Born about [location unknown]
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of
Darius Olmstead
— married
4 Jan 1776 in New Milford, Litchfield, Connecticut
Descendants 
Mother of
Anson J. Olmstead, Daniel Olmstead, Anna (Olmstead) Ellis, Elizabeth (Olmstead) Woodworth, Martha (Olmstead) Pierce, Parthenia (Olmstead) Woolsey, Darius Olmstead Jr., Noble Olmstead, Silas (Olmstead) Olmsted and John Olmstead
Died
at about age 84
in Davenport, Delaware, New York, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 1 Dec 2017
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Biography
Mercy was born about 1758, the daughter of Silas Hill-23209 and Sarah (Leach) Hill Leach-1061 of New Milford, CT.
She married Darius Olmstead and they had ten children.
In 1840, she was with her son-in-law and daughter, Jonathan and Martha Pierce of Davenport, Delaware County, New York. According to the Olmstead genealogy, she died there in 1842. [1]
Sources
- 1912 genealogy Olmsted Family in America; p. 213; #4157s
- Olmste(a)d files of Walt Steesy
- ↑ U. S. Federal Census: 1840, Davenport, Delaware County, New York.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Mercy 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 Mercy:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Mercy 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 Mercy:
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~0.78%
~1.56%
Josephine Doshi 
:
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A314603 [compare]
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~0.78%
~3.12%
Ben (Doshi) Arnaud :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A204778 [compare], Ancestry member BenArnaud
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~0.39%
~1.56%
Greg Lucas :
23andMe
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~0.39%
~0.78%
Lesley Leamon :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A365643 [compare], Ancestry member lesley_leamon
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