Born about in Braintree, Essex, England
Ancestors 
Daughter of Joseph Loomis
and Mary (White) Loomis
Sister of
Joseph Loomis Jr, Elizabeth (Loomis) Hull, Mary (Loomis) Tudor, John Loomis, Thomas Loomis Sr., Nathaniel Loomis and Samuel Loomis
Wife of
Nicholas Olmstead
— married
before 28 Sep 1640 in Connecticut
Descendants 
Mother of
Sarah (Olmstead) Gates, Elizabeth (Olmsted) Butler, Mary Olmstead, Rebecca (Olmstead) Bigelow, John Olmstead, Samuel (Olmstead) Olmsted, Joseph Olmstead, Thomas Olmsted and Mabel (Olmstead) Taintor
Died
at about age 50
in Weathersfield, Hartford, Connecticut [uncertain]
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Biography
[This person is an ancestor of President Millard Fillmore[1]]
Sarah was born about 1617/8 at Braintree, Essex, England, a daughter of Joseph Loomis and Mary White.[2][3] She married, sometime before 28 September 1640 (date in which she is mentioned in her father-in-law's will) Nicholas Olmstead.[4] There were at least nine children from this marriage:
- Sarah Olmstead; b.1641; m.1661 George Gates; d.1709[5]
- Elizabeth Olmstead; m. Samuel Butler[6] d. 17 Oct 1681[6]
- Mary Olmstead; b.20 Nov 1646[7]
- Rebecca Olmstead; b. 12 Mar 1648[8]
- John Olmstead; bp.3 Feb1650[8]
- Samuel Olmstead; b.1653; d.13 Jan 1726[9][4]
- Joseph Olmstead; b.1655;[4] d.5 Oct 1726[10]
- Thomas Olmstead; m(1) Martha ________;[4] m(2) 25 Jun 1691 Hannah Mix[4]
- Mabel Olmstead; m(1)1679 Daniel Butler;[11] m(2) 1697 Michael Taintor[12]
Sarah (Loomis) Olmstead died in 1667[2] [3] presumably at Weathersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, although records have not yet been located which substantiate that location.
Sources
- ↑ Roberts, Gary Boyd. Ancestors of American Presidents. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Ferris, Mary Walton. Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines. Milwaukee: private printing (1931), vol. 2, p. 571.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Loomis, Elias (Hoppin, Charles Arthur, ed.)Descendants of Joseph Loomis in America, and his Antecedents in the Old World (1909), p. 179.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1861), available here.
- ↑ US, New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Digitised by Ancestry.com Inc., Provo, UT 2012. Text cites: "Gates, George (1635-1724) & Sarah Olmstead (1641-1709); ca. 1661; Haddam, CT (available here).
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Stiles, Henry Reed. The History of Ancient Wethersfield, CT. New York: Grafton Press (1904), p. 173.
- ↑ Historical Catalogue of the First Church in Hartford. Hartford: by the Church (1885), p. 156.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Historical Catalogue of the First Church in Hartford. Hartford: by the Church (1885), p. 157.
- ↑ "Connecticut, Charles R. Hale Collection, Vital Records, 1640-1955", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F7NC-Q2Y : 16 September 2020), Samuel Olmsted, 1726.
- ↑ "Connecticut, Deaths, 1640-1955", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F7JR-5XZ : 11 June 2020), Joseph Olmsted, 1726.
- ↑ US, New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Digitised by Ancestry.com, Inc., Provo, UT 2012. Butler, Daniel (1650-1692) & Mabel Olmsted, m2 Michael Taintor 1697; c.1679; Hartford, Wethersfield available here.
- ↑ US, New England Marriages Prior to 1700. DIgitised by Ancestry.com, Inc. Provo, UT 2012. Taintor, Michael (1652-1730), Colchester & 2/wf Mabel (Olmsted) Butler, w Daniel; Aug 1697, 26 Aug 1697; Windsor, CT / Wethersfield, CT, available here.
- See Also:
- Brainerd, Thomas Chalmers. Brainerd Ancestry. Portland: Me. Anthoensen Press (1948), p. 208.
- Hoadley, Charles. Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut 1636-1776. Hartford: Brown & Parsons (1850), vol. 1, p. 446.
- Holcombe, James Hallowell Jr. Thomas Holcombe of Connecticut. https://holcombegenealogy.com/ Text: Sarah Loomis1,2 (F) b. 1617 Pedigree: Sarah Loomis was born in 1617. She was the daughter of Joseph Loomis and Mary White. Sarah Loomis married Capt. Nicholas Olmsted, son of James Olmsted and Joyce Cornish, on 28 September 1640.3 Children of Sarah Loomis and Capt. Nicholas Olmsted; Sarah Olmsted b. c 1641; Elizabeth Olmstead+ b. c 1643, d. 12 Oct 1681; Mabel Olmsted b. c 1645; Mary Olmsted b. 20 Nov 1646; Samuel Olmsted+ b. 1653; Citations: 1. [S137] Elisha Scott Loomis, Joseph Loomis, Page 126/Item 2..; 2. [S140] LLD Elias Loomis Loomis Female Lines, Vol. I:Pg. 15/Item 2..; 3. [S140] LLD Elias Loomis Loomis Female Lines, page 15.
- Joslyn, Roger D. The Wife or Wives of Samuel Butler. The American Genealogist. New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus, 1937-. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009 - .) vol. 60 (1984), pp. 27-32.
- Olmsted, Henry K. The Genealogy of the Olmsted Family in America. New York: A.T. De la Mare Print & Pub. Co. (1912), pp. 12-, 16-, 427.
- Roberts, Gary Boyd. Ancestors of American Presidents. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009.
- Thaler, David. [http://www.armidalesoftware.com/issue/full/Thaler_329_main.html#FN36 Descendants of Thomas Loomis.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Sarah by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Sarah:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Sarah by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Sarah:
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Categories: Braintree, Essex | Middlesex County, Connecticut | US President Direct Ancestor | Puritan Great Migration
Loomis, E. (1880). The descendants (by the female branches) of Joseph Loomis: who came from Braintree, England, in the year 1638, and settled in Windsor, Connecticut in 1639. New Haven (CT): Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor.
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