and at Hartford, Conn.
Removed soon to Saybrook, Conn., thence in 1660 to Norwich, Conn. Was
freeman, 1662; Surgeon of part of the forces in King Philip's War; married
Elizabeth; dau. of Matthew Marvin; was a recipient of land by will of Joshua
Uncas in 1675. His will was probated Sept. 22, 1686; made not long before,
though, he himself only 60 years of age, which no doubt was by several years
too small a reckoning. He left most of his large estate to his brother and sis-
ter. No children are mentioned in the will.