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Chevy Chase

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Richard Olmstead

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• • 10th Great-grandfather of Chevy Chase — 13th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 7620 
  • Father:
  • Richard Olmstead 
  • Mother:
  • Frances Slaney   
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  • Christening Date:
  • 20 Feb 1612 
  • Christening Location:
  • Great Leighs, Essex, England 
  • Death Date:
  • from 05 SEP 1684 to 23 FEB 1686/1687 
  • Death Location:
  • prob. Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut 
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  John Olmstead (Ahnentafel No:3810 )

  James Olmstead

  • Notes: 

  • Richard Olmstead's first wife is unknown. There is no evidence that she was Elizabeth Haugh, daughter of Atherton Haugh.

• Additional marriages for Richard Olmstead

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  • Spouse:
  • Magdalen - - - - - -
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 5 Sep 1670

• Sources for Richard Olmstead

  • ¹ Fairfield, CT: Families of Old Fairfield, Vol. 1, pp. 452-453.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1905, Vol. 59, pp. 355-356.
  • ³ The American Genealogist, 1948, Vol. 25, p. 70.
  • ⁴ The American Genealogist, 2007, Vol. 82, pp. 36-37.
  • ⁵ Abbott, Susan Woodruff, Families of Early Milford, Connecticut, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co. (1979), 675.
  • ⁶ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 2, G-O, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 1359.
  • ⁷ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640, A Concise Compendium, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2015), 246.
  • ⁸ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. VI, R-S, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 410.
  • ⁹ 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), 187-191.

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