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Rebecca Olmstead

Generation 12 back

Descent: Meghan Jane Leineweber ← Catherine Raye Lobb ← Patricia Jane Loomis ← Edward Byron Loomis ← Isaac Hayes Loomis ← Juliette Cordelia Hayes ← Nelson Hayes ← Alanson Hayes ← Mabel Phelps ← Abel Phelps ← Rebecca North ← Hannah Newell ← Rebecca Olmstead

In brief

Born about 1622. September 16, 1632: Arrived in Boston, Massachusetts with her uncle James. She died February 24, 1698, in Farmington, Connecticut.

Family

Father

Richard Olmstead

Mother

Frances Slaney

Spouse

Thomas Newell

Children

Rebeckah Newell
b. Abt. January 1643
m. Joseph Woodford
Mary Newell
b. c. March 1645
m. Thomas Bascomb/Bascom, March 20, 1667
John Newell
b. Abt. January 1647
d. June 16, 1696
Thomas Newell
b. March 2, 1650, in Southington, Connecticut
m. Elizabeth Wrotham, November 5, 1679
d. October 1723, in Farmington, Connecticut
Hester/Esther Newell
b. Abt. July 1652
m. John Stanley, November 18, 1669
Sarah Newell
b. c. February 1654
m. Arthur Smith
Hannah Newell · in this line
b. c. 1658
m. Thomas North, 1669
d. November 4, 1757
Martha Newell
b. Abt. April 1658
Samuel Newell
b. Abt. December 1660 around Farmington, Connecticut
m. Mary Hart, December 20, 1683
d. February 15, 1753
Joseph Newell
b. Abt. April 1664
d. November 1689

Siblings

Richard Olmstead
b. c. February 1611
m. ____
m. Magdalen ____ in Norwalk, Connecticut
d. Abt. 1686, in Norwalk, Connecticut
Mary Olmstead
b. Abt. July 1615 near Fairstead, Essex, England
John Olmstead
b. c. February 1616
m. Elizabeth Adgate around 1641
d. August 2, 1686, in Norwich, Connecticut
Sara Olmstead
b. Abt. November 1620 near Fairstead, Essex, England
Joseph Olmstead
b. Abt. December 1627 near Fairstead, Essex, England

Life story

A Farmington Churchgoer

Rebecca Olmstead was born around 1622, daughter of Richard Olmstead, and arrived in Boston with her uncle James in September 1632. She married Thomas Newell and settled in Farmington, Connecticut, enrolling in the town church in 1663 and receiving a legacy from her brother John's will around 1686. Rebecca died in Farmington on February 24, 1698.

Sources (5)

Mary A. Newell Hall, Thomas Newell, who Settled in Farmington, Conn. A.D. 1632. And His Descendants (Southington, Connecticut: Cochrane Bros., 1878); digital images, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/thomasnewellwhos00hall : accessed 22 July 2026).
Frank Farnsworth Starr, Various Ancestral Lines of James Goodwin and Lucy (Morgan) Goodwin of Hartford, Connecticut: Vol. I (Hartford, Connecticut: The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Press, 1915); digital images, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/variousancestral01star : accessed 22 July 2026).
Henry King Olmstead and George K. Ward, Genealogy of the Olmstead Family in America (New York: A.T. De La Mare Printing and Publishing, 1912); digital images, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/cu31924029843244 : accessed 22 July 2026).
Timothy Lester Jacobs, Society of the Descendants of the Founders of Hartford (https://www.foundersofhartford.org/the-founders/captain-richard-olmsted/ : accessed 22 July 2026), “Captain Richard Olmsted, Hartford Founder”.
Leslie Mahler, “The English Origins of John Baisey/Baysey of Hartford, Connecticut,” The American Genealogist 82 (January 2007): 32-38; image copy, American Ancestors, (https://www.americanancestors.org/DB283/i/13266/32/24795227 : accessed 23 July 2026).