Mabel (Olmstead) Taintor (abt. 1659 - 1731)

Born about 1659 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut

Ancestors

Wife of Daniel Butler — married 4 Aug 1679 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut

Wife of Michael Taintor Esq. — married 26 Aug 1697 in Connecticut

Descendants

Died 4 Jun 1731 at about age 72 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut

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Biography

Mabel Olmsted was born about 1660, in Hartford, Connecticut, to Nicholas Olmsted and Sarah Loomis.

She married Daniel Butler (1650-1692) on April 3, 1670 and they had five children together.

After Daniel's death, she married Michael Taintor (1652-1730), as his second wife, on August 26, 1697, and they had one daughter together.

Mabel died on June 4, 1731, in Wethersfield, Connecticut, at the age of 71.

Record from the 1912 Olmsted genealogy

"(15) MABEL OLMSTED, b. at Hartford, Conn.; m. (1) Daniel Butler; d. Mar. 28, 1692; son (Dea.) Richard and Elizabeth (Bigelow) Butler, of Hartford and Wethersfield, Conn.; (2) Aug., 1697, Michael Taintor, of Colchester, Conn.; b. Oct., 1652; d. Feb., 1730.

1st marriage: 40, Sarah; b. Sept. 28, 1680. 41, Mabel; b. Aug. 12, 1684. 42, Elizabeth; b. Nov. 22, 1686; d. Apr. 11, 1763; m. Dec. 14, 1704, Daniel Clark; b. 1679; d. Sept. 14, 1762; son of Daniel and Hannah (Pratt) Clark, of Colchester, Conn. 43, Mary; b. Nov. 7, 1689. 44, Hannah; b. Nov. 17, 1691. 2d marriage: 45, Sarah +."^[1]

Marriage and children

1st husband Daniel Butler 1650–1692

1. Sarah Butler 1680–1717
2. Mabel Butler Kellogg 1684–1742
3. Elizabeth Butler 1686–1763
4. Mary Butler 1689–1715
5. Hannah Butler 1691–1780

2nd husband: Michael Taintor (widower of Mary Loomis)1652–1730

1. Sarah Taintor Clark 1698–1729

Research Note

Removed daughter Sarah Butler - she is the daughter of another Daniel Butler and Margaret ___ per TAG 85:161-164 (2011)

Sources

1. ↑ Genealogy of the Olmsted family in America : embracing the descendants of James and Richard Olmsted and covering a period of nearly three centuries, 1632-1912 by Olmsted, Henry King, 1824-1896; Ward, George K. (George Kemp), 1848-1937. Record #15, page 17, Published 1912. https://archive.org/stream/cu31924029843244#page/n67/mode/2up/search/mabel

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• Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut, by Lucius Barnes Barbour, Baltimore Genealogical Publishing, 1982. Surnames A-B, p. 134. Online Database - Ancestry.com.
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• Genealogy Column of the "Boston Transcript". 1906-1941. (The greatest single source of material for gen. Data for the N.E. area and for the period 1600-1800. Completely indexed in the Index.): 2 Dec 1912, 2823; 23 Jun 1915, 4692 (AGBI, Ancestry.com)
• Genealogy of the Olmsted family in America : embracing the descendants of James and Richard Olmsted and covering a period of nearly three centuries, 1632-1912 by Olmsted, Henry King, 1824-1896; Ward, George K. (George Kemp), 1848-1937. Record #15, page 17, Published 1912. https://archive.org/stream/cu31924029843244#page/n67/mode/2up/search/mabel
• Yates Publishing, U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 (Generations Network, Inc., Provo, UT, USA, 2004)
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• Taintor, Charles Micaiell, Extracts from the Records of Colchester (Case, Lockwood & Co., Hartford, Conn., 1864) Page 7