Rebeckah Newell
b. Abt. January 1643
m. Joseph Woodford
Mary Newell
b. Abt. March 1645/1646
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 · d. October 25, 1723/1733, in Farmington, Connecticut
m. Elizabeth Wrotham, November 5, 1679
Hester, 4/Esther Newell
b. Abt. July 1652
m. John Stanley, November 18, 1669
Sarah Newell
b. Abt. February 1654/1655
m. Arthur Smith
Martha Newell
b. Abt. April 1658
Samuel Newell
b. Abt. December 1660 around Farmington, Connecticut · d. February 15, 1753
m. Mary Hart, December 20, 1683
Joseph Newell
b. Abt. April 1664 · d. November 1689

Siblings

Richard Olmstead
b. Abt. February 1611/1612/1613 near Great Leighs, Essex, England · d. Abt. 1686, in Norwalk, Connecticut
m. ____; Magdalen ____ in Norwalk, Connecticut
Mary Olmstead
b. Abt. July 1615 near Fairstead, Essex, England
John Olmstead
b. Abt. February 1616/1617/1618 near Fairstead, Essex, England · d. August 2, 1686, in Norwich, Connecticut
m. Elizabeth Adgate around 1641
Sara Olmstead
b. Abt. November 1620 near Fairstead, Essex, England
Joseph Olmstead
b. Abt. December 1627 near Fairstead, Essex, England

In brief

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

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.

At a glance

Lived

Farmington, Hartford County, Connecticut

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).
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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).