Ancestry of
Taylor Swift

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Joseph Olmstead

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• • 8th Great-grandfather of Taylor Swift — 11th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1210 
  • Father:
  • James Olmstead 
  • Mother:
  • Phebe Barlow   
  • Birth Date:
  • 10 Mar 1676/1677 
  • Birth Location:
  • Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • from 27 JAN 1747/1748 to 14 NOV 1748 
  • Death Location:
  • prob. Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mehitable Warner
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 1700 
  • Marriage Location:
  • prob. Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut 
  • Child:

  (probable) Susanna Olmstead (Ahnentafel No:605 )

• Sources for Joseph Olmstead

  • ¹ Fairfield, CT: Families of Old Fairfield, Vol. 1, p. 453.
  • ² New England Marriages to 1700, Vol. 2, p. 1112, Marriage of Joseph Olmsted and Mehitable Warner.
  • ³ McGuire, Joan S. Guilford, The Monroe Book: Being the History of the Munro Clan From Its Origins in Scotland to Settlement in New England and . . ., Franklin, North Carolina: Genealogy Publishing Service (1993), 267.
  • ⁴ 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), 192-193.

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