FATHER

Richard Olmstead

MOTHER

Frances Slaney

HUSBAND

Thomas Newell

CHILDREN

1. Rebecca Newell
    b. Jan 1642/3
    m. 1668 Joseph Woodford
    d. 9 May 1711

2. Mary Newell
    b. Mar 1644/5
    m. 20 Mar 1667 Thomas Bascom
    d. Aft. Jul 1696 probate of brother John's estate

3. John Newell
    b. Jan 1646/7
    d. 16 Jun 1696

4. Thomas Newell
    b. 20 Mar 1649/50
    m. 5 Nov 1679 Elizabeth Wrothman
    d. 25 Oct 1723

5. Esther Newell
    b. Jul 1652
    m. 18 Nov 1669 John Stanley
    d. 29 Jan 1739/40

6. Sarah Newell
   bap. 18 Feb 1654
    m. 1683 Arthur Smith
    d. 1700   

7. Martha Newell
    b. 14 Apr 1658

8. Hannah Newell
    m. Thomas North
    d. 4 Nov 1757
  
9. Samuel Newell
    b. 05 Dec 1660
    m. 20 Dec 1683 Mary Hart
    d. 15 Feb 1753

10. Joseph Newell
    b. 20 Apr 1664
   

Olmstead Genealogy (1912) as quoted by One Bassett family in America.  Buell Burdett Bassette 1988

"1632, Sept. 16 Sunday. PXVII Olmstead Gen. (1912): Rebecca, now close to ten years of age, arrives in Boston in the ship Lion.  With her were her uncle James Olmstead, brothers Richard and Dr. John, and cousins Nicholas and Nehemiah Olmstead.  In the ship there were 123 passengers of whom 50 were children.  From Boston the party went first to Mt. Wollaston (Quincy), then to Newtown, Mass., where Rebecca lived for about four years in the very beginnings of the town..

1636, June 1 P 6Do: All the Olmsteads including Rebecca, were a part of the company of 100 pilgrims, men, woman and children, who, under the lead of Rev. Thomas Hooker, make the overland pilgrimage from Newtown to Hartford-a two weeks journey through a trackless wilderness, with no cover for a stopping place save the canopy of heaven.  They were sustained by the Pilgrim spirit, however, and there were no casualties reported.  In Hartford Rebecca lived with her Uncle James, as shown by the next item. He calls her "cossen" but he means niece."
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Will of her brother John Olmstead's wife Elizabeth Holmsted, 15 Oct 1689, Relict of John Holmsted, says her husband gave her all his Estate to dispose of as she saw fit. For love and affection for the two sons of her husband's Brother, Richard Olmsted of Norwalk, viz, Lieutenant James Holmsted and Ensign John Holmsted, I have given to each of them an Allotment at the new plantation Lying at the Northwest of Norwich, etc.     I give to my brother Adgate's three children, viz., Sarah, Rebeckah & Thomas £6 to each.  To my brother's eldest daughter, Abigail, a parcel of land over the river which her husband bought of John Arnold.     and to the nine Children of my brother & sister Nuell of Farmington, 5 Shillings apiece.        It appears that James Olmsted and Samuel Newell asked for a review.

Will of her Uncle James Olmstead  Sep 1640
"And my will is that my sonne Nehemiah shall give out of his portion ten pounds to my Cossen Rebecca Olmstead that now dwelleth with me and he shall pay yt her within three yeares after my decease, and I leave her to be disposed by Richard Webb and Will Wadsworth, and as shee shall carry herselfe yt shall be in their power either to give her ten pounds or to detayne yt fro her." 
In a later agreement between the executors and the two sons of James, kinsmen Richard and John Olmstead were given £5 apiece and the Hartford church £20.