JOHNSON and SCHAUFELBERGER GENEALOGY
OLNEY Narrative
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THOMAS OLNEY
Thomas Olney, a shoemaker, with his wife Marie and two sons Thomas and Epenetus, emigrated from England on the Ship Planter (Master, Nicolas Travice) from London to Massachusetts Bay. The ship arrived at Boston on June 7, 1635. In 1637, Thomas was granted 3 acres of land in Salem MA but his stay there was cut short when he was asked to leave Salem. Thomas Olney was among the original 13 proprietors of Providence RI--see prov1664c.jpg for a 1664 map--and a founder of the First Baptist Church of Providence (of the Six-Principle sect). When Roger Williams stepped down as pastor, Thomas Olney accepted the position. In 1653/4, however, he withdrew from the Six-Principle sect under the leadership of the Rev. William Wickendon and formed a second Baptist Church in Providence where he acted as lay pastor until his death.
Thomas held many civic positions in Providence including Clerk, Town Commissioner, Town Councilman, Court Assistant, Justice of the Peace, Tax Collector and Assistant to the Governor. On May 31, 1666, he was among those who took the Oath of Allegiance to King Charles II.
EPENETUS OLNEY
Epenetus Olney made the crossing from England with his parents and elder brother on the Ship Planter in 1635 when he was about one year old [although this conflicts by one year with a record of his christening in February 1633].
He received from his father's estate in 1682: 60 acres in Providence, a parcel of “swampie land” on the north side of the Wanasquatucket River, 15 acres on the south side of that river along with meadows and marsh, land rights purchased from John Joanes, plus “one of my Cowes, & my Smiths vice, & my Bible” and one-third of the remainder of the estate not otherwise disposed of (shared with his siblings, Thomas and Lydia). see transcription of Will of Thomas Olney.
PRIMARY SOURCES
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~sam/tolney.html (Sam Behling)http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=olneyhttp://members.tripod.com/~rturnblo/d0003/f0000035.htmlhttp://www.conovergenealogy.com/Internet/d0001/f0000440.html#I104723LDS
“Original” sources referenced by the aboveSmith, Dean Crawford. The Ancestry of Emily Jane Angell 1844-1910, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, MA, 1992, pp. 190 & 437 - 448. Austin, John Osborne. The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island, Genealogical Pub. Co., Baltimore, MD, 1969, (previously pub. 1887), pp. 352 - 354. The American Genealogist, Vol. 20, No. 4, Additions & Corrections to Austin's Genealogical Dictionary of RI, GA, April 1944, p. 228. Olney, James H. "A Genealogy of the descendants of Thomas Olney" 1889Arnold, James N. Vital Records of Rhode Island, 1636-1850, 21 vols.(Providence, R.I.: Naragansett Historical Publishing Co., 1891-1912)Wightman, Wade C. THE WIGHTMAN HERITAGE Gateway Press, Baltimore, MD. 1990. page 471 [for Stukely Westcott with reference to Olney]