Ancestry of
Taylor Swift

Singer and Songwriter

James Olmstead

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• • 9th Great-grandfather of Taylor Swift — 12th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2420 
  • Father:
  • Richard Olmstead 
  • Mother:
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1653 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. Hartford, Hartford Co., Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • from 28 Apr 1731 to 12 Jun 1731 
  • Death Location:
  • prob. Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Phebe Barlow
  • Marriage Date:
  • 1 May 1673 
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  • Child:

  Joseph Olmstead (Ahnentafel No:1210 )

• Sources for James Olmstead

  • ¹ Fairfield, CT: Families of Old Fairfield, Vol. 1, pp. 453-454.
  • ² 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.
  • 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), 192.

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