Person:Josiah Olmstead (1)

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Josiah Olmstead
b.21 Mar 1768 Ridgefield, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States
d.10 Sep 1857 Branchville, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States
Parents and Siblings
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m. 1753
  1. Daniel Olmsted1754 - 1806
  2. Roger Olmstead1756 - 1775
  3. Elizabeth Olmstead1758 - 1840
  4. Rebecca Olmstead1761 - 1843
  5. Adah Olmstead1763 - 1843
  6. Sarah Olmstead1766 -
  7. Josiah Olmstead1768 - 1857
  8. Hepzibah Olmstead1770 -
  9. Lewis Olmstead1772 - 1772
  10. Eunice Olmstead1773 - 1863
  11. Mary Olmstead1776 - 1848
Spouse and Children
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m. 18 Jan 1789
  1. Nicholas Olmsted1790 - 1861
  2. William Olmstead1793 - 1836
  3. Daniel Olmsted1795 - 1863
  4. Ira Olmsted1800 - 1863
  5. Elizabeth Olmsted1804 -
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Facts and Events
Name Josiah Olmstead
Gender Male
Birth? 21 Mar 1768 Ridgefield, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States
Marriage 18 Jan 1789 Fairfield, Connecticut, United States[2nd cousins]
to Rebecca Whitney
Death[1] 10 Sep 1857 Branchville, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States
References
  1. ↑ Phœnix, S. Whitney (Stephen Whitney), and D. Williams (David Williams) Patterson. The Whitney Family of Connecticut and Its Affiliations: Being an Attempt to Trace the Descendants, as Well in the Female as the Male Lines, of Henry Whitney, from 1649 to 1878; to Which is Prefixed Some Account of the Whitneys of England. (New York: Privately Printed by Bradstreet Press, 1878)
    57.

    III. Rebecca Whitney, twin, b. in Ridgefield, Conn., 18 Feb. 1761; married, 18 Jan. 1789, at Ridgefield, her second cousin, Josiah Olmstead, a farmer, son of Daniel and Elizabeth (Northrop) Olmstead, of Ridgefield, and grandson of Richard Olmstead, who, with his brother Daniel and others of Norwalk and Milford, Conn., purchased, 30 Sept. 1708, for £100, the township of Ridgefield, twenty thousand acres, from Catoonah, sachem of the Ramapoo Indians of the State of New York.

    They settled in Ridgefield, and there died ; she, 15 Dec. 1843; he, 10 Sept. 1847, though another report says, 15 Sept. 1857. They were buried in Titicus Cemetery.

  2.   Selleck, Charles M. (Charles Melbourne). Norwalk. (Norwalk, Connecticut: C.M. Selleck, 1896)
    282.
  3.   4186, in Olmsted, Henry King (1824-1896), and George Kemp Ward (1848-1937). Genealogy of the Olmsted Family in America: Embracing the Descendants of James and Richard Olmstead and Covering a Period of Nearly Three Centuries, 1632-1912. (New York: A. T. DeLaMare, 1912)
    200, 214.

    (4186) JOSIAH OLMSTED, Branchville, Conn. b. Mar. 21, 1768; d. Sept. 10, 1857 ... He was a farmer. ...

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