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

14 Olmsted Family Genealogy
" The troops under Major Treat marched up on the east side of the riuer
to Suckquackeeg."
The Last Will and Testament oe Nicholas Olmsted '
In the Name of God Amen I Nicholas Olmsted of Harttford in
the Colony of Coneticut do make this my last will and Testament
reuoking and annulling all other wills foremerly made by word or deede:
being in health of body and of perfeckt remembrance yet npt knowing
how soone my sollem change may come: allso knowing itt is my duty
to set my house in order before I dye: I do therefore giue my spirret
unto God that gaue itt mee and my body to comely buriall: and as for that
part of my estate God hath graciously giune mee in this worlde I do after
my just depts being payed and funerall expences discharged dispose of as
foUoweth: I giue unto my louing wife hue pounds a yeare during her widdow
hood after mee: and fouer pounds p the yeare after her marraige during her
naturall life: to be payed her yearely by my son Samuell forty shillings by
my son Joseph forty shillings and by my son Thomas twenty shillings: and
I giue unto
by the same rate of proportion if itt bee fouer pounds p annum :
my louing wife one cow as her pwne proper estate and two swine and sum
poultry and order my son Samuell and my son Thomas to keepe her one coiy
as long as shee remayns my widdow.—and do giue her free liberty to keepe
two swine and sum poultry in my yardes: I do furder giue unto my louing
wife all her fyer wood as long as shee remains my widdow to bee prouided
for her one third partt by my son Tho and two parts by my son Samuell:
I giue my wife the use of my parlor and the chamber ouer the parlor with
what sellerage shee may want allso the use of my ouens and the well: with
the use of any of my housall goods shee wanteth whilst shee remayns my widdow
and liueth in my house : but if she marry or remoue from my house my
will is that these housall goods bee retrned to my son Thomas
I giue unto my louing son Samuell Olmsted my dwelling house in Harttford
after my desease onely the use of sum part of itt vnto his mother as is aboue
exprest: and do furder giue unto my son Samuell halfe my barne and all that
part of my home lott not giune to my son Tho: I giue the other halfe of the
barne to my son Tho and I giue my barne yard eaqually to my son Samuell
and to my son Thomas with my well in the same: I giue my son Thomas
that part of my home lott nixt M"^ Haynes and M'' Hookers home lotts: to
bee diuided from my son Samuells partt of my home lott as followeth from
the barne to the Highway to bee deuided by the fence that fences in the barne
yards: and aboue the barne from the midle of the barne flower uppon a just
bredgth up to Jerremyah Addams Home lott: the remainder of my home
lott I giue unto my son Samuell and His Heires foreuer:
I giue unto my son Thomas my meadow lott in the long meadow lying betwene
Decon Butlers and Lt Joseph Wadsworths land: I giue unto my son Thomas
my upland lott in the west diuision in Harttford on the west side the great
riuer to him and his Heirs foreuer
I giue vnto my son Samuell all the rest of my meadow lands and uplands on
the west side the great riuer in Harttford and to his Heires foreuer. . . .
I giue unto my son Joseph Olmsted and his Heirs foreuer all that diuision of
up land and the swamp lands belonging to the same uppon which he hath
bult on the east side the great riuer.
iThe original is preserved in the probate records of Hartford, Conn.