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

Second Generation 15
I giue unto my son Joseph all my meadow lands on the east side the great
riuer att my desease hee paying twenty shillings vnto his sister Gates and forty
shillings p annum to his mother
I giue my farme of land Ijdng in the woods ajoyning to Jerremyah Addams
land in the roade to New London unto my son Samuell and my son Thomas to
bee equally deuided betwene them
I giue to my dagter Sarah Gates twenty shillings to bee payed her within three
yeares after my desease:
I giue all my right and title to that lands purchased of Joshua son of Vncas
by the towne of Harttford on the east side the great riuer to my son Sam"
Butler my daughter Rebecah Biglo and to my daughter Mabell Butler to bee
equally deuided betwene them:
I giue unto my son Sam" my son Joseph and my son Thomas all my right
in a parcell of lands giune by Joshua son of Vncas in his last will and Testament
to bee diuided amongst seuerall persons in Harttford'^
I giue unto my daughter Biglo forty shillings in stock or housall goods after
my desease
I giue unto my daughter Butler three pounds in stock or housall goods after
my desease
I do make my son Thomas Olmsted executor of this my last will and Testament
gluing him my seruant lad if his tim? be not expired and all the remainder of my
stock housall goods and moueable estate whatsoeuer not otherwayes disposed
of by this my last will and testament: I do order all my sons Samuell Joseph
and Thomas carefully to performe what I haue respecktiuely giune vnto my
louing wife as itt is aboue expressed: and do furder order all my estate giune
vnto my son Samuell be improued by my son Thomas vntill my son Sam"
come to line att Harttford the said Tho paying what Sam" should do to his
mother vntill Samuell doeth injoy the same I do request ordaine and appoynt
my louing freinds M' William Pitkin and Caleb Stanly to bee my ouerseers
to see this my last will and Testament be performed: In witness whereof I
haue set my hand and seale this 20° of Agust in the yeare of o"^ Lorde One
Thousand Six Hundred Eighty and Three:
Signed sealed and declared to be my last will and
Testament in presence & witnes of us
Caleb Stanly
Timothy Cowles Nicho: Olmstead [Seal]
N. B. The house lot, and house built by him, was in Front St., now
Nos. 30-32 and 34 near the Little or Park River. The house was taken down
in or about 1835.
(6) NEHEMIAH OLMSTED, bap. at Fairsted, Nov. 10, 1618. Came
to America with his father, and settled in Fairfield, Conn., in 1649. He
married Elizabeth Burr, dau. of Jehu Burr, Sr. He was a sergeant in 1657.
Died before Oct. 2, 1657. His widow was appointed administratrix Aug., 1658.
Mrs. Olmsted m. (2) Obadiah Gilbert, of Fairfield, Conn.
17, Sarah; m. Robert Seeley, of Fairfield, Conn.
1 In the will of Joshua Unoas, son of Uncas, " Sachem of Monheag," dated Feb. 29, 1675,
there is bequeathed to Nicholas Olmstead and some fourteen other Englishmen " to be equally
divided amongst them into so many parts as they are persons " " all that traoke of land lying
from the mountains, in sight of Hartford, northward, to a pond called Shemipipie East to
Willimantucke river, south by said river, west by Hartford bounds."—^A^^. E. Hist, and Gen.
Reg., Vol. 13, p. 235.