Ancestry of
Michael Bennet

U.S. Senator from Colorado

Samuel Olmstead Jr.

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• • 7th Great-grandfather of Michael Bennet — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 724 
  • Father:
  • Samuel Olmstead 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Lord   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1676 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. Hartford, Hartford Co., Connecticut 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 27 Jul 1747 
  • Death Location:
  • East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Old Cove Burying Ground, East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Rowley
  • Marriage Date:
  • 1697 
  • Marriage Location:
  • East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut 
  • Children:
  
  

  Sarah Olmstead

  Eunice Olmstead

  Mary Olmstead

  Samuel Olmstead

  William Olmstead

  Jonathan Olmstead

  Dorothy Olmstead

  Abigail Olmstead

  Deborah Olmstead

  Ichabod Olmstead (Ahnentafel No:362 )

• Sources for Samuel Olmstead Jr.

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 10/17/2018).
  • ² MacGunnigle, Bruce Campbell, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 4, 3rd ed., Edward Fuller, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2006), 103-104.
  • ³ Olmsted, Henry King and Rev. George K. Ward, Genealogy of the Olmsted Family in America: Embracing the Descendants of James and Richard Olmsted and . . ., New York: A.T. De La Mare Printing and Publishing Company, Ltd. (1912), 16, 18.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 289, 318, 509.
  • ⁵ Smith, Edward Church and Philip Mack Smith, A History of the Town of Middlefield, Massachusetts, Menasha, Wisconsin: The Collegiate Press (1924), 563.

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