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Jonathan Olmsted (1740 - 1826)

Jonathan Olmsted
Born in East Hartford, Hartford, Connecticutmap
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Son of and
Brother of , , , , , , , and
Husband of — married 15 Oct 1767 in Weathersfield, Hartford, Connecticutmap
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Father of , , , , , and
Died at age 85 in Leyden, Franklin, Massachusetts, United Statesmap
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Biography

1776 Project
Private Jonathan Olmsted served with 19th Regiment, Connecticut Militia during the American Revolution.
Daughters of the American Revolution
Jonathan Olmsted is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A086295.

Jonathan was born in 1740, the second son of Jonathan Olmsted and Hannah Meakins.

He married Sabra Stanley and they have seven children:[1]

  1. George, b. 1869. d. 1840; m. Hannah Roberts.
  2. Temperance, b. 1774, d. 1776.
  3. Sabra, bpt. 1777, d. 1858; m. Joseph Green
  4. Jonathan, bpt. 1779, d. c. 1813
  5. Caleb Stanley, b. 1782, d. 1856; m. Content Hall.
  6. Hannah, b. 1784, d. 1860; m. Joseph Carpenter.
  7. Edward, b. c.1787, d. 1813; m. Sarah Webster.

By 1798 the family was in Leyden, Franklin County, Mass. Some of his children moved west, going to Ontario and Chautauqua counties, New York, Marietta, Ohio, and eventually further West.

Jonathan passed away in 1826 and is buried beside his wife in the West Leyden Cemetery, Franklin County, Massachusetts.[2]

[Note: There are over 600 known descendants of Jonathan & Sabra in my files and only 118 have been added to WikiTree thus far. WWS]

Sources

  1. ↑ Entered by Sheri Minnick, Apr 21, 2012
  2. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #86390085 has photo
  • Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed July 18, 2016), "Record of Jonathan Olmstead", Ancestor # A086295.
  • Olmsted, Henry King, M.D. Genealogy of the Olmsted Family in America (A.T. De La Mare, New York, 1912); pgs. 23, 34,549, #186.
  • Olmste(a)d files of Walt Steesy
  • Volume II Brown Genealogy, Part 2 Many of the Descendants of Charles Browne, By Cyrus Henry Brown, 1915, page 427




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Steesy-1 Walt Steesy
His family name is spelled without the "a" (Olmsted); some of his children did change to Olmstead (with the "a").
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